CONTENTS. ii 
Rangitikei — Scarcity of food — Timid natives — Fine countrj^ — 
Cold — Fording rivers — Wanganui — Greetings — E Kuru gives 
me a house — His chieftain-like treatment of his inferiors — New 
Zealand slaves — Missionaries — Native feud — Battle of Waitotara 
— Ship-building — Confirmation of the purchase^ — Return to Ka- 
piti — "Walk to Pitone — Harmlessness of night-air . .371 
CHAPTER XIV. 
Ships arrive from Sydney — Arrival of Mr. Murphy as Police Ma- 
gistrate — Departure of the Colonial Secretary — Straggling news 
from the north — Death of Mr. Bumby — Progress of Biitannia — 
Club — Country lands — Mr. Bidwill — " Captain " Williams — 
Hire of a schooner — Cloudy Bay — Suspicious death of Mr. Wilton 
— Queen Charlotte's Sound — Wild cattle hunting on Kapiti— 
Expedition of the Brougham with Mr. Murphy and the soldiers — 
Want of a Coroner and Jury — Licences — Discontent of whalers 
— Advantages of barter with good natives at Wanganui . 391 
CHAPTER XV. 
News from the north — Selection of Capital — H.M.S. Favourite — 
Secret calumnies against Port Nicholson — Abstraction of la- 
bourers by Government — The burlesque foundation of Auckland 
— Mr.FeltonMathew's epaulettes — Sawyers' activity — Absence of 
Police Magistrate — News from England — New Zealand Church 
. Society — Wool — The name of the town changed to " Welling- 
" ton"— Return of the deputation from Sydney — Concessions made 
by Sir George Gipps — Ill-humour of Captain Hobson — The 
Rev. Mr. Churton — Flour-ships from Valparaiso — Health Officer 
appointed — Harbour-master paid by the Company — Preliminary 
expedition of the Plymouth Company — Lord Eliot advocates the 
cause of New Zealand in the House of Commons — Grief for the 
death of Lord Durham — Statesmen and colonists — Abstraction 
of labour for neighbouring colonies — Plain of the Wairarapa — 
Arrival of a Wesleyan Missionary — Christmas at Kapiti — Plunder 
of a wreck near Wanganui — Ascent of the Wanganui — Rapids 
— Canoe-song — E Kuru and his guests — Open house at Wan- 
ganui — A feudal retinue — Gale of wind — Drift out to sea — 
Roman Catholic Bishop — A " happy New Year " — Hopes and 
fears — Merry disputes between higher and lower classes — Anni- 
versary f&te — Injudicious missionary injunctions . . 408 
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