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cutters. They applied themselves to make the most of 
the new colony by means of their colonial experience. 
One, named Coghlan, had established a grog-shop half- 
way along the beach, where a disorderly assemblage 
of sailors, stray whalers, and other bad characters 
from the different stations, had become accustomed to 
assemble, and caused some annoyance to the quiet 
settlers by their drunkenness and wild orgies. As 
there was positively no law or authority to prevent 
this. Colonel Wakefield's warning to Coghlan against 
a repetition of the disturbance had been treated with 
some contempt. Upon this he had explained his views 
to ff^arepori and Kpuni ; andthey, with several other 
chiefs of authority, had accompanied him, with their 
arms and mats of state, to the den in question. They 
then confirmed Colonel Wakefield's statement that he 
acted by their authority ; and threatened to send Cogh- 
lan on board ship again if he should not, for the 
future, carry on his business in a more decent manner. 
This demonstration had had as good an effect as a 
caution from a bench of Magistrates. 
In the evening of the day on which we arrived, a 
fourth ship, the Bengal Merchant, anchored in the 
harbour. This vessel came from the Clyde, and was 
laden with Scotch emigrants. These seemed in high 
spirits ; and, although the weather began to be wet 
for some time, they only remarked that it was " rather 
" saft," and worked away at temporary habitations like 
the rest. 
During the next few days, I was busy visiting 
various old friends, who had squatted along the banks 
of the Hutt. The sand-hummocks at the back of the 
long beach were dotted over with tents of all shapes 
and sizes, native-built huts in various stages of con- 
struction, and heaps of goods of various kinds, which 
