272 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. IX. 
After appointing officers, including a magistrate and 
constables, they had prepared an address to the colo- 
nists, which was printed in the first number of a news- 
paper on the 18th of April, together with the ratifi- 
cation of their arrangements by the chiefs. The address 
of the Council simply explained its duties and its ear- 
liest acts. 
The apparatus of the newspaper had been obtained 
by subscription among the principal colonists, and the 
management of it undertaken by Mr. Samuel Re vans, 
who arrived in the Adelaide. The first number had 
been published in London, in September 1839, under 
the title of the ' New Zealand Gazette.' 
Various appointments under the Company had also 
been made. Captain Chaffers was harbour-master; 
" Worser," pilot, living near the heads with a whale- 
boat and crew ; Doddrey, superintendent of works ; and 
Barrett, agent for natives and interpreter : and store- 
keepers, a physician and surgeon to the infirmary, and 
an emigration agent, had also been named. 
The infant government had worked smoothly enough. 
A few lawless wanderers from other parts and still 
fewer quarrelsome emigrants had been checked in their 
disorderly outbreaks by the police. The utmost cor- 
diality between the natives and the Whites had con- 
tinued to exist, almost without a blemish : for our 
docile hosts, if offended or outraged by one of the rude 
outcasts from society against whom the police enact- 
ments w€re most especially directed, had learned to 
appreciate the distinction existing between them and 
the respectable portion of the community. They re- 
garded with admiration the peacefulness established 
by our habits of Liw and order, and displayed an al- 
most unhoped-for degree of good temper in yielding 
their assent to the new order of things, which forbade 
