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course of a long and full conversation, Mr. Williams 
had very candidly explained himself. He had told 
Colonel Wakefield that he had a large family, and was 
naturally desirous of providing for them. He very 
plainly intimated that he wished to have some share 
in the profits likely to accrue from the growth of the 
infant colony, and so completely confessed his selfish 
views, that Colonel Wakefield, anxious to secure the 
friendship, or at any rate to ward off the enmity of so 
influential a person, at once offered to reserve for him 
two acres having frontage on the beach of the harbour, 
one in his own name, and one in that of Davis, on 
condition of his abandoning his original claim. The 
proposition had been at once acceded to. 
Mr. Williams had been so earnestly engaged in the 
prosecution of this more personally advantageous ob- 
ject, that the natives had shrewdly perceived that some 
dispute was going on as to land between him and 
Colonel Wakefield, and were reluctant, while it ap- 
peared to last, to listen to any of the Government 
envoy's proposals. But, as soon as they saw the affair 
had been amicably arranged, they went on board in a 
body, got a blanket each, and signed the paper presented 
to them. Mr. Williams, having thus accomplished 
both his objects, proceeded to visit the other chiefs of 
Cook's Strait. He sailed the same day that I arrived 
from Kapiti. 
On the 21st, another ship, the Bolton, had arrived 
from England ; bearing, among other passengers, the 
Reverend J. F. Churton, who had been appointed 
chaplain by a Church Society in connexion with 
the settlement, and the Reverend J. G. Butler, 
also a clergyman of the Established Church. The 
arrival of these two gentlemen with their families had 
been hailed with much pleasure by the members of the 
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