364 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. XII. 
It was on the 26th of August that this feeling first 
produced any outbreak. Captain Edward Daniell, 
who had lived, up to the time of the selection, with 
his wife and family in a ragged hut on the beach at 
Thorndon, had begun to erect a wooden house on one 
of the town acres which he had chosen. As this hap- 
pened to be on a deserted garden of the Te Aro people, 
they had obstructed his proceedings in some way, and 
a quarrel had ensued. A report got about that Cap- 
tain Daniell had been struck down by a blow from a 
tomahawk ; and all who heard the report rushed to 
the spot with their arms, in readiness for any emer- 
gency. The difference, however, was by no means so 
serious as had been represented; and was amicably 
settled soon after the muster of the settlers. Their 
readiness to support a member of the community, who 
was known as well for his kindness of heart as for his 
courage, in his supposed danger, appeared to alarm the 
Colonial Secretary much more than the increasing dis- 
position of the natives to interfere with the peaceable 
occupation by the settlers of the land which they had 
sold. The next morning a printed notice or procla- 
mation was circulated about the settlement. It was 
couched in these terms : — 
" Whereas certain })ersons residing at Port Nichol- 
" son, New Zealand, part of the dominions of her 
" Majesty Queen Victoria, did, on the evening of yes- 
" terday, assemble with arms at a native pah, named 
^* Tarinaki ; 
Now, therefore, I, Willoughby Shortland, a Ma- 
" gistrat^ and Colonial Secretary of New Zealand, do 
^' caution all jjersons from assembling under arms on 
^' any pretence whatever, without being duly author- 
'" ized so to do, upon the allegiance they owe to her 
^' Majesty Queen Victoria. 
