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science and rapacity of Rauperaha, Rangihaeata, Tn- 
ngia^ and the other bullies among the Kawia chiefs ; 
and the nonchalant hushing-up of the Wilton affair 
was well calculated to make them, as well as the na- 
tives, consider the legal authority in the islands to be 
powerless and inefficient. 
A runaway convict, who wag suspected of having 
stolen from a French whaler a whale-boat which he 
had been heading this season, was made prisoner on 
board the Brougham. Although she came to anchor 
with a Government pendant at the mast-head, he had 
recklessly gone on board to offer his services as pilot, 
or learn the news from Cloudy Bay ; but had been 
immediately recognized and placed in irons by Mr. 
Murphy, on not being able to produce his ticket of 
leave. " Gipsey Smith," however, as he was called, 
did not long suffer confinement ; for he quietly stepped 
through the thatched wall of the apology for a jail at 
Britannia, a few days after he had been placed in it, and 
walked very deliberately back to Kapiti, and thence to 
some safer place of refuge. 
R'tuperaha was much alarmed at the visit of the 
soldiers; and inquired with great anxiety, on what 
errand they had come. 
The next morning, a fresh southerly breeze suc- 
ceeded the calm ; and we sailed towards TVanganui, 
while the Brougham beat down to Mana, favoured by 
an ebb-tide. 
On my arrival at TVanganu'i, I presented some goods 
to E Kuril, to be distributed among the builders of 
my house ; landed a large stock of goods for barter ; 
and embarked a cargo of pigs which had been collected 
in readiness for my arrival. 
I never made a bargain with E Kuru during my 
transactions with him, which lasted lor two or three 
