418 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. XV. 
" George Gipps, Governor of New South Wales, for 
" the spirit of justice and liberality he has displayed 
" towards the community of Port Nicholson." An 
address was prepared embodying these sentiments. 
The Rev. Mr. Churton had been remarkable during 
these discussions for his querulous and discontented 
spirit. As he was one of a second series of sectionists, 
for whom a district was proposed to be surveyed at 
TVanganuiy he certainly had some reason for alarm 
lest the Company should be prevented from exercising 
or granting rights of ownership over any land outside 
the block sufficient only for the preliminary settlement 
granted by Sir George Gipps ; but the time and manner 
in which he made these complaints were remarked by 
many people as especially disagreeable. Mr. Davy, a 
candidate for orders, was appointed by the Bishop of 
Australia to act as clergyman at Port Nicholson, and 
arrived to replace Mr. Churton. The approaching de- 
parture of the latter for the seat of government was 
not viewed with great regret by the community, who 
had been rather alienated from their pastor by his un- 
bending stiffness and morose manner, and by his general 
want of the colonizing spirit, which should have 
taught him to bear with some few unavoidable diffi- 
culties, and to animate and console those of his flock 
who wanted patience and resignation under difficulties, 
rather than to encourage them by his constant example 
to discontent. 
The news from the North brought by the Cuba, 
and by a trading schooner which arrived from Sydney 
and the Bay of Islands on the 18th, were, that a fire had 
burnt down a great part of the palace sent on from 
Wellington and erected at the Thames, besides the 
whole of the Lieutenant-Governor s furniture ; that his 
Excellency had bought a brig of 200 tons for the ser- 
