4§ft ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. XVI. 
balance by taking away the labour which he recjuired ; 
thus not only })roving the fallacy of his rival experi- 
ment, but unjustly seeking to uphold it by the abstrac- 
tion of a necessary prop from one which, long before 
established, had every prospect of success. 
It was only a month since a private individual from 
Van Diemen's Land, who had dared to support his 
unprincipled conduct by a published justification of 
his crimping proceedings, had been scouted by the 
whole community, and held at a distance by its re- 
spectable members. How then could the same people 
bear with a similar conduct on the part of the highest 
authority over them, as his first act, after awaking 
from negligence which resembled a total ignorance of 
their being ? With praiseworthy forbearance and 
patience beyond belief they had borne the long neglect, 
still hoping for the time when they might convince 
their Governor, by an affectionate and loyal reception, 
that he ought to act as their ruler and father. But he 
could now no longer plead that he wished no harm, 
if he did no good, to this plantation ; he had first de- 
clared open war, and the sturdy colonists repeated the 
cry, and nerved themselves for the struggle. From 
this moment the Governor commonly went by the 
name of " Captain Crimp ;" and the propriety of peti- 
tioning her Majesty for his removal from. oflSce was 
at once agitated, .-r^'t" 'wf'» v i ■'■.] .,v> i r-.; 
At the same time, an official notice appeared warn- 
ing persons not to settle or occupy the lands of Ta- 
rmiaki or Wanganui under land-orders from the New 
Zealand Company, as such had not been conveyed by the 
Crown. As it was confidently believed, however, that 
the next arrival would bring the news of a satisfactory 
arrangement in England of the Company's claims to 
those districts, no great attention was paid to this pro- 
