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serves. It was understood that this gentleman bore 
letters from the Colonial Minister to Governor Hob- 
son, recommending his confirmation in the above 
office. 
The New Zealand Company had always wished 
that some impartial party should be intrusted with 
the management of the Native Reserves for the benefit 
of the aboriginal population. They had taken no 
steps to apply those already selected to any purpose, 
because, they were liable to be accused of interested 
conduct. It was now hoped that the Governor would 
enable Mr. Halswell to derive from the native estate 
the great advantages which it was capable of confer- 
ring on those for whom the Company had reserved it. 
I must add, that in the six weeks during which 
I had been absent, a road long in progress round the 
west side of the harbour had been completed by the 
Company's labourers ; and Sam Phelps had been the 
first to drive his bullock-dray over it to Pitone. A 
bridle-road from Kai Wara TVara to Porirua was 
also in progress, as well as one from the town into an 
elevated valley of some extent, called Karori, situated 
a mile to the south-west. A wooden building of some 
pretensions in point of architecture had been erected 
as a Public Exchange at Te Aro, and a wharf had 
been run out into the harbour near the same spot by 
Captain Rhodes. New stores, houses, and fences, had 
sprung up in every direction ; and the clinking of the 
hammer and sudden apparition of new habitations still 
went on, day after day, with unceasing activity. 
The day after I arrived, another vessel, which had 
sailed at the same time as the Bailey, arrived in the 
harbour. Resides duplicates of despatches, it brought 
upwards of a hundred more colonists of various classes 
for Wellington. 
