476 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap.XVIII. 
Official despatches from Government to Captain 
Hobson, announcing to him the arrangement with 
the Company, and requesting him to treat the settlers 
in Cook's Strait "with kindness and consideration," 
had been sent in the Bailey, and were forwarded in a 
brig to Auckland. 
On the 21st, a very severe gale from the north-west 
was experienced. No damage occurred to the vessels 
in our excellent harbour ; but we were sorry to hear 
that the Jewess schooner, on her way to TVanganuit 
full of settlers and goods, had been driven away from 
her anchorage at Kapiti, and totally wrecked on the 
beach near Paripari, after being cast on her beam- 
ends in the attempt to make an offing. A Brazilian 
whaler, also driven from the anchorage, had managed 
to get clear out to sea. 
Two lives had been unfortunately lost in this wreck. 
George Wade, one of two brothers who had been 
among the earliest to bring cattle and horses from 
Hobart Town, and whose energy and perseverance had 
contributed not a little to the active progress of the 
settlement in its younger days, was one of those lost. 
The other was the native chief Wide-awake, whom I 
have already mentioned more than once. 
The TVaikanae natives, we heard, who were re- 
lated to him, had made his death an excuse for plun- 
dering the wreck. Although all professing tx) be 
mihanerey or Christians, they had not scrupled to 
allege the old native custom as their apology, and 
claimed whatever they could collect or take as uiu for 
the death of their chief. On the receipt of this 
disastrous intelligence, forty young settlers armed 
and started for the spot, taking it for granted that 
the Police Magistrate would, as usual, be unable or 
unwilling to interfere. Mr. John Wade joined the 
