CONTENTS. 
Protector of Aborigines — His qualifications — Petition at Auck- 
land for the recall of Governor Hobson — Wretched condition of 
Auckland — Introduction of pheasants and bees into Wellington 
— Mr. Wicksteed appointed to succeed Captain Liardet at New 
Plymouth — Blood horses from Sydney — Court of Land Claims 
— Its mischievous action — Changed notions of the natives — 
Complicated proceedings — Evidence of E Puni—oi E Tako, a 
Repudiator — Mr. Tod's case — Dilatory progress — Effects — 
Government negligence — Latest dates from Auckland reach 
Wellington through Sydney — Mildness of Winter — Unceasing 
vegetation — Natural pasture — Steam-mill and Brewery — Me- 
chanics' Institute — Mr. Kettle's Exploring Expedition — Gorge 
of the Manawatu — Plain of the three rivers — Formation of the 
country — Native legend — Plain of the Ruamahanga — Its na- 
ture and extent — Wild hogs — Eeturn by the Ilutt Valley — Sa- 
lubrity of the climate — Central position of Wellington . 189 
CHAPTER IX. 
The Chief E Ahu — He quells Rangihaeata's noisy arrogance — 
He avoids the missionary natives — Journey to Otaki and Ohau — 
The chief's son, Wahine iti — Lakes — The Patriarch Watanui 
— Inland journey — Rangitikei — Obstructions offered to settlers 
by missionary natives — Mr. [Mason, the missionary — Mr. Dawson, 
the Police Magistrate — Native dispute — Consequences — Good 
faith and honest pride of Rangi Tauwira — ^The town of " Petre " 
— E Kuru accompanies me to Wellington — Inland path — 
Bivouac — Race — The Oroua, or Styx — Exaggerated missionary 
notions — Hypocrisy — Its punishment — The surveying station — 
Steam eaw-mill — Reconciliation of two hostile chiefs — The 
Patriarch's £unily — A noble result of Mr. Hadfield's missionary 
teaching — Rauperaha sends his slaves to obstruct settlers on the 
Hutt 221 
CHAPTER X. 
Rauperahd's slaves on the Hutt — Veracity of natives — E Puni's 
present — Native labour — Fires — Furniture woods — Boats — 
N^lect of Nelson— Stagnation at Auckland — The Bishop ar- 
rives — Stifling of the Native Reserves — Their value misrepre- 
sented — Their real value — Unjust reproaches against the 
plan — Outrages by natives at New Plymouth— How quelled — 
