26 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. U. 
The indignation at Captain Hobson's neglect of the 
settlement was fast increasing in violence among the 
settlers. Daily examples of its evil effects were pre- 
sented to each member of the community. People of 
all classes began to sum up the various grievances of 
which they had to complain, and to inquire what 
proofs had l)een manifested of the ** kindness and con- 
" sideration," which Lord John Russell had recom- 
mended to be shown towards the colonists of Cook's 
Strait, in his instructions to Sir George Gipps on the 
first appointment of Lieutenant-Governor Hobson ? ' ' 
To pass over the treatment of the loyal colonists as 
rebels in their first connexion with the Government, 
the first feature of kindness was the crimping of the 
labourers in the Chelydra, and the withdrawal of the 
troops. 
As though in jealousy of the fine harbour and its 
increasing commerce, the harbour-master had been 
dismissed, and no other appointed in his place. No 
provision of any kind had been made for its pilotage or 
lighting ; the only pilots being volunteers, recommended 
by the Company's Agent, and unable to claim, legally, 
any remuneration for their services. 
Notwithstanding Lord John Russell's very specific 
instructions for the establishment of tribunals of all 
kinds, the whole provision for justice had been, for 
eighteen months from the arrival of the Lieutenant- 
Governor, a single police court, with undefined autho- 
rity and scanty jurisdiction. Thus, in the wretched hut 
which served for a jail, — where prisoners were heavily 
ironed, in order to prevent them from walking through 
the straw walls, — two men, committed for trial, and 
who, until fully convicted, were to be considered as 
innocent, had ])een incarcerated upwards of eleven 
months. And in a community in which much pro- 
