Chap. H. KINDNESS TO NATIVES. .* 2<> 
subjects of the British Empire. Truly, the catalogue 
of native grievances against the powers that be, ap- 
peared already in as fearful array as those of the white 
settlers. They were still living in filthy villages, 
subject to disease from the accumulation of dirt, and 
their residence in ill-ventilated and closely crowded 
dunghills ; still left at the mercy of wars, cannibalism, 
infanticide, and frequent scarcity of food from unskilful 
cultivation ; still clothed badly and inadequately ; still 
ignorant of all that it was absolutely necessary at this 
time for them to know. The neglected settlers at Port 
Nicholson had already done far more than the Govern- 
ment towards the moral and physical improvement of 
the equally neglected natives. 
A paragraph from a Port Philip paper described the 
son of a chieftain as having attended the Auckland 
Governor's installation levee, and bowed, and offered 
his hand, and said " How d ye do, Mr. Governor ? " in 
Maori. " The Governor," it continued, " was much 
'* amused ; and remarked that it was an excellent finale 
" to the first levee in New Zealand." The Governor 
of New Zealand had been long enough in the country 
to have secured the respect and friendship of the native 
chiefs, and a dozen or two ought to have been at his 
right hand, proud of showing their gratitude for some 
substantial attention to the permanent interests of their 
people. 
There was at this time scarcely a settler in Port 
Nicholson of any class who had not a whole family of 
natives forming a part of his own. JEpuni would 
frequently walk the six miles from Pitone, in order to 
call on Colonel Wakefield, and his other friends in the 
town. And this not on a begging visit, for he had 
now too much property of all kinds to beg of anybody, 
but because he began to enjoy the pleasure of civilized 
