32 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. II. 
Manager of Intestate Estates. Lieutenant Shortland 
soon afterwards married Mr. Fitzgerald's daughter. 
Three coroners and health officers were appointed 
for the Bay of Islands, Auckland, and Port Nicholson 
respectively; that for Wellington being Dr. Fitz- 
gerald, who had been appointed Health Officer some 
time before. 
A long list of land claims at the north were adver- 
tised in the Gazette, in the order in which they were 
to be investigated. And a proposed Government sale 
of suburban and country allotments, near Auckland, 
was postponed till September. 
A subscription of nearly 500/. had been raised in 
Auckland for the building of a church. Mr. Churton, 
appointed Colonial Chaplain, had handed in to this 
list a small sum from " former parishioners at Threap- 
" wood," which there was every reason to believe he 
must have received while under an engagement with 
the Church Society to afford his spiritual aid to the 
settlers of Port Nicholson. 
A finance minute, issued at Auckland, set forth a 
receipt of somewhere about 50,000/., and an expendi- 
ture exceeding that sum by several hundreds. But the 
actual receipts had been 41,000/. advanced from New 
South Wales, and 21,000/., the produce of the land- 
sale. Out of this profuse expenditure, which seemed 
scarcely to be explained, it was at least certain that not 
more than 1000/. had been expended for the benefit of 
the community at Wellington. The Governors ex- 
periments in founding cities had been very costly, if not 
strikingly successful. 
Captain Daniell and Mr. Greorge Duppa returned 
just at this time from an expedition in the Bailey, 
having been requested by Colonel Wakefield to observe 
and report upon the country and harbours in and near 
