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had filled the same room the night before to support 
their own liberties, but who cared not to gaze on 
empty " dignity and power." 
They had sufficiently proved their constant loyalty 
to the Queen and their attachment to the laws of 
England ; and were far too proud and honest to fawn 
on the hitherto unworthy representative of Her Majesty, 
till he should have displayed a disposition to make 
amends for his injustice, and to deserve their open 
countenance and support. 
Among the passengers in the Government brig were 
— Mr. Hal swell, who had been up to Auckland, to 
present his letters from Lord John Russell, and had 
sat in the Legislative Council, as one of the three 
senior Magistrates ; a Collector of Customs for Port 
Nicholson ; and a Police Magistrate, who had been 
appointed eight months before to assist Mr. Murphy 
as an itinerant magistrate for the out-settlements of 
Cook's Strait, but whose arrival had been delayed till 
now by the fact that there had been no means of con- 
veyance to the seat of his duties. 
The three-epaulet Surveyor-general, Mr. Felton 
Mathew, was also among the suite ; as it was under- 
stood, to arrange about the Government reserves in this 
district. 
Mr. George Clarke, the lay agent of the Church 
Missionary Society in New Zealand, and formerly 
a catechist and gunsmith of some skill, appeared as 
the Chief Protector of the Aborigines ! It was said that 
he came to make the necessary arrangements for the 
placing of the native reserves on some advantageous 
footing. 
This gentleman kept very much in the back-ground ; 
but there was a general inquiry as to who the man 
could be, that was always to be seen prowling about in 
