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CHAPTER V. 
Progress of ffanganui — Mr. Wansey's attempt to settle— Conse- 
quential airs of the Police Magistrate — Arrival of £! Kuru — 
Penalty inflicted for saluting him — Ludicrous Proceedings 
—Anger of the Natives — Guests — Bell's Farm — His manage- 
ment of the Natives — Interview with two repudiating Chiefs — 
Their proposal — Journey to "Wellington by land — The Great 
Chief of Manawatu — Effect of an appeal to Native hospitality 
— Purchase of Manawatu district by Colonel Wakefield — Ex- 
cellent results of Mr. Hadfield's missionary teaching — Houses 
for Travellers. 
I FOUND tliat a considerable addition had been made to 
the White population of the settlement. The Clydeside, 
a vessel of 250 tons, brought out by her owner, Mr. 
JMathieson, from Greenock to Wellington, had entered 
the river and ascended as far as Landguard Cliff.* She 
bore a large party of passengers from Wellington, 
with their goods and chattels. Macgregor, in acting 
as pilot, had put the vessel on the sand-spits both in 
entering and in going out ; but no serious damage had 
been done. 
A drove of some fifty head of cattle, too, had arrived 
by land for Captain Moses Campbell, who had himself 
come in the Clydeside, and had been followed to this 
place by several Scotch settlers. Many of the survey- 
ing labourers, chiefly Scotchmen, had taken a liking to 
the country while exploring it, and were preparing for 
* The cliff at Waipuna, two miles from the river's mouth, named 
" Landguard " on account of the post on which E Kuru had made 
me cut Colonel Wakefield's name, and which is still there. 
