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and then proceeded with pilots provided by the Com- 
pany's agent, to the new port. Several coasting-craft 
now kept up a constant communication with Nelson ; 
whose inhabitants were described as proceeding with 
great vigour in the work of location. A newspaper 
was already published there ; and they had only to 
complain of the apparent indifference of the local 
Government to their proceedings. 
A brig from Auckland had, to be sure, brought the 
news of the appointment of Captain Wakefield as a 
Magistrate. I'his news had come on the 23rd of No- 
vember, together with a Sub-Collector of Customs, to 
take care that the Government should not lose the 
large amount of revenue to be derived from the im- 
position of duties on the importations for the supply 
of the young colony. 
Mr. Henry Augustus Thompson, a gentleman who 
had brought from England recommendations, addressed 
by Lord John Russell to the Governor, that he should 
be appointed to certain offices at Nelson, had arrived 
from delivering these credentials at Auckland at 
the end of February ; and had gone as passenger in 
the Brougham to assume the offices of Police Ma- 
gistrate, Protector of Aborigines, and Government 
Representative, which had been conferred upon 
him. 
The first jury-lists in Wellington had been made 
up by the 1st of October ; and the first Court of 
Quarter-Sessions had been opened by the Chairman, 
Mr. Halswell, on the 5th of that month ; and the 
first Court of Requests, with a jurisdiction over debts 
under 50/., had held its sittings on the 19th. The 
establishment of both these Courts in New Zealand 
hnd been proclaimed by Sir George Gipps as early as 
the 4th of January preceding. 
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