G«AP. VI. CAUSES FOR COMPLAINT AGAINST GOVERNOR. 149 
' The Court sentenced him to seven days' hard labour. 
The trial lasted five hours.* 
At the same sitting of the Court, an Englishman 
was sentenced to three months' hard labour for steal- 
ing a broken gun, worth 30*-., from a native. The pri- 
soner had been strongly recommended to mercy on 
account of previous good character. 
The whole five months during which I had been 
absent had only furnished more matter for complaint 
against our hostile Governor. 
Money was drawn in large quantities from Cook's 
Strait in order to be spent at Auckland. Not an erec- 
tion of any kind, except a miserable pound, had been 
made or proposed by the Government. The legisla- 
tion for the colony was going on at a great distance 
from the principal body of those for whose benefit it 
was intended ; so that no remonstrance or complaint 
could be heard by the Council of the Auckland Pacha. 
Some news had been received, but at distant inter- 
vals. As much as five weeks had passed at one time 
without news from the metropolis, while cattle-ships 
from New South \^^ales or emigrant-vessels from 
England were almost daily coming to anchor in the 
harbour. What news we did get found its way by 
chance channels, and not by official communication. 
* Hardly six weeks after his liberation, Pakewa again stole a 
pair of blankets, was fully convicted, and was sentenced to seven 
years' transportation. This is probably the case of which Mr. 
Clarke, without much carefulness as to facts, thus speaks in one of 
his official Reports. There is at least no case, of which I have 
heard, more like the one which he relates with such virulence : — 
" At ,Port Nicholson a native was accused of stealing a blanket, 
" and committed for trial. After lying several months in gaol he 
" was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for the offence. The 
'' judge in this case was a Protector of Aborigines ! ! ! — the jury 
" composed of individuals selected from a community not signalized 
" for their general philanthropy towards the natives." 
