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witnessed the deed, or some proofs of his guilt. The 
Police Magistrate, we heard, had been afraid to issue 
his warrant for the apprehension of the criminal, al- 
though H.M.S. Favourite and the discovery - ships 
Erebus and Terror were lying in the bay at the time. 
Two or three old settlers, however, had gone over to 
the island where a large number of natives had assem- 
bled and refused to give Maketu up, and had seized 
him in the midst of them with impunity. The pusil- 
lanimity of the local authorities was much blamed on 
the occasion. 
On the 8th of December, Auckland, Port Nicholson, 
and the Bay of Islands, were declared ports of entry. 
The Jury-list at Auckland gave the number of 
male inhabitants as 655 at this time. 
The unabated tone of feeling at Wellington, that 
we had never been more oppressed than at the present 
time, may be gathered from the fact, that at a dinner 
of 95 persons, composing the A\^ellington Working- 
men's Land Association, which consisted entirely of 
the thrifty and industrious mechanics and labourers, 
the "Governor's" health was unanimously hissed; 
and some one observed that the Chairman must have 
made a mistake in proposing the toast, and intended 
to say " the Governor's successor." 
A more public expression of injured feeling was 
manifested at one of those remarka])le meetings in 
which the people of Port Nicholson had been used to 
vent their constantly collecting indignation. They 
have often been blamed, and called demagogues, and 
riotous, turbulent people, on account of the number of 
these meetings. But when it is considered how nu- 
merous, constant, and repeated were their causes of 
complaint, and that they were separated from their local 
legislators by a space often of weeks, sometimes of 
