158 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. VI. 
Dr. George Augustus Selwyn, as Bishop of New 
Zealand, with a suite of clergymen from England, 
was hailed as most happy tidings. It was reported, to 
our great delight also, that his Lordship had kindly as- 
sented to the request of the Directors that he would 
mediate between the Company and the Church Mis- 
sionary Society. On the suggestions of the Bishoj), 
the Society had professed to abjure all enmity, and to 
send the most fraternizing instructions to its agents in 
New Zealand. 
In the end of December, a very suspicious murder 
was committed on a man named Milne. His body 
was found dreadfully lacerated, and plundered of his 
clothes and watch, on the Pitone road. Several wit- 
nesses concurred in saying that they had met him 
coming towards the town on the evening before, appa- 
rently in fear of a native who was following a few 
yards behind him. The result of the Coroner's inquest 
was unsatisfactory. A verdict of " Wilful murder 
" against some person or persons unknown" was given 
by the jury; and the offer of a reward of 50/. by the 
Police Magistrates failed to obtain the detection of the 
murderer. 
Notwithstanding all they had to complain of on 
the part of their rulers, the energetic band of colonists 
had made very great progress. Villages were in pro- 
cess of formation at two spots on the banks of the 
Hutt, by land-owners who divided their sections into 
small allotments for sale or improving lease. They 
were named respectively " Aglionby " and " Rich- 
mond." Another village was rapidly being peopled 
on the country section immediately north of the town. 
This section, belonging jointly to Mr. Watt and John 
Wade the auctioneer, was divided off into one-acre and 
two-acre allotments. The proprietors constructed a 
