170 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. VI. 
Auckland at the exj)ense of the Cook's Strait set- 
tlements. 
Although Governor Hobson had affected to consider 
Mr. Earp as the representative in Council of the 
Southern district, he was not generally considered in 
that light by the Cook's Strait settlers ; and this was 
the only part of his conduct of which the great majority 
approved. It is not remarkable that this part of his 
conduct should have been that which caused his expul- 
sion from the Council. 
Altogether, the metropolis appeared to be in a most 
disagreeable state of ferment ; and the peaceable society 
of Wellington began to consider whether it did not 
rather gain by the absence of a Court, which drew in 
its train such endless quarrels and misunderstandings, 
— such violent disputes and mutual recriminations 
— such ungentlemanly and, in truth, buffoon-like mes- 
sages, ending in nothing but more pen and ink, be- 
tween all its distinguished ministers, parliamentarians, 
and subordinate hangers-on. 
The Courts of Quarter-Sessions had been suj)er- 
seded by monthly County Courts, with a similar juris- 
diction. A Mr. Whitaker was appointed Judge of 
that for the Northern district of New Zealand, and Mr. 
Halswell of that for the Southern district. " Every 
" man thinks his own geese swans ;" so the Northern 
district, defined as north of the parallel of latitude of 
38^ 30' S., was to have sittings at Auckland and at 
Kororareka in the Bay of Islands ; while the Southern 
districts, defined as that part of New Zealand south of 
the same parallel, was to have sittings at Wellington 
only. Nelson was still left unprovided with any other 
than a Police Court. 
On looking at the map, it will be at once seen how 
the practical working? of any real measure of Govern- 
