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champion of the assailants. Twice Bayly threw the 
Maori, and was thrown himself the third time ; where- 
upon the natives crowded round him, and one appa- 
rently was going to cleave his skull with a tomahawk, 
when a bystander levelled his fowling-piece at the na- 
tive, who then gave way. There were about thirty na- 
tives and six white men. A parley ensued, and they 
agreed to refer the case to the Company's Agent, Mr. 
Wicksteed. 
He told them he was determined to put the White 
settlers on the land, and that he would call on the 
Police Magistrate to send any native to prison who 
should break the peace. He assured them at the same 
time, that any chiefs among them having a rightful 
claim to the land should receive whatever compensa- 
tion Mr. Spain, on his arrival, might award. As they 
knew that there was no such chief among them, and 
they heard that protection would be given to the White 
people, they promised to give no further annoyance ; 
and became very good friends with the settlers, work- 
ing for them, and sleeping in the same tent ; satisfied 
also with the excellent Reserves made for them. 
Soon after, a similar affair took place on the banks 
of the TVaitera river, 12 miles north of New Ply- 
mouth. A body of armed natives drove Messrs. Good- 
all and Brown, agents of large absentee proprietors, 
off their section, lying on the north side of the river, 
cut down trees and brushwood, and declared their re- 
solution to keep the White settlers to the south of the 
TVmtera. 
The real chiefs assured the Company's Agent that the 
rioters had no claim whatever to the land, and only in- 
tended to terrify him into paying utu. The day after 
the riot, he called upon Mr. John George Cooke, a ma- 
gistrate, to swear in a body of special constables ; and 
