268 ADVENTTJRE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. X. 
Wara TVara^ Mr. Hay had got a long list of Donald 
Macdonalds, and Angus Camerons, and Dugald 
Dugalds, and Archie Campbells, to set their crosses to 
a paper which very few of them could read. So 
Jesuitical a reason for annoying the settlers in a petty 
way was worthy of the Government officers. Captain 
Hobson and Lieutenant Shortland both knew per- 
fectly well who the leaders of the Wellington com- 
munity were. But the signers of Mr. Hay's address 
were the ragged mob who had assisted Mr. Davy and 
the drunken horse-breaker in welcoming the Go- 
vernor to Wellington ; and in Richard Houghton's 
memorial was a long array of names, which had 
not been in the list of those present at the Governor's 
levee. 
The new Harbour-master at once took upon himself 
all the airs of a full-pay Government officer. He 
boards the ships, with white gloves on, when they are 
just going to anchor or have anchored ; has a happy 
knack of laying them athwart each other's hawse, as 
though by predilection ; and has been more than once 
known to ground a vessel in moving her out of the 
harbour, on occasions when the least skilful boat-sailer 
in the town could hardly have done it if he had tried. 
In most cases, the pilots do the whole of the Har- 
bour-master's duty. Mr. Hay seems perfectly satisfied 
with the pay, and the honour of being a Government 
officer. 
During this and the last month, whales had been 
more than once seen inside the harbour. Inefficient 
crews, with incomplete apparatus, had sallied out in 
chase from the beach, but had proved unsuccessful. I 
remember one party of amateurs pulling out a long 
way, furnished with such a harpoon as small porpoises 
are speared with, and about 20 yards of line. It was 
