!MflP ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. X. 
" tive disputes ;" and it was averred that he had 
declared at a public meeting that he *' had not taken 
"any great trouble to urge upon Captain Hobson 
" the necessity of the settlement of the native claims, 
" because, in compliance with the instructions of the 
"Company, he was desirous of keeping the ques- 
" tion open, in order that it might be made an in- 
" strument in the hands of the Directors for attacking 
" the local Government." 
To a positive denial of ever having made such a 
stat-ement, either in letter or spirit. Colonel Wake- 
field added the publication of Mr. Clarke's letter to 
TVairarapa — which he had asked me to translate — 
together with a private one from the Governor to 
himself in September 1841, authorizing him to make 
any equitable arrangement with the natives to yield 
up possession of their habitations. 
The letter of the Governor to Colonel Wakefield 
concluded with these words : — 
" I have made this communication private, lest 
" profligate or disaffected persons, arriving at the 
" knowledge of such an arrangement, might prompt 
" the natives to make exorbitant demands." 
This paragraph of a letter dated September 6th 
1841, looked very extraordinary in juxtaposition with 
that of INIr. Clarke, dated four days later, which I 
have transcribed before. 
Many people understood for the first time why 
Colonel Wakefield had been so signally unsuccessful 
in his numerous and persevering efforts to adjust the 
dispute amicably. The additional odium engendered 
towards the local Government, and especially tovi^ards 
the misinterpreting Protector of Aborigines, maybe 
better imagined than described. 
The Bishop returned here from Nelson on the 10th 
