302 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chai-. XII. 
Wellington from becoming quarrelsome and ignoble 
like that of Auckland, or vulgar and bargain-driving 
like that of a young town in the west of the United 
States, because it has cherished the great safeguard of 
society, honour. 
It is difficult to describe a " gentleman and good 
colonist" of the Company's settlements; but as it has 
been my good fortune to live among this class for four 
years, and they have been my constant companions 
and intimate associates during that period, I may be 
allowed to quote the description of them which was 
given by Mr. Charles Buller to the House of Commons 
in his famous speech on Colonization : — 
" Within the last three or four years our colonization 
*' has entirely altered its character. The emigration 
" to Port Philip, South Australia, and New Zealand, 
*' has been an emigration of every class, with capital 
** in due proportion to labourers, with tradesmen and 
*' artisans of every kind, and with the framework of 
** such social institutions as the settlers have been used 
" to in their native land. Clergymen and school- 
" masters, and competent men of every liberal profes- 
** sion, are among the earliest emigrants ; artists and 
*' men of science resort to a new field for their labours ; 
*' in the foundation of the settlement you find funds 
" set apart for public works, for religious endow- 
" ments, and even for colleges. Associations of a reli- 
" gious, and charitable, and literary nature, are formed 
*' at the outset ; and these are intended to benefit not 
" only the poor emigrants, but the helpless native, 
" who is brought into contact with a superior race. 
" To such settlements, men of birth and refinem«nt 
" are tempted to emigrate : they do so in great num- 
" bers. I will be bound to say that more men of good 
" family have settled in New Zealand in the three 
