308 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. XII. 
at distances of four and six miles from the town ; many 
settled in the upland vale of the Karori ; and a more 
wholesome spirit was thus given to those who remained 
in the town. 
Perhaps the most surprising thing was the rapidity 
with which, notwithstanding so many discouraging 
circumstances, the beach was again covered with a 
better growth of buildings. Out of the ashes of the 
raupo thatch sprang substantial brick and wooden 
stores and taverns, with slate or shingle roofs ; and 
heaps of melted glass and other rubbish were cleared 
away from the site of one of the merchant's stores, to 
make room for the foundations of the Scotch church. 
Within two or three months, this part of the beach 
was more thickly populated than before, and no vestige 
of the fire remained. 
Some of the natives had joined in the subscription 
for the sufferers, and others offered their services to 
rebuild houses without payment. They had been ex- 
ceedingly active in their exertions on the night of the 
fire ; grateful, no doubt, for the like exertions of a body 
of settlers which had saved the greater part of the 
Te Aro pa from destruction in the same way some 
months before. It is painful to record that the Wes- 
leyan missionary had taken advantage of that circum- 
stance to induce them to extend the disputed village 
very much in rebuilding it, carrying the outer fence 
fifty yards beyond where it had formerly stood, instead 
of agreeing to Colonel Wakefield's renewed instances 
that they should quit the location for their own 
Reserves. 1 he natives of the PipHea pa soon after fol- 
lowed this example ; apparently aware that the Go- 
vernor's restriction as to the alienation of their occu- 
pied land had not defined any limits. 
The shipping was exceedingly busy about this time. 
