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Vessels direct from Valparaiso with flour, one from 
Manilla with tea, sugar, and cigars, and several with 
cattle from Sydney, gave the anchorage and the 
wharfs a busy appearance. The most ridiculous dis- 
putes might be seen daily occurring between the Police 
Magistrate, the Health Officer, the Postmaster, the 
Harbour-master, the Collector of the Customs, and 
the Landing-waiter, as to who had the first right to 
be taken on board by the two boats which served for 
all purposes, and which were hardly ever alongside a 
new arrival till it was surrounded by a dozen boats 
belonging to watermen or private individuals. 
On the 22nd of November, IVarepori died, the 
abscess in his head having proved incurable. The 
poor fellow had lived a degraded and pitiable life for 
some time. He was always peevish and irascible ; 
and had much of the same spirit which I have de- 
scribed as existing in Rauperaha and Rangihaeata, of 
anger at the loss of his authority through the introduc- 
tion of peace and industry. As, however, before the 
dominion of the local Government, /^f^r<?pori had always 
been held up and maintained by the settlers as a great 
chief, and as Colonel Wakefield had more than once 
made it a point to back himself by his authority and 
that of K Puni to repress the outrages of the lawless 
among the White people, we had entertained sanguine 
hopes that the institution of the Reserves would soon 
reconcile him to a station by wealth and property 
equal to that which he had formerly maintained by 
eloquence and the art of war combined with his high 
descent. And he had appreciated these intentions to a 
great extent, for he expressly pointed out the land 
which should be chosen for two of the country sections 
of Native Reserve. His wish had been complied with, 
although these two sections were very hilly, and there- 
