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CHAPTER XIII. 
Concluding selection of lands — Murder of a native woman at 
Cloudy Bay — Disputes with the natives at Tauranga — Lieutenant 
Shortland proposes to enforce the law — The Attorney-General 
considers the natives not British subjects — Mr. Clarke supports 
him— Arrival of Lieutenant Shortland at Wellington — His re- 
ception — Speeches about land — Tact of E Pimi — Copper ore — 
Return of Mr. Petre from his visit to England — Race-horses — 
Mr. Cooke drives cattle to New Plymouth — Dicky Barrett and 
Mr. George Clarke junior — Arbitration — Mr. George Clarke 
junior promoted — Discussions about compensation for land — A 
mad native — Windmill — Comet of 1843 — Mr. Spain proceeds 
towards the north — A native murdered by another native in 
Wellington — The murderer goes unpunished — Interview with 
Rauperaha — His allies — His irritated and threatening behaviour 
— ^Proposed journey — The rata, or flowering myrtle. 
1843. — On New Year's Day the concluding selection 
of preliminary country sections took place. The new 
districts laid open were the valley of the Upper Hutt, 
above a gorge six miles from the sea ; a large district 
between the Manawatu river, and a line drawn east 
from Lake Horowenua to the Tararua range ; a varied 
and ratl^er inaccessible district between Port Nicholson 
and the coast of Cook's Strait, which extends from 
Mana to Cape Termoiti ; and some new valleys in the 
neighbourhood of Porirua, and between that district 
and the valley of the Hutt. A few persons availed 
themselves of the permission to reserve their choices 
for some other location, such as TVaikanae or Otahi^ 
where the responsibility of satisfying the natives was to 
lie with themselves. The sectionists and land-agents 
had made a very thorough examination of the new 
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