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districts, and every one appeared well satisfied with the 
choice which he had made. The different maps were laid 
on a long table in the open air outside the survey-oflBice ; 
and the crowd of bustling agents and tormented sur- 
veyors' assistants formed a gay scene. 
Early in the month, the Police Magistrate went over 
to Cloudy Bay to inquire into the circumstances 
attending the death of Rangiawa, or " Squeaker," the 
native wife of Mr. Wynen, who had formed one of our 
party up the Pelorus river in 1839. An Englishman, 
and old whaling inhabitant of the place, was taken up 
on suspicion of having murdered her, and brought over 
to be committed for trial; but the evidence against 
him did not prove sufficient, and he was acquitted at 
the next Court. I heard afterwards in the course of 
my trips to Otaki, where many relations of the murdered 
woman lived, that the natives had been by no means 
satisfied with the result of the proceedings, and that 
the acquitted man had thought it prudent to leave the 
country. 
On the 11th, the colonial brig arrived, bringing 
Lieutenant Shortland with his suite and Mr. Spain. 
The settlement of the affair at Tauranga had proved 
less easy and speedy than had l^een expected. The 
circumstances were these. Some members of two 
hostile native tribes in the Bay of Plenty had seized 
upon the ])oats of two White traders, in order to carry 
on some of their predatory expeditions against each 
other. In the course of these, they had committed 
several bloody and treacherous murders ; and having 
got excited, kept the boats. The owners applied to the 
authorities in Auckland to interfere, llie authorities 
were always much more ready to do this at the north 
than in Cook's Strait ; so Lieutenant Shortland carried 
Mr. Clarke junior and his own brother, Edward Short- 
