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upon himself to laugh at him for faults of accent and 
grammar. 
The arrangements for the arbitration were finally 
made in the end of January. Colonel Wakefield had 
pro}K)sed to abide by the decision of Mr. Spain and Mr. 
Halswell, the Protector of Aborigines, as to the 
amount of compensation to be awarded. But the 
Acting Governor appointed Mr. Clarke to act as one 
arbitrator, and any agent on the part of the Company ; 
Mr. Spain to be umpire, in case of any difference. 
It was only at this time that Mr. Clarke junior 
was released from his duties of Interpreter to the Court 
of Claims. When Mr. Spain accompanied Colonel 
Wakefield to Auckland, Mr. Clarke junior went 
thither in the Government brig, by way of Kapiti, 
Nelson, and New Plymouth. On arriving at the 
seat of Government, he reported to his father, the 
Chief Protector, that the local Protector at Port 
Nicholson was liable to be influenced by his connexion 
with the Company, and seemed negligent of the in- 
terests of the natives. Mr. Clarke, the Chief Protec- 
tor, embodied this statement in his half-yearly report 
to the Acting Governor, and recommended the appoint- 
ment of a Protector for the Southern District. This 
appointment was immediately conferred on Mr. Clarke 
junior ; who was thus placed over the heads of Mr. 
Halswell and Mr. Thompson for all matters relating 
to the natives, as he had already been for the defence 
of their interests before the Court of Claims. 
I was present at the first meeting which took place 
at pa Te Aro for the purpose of settling the amount 
of compensation to be awarded. A table and chairs 
were placed in the midst of the jya, round which sat 
or stood the umpire and the two arbitrators — Colonel 
Wakefield acting on the part of the Company ; and 
