418 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. XVI. 
in Wellington, including Barrett's hotel and the re- 
sidences of Colonel Wakefield and of the Crown 
Prosecutor. 
The settlers, though they forbore from drilling, be- 
gan to practise rifle-shooting in their own gardens, and 
kept stands of arms and ammunition always ready in 
their houses. For no one could say, from hour to 
hour, when he might hear the news that some settler's 
forbearance had been exhausted by the increasing 
licence and insolence of the natives, and that every 
man was required to do his best in defence of the 
women and children. No one believed that the 53 
soldiers alone would be able to defend the broad line 
occupied by the town for an hour, should a general 
attack be made. 
On the 22nd of August, Colonel Wakefield returned 
from Nelson, in a Hamburgh ship which had carried a 
ship-load of German immigrants to that settlement. 
On his arrival at Wellington, he appointed Mr. Wil- 
liam Fox to be Company's Agent at Nelson ; and 
tliis gentleman went there soon afterwards. 
Mr. Fox had come out in the " Fyfe," and was one 
of the sterling colonists whom I have described as 
arriving about that time. He was a member of the 
English bar, and had come with the intention of prac- 
tising in the Courts at Wellington. But Judge Martin 
had made a rule of Court, that no barrister could be 
enrolled as a barrister of the Supreme Court in New 
Zealand without making a declaration in the following 
words : — " I have not since my leaving England done 
" any act whereby I should be precluded from practising 
'* as a Barrister-at-Law." At the sitting of the Supreme 
Court in April, Mr. Fox had very properly refused 
to make that declaration, even under protest, on the 
ground that it was derogatory to the honour of the 
