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square foot of land, scarclfly one of the servants of tlie 
Church Missionary Society in New Zealand has been 
free from this blemish of self-interest. It seems 
difficult to imagine whence the funds were procured 
to pay adequately for these tracts, if the buyers acknow- 
ledged in the natives a complete right of property over 
their whole extent. 
The progress of the Church of England missions 
•up to this time may be seen from a table furnished by 
Mr. Coates to the House of Lords' Committee in 1838. 
From this it appears that the mission stations were 10, 
extending over that part of the North Island which 
lies between the North Cape and Tauranga in the 
Bay of Plenty; that they instructed 1431 scholars (of 
whom 94 were adults); gathered 2476 in congregations ; 
and counted 178 communicants. The Wesleyan mission 
in New Zealand arose from a visit made to that coun- 
try, in the year 1819, by Mr. Leigh, a missionary of 
the Society then stationed in New South Wales. 
He made the visit with a view to the benefit of his 
health, on the recommendation of Mr. Marsden. In 
consequence of the observations then made by him, 
on his return he recommended the formation of a 
mission in New Zealand ; and the Society having 
adopted his views, he finally embarked at Sydney with 
his wife, on the 1st of January 1822, for that country. 
He remained at the Church Mission station in the 
Bay of Islands until the next year, when Messrs. 
Turner and White having arrived to assist him in his 
labours, they removed to H^angaroa, the place where 
the massacre of the Boyd had occurred, and formed 
a station there. From this date until the early part 
of 1827, these gentlemen, with their families, under- 
went very severe privations, hardships, and dangers. 
Their life, just like that of the first whaling settlers,; 
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