Chap. XVIH. MAJOR RICHMOND AT NELSON. 479 
fight if it were not given up, had brought them to 
their "greatest good humour." 
The North Star now proceeded to Nelson, arriving 
there the same evening. 
The first thing done there was to warn Mr. Par- 
kinson, who had contracted to survey the Wairau 
plain for the Company, to recall his men, whom he 
had again sent thither. 
The pas of Motueka and fJ^akapoaka were visited 
during the two next days by the Captain, Major 
Richmond, Captain Best, and Mr. White. " Having 
" now seen for ourselves," pursues Sir Everard, " all 
" the points from which any attack was to be expected, 
" and having found all the reports of preparations 
" making by the natives to be entirely false in every 
" respect, the next morning, the 13th, Major Ricb- 
" mond and myself attended a meeting of a portion of 
" the settlers at their request." 
And there a scene occurred, precisely similar to that 
between the Government functionary and the Mao-i>- 
trates at Wellington ; except that the Magistrates fit 
Nelson were accompanied by a large assemblage of the 
settlers, and that their feelings, more nearly wounded, 
felt all the more acutely the galling treatment of the 
Police Magistrate and of the Captain of the man-of- 
war. The landing of any of the troops was abso- 
lutely refused ; although Major Richmond allows in his 
report to the Acting Governor that a small military 
force is " most essential to keep the unruly workmen 
" in awe, to enforce obedience to the law, and insure 
" the preservation of the peace, which certainly cannot 
" at present be effectually maintained." 
He also refused to sanction the payments made by 
the Company towards the erection of a fort ; or those 
which the Agent had made for the absolutely neces- 
