. 4W ADYENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. XVin. 
Smith applied for Mr. Clarke to go to the j)a with 
him, and after some hesitation that gentleman refused 
to do so. Mr. Smith then proceeded with the con- 
stables to the puj and of course was disappointed. 
I do not know whether Major Richmond wrote to 
all the other Magistrates ; he neither wrote nor spoke 
to me on the subject. 
The Police Magistrate omits to say that it was their 
impunity as well as their success, on other occasions 
as well as at Wairau, which had induced the natives 
to " assume a different bearing." 
But instead of " never having disputed our laws be- 
*' fore," he well knew that they had first disputed 
them at the Bay of Islands only two months after the 
performance of the Treaty of TVailangi ; and that on 
two occasions, the military had enforced obedience at 
that place before our laws had been infringed by the 
natives at Wellington. He knew, moreover, that the 
conduct of Noble and the other natives at Manganui, 
north of the Bay of Islands ; of the plunderers at 
TVangart near Auckland ; of Rangihaeata at Porirua; 
of the natives of Maketu and Tauranga ; and of the 
natives of Port Nicholson, headed by fVarepori, when 
one of their number had been found dead ; were only 
the most remarkable among the many cases which had 
occurred of the cruel results of unpunished disol)e- 
dience and the want of a respectable protective force. 
I rode up to Otaki about this time, with two horses 
which I had to offer for sale to the natives, they having 
begged me to bring them some to look at. I had in- 
tended to take a dozen mules up the coast, some of a 
cargo which had arrived lately from Valparaiso, as I 
thought I could make them useful for carrying flax. 
But I was told by one of my own natives who visited 
the town, that Ranperaha had heard of this, and had 
expressed a firm intention of driving them back. 
