502 ADVEimjRE IN NEW ZEALAND Chap. XVIII. 
The trial lasted ten hours ; and the Bishop remained 
in Court the whole time. 
It was now found that the natives contemplated a 
rescue. Those who had assembled at Pitone were 
understood to have reached Kai JVara TVara. Dr. 
Evans rode down to them, and advised them to retire ; 
but they advanced to Pipitea pa. Mr. Clarke junior, 
and Dr. Fitzgerald, the doctor appointed by Govern- 
ment to attend the natives, tried their influence ; but 
they were both turned out of the pa. A small body 
of the military were all day close in the neighbour- 
hood of the court, but out of sight; but as a rescue 
had been threatened in case the prisoner should be 
convicted, a Serjeant's guard of 25 men were marched 
out; and J^ TVaho, placed between two constables, 
not handcuffed but surrounded by soldiers, was marched 
off to the gaol. When the natives in the pa saw this, 
they allowed the Bishop to address them ; they were 
about 300. In the morning they fired off their nms- 
kets, which they had kept loaded all night, and quiet 
was restored. 
It was afterwards heard, in confirmation of Raupe- 
raha's account to me, from a good native authority in 
Wellington, that all the Pipitea and Kumu Toto 
natives, of whom E Tako and Muturoa were the chiefe, 
with a large auxiliary force from the neighbourhood, 
were encamped above Kai ff^ara War a, on the occasion 
of the trial, to be ready for action should the verdict 
be disagreeable to them ; and that an order was sent 
from the confederation to the Te Aru natives to en- 
camp on the hills west of the town (their own potato- 
grounds), which they however did not obey. 
It may be mentioned that the Judge asked E Tako to 
dinner with him on Christmas-day, and kindly assented 
to his bringing Moturoa and his wife Martha also to 
his table. 
