510 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. XIX. 
He began by telling me, that had he not imagined 
that I was about to leave town immediately after the 
levee, he would have taken a less public opportunity of 
expressing his disapprobation of my conduct. 
After reading to me some passages from his instruc- 
tions as Governor, and from the charter of the colony, 
in order to show me that he had a right to reprove 
misconduct, he referred to letters which I had written 
at different times since the first formation of the colony, 
and which had been published in the * New Zealand 
Journal' of London ; remarking that they were filled 
with sneers and sarcasms levelled at the missionaries ; 
and that I had shown myself, in thus writing, a decided 
enemy to their proceedings and to religion I His Excel- 
lency assured me with great regret, that I had, by 
these writings and my general conduct in setting an 
example to the natives, obtained for myself the name 
of the " Leader of the devil's missionaries ! ! " at Syd- 
ney and elsewhere. 
He then told me that my name would be one of 
several to be struck off the Commission of the Peace ; 
and that, although this would appear in public as a 
simple reduction of the number of the Magistrates of 
the territory, it was his duty to inform me in private, 
that he " considered I had been included in the Com- 
" mission most inadvertently by the late Governor, on 
" account of my youth and indiscretion, on account of 
" the bad example I had set the natives, and on account 
*' of my being known as one of those who entertained 
" an especial hatred and animosity towards them." 
He proceeded to blame me severely for having, since 
the JJ^airau massacre, worn arms while travelling 
among the natives who had partaken in that affair, 
although I had been warned against such a proceeding 
by the Chief Police Magistrate, Major Richmond. He 
