5H ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. XIX, 
and exterminate the natives. With scarciely an ex- 
ception, the whole settlement of Nelson had over- 
flowed with the greatest indignation at the treatment 
they received. The few exceptions were placed in the 
vacant seats of the Magistrates. The places of Mr. 
Constantine Dillon, Mr. Macdonald the banker and 
Sheriff, Mr. George Duppa, Mr. Tytler, and Dr. 
Monro, all estimable and independent men, were filled 
up by some unknown persons, who had fawned on the 
Windsor uniform of the Governor. 
His Excellency had then gone to IVaikanae. His 
proceedings there have been minutely recorded by 
an eye-witness, Mr. Dillon Bell, who had obtained a 
passage in the frigate. 
I shall be excused for transcribing a document of 
such length, when I observe, that it is of importance 
to know the precise means by which the Governor of 
an English colony on the other side of the world can 
take upon himself the combined offices of Coroner, 
Judge, and Jury, in order to decide a case of alleged 
murder, entirely from hearing a narrative made by the 
accused party, differing in many important particulars 
from three or four narratives which he had previously 
made of the same occurrence to other persons. An 
intimate knowledge of the facts, as related in this 
naked statement, is indispensable to every person who 
takes an interest in the deliverance of both races in 
New Zealand from the evils with which they are 
threatened. 
Mr. Bell states that his notes are imperfect, but will 
serve as an outline of what took place, as he put down 
nothing but what he was sure of having understood. 
He adds, that his Excellency frecjuently interrupted 
Rauperaha to have questions repeated distinctly, be- 
sides at those times he has got down ; and that Mr. 
