TIIE KIRI KIRI STATION, BAY OF ISLANDS. 
CHAPTER XVIII. 
NATIVE CHIEFS. 
Closely connected with the subject of colonization, and 
general advancement of the colony, is the treatment of the 
native Chiefs. With a few exceptions, this subject has 
been too much overlooked; and yet more than many arc 
inclined to allow, depends on those who are still the lords 
of the land, and supreme in their own districts. Their 
power has been undervalued, but whenever anything has 
occurred to call for its display, the settlers and Govern¬ 
ment have found that it is not imaginary. Governor Hob¬ 
son, immediately after the signing of the treaty at Waitangi, 
expressed his intention of giving a small annual pension 
