SourceFile: doc_0001.txt
Date (precise): 1834 November 1
Addressee: Coates
Place: Sydney, New South Wales
Letter Body: Sydney, New South Wales, Novr. 1, 1834.|To Dandeson Coates Esqr.|Dr. Sir,|By the blessing of God we are safely arrived at this “halting place,” from which we trust soon to proceed to New Zealand.—|I premise, that I need not enter into a detail of Incidents which occurred on the Voyage, as, I believe, that my dear Brother Wade, will send you a full account of whatsoever he deems worthy your attention.—I would merely say, that we were blessed with more comforts than I expected, thanks to the Almighty, the Society, and Capt. Aitken, who is, I firmly believe, as a Captain, a worthy man.|I trust, Sir, that the Passengers who accompanied us, and the crew of the “Prince Regent,” will yet have to thank God for our coming out in her.—I am, I trust, thankful for His mercies, and I don’t consider it the least to have such a companion as Mr. W.R. Wade.|In a letter which I received from the C.M.H., bearing date April 24th., 1834, I read,— “The Society will supply with whatsoever shall appear to be needful both in books and other articles.”—I have again, to acknowledge the great goodness of the Society in granting me so many comforts as I have already received: but I would venture to inquire—as I find there is not a single Book, save the valuable Bible which you were so kind as to give me, Sir, sent on board for W.C.—whether there are any allowed? If so, should be glad to have a few pr. first opportunity: two or three of the Society’s Greek works, I should be thankful for, as they would, to me, be a desideratum.|I have yet one more request to prefer—that you will, Sir, be pleased to order £5, to be sent to my Father, at Penzance, every half-year, commencing at Midsummer next. In doing this, you will greatly oblige and benefit me.|Praying, that you, Sir, and our Society at Home, may be abundantly blessed by God, through Jesus Christ;—and, that *** your co-workers in the Vineyard of Christ, may be united by the Spirit in the bonds of Love and Peace,|I am,|Dear Sir,|yours faithfully, |Willm. Colenso, Jr.|P.S. Please remember me to Mr Watts—and to the ***s in your office—Sir.|
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SourceFile: doc_0002.txt
Date (precise): 1835 January 15
Addressee: Coates
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Paihia, Bay of Islands, New Zealand,|January 15th., 1835.|To Dandeson Coates, Esqr.,|Dear Sir,|The Lord God of Israel who never slumbers nor sleeps hath, in his manifold mercy, brought us safe to our “desired haven”!—Truly we are bound to offer a Long-year, a triumphant strain of ascription to our God, “who only doeth wondrous things”!|At Sydney, day after day rolled by, and we could not hear of any vessel about to sail for New Zealand.—At last we engaged the “Blackbird,” a small Schooner, of only 67 tons register,—and, on Tuesday the 9th. Decr., went on board, in order to commence our second voyage:—She did not weigh anchor, however, until the next morning, and was not much under weigh more than 3 hours when she ran ashore on a small isle, within Port Jackson, called, “Sharks’ Island,” there she stuck fast for a few hours, but was got off, without damage:—we again proceeded, and, in the evening, once more anchored within Port Jackson.—The next morning we bade adieu to the shores of New Holland.~|At Sydney we found several friends—the Revd. Rd. Hill, did everything in his power to contribute to our comfort during our stay; for which I feel exceedingly thankful.—We also saw the Revd. Messrs. Cowper, Styles, & Marsden, and were at the residence of the latter at Paramatta.—We were, also, introduced to a Capt. Brown of the XV. Madras Infantry, who was, I believe, Sir, Secretary to the Church Missionary Committee, there;—he accompanied us in the “Blackbird” to New Zealand, on a visit to his brother:—he is a true disciple of Jesus.—|But to proceed with our Voyage:—for three weeks were we beat about, by contrary winds, in the South Pacific in our little bark;—which was not only very dirty and crammed with cargo, but very leaky! her leaks gained on her considerably, she drew, at last, 7 inches an hour, and kept a hand almost constantly pumping—but He who holdeth the winds in his fist, and ruleth the raging of the seas, kept us, by His Almighty power from any harm! and, on Tuesday the 30th. Decr. allowed us to tread the shores of New Zealand!|We found our dear Brethren, who rejoiced to see us, in health.—The next morning the natives surrounded us, crying, “Ka pai Mihanere,” (very good Missionary,) when the Revd. W. Williams gave them to understand that I was a Printer, and come out to print books for them, they were quite elated;—no hero of “olden time” was ever received by his army with greater éclat. they appeared as if they would deify me! During the week I was busily employed with the natives in landing the goods; and, on Saturday, the 3rd. January, 1835,—a memorable epoch in the annals of New Zealand—I succeeded in getting the Printing Press landed.—I was obliged to unpack it on board, but, I am happy to say, it is all safe on shore.—Could you, my dear Sir, but have witnessed the natives, when it was landed, they danced, shouted, and capered about in the water, giving vent to the wildest effusions of joy, enquiring the use of this, and the place of that, with all that eagerness for which uncivilized nature is celebrated. Certes, they had never seen such a thing before!—I trust soon to be enabled to get it to work. May the Father of mercies—to whose cause I desire to rededicate myself, body, soul, and spirit,—grant me strength and ability to work it for His glory! May it be instrumental, under His blessing, in bringing thousands to the Cross of our Immanuel!—and of rending that sombre pale of darkness and gloom, which “the Prince of the power of the air” has so long successfully wrapped around the inhabitants of these islands!|Our first Sabbath in this land, was one, that will not, I trust, be easily forgotten.—After the Service, and a Sermon in the native language by the Revd. H. Williams—which was attentively listened to by about 60 natives, who exhibited more order and regularity, my dear Sir, than I have found, I am sorry to say it, in many places of worship in civilized, Christian England!—a little native was baptized, by the name of “Piripi,” (Philip.)—May he be added to the church triumphant!—The Revd. A.N. Brown preached a Sermon in English, and we commemorated the dying love of our dear Redeemer! Surely ’twas a “festal day.”—Our first Sabbath in this land—the first in the year—blessed with witnessing the celebration of both Sacraments, and, what is far greater, of feeling an interest in the blood of Jesus, is more than we could have expected.—Truly the Lord is still good unto us—He hath not, blessed be his name, notwithstanding our manifold sins, forgotten us!|Throughout the Islands there appears to be, dear Sir, a universal movement—a mighty stirring of the People—the Chiefs of distant tribes come down to Waimate, and this place for Books and Missionaries! These seem to be the nil ultra of their ambition. I have seen them, myself, gladly bring their store of Potatoes for a book! May the Lord put into the hearts of the Christians of England, a universal answer to this universal cry, and question!—indeed, all Christians, who have known the love of God in their own hearts, will, must, come forward, in some shape or other, “to the help of the Lord against the mighty”! Would that I had the nature of a polypi, I would not hesitate to cut my members to pieces, instantly, and say to each, “Go forth, in the name of the Lord!”|The Committee of Missionaries, dear Sir, have thought proper to station the Press at Paihia; of course, I am here also:—so is Mr. Wade, for the present. Mr. Flett, also, remains here, for the present. The Revd. A.N. Benn58 with his wife and family, is waiting for a fair wind, to carry him to his new station,—Puriri.—Several new stations are formed, and others forming, more will be added when there are labourers to “go forth”! Whilst in England, I heard a great deal about Missions, and might have sometimes entertained an idea of the accounts published being exaggerated, but, I now find that it is not so—quite the contrary.—|It is a gladdening sight to see and hear the natives at Prayers.—It is generally conducted by a baptized native Christian,—whose tall commanding figure,—book in hand,—loosely wrapped in a blanket,—or flax mat,—after the manner of the ancient toga, forcibly reminds me of Raphael’s cartoon of “Paul preaching at Athens.”—Their language conveys in the sound, something peculiarly devotional.—The Confession, Lord’s Prayer, and other portions of our beautiful liturgy, sounds, in the native tongue, really awe-inspiring.—Every morning and evening, the Chief and the Slave—the Cannibal Warrior and the “smiling babe”, are to be found prostrate before the mercy-seat of our Saviour and their God! If anyone’s heart wants animating towards Missions, he should witness this sight;—if he did not soften, he must be, indeed, “harder than the nether mill-stone.” I can now adopt the language of the Prophet:— “From the uttermost parts of the earth, have we heard songs—glory to the righteous!—even the name of the Lord God of Israel, in the isles of the Sea”!|I wrote you, dear Sir, a short letter from Sydney, and I hope you have been so kind as to attend to my requests. Please present my best respects and Christian love to Revd. W. Jowett and the Revd. J. Dyer. (Fen Court, Fenchurch St.) not forgetting, Mr. Northover and all enquiring brethren.|We left England without any printing paper, but I hope it will arrive by the time I am ready for it.|But I must, Sir, close:—I fear I have trespassed already, on your patience, at least.—May the “God of Israel” keep and bless you, in your “goings out and comings in”,—and, when your “labour of love” below is finished, give you, through Jesus Christ our Redeemer, a peaceful entrance into the New Jerusalem!|So prays, an unworthy Missionary of Christ,|called,|William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0003.txt
Date (precise): 1835 March 16
Addressee: Coates
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Paihia, Bay of Islands, New|Zealand, March 16th., 35.|To Dandeson Coates, Esqr.|Dear Sir,|The “Vigilant” being about to sail in a few days, I embrace this opportunity of writing you, in order to “report progress”.—|Since the date of my last (Jany. 31.) which I trust came to hand in due time, I have been busily engaged in cleaning and setting up the printing press and getting it into working condition:—laying cases, composing and working off 2000 copies of a post 8vo./ tract of 16 pps: containing Paul’s Epistles to the Ephesians and Philippians.—A printer in London cannot form a correct idea of the disadvantages which I laboured under in the getting this up and sending it out. In consequence of not having a single lead I was obliged to substitute paper and spaces for blank lines.—I hope the leads, &c, will speedily arrive.—I have a native assistant, a fine sharp boy of about 15 years of age; if he proves steady he will be a valuable acquisition. He rolled nearly all the 2000 copies, and though he labours under a great disadvantage in my not understanding the language yet he gets on remarkably well.—I trust, dear Sir, that, considering all things you will be pleased with this little “pukapuka,”—12 copies of which you have enclosed for your government. I should have wished to put covers to all of these little silent messengers, but we have no paper for that purpose; the one enclosed with a pink cover, is covered with blotting papers. I trust that the Society will, (if there is not some already sent) send out a few reams of colored paper for this purpose.|This “first fruits” of the New Zealand Press, which the Lord hath been pleased to allow me to begin and complete, is very much liked by the natives.—May it, being the “Word of God,” be the means of making thousands “wise unto salvation”—and the preface, as it were, to a more glorious diffusion of Gospel light over these benighted lands!|The work of the Lord is going on:—every day shews us, not only negatively but positively, that Satan’s sway over the hearts of the inhabitants of these islands, is becoming less and less powerful;—for this, “Glory to God in the highest,: shall be our song—and “Thy kingdom come,” our daily prayer.|I intimated in my last a hope, that the printing paper would arrive by the time we were ready for it: I am sorry to say, that it has not yet made its appearance; I trust soon to see it, else I shall be led to suppose, (from the circumstance of its being about to follow us immediately from England,) that it is lost. We now await its arrival in order to commence printing the New Testament.—May God give me strength and ability to do His work.|I have written my Parents by this ship, and given them directions to purchase several articles for me, you will, therefore, Sir, be pleased to pay in at Sir J.N. Lubbock’s & Co’s. bank, 11, Mansion House Street, the sum of Sixteen Pounds, (on my account,) with instructions to pay it through their Banker at Penzance, to my Father at that place.—|We have heard that our Society has received a munificent donation of £9000.— “Truly God is good to Israel”—for this His name shall be praised.—|My health is, I am happy to say, pretty good; but I have had such a succession of colds lately that I am not yet exactly settled, but trust through the blessing of God to be soon.—|I have many interesting things to write on, but my brethren will, doubtless, give them in their communications.—|Beseaching you, dear Sir, and all friends, ever to remember us in your prayers; and praying that the blessing of God may rest on our Society, and on all its laborers,|I am, dear Sir,|yr: mo: ob: servt.|Willm. Colenso, Jr.|P.S. You may send, Sir, the £16. to Penzance, through any other Bank,—or by any other way, which you may think proper.|Mar. 28th., pr. “Portsea”—the Vigilant having sailed, earlier than I expected.—|Please forward the 2 little Tracts, enclosed in the ***, to Mr. Vyvyan, when you send down the “Record,” to the West of England, or at your earliest convenience.|
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SourceFile: doc_0004.txt
Date (precise): 1836 January 9
Addressee: Coates
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Paihia, Bay of Islands.|Jany. 9th./36.|Dandeson Coates Esqr.,|Sir,|After a long silence occasioned by pressure of Business, I once more take up my Pen to write you, Sir,—although at this very moment I have more than a dozen different things to do!|I am glad to have to present you with another portion of God’s word in the Native tongue—the Gospel of St. Luke, which I have been permitted to begin and finish since I last wrote—I struck off 1000 copies, have bound upwards of 400, and am going on with the remainder—I cannot bind them fast enough for the Natives, they ar very impatient to obtain them. I am at a loss for somewhat to cover these Books—in the case of Binding Materials sent from England was only one piece of colored cloth for this purpose—when there ought to have been at least a dozen—this piece is all used it covered about 250. I have also printed 600 copies of the ASddition, Multiplication, and Shillings and Pence Tables for the Natives—and 200 Circular Letters, (part of the number in English & part in Native,) for the British Resident, J. Busby, Esqr.,—The printying those things, binding those Gospels, and repairing and binding Native Books, (those 4to. Native Books printed in the Colony, are poor things, they reflect no credit on the Printer—less on the Binder—and still less on the Editor—it has been computed that there are not less than 1000 errors in the work! I have already seen, in the course of reading to the Natives, &c, near 400!) have occupied my time till now—I am going on with the binding the remainder of the Gospels—and hope in 3 or 4 weeks to commence printing the New Testament. My work has lain rather heavy upon me, and little to shew for the time engaged therein—but it must not be forgotten, that I have almost everything to do with my own hands. I have no assistant in the work—and when I shall have a native assistant I know not. The Lad whom I mentioned in my last letter, has left me, having behaved very ill and very ungratefully to me, he left of his own desire, for I was too fond of him to turn him away bad as he was.—Yet I see the goodness of God in it, Sir, for I was too strongly attached to him—he had made great proficiency in the business. The time is hardly yet arrived, I fear, for natives to settle down to steady employ of any kind—they are so independent—the veriest slave never considers himself your servant, and, having no sense or idea of gratitude, for a word leaves you instantly! For hard out-door work they may do tolerably well—even there they will not work steadily—but for steady, in-door, quiet employ, this generation, for the present, must not be mentioned. Sometimes I am without a native, and have, in addition to my employment, to Hew wood & fetch water, &c &c &c, which, work as fast as I will Takes some time—often have I lain down exhausted and awoke after 2 or 3 hours sleep tired!—Still, and it is all one as if my work was lighter, God strengthens me!|Month after month rolled away and no Paper arrived—but a few days ago 100 Ream, unfortunately of two different qualities, made its appearance, with this we commence the Testament. I have also received a Lot of Type from England but in very bad condition, owing to the manner in which they were packed—one box I understand went to pieces at Sydney owing to its being old & rotten—several Leads, &c, were broken and rendered useless. It may not ne amiss for me, Sir, here, to say a word or two in plainness on this subject:— 1. When the Society sends out a Printer, or a “Mechanic” it would, in my humble opinion, be advisable to condescend to ask him what will be wanted! and what will be useful? and to be, in a measure, guided by his professional reply.—Now in the equipment of this Printing Establishment some tens of Pounds might be saved and yet the Printing office benefitted! The same in a measure applies to the Binding Department.— 2. With many of those parcels of Type, &c, no Invoice or Bill has arrived, and I know not their weight or quantity.—The “Tariff” by which they were selected, too, would be desirable as they are not selected according to the “run of sorts” in the N. Zealand Language, so that the consequence is that when you have composed a few pages you have to stop!—so I believe it is the opinion of many of those who are termed “fair tradesmen”—that anything will do for New Zealand!|A short time since I opened a Box, which was shipped on board the “Sovereign,” Capt. Baker, Novr. 21 *********************line missing?*****|some Type.—If it were possible the person who sold and packed the Press and Type, should, at least, be compelled to pay for the Type, which pr. Invoive amounts to £15.7.6—now worth a few shillings as old metal! who ever heard of an Iron press being put loosely in a large Box with Type, and nothing to keep them from battering against each other!—The Type is all “pie,” and I expect totally useless, for the various Irons of the Press were broken to pieces!|Allow me to say a word or two, Sir, on the selecting Paper, &c. for us for Printing—we do not want a fine paper, but a strong paper:—the coarseness is of little consequence—let it be made of linen-rag, and not that rotten-bleached stuff, whitened by acids, fit only for the delicate finger of an English Lady to handle—such a Paper as the coarse, old, Linen Paper you might have seen, Sir, in your school-boy days, in School-books—strong—durable. With regard to what the Committee may select for binding the New Testament, I have to observe that a suitable cheap canvas might be obtained—or the stout sheep, I should recommend, such as is used by the Bible Society—this I think would only cost about 2d or 3d pr. Book. In sending Mill-board for the Test. covers, I hope you will send sufficient, as, at present, in consequence of having only enough for the covers of about 250 Books—St. Luke’s Gospel—I am obliged to paste together Brown Paper, which is not only not so good but takes a considerable deal more Labour.—|I have entered on my 2nd. year in N. Zealand. Oh! may the Lord enable me to serve Him better this year than I did the last—His work is nobly going on around about us—many were baptized last half-year, and many are enquiring. I had the great pleasure to partake of the Lord’s Supper the other day @ Waimate with 70 natives, and last Sunday it was administered there to upwards of 100 Natives, and those only a portion of the Chrisn. Natives of that Station!|I refrain from saying more on these heads as my Brethren, doubtless, send all necessary Information. Excuse this scrawling Letter—the ship has been under weigh this morning—I must therefore close.—|I have received a Letter from dear Mr. Jowett, but cannot now stay to answer it. Praying for you all—that you and we may be one in Him and He in us—and beseeching your prayers in return.|I have the honor to be,|Dr. Sir, yr: mo: ob: sert.|William Colenso|I send you a copy of a note received yesterday from a Chief called Wari at Wangaruru, a native place on the Coast outside Cape Brett,—where I suppose I shall pay a visit in a week or two.|“** kara, e Peka,—Maku te Sir, father, the Baker—|** pu hei pupuhi mo Hiro (Give) For me one gun, (a |** te Kapahu ano e tika Book) to enable (me) to shoot |**urungi.” Hiro (the evil spirit) as the | “Na, Wari.” compass truly sets straight, | (or guides) the rudder, (or | steerer.)| From Wari.|The words in parentheses are supplied—the natives call a Bible or Gospel— “a gun”! W.C.|
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SourceFile: doc_0005.txt
Date (precise): 1836 September 9
Addressee: Coates
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Paihia, Bay of Islands|Septr.9/1836|D. Coates Esqr.,|Sir,|In great haste, the vessel having fired her gun, I write you these few lines to request you to pay my father on account of Salary, the sum of £11. Eleven Pounds—and charge the same to the a/c of—|Yours very truly|William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0006.txt
Date (precise): 1837 April 6
Addressee: Coates
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Paihia, Bay of|Islands, April 6 1837.|D. Coates, Esqr.|Sir,|Please pay the Bearer the Revd. F. Wilkinson, the sum of Two Pounds, and charge the same to the account of|William Colenso.|£2..0..0|
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SourceFile: doc_0007.txt
Date (precise): 1837 August 30
Addressee: Coates
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Paihia, Bay of|Islands, Augt.|30 1837|D. Coates, Esqr.|Dr. Sir,|Please pay my Father, Mr S.M. Colenso, Penzance, the sum of Two Pounds, ten shillings, and charge the same to the a/c of|yr: mo: ob:|William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0008.txt
Date (precise): 1838
Addressee: Coates
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Letter 1st page part-shown & need to see original, annotated “Recd Aug 24/38|To|Sirs*****|***Two years have rolled by since I last wrote you and yet I am spared and permitted to write you again.—And what shall I say? Oh! let me, as it is my bounden duty, commence with a song of assumption and thanksgiving:—|“Blessing and honor and glory and power be unto the Lamb for ever and ever: He hath put down the mighty and exalted them of low degree!—The Scriptures of the New Covenant are printed, and ere this reach you will (D.V.) be in circulation! Through the blessing of God on your unworthy servant, the Testament was finished printing in December 1837, and I was enabled to get a few bound up for my Brethren, so as to present them on the 1st. Jany. 1838, forming, as you may suppose, a most acceptable New Year’s gift. May God bless His word! and may many New Zealanders prove it to be, what it is, indeed, the word of God! able to make them wise unto Salvation!|Trials great and many occurred during the progress of this Book through the press: Satan, evidently, fought against the publication of it, but once more are we called on to set to, our seals that God is true, and to say with the Psalmist—Though “many are the afflictions of the righteous, yet God delivereth him out of them all”! 5000 copies have been struck off, and I am now engaged in binding some for the Natives, but am getting on but slowly, from having no assistant, and from having, necessarily having, a multitude of other things to attend to. I have only 6 copies by me bound, the which I send you, and hope to forward you a few more by next opportunity. I hope you will be pleased, on the whole, with the Books; I trust you will when you take all the disadvantages, under which we labor, into consideration.|The Prayer Book has been revised and corrected, and is likely to be given into my hands for press, when I am prepared to receive it, that will be, I trust, in about a month or 6 weeks. For Prayer Books and Hymns there is a very great demand. A Grammar, English and New Zealand, has been commenced, and the 1st. halfsheet (Demy 12mo.) is now ready for press:—this also, I hope, will soon be struck off.—|Our Committee were pleased, in their last meeting, to fix the Press at this station: I trust the Lord directed them in their decision. Their reasons for so doing are, doubtless, transmitted to you by this opportunity.—|The Revd. W. Williams having been appointed by the Northern Missionary Committee, to visit the East Cape and neighbourhood, I accompanied him, for two reasons:—1st., as an assistant, to which I was, also, deputed by the Committee, and 2nd., for relaxation; my required and constant attention to the duties of the Press having necessarily and greatly confined me within the precincts of our Station. We sailed from this place on the 1st. Jany., 1838, and, (having in our way called at Tauranga, where we spent a few days,) *** landed at Warekahika, (“Hick’s Bay in Map.)—we journeyed on, under the Cliffs on the Sea Coast, until the 27th., when we reached Turanga, *** and on the 29th. went on board our vessel, which had come to that place *** as appointed, and returned:—we landed at Paihia on the 13th. of *** much gratified with our visit.|The Districts which we passed through—and the adjacent parts—*** peopled: the villages are large, some containing 1, and 2,000 *** people, (in some places most particularly) heard the Word of God *** and eagerness—a proof of which we had in their continual *** their eagerness to obtain Books, (which, alas! they could not *** their pressing entreaties for Teachers to instruct them. In some *** a Missionaries’ foot had never trod their soil before, nor *** beheld a Missionaries’ face—theyn do not work on the Sabbath, another proof of their willingness to receivethe “new word”, in one *** had been keeping 2 days in a week as a Sabbath, instead of *** taught to do so by a Native who had at one time been in the employ ***, at the Northward. The head chiefs committed their sons to *** for Instruction, which by the blessing of God we hope to be enabled.|Here is an immense field of labor awaiting the self-denying servant of Jesus—I say self-denying and faithful: for such must he be who enters on this extensive cure, in order to be blood-guiltiness. Here is, also, a field white unto harvest; who are ready, in some places, to cast away their superstitions, *** to that which is able to guide their feet into the way of ***, as they are living in peace, and are related in a greater or *** one with another—either by consanguinity or interest—their *** would, perhaps, be soon brought, seeing the example of those about them, to seek for a refuge from the wrath to come.—I have written more particularly and largely on this subject, but *** the Revd. W. Williams will send you his Journal:—it not ***, I believe, for me to keep a journal, consequently have ****.—|I have received a little canvas for binding the Testaments covers; but the quantity is so very small; it will only serve for *** copies: if there has been none in addition sent since, please send sufficient for, at least, the 5000 Copies.—|And now, Fathers in the Christian race! Brethren in the cause! allow me to address you, and through you the Committee *** which has for a long time been near indeed to my ***|When you communicated with me in England, I engaged with you *** land of my fathers at a Printery, and, at that time, I had ****ought, no other wish,—(though it must be confessed, that when **** Country, I was often led to think that I should one day **** ambassador for Christ, how or when, I know not; this was an *** I had ever had, even from my childhood ****|God!) to speak extemporaneously to the Natives in their own tongue:—from that time to the present have I had a full share, not only in all the spiritual duties of this Station, but, also, in visiting the institutions, in examining candidates, &c, &c,—I now feel, that I cannot attend to all—that I cannot attend to both. My mirror shews me the shadow of an attenuated ***, produced from over-exertion, for from before sunrise until *** 11, and 12 at Night am I continually engaged. I feel that in endeavoring to serve ]both the Press and the Pulpit, I, in a sense of the word, miss both: my ***mses from want of reflection and from fatigue are not exactly what *** should be; though I know—and here I would give all glory to God—that *** for this often most indescribably strengthened; and from want of necessary rest I feel often when working that at this rate my days will soon be numbered:—Lord’s-days, for instance, I have often to go upward of 30 miles, (20 in a boat and 10 on foot through the “bush”,) preach 3, 4 & 5 times, visit sick, &c, &c, &c.—|I wish, Brethren, to lay my days out to my Redeemer’s glory who hath loved me and given himself for me! I wish to spend and be spent in His Service, and now the question is, How can I do it most effectively? It is this which I wish to bring before you, for your most serious consideration—I write this after much prayer—after much thought—after *** experience in the work;—and am forced to believe that my *** is plain for me to go forth amongst the Heathen, as an Herald of the ┼. A few reasons I here subjoin:—|1. I believe, as in the presence of the Lord, that He has called me to this work.|2. He has given me, in a particular manner, the Native Language.|3. He has given me favor in their sight.|4. He has given me a love for preaching, with all its attendant hardships, in this land not few or small; for Travelling; and for the Natives.|5. He has given me a constitution naturally good, fitted perhaps to “rough” the hardships of the wilderness; and an adaptation, as it were, for being much amongst this people.|6. He has taken all fear away from me in regard of what the Natives may or can do.—|I have long been of opinion that one reason why our Mission does not flourish *** is, from want of an every-day knowledge of the people: an hour or two on the Lord’s-day is not sufficient to see them; we ought to be daily moving amongst them. This is now the opinion of many of my Brethren, but, who *** to go? is the question. Most of the Missionaries have large Families, and this with the secular affairs of their Stations, keep them at home—and of those who have not, some are from a delicate state of health, from want of adaptation to the Natives, or from want of that knowledge of the language, &c, kept at home. This, combined with the reasons aforementioned *** the knowledge that the Heathen are crying for Instructors, and that their *** one to go amongst them, constrain me to offer myself to go forth **** Travelling Missionary.|How is this to be effected? I wish you, my Brethren, to send me an assistant Printer, as soon as possible; if married and young the *** By that time I shall have had 2 years more experience in the **** I then wish to go forth on trial for 12 months, and then, (provided that this meets your approval, and that of the Committee here,) to return to England, to see my parents and family whom I affectionately **** once more, and disentangled, in order that I may war a good *** serve Him faithfully who hath called me to be a soldier—to *** as a Candidate for Holy Orders, and thus go forth, in the strength of my ***s, against the armies of the aliens.|Why wish to enter Holy Orders? why, my Brethren;—Not, God knows, ***thly consideration—but, 1st.,—That I may be grounded & strengthened ****tress of my calling—and that I may know from an outward as well as *** that I am sent:— 2nd.,—That I may become the spiritual guide of all *** which the Lord shall permit me to collect together:—and, 3rd.,—That I *** Travelling Missionary,—having to visit places where no other will for some *** be able to follow,—be allowed the unspeakable privilege of baptizing those *** Lord shall give me.—|Let it not, Fathers and Brethren, be objected to me—that I am a printer **** called his prophets from the plough, and from among the herdmen of **** his Apostles from the Fishery, may surely send a Herald from *****|More, at present, on this subject I will not say:—If it is of the **** dispose you to convert—open the way for me—and prepare me ****stant work. If it is not; may He, of His infinite mercy, bring ****|I have not made my intentions public, as yet, to my brethren here ***te you this, Fathers and Brethren, that you may be enabled to weigh *** the matter, and, perhaps, kindly to let me know your opinion, that *** guided thereby in taking any further steps in this affair.|Many thanks are due from me to dear Mr. Jowett, for his kind a**** Letters: I have 4 now lying before me, the last bearing date ****7. May his Master bless him, and fulfill him daily with the *** of His Heavenly Grace.—|Oh, pray for us! pray for us! If ever your Mission in this **** prayer it does now. The coldness within!—the darkness **** Zion is languishing! Satan is triumphing! Hell is popu****d your Servants are—through the mercies of their Guide—*****y— Faint; yet still pursuing”.—|May the Lord be with you! Praying that we **** that blessed promise— “the Lord shall guide thee ****|I remain,|Fathers and Brethren,|yours most truly|William Colenso.|Please transmit to my Father the sum of Twenty six **** 26, stg: and charge the same to the a/c of| Willm. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0009.txt
Date (precise): 1838 June 4
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Paihia, Bay of Islands,|New Zealand,|June 4th., 1838.|Sirs and Brethren,|My last Letter to you was dated in March last, and sent pr. “Seringapatam”, together with 4 copies of the New Zealand Testament, which, I trust, you safely received.—|Since the date of my last, I have been engaged in Binding: have bound near 300 copies; and am now about commencing the Prayer Book. I get on but slowly from want of assistance; however my conscience exculpates me from the charge of Idleness.—|I send by the “Buffalo”, (which came in here, on her passage to England, 2 nights ago,) 6 more Testaments; 1 for Mr Knight, which, please, let him have pr first opportunity, and 1, from Mr. Davis, for Revd. I.N. Coleman: making 8 in the parcel now sent.—|With regard to the principal subject in my last communication, Brethren, allow me to say that the desire of my heart to go forth amongst the people is unchanged, save that I long more earnestly to be set at liberty—that I may be enabled more fully to declare among these poor benighted Tribes, in the strength of my Master, the Word of Reconciliation.|A Native was shot at Hokianga about a fortnight ago; for the murder of a white man. He was tried—Mr Busby presided—sentenced to death, and shot accordingly. My Brother Turner says, in a Letter to me, “I have a good hope concerning him.”—|At Kaitaia, the Revd. Hy. Williams baptized 49, and at the Waimate the Revd. W. Williams baptized 48, about 3 weeks ago.|Sickness prevails to a very great extent at present among the natives, hundreds are now ill around about us.—|I look forward with great delight to a trip among the Natives in January next. I propose (D.V.) to go, on foot, from hence by the Eastern Coast, to the East Cape and the Mahia—thence to Waikato, and from there up the Western Coast to Hokianga. By strict application to my work now, I shall get my Brethren here to grant me an holiday in the Summer; and no schoolboy ever rejoiced more to get one, than I shall to get out, once more, among these, our children of the wild.—|My health has been pretty good—save that my eyes have been a little affected by opthalmia. I trust that the Lord will, however, restore to them their wonted strength.|By a Schooner from the Colony, which came in this morning, we hear of the death of our beloved Father in the Gospel, the Revd. S. Marsden: he fell asleep in Jesus on the 12th. May last. No particulars have yet reached us.—|May the Lord be with you—Fathers & Brethren, to guide you all, and that continually prays|your devoted Servt.,|William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0010.txt
Date (precise): 1839 February 6
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Paihia, Bay of Islands,|Feby. 6, 1839.|Sirs and Brethren,|My last Letter to you, was dated June 4/38, which, with 8 Testaments were sent by H.M.S. “Buffalo”: I hope you received them in due time.—|It pleased God, of His infinite goodness and mercy, to lay His fatherly hand upon me very shortly after the date of my last—before, indeed, the “Buffalo” was out of the Bay—though brought very low, He was with me, He rebuked the disorder, and, contrary to my expectations, He has restored me to health, and permits me to labor a little longer in His Service. Two months however, passed by before I recovered my strength, so as to be able to attend to my duties.—|Since then—we having thought it expedient to divide some Testaments into parts, for the readier distribution in visiting distant places, for Schools, &c., &c.,—I have been engaged in Binding:—have bound a 1000 of these Parts, i.e. 200 Gospels Matthew; 200 Mark & Luke; 200 John–Romans; 200 Corinths:—Philemon; & 200 Hebrews–Revelations. In printing, I have printed 500 Copies of the 1st. halfsheet of the N. Zealand Grammar, demy 12mo.; composed “Order of Confirmation”, 4 pp., post 8vo., and printed 200 copies; composed “Order of Consecration of a Burial Ground”, 4 pp. post 8vo., and printed 100 Copies; composed 1st. ½-sheet of Prayer Book, demy 12mo., and printed 7000 copies; and, composed a Tract, demy 12mo., 24 pp., and printed 1000 Copies; this Tract was written by myself. At present, I am engaged with the Prayer Book, which is very much wanted.—|By this ship, the “Elizabeth,” Convy. I send you, copies of the first ½ sheet of Prayer Book, and of the first ½ sheet, also, of the N.Z. Grammar, of the Tract, of the Confirmation and Consecration Services, of the Declaration of Independence, (made by the Chiefs on the arrival here of the pretensions of Monsr. Thierry,) of the British Residents Manifesto, &c., &c., &c.—|Sickness has prevailed among us to a very great extent; there is hardly, perhaps, a person to be found in this place and its vicinity who has not been visited in a greater or lesser degree with Influenza: Here, however, we have to record our gratitude to our God, who (as always) “in the midst of wrath remembered mercy”, and so the plague has ceased: few have been the number of cases in which this disorder proved mortal.—|On the 21st, Decr., we were unexpectedly and agreeably surprised by the arrival of the Bishop of Australia, who came in H.M.S. “Pelorus,” Capt. Harding, accompanied by the Revd. O. Hadfield; on Saturday, the 22nd., he landed at the British Resident’s, and on Sunday, the 23rd., he preached, in the morning, at Paihia, and in the Afternoon at Kororareka. On the 4h. Jany., he consecrated the Burial Ground at this place, and, also, that at Kororareka; on the 5th. he held a Confirmation, confirming 44 Native adults, and 20- whites (mostly Missionaries’ children). On the 6th. he admitted the Revd. O. Hadfield to Priest’s Orders, and, on the 7th. he sailed for the Thames—where, on the 11th., he confirmed 3 of Mr. Fairburn’s children, and baptized 2 natives; and, on the 12th., he sailed thence for Norfolk Island. The Bishop, I am happy to say, gave general satisfaction: the white Residents and Settlers, opposed, as many of them are, to us, seem to have been pleased with the Bishop. Two Addresses were presented to his Lordship, one from ourselves, the other from the British Resident, Settlers, and Residents in the Bay. A third was presented by the Kororareka Settlers, but was, I believe, declined acceptance; this might be called an opposition address,—what it contained I don’t know, but I have heard, that its phraseology reflected much on us, one thing therein, I know, was a request to be furnished with a Ministry by his Lordship, though we have a Church there, and Service regularly performed there every Sabbath-day—the palce, also, within sight of, and only 3 miles from, Paihia. This same body of people applied, 3 days ago, to Dr. Lang, (whose vessel called here to repair in her way to England,) to supply them with a Minister, promising largely what they would do, in case he granted this request. One man, also, applied to the Doctor to baptize his children, this, however, the Dr. (on Mr. Mair’s, an old resident, shewing him who and what the applicant was,) refused to attend to. Dr. Lang paid us a visit, and saw my 2 Llads working at the Press (I have just got 2 youiths to do a little work there) at which he expressed himself gratified. Mr. Mair took him to visit the Kawakawa village, with which (as Mr M. informs me) the Doctor was much pleased.—|Accounts from the Southward are both gloomy and pleasing:—eleven persons were surprised by the Rotorua Tribe, whilst engaged in fishing, who were immediately killed and eaten within sight of the Station. We, ourselves, are tinctured with it! Oh! may the vine-dresser in mercy, dress His vine, purge, prune & chastise her, and causeher, yet, to bring forth fruit. I know that a blessing will, yea, shall, be bestowed on those “who mourn in Zion,” at seeing the desolations. Brethren, I, unworthy I, do conjure you by the mercies of God that you do not forgetyour privileges (John XIV. 13, 14; Ps. LXXXI. 10), but that you “pray without ceasing” to God for us, that we become not a “reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.”—|With regard to my proposals in my Letter of Mar. 24/38, allow me to say, my mind is unchanged:—If a steady Printer could be found top take the Printing off my hands, I should rejoice to go amongst the Heathens. I believe that God would protect me every where, and I long to go forth. Hundreds and thousands there are who have not yet heard of the word of God, nor will they hear until some one, who is made to care not for this world nor its fleeting pleasures, be found to visit them. Brethren! I say no more, only, “Here am I; send me!”|Brethren! excuse my way of writing.—If I offend any one thereby, it is not done intentionally. I have no wish to offend any one, no, not in the least. Hoping and praying for better days, yea, for an outpouring of God’s spirit from on high, and, taking Nil desperandum, Christo Duce, for a motto for 1839———, and Praying, also, that the Lord may be with you all, always,|I remain,|Sirs & Brethren, Yours mo: truly|William Colenso.|I also enclose in the parcel; herein-spoken of, 5 parts of the Testament and 2 Testaments.—W. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0011.txt
Date (precise): 1839 February 16
Addressee: Busby
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: (Copy of Lne: to J. Busby Esqr., in ansr. to his of the 14th. Inst, requesting Information on Capt. Fitzroy’s evidence.)|_________|Paihia Miss. Station|Feby 16/39.|To J Busby Esqr|Residency|Waitangi|My dr Sir|In ansr. to yrs. of the 14th. Inst., request. Infn. on þt part of þe evidence of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N., relative to þe state of N.Z., given by him before the Com. of the Ho. of Lds: wherein he says:—|“An example occurred to myself, &c &c &c – – – – – –.”|I have to reply:—|1. That I had not any Consultation with Capt Fitzroy on the subject.—|2. That I do not recollect the circumstances alluded to by Capt. Fitzroy; neither can I find any allusion to thye same in my Journal of þt date.—|3. That Mess. Baker, & Ashwell, & myself were the only Missionaries residt. at Paihia at the time of Capt. Fitzroy’s visit.|4. That Mr Ashwell cod. not have had interfered in any such matter at that time from his having only been a few days in the Land, conseqy. not knowg. the Language. I mention þs., as Mr A. is at present residing in one of the Southern Stations.|5. That since my residence in the Bay of Islds (bet. 4 and 5 years) I have not heard of a single attack being so much as talked of by Natives against a British Vessel.|Yrs &c|W.C.|(copied this for Mr Busby, Feb. 28/39: he sendg. origl. to Engd.)|
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SourceFile: doc_0012.txt
Date (precise): 1839 August 10
Addressee: H. Williams
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Augt. 10th. 1839|Memoranda of a Convn. which took place between the Revd. H. Williams and myself this morning—|Revd. H.W. called on me and proposed my going to Kororareka tomorrow (Sunday) to hold service, to which I assented.—Some conversation about the proceedings of the R.Catholics ensued: I gave him a paper to read, contg. an acct. of a trial, in which a R.C. priest was the plaintiff, and, as it was 9 o’clock, rose to go to the Pg. Office, requestg. him, if he was agreeable, to sit & read the paper. He then sd. he wished to have some convn. abt. my lad’s taking a blanket from one of his boys the evg. before—adding “it has never been the custom so to act when a lad did amiss, but to see the Master of the lad & acqt. him with the behavr. of the lad, &c &c,” and that I had “acted very improperly” in so acting. Here I sd. that he had acted so many times—at which he got warm, and denied it, challengg. me to adduce an instance—I soon recollected the case of Kahukoka, &c, wch I related, when he declared, ’twas not so—I reminded him that. in so doing “he charged me with a downright lie,” whc he, slapping the table with his hand, repeated it, adding ’twas impossible for him so to have acted, as ’twas contrary to his principle—whc he had followed for near 17 years, &c, &c. I sd. since then you thus chge me with a downright lie, our convn. had better end here, &c.—–For that affair took place between us two. He asked me to give up the lad’s blanket—I refused to do so “unconditionally”—he sd. the cases were not parallel—I sd. they were—he sd. the action of my lad was a “dirty trespass.” I sd., allowg. that, I acted then as you wished me, gave an utu, &c.—He sd. that no time had elapsed in that case, but in this I had gone quietly to bed, &c &c—I sd. that there, I went to him, here ’twas evidently his, or his lads, to come to me—as to time, that no time had elapsed in pt. of law—he havg. come as early as he could—I had the Natives talkg. to at the time, more than 20, they left at past 8, P. all, 2 fr. Natives (Robert & John Tupe) were here when they were leavg. these 2 infd. me that H.W. retd. late from Korora. ill, slept in boat, and that tho he had fixed that p. at Korera., he was so unwell as to go to lie down—these reasons were sufft. to keep me (had it been my place) from going to him that night. He again asked me to give up the B., I refused “unconditionally”—as I had often taken his lad’s clothes, and given them up, but now I wod. make an ex: especy. as I had often been insulted by his lads, and also, in this case, Messrs. F. & B’s lads had restrained them selves from touching that wood on my speakg. to them & that in this, tho I had spoken to his lads, they went and cut it up. He sd. in thus speakg. I insulted him as the Master of his lads. I sd. No; for it was the fact, &c; at this he got warm, very warm & sd. “You are an Insolent Man” I sd. I had never insulted him in my life, that I had always respected him. He sd. “Your lang. has been most insulting”—I sd. “I am detd. Sir, not to be irritated by anything you may say; but I pray you don’t use that language to me for ’tis more than old Adam will quietly bear, &c.” “Why,” sd. Mr. W. “did you not complain if my lads had insulted you” &c, I sd. that I had sevl. times, & that it had not been done lately, for when Mr. Ashwell was here, he was the objt. of yr. ridicule. He sd. “You and Mr. Ashwell are a pair of you,” &c. I replied, “You must think, Sir, and let think on this matter,” He sd. “for this 4 or 5 years you have behaved in this unbecoming manner &c” I sd. that I again repeated it, that his lads had ever behd. most insultingly to me, and more than that, that no other Missy. wod. have retd. Natives in his employ that had so repeatedly behd. themselves amiss to a brother Missy. as his lads had behd. to Mr A & myself”.—He sd. “I was never so insulted by anyone in all my life as by Mr. Ashwell, save yourself.” I repeated— “Our convn. had better end here, after what he had sd.” He sd. “Yr. conduct has been most extraordinary”—I said— “That, Sir, is a mild & bland expressn. after what you have just said—I pray you don’t back out of your repeated assertions in that kind of way Sir.” At this he rejoined with increasg. warmth— “I tell you, that the strongest possible terms I know of cannot convey the Insolence of your language and your improper conduct to me before the Natives.” (this was accompd. with peculiar gestures of his fist, the skirts of his dressing gown, &c &c, all which declamn. only convinced me more deeply that he was in a great passion)—I then sd. “You will bear witness of my calmness under all this—I have only to say, “I wish I had some witness to your repeated expressions, or that you wod. give me those words in writing”—He exclaimed, “Write them down, I’ll sign them.”—He was then going out, and he asked me again to give up the B., I firmly repd. not without an utu as I did in the affair of the pails. [He had before sd. that he wod. give the lad a new B. & chge it to my a/c—when I repd. I wod. not allow it—& sd. that if he gave his lad a new B. I wod. give mine a reward for doing what he had done,—he sd. that my lad wod. not have touched Pare’s (?) blanket, if he had he wod. have been “gobbled up”—I sd. if P. had laid hands on my boy I wod. have laid hands on P.—he said that P. was a Goliath—well sd. I gt Goliath was overcome by little David; that I knew not whose garmt. it was, save it was that of an offender, and that the boy was his, and that I blamed my lad for not bringing me more—he sd. if it had been so his lads shod. have been Muru for Muru”]|I then sd. “You will please bear in mind, Sir, in conseq. of these assertions of yours, that all our convn. on any subject must henceforth be at an end.”—to this he replied, “certainly so”—I again repd. the Sentence, layg. emphasis on “You will please bear in mind, Sir,”—and adding “Unless you retract those words”—to which he replied— “That I’ll never do unless you make an apology”—To which I repd. “It is most laughable, Sir, to think you cod. suppose such a thing”—|Here our convn. ended.|Blessed be the lord! for keepg. me throughout in calmness and collectedness. Oh, god, do thou pardon all thou didst see amiss in me, and do thou pardon thy servt. W. also, givg. him to see his errors.|“Exurgat Deus!”|(written within 2 hours after the convn. took place)||Augt. 10/39.—3 P.M., sent for by Revd. H.W. to go to see him at the Kotekotinga, to take also my lad Kauri, went, overtook him on the rocks—went on together, arrd. there, Mr. W. sd. “Now Mr. C. point out the 2 logs you spoke of”—I repd. “I had nothing to say now in this matter” My boy sd. “Tena te rakau i tatakia; na te tai ia i kawe ai ki reina” went to it—Mr. W. asked my lad who had sawn it—“Matou”—who saw his lad chop it—“Naku”—when—“I te ra honi ware—when did you muru him— “Nonapo”—why did you leave it so long— “Naku i mea kia purangatia nga wahie ki reina, nga wahie i tatakia ai, a muri iho haue mai ana ratau, tangohia ai, na reina au ka wakatakairi ai, &c—“ Mr. W. turned to me & sd. “You see Mr.C. the damage done, &c—I repd. I had nothing to say abt. it—I had now for the first time heard the story from Kauri, I had not sent the lad to muru—and he (Mr.W.) had already from the morng’s. proceedgs. put the case out of my power. Mr.W. asked me to give up the B. I sd. No I would not give it up [unconditionally]—after what had already passed: that things were now come to a crisis. He sd. he shod. mentn. the matter to 2 or 3 indivds.—I repd. I intend to bring it bef. the Committee. He sd. “after being so many years in the work, I wouldn’t think of asking a second time such a boy as you”—I made no reply—but fell back a bit.|Ito—Nau i pokanoa ki nga rakau a te W.—. Na te riri i pokanoa ki nga r. a te W.—– |
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SourceFile: doc_0013.txt
Date (precise): 1839 September 23
Addressee: Clarke
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Copy of a Letter from Mr. Colenso |to Mr. Clarke, Septr. 23/39.|Paihia, Sept. 23/39|My dear Sir,|I beg to inform you that I have received, from Mr. Wade, your official letter to him of the 19th. Inst. containing the Resolutions of Comee. respecting the Press, and am happy in finding that Mr. Wade is “empowered to take the requisite steps for the erection of necessary buildings” at Waimate, and sincerely hope that the necessary assistance will be rendered him, so that he may be enabled to fulfil the wishes of the Parent Comee. on this head, as speedily as possible.|With regard to the Resolution— “That the Press be immediately removed to Kerikeri, and that Mr. Kemp be requested to make room for its reception in the Store, where it may be erected and continued at work,” I confess I am not a little surprised; and that |1st. Because there is no reason whatever assigned for its temporary removal to that Station;|& 2d. Because that its removal to any place, as a mere temporary arrangement, prior to its being removed to the Waimate, (the location assigned it by the Parent Comee.,) is not only uncalled-for, but must unavoidably be attended by hindrance in its working, together with needless los of time, and damage of property:—for it would take me, no small period of time to get all the Type, &c., &c., in a condition to transport across the Bay to Kerikeri, then to unpack them & get all to rights for a temporary sojourn of a few months, & then, again to take to pieces and pack up for the second removal to the Waimate. Saying nothing of the extra trouble and labour to Mr. Kemp, nor of expense to the Society.|I make no remark, my dear Sir, in reference to the peremptory removal of the Press and myself to Kerikeri, nor of the “requesting of Mr. Baker to hire a small craft” for that purpose, before even Mr. W. or myself were informed of such a step being about to be taken; nor of all this being done without any Member of Comee. having held the least consultation with either Mr. W. or myself on the subject.|On the whole, I am, from a serious consideration of the hindrance to the work of the Press, of the loss of time, & of the unnecessary expense & probable damage to the Society—compelled most seriously to object to the removal of the Press to the Kerikeri Store, there to be worked as a temporary arrangement, prior to its being located at Waimate; and shall necessarily be obliged to write to the Parent Comee. on the matter in question, unless the Resolution passed by the N.D. Comee. on this subject be rescinded.|I am,|My dear Sir|Yours respectfully|(Signed) W. Colenso|Printer.|
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SourceFile: doc_0014.txt
Date (precise): 1840 January 24
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Paihia, Bay of Islands, Jany. 24th. 1840.—|To the Secretaries of the Church Missionary Society|Frs and Brethren,|1. My last Letter to you was in Feby. 1839 pr. the “Elizabeth,” to carry which together with a small parcel of Books then sent, I trust you safely received. Since then I have been employed in the Printing Department in getting out the following Books:—|Prayer Book, 36 pp. demy 12mo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,000|Pukapuka Wakaako, 24 pp. demy 12mo . . . . . . . . 10,000|Pukapuka Kauwea, 4 pp. demy 12mo . . . . . . . . . . 4,000|Kupu Ui, 8 pp. demy 12mo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3,000|Lessons for Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000|Catechisms, 16 pp. post 8vo. (unfinished) . . . . . . . 10,000|Prayer Book, 36 pp. demy 12mo (do—) . . . . . . . . . .6,000|Pukapuka Aroha, 24 pp. demy 12mo. . . . . . . . . . . . .2,000|The Prayer Book contains the Morning and Evening Services of our Church; a Collection of Hymns, & divers additional Prayers, this has gone thro 3 Editions, the 1st. of 4,000, the 2nd. of 3,000, and the 3rd. of 20,000,—making 27,000 Copies. Pukapuka Wakaako, is, as will be seen, a Primer, written, &c, by myself. Pukapuka Kauwau is the address of His Lordship the Bishop of Australia, to the Natives; translated by Revd. W. Williams. Kupu Ui, is a kind of Mass-book intended for Schools, written by the Rev. R. Maunsell. Prayer Book, last ment*** of 6,000 Copies, is intended for the complete Edition of the Prayer Book now in printing, of which the first two and last half sheets are printed. There is a little difference in the 2nd. half sheet from that in the small p. book now in circulation, inasmuch as it has a few Typographical alterations, and, also, in pp. 23 & 24, it has a part of the Athanasian Creed, which falls into its proper place in those pages. Pukapuka Aroha, is the Tract noticed in my last, written by myself and adopted here by a newly-formed Tract Society, (a branch of the Religious Tract Society, and called the New Zealand Auxiliary Religious Tract Society,). We printed 2,000 copies for them, they supplying Paper and paying for the Printing. This Society is composed of all persons who are interested in the Cause of Christ and who subscribe to support the same. J. Busby Esqr. Revd. W.Williams, Messrs. Wade, Baker, Ford, Clendon, and Mair, form the present Committee. They have lately met, and (having previously read) have adopted a portion of another Tract of mine in the Native Language, so as to make one of 24 pp., being an Exposition of the Errors of Rome. They have now a third of mine in the course of Reading, which I hope they will also receive. You will also perceive among the Books now sent a few little Notices concerning an Institution originated by Mr. Busby; hitherto, however, it has not received the support required, nor will it, I suppose, until Mr. B. visits England. A few small allotments of Land which he sold the other day realized upwards of £800! “One-tenth” of this and of all future net proceeds of Sale is laid aside “for Religious and Educational purposes.” A second sale of some of his allotments of Land, takes place in a few days, when, I dare say, another Sum will be obtained to be added to the former.—|2. Since I last wrote I have been enabled to pay a few visits to the Natives in the Wilderness. On Wednesday, March 20th., I left this place on an Excursion to the North ***** at Te Waimate, ***ning Mr Wade, we proceeded by *** ******, down *** to the N. Head, and up the N.W. Coast to ’Waro, (nr. Kaitaia,) visited Kaitaia Station, from where Mr. Wade remaining behind, I proceeded to Cape Maria van Diemen, the “Reinga”, i.e. the Hades of the New Zealanders. Returning, I crossed the Island (here very narrow) to the N.E. Coast, to Houhora, (Mt. Camel,) once more visited Kaitaia, returned, again, to the N.E. Coast, proceeding by the same to the Bay of Islands, visiting several villages in my way home; reaching the Station, on Friday, April **. In this journey, too varied and interesting to be described in detail in the compass of a Letter, I saw much to encourage and much to discourage us. On the one hand it was pleasing to observe the progress which the Gospel was making—on the other, it was painful to witness the opposition still made by many against the Truth; strange to say (not so, either, when the human heart is considered,) those who would not listen to the Gospel from us, have readily joined themselves with the Romish Church, and, in so doing, have not, as you may suppose, abated in their opposition to us and to our word. On June 19th. I left Paihia on a visit to the Natives on the outer Coast, from Wangaruru on to Oua and returned on the 25th. of the same month. On September 24th., I left, on a visit to the same, and returned on the 1st October. On Decr. 7, I left the Bay in a little vessel for Wangarei, (Mr. Busby, who was going thither, having kindly offered me a free passage,) arriving there, I visited ** different villages in that neighbourhood, found that nearly all were professing to be Christians.—I returned by way of the Coast to Owae, and Bay of Islands, reaching this Station on Decr. 24. I experienced very severe weather during this trip which made travelling very heavy. Wangarei had not been visited since I had carried the Gospel thither in Feby., 1836, 4 years since, although we have had communication from time to time with the Natives, and they have received Books from us. The route by which I returned was the one by which that Venerable Servant of Christ, the Revd. S. Marsden, had travelled over; no Missionary besides himself had ever gone over that ground. Dear Mr. Marsden! his preaching, the places where he slept, where he rested, where he fell in scaling the cliffs, &c., &c., are remembered and pointed out by the Natives, and, at some future day, may be, perhaps, cherished, as Mementos of the first Minister of Christ who visited the shores of New Zealand! Thus, you will perceive, my dear Sirs, that my time has been fully occupied. The Seed has been sown in much weakness, it is true, alas! too true, but it is not the Planter, nor the Waterer, but God alone, who gives the Increase.|3. The Society’s Letter, of Novr. 1838, pr. “Achilles,” did not reach us until the 19th of September, 1833,—I had received Rev. Mr. Jowett’s Letter to me, a day or two previous **? the Lord had enabled me to make the desire of my heart (which I made known to you in my last Letter of March 24/38,) a matter of prayer to Him—that He would be pleased to incline me this act in accordance with the wishes of the Society:—and which I hope I shall ever be enabled. The subject has, however, been very much on my mind of late, and I have been enabled, I trust, to lay it before the Lord; my thoughts thereon I subjoin for your consideration.|4. When I accepted the offer made me by the C.M.S. to go out to New Zealand as their Printer, I had no other intention, no other wish, than that of always acting, as such in fact, my dear Sirs, when on board the “Prince Regent,” on our passage from England, I attempted to hold an Afternoon Service in the Steerage of the Ship with the Passengers there, I was obliged to discontinue the same from a hesitancy in speaking, which was exceeding painful not only to myself but to the bystander also, and my Brother Wade was of opinion, as well as my self, that I should never, perhaps, gain the N. Zealand language, so as to speak it fluently. I mention this merely to show that up to the time of my landing, in N. Zealand, I had not entertained such an idea, as that of being engaged in Ministerial work. However, shortly after my landing, I was approached to take the Afternoon English Service in Paihia Chapel, against this I made many remonstrances, for ’twas much against my inclination.—I was quite unused to such a duty, and, to say the truth, was afraid and ashamed to take it upon me, having to hold Service & preach before the British Resident, the wives and families of the Missionaries, and the different people who attended the Chapel. True, I might have read a Sermon of some one of the Divines of our Church, but there lay the greatest difficulty, namely, the power to read, to enunciate, to give utterance to words, which I had not at command. How, then, did I manage? Why God helped me, strengthened me, yea, was my strength, and, though many times have I gone to Church, trembling, ready to fall down by the way—yea, I have sat down to my solitary meal on the week-day, having the dreaded duty on the approaching Sabbath to meet, and I have been so acted on, as to be sickened at the mere prospect of the same—yet out of all, and in all, the Lord delivered me. Time passed by, and the Morning Service was, also, allotted me; and, shortly after, no less than 5 Services on the Lord’s day fell to my share, (2 English and 3 Native) which God, in His infinite Goodness enabled me to get through.—So fulfilling towards His unworthy Servant, His most gracious promise, “As thy day is, so shall thy strength be”. I relate this, my dear Sirs, in order that you may perceive two things, first, that it was not by myself, nor of myself, nor through myself, in any way whatever, that I first opened my mouth in the Lord’s cause:—this, to me, is of great consolation; hence, I argue the lawfulness of the desire, continually cleaving to me, to Preach the unsearchable riches of Christ. I may, in some humble measure, say, with Paul, “I neither received” what I preached “of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ”. For I had had no Books granted me by the Society, and few, very few of my own; this was, doubtless, a blessing, for it drove me to examine, and diligently to compare Scripture, in order that I might be, in some measure, ready for the duties of the Lord’s House. Second, that I have always been thus employed, and in being thus employed, I was blessed in my labours. However this state of things could not possibly continue long; for, according to the Constitution and Canons of our Church, it was, to say the least of it, irregular, and could only be endured until such time as it could be remedied. That time, then at a distance, is now arrived, or nearly so; and it will soon be an unfrequent thing for a Layman to stand up in the pulpit here, or at Kororareka; or at any other of the Chapels which may be erected, belonging to the Church of England, in the Bay of Islands. This, according to our Church is as it should be, and, I firmly believe, that such a regulation will be by far for the best. But, what are persons in my situation to do? Sit down, quietly.—Give up those posts we once occupied, and in which we were blessed. No, my Brethren, that cannot be.—At least, I answer for myself,—I cannot now go back. I have borne, though but in a small degree, the burden and heat of the day, and I cannot now withdraw my hands from the Plough. I have been listened to and looked up to by the Natives,—I have been privileged and blessed by the Lord among them,—I have kept myself from purchasing Land (having not a single foot of ground) in order than no obstacle should thus arise through me against the Gospel,—I have led a single life that I might be the more fully enabled to give my time to the Work of the Lord—I have, moreover, sat down, and well-considered the subject, and, allow me, my dear Sirs, most respectfully to say, I cannot give up the post, which, for more than Five Years I have been enabled to occupy—that of preaching the Gospel of Christ. I am willing to remain with the Press, and, in so doing, I want no assistance, at present, other than what I may get here, but I cannot, conscientiously, make up my mind to remain with the Press, and not to open my mouth in the Cause of the Lord. He first called & sent me forth, and though I then went very reluctantly to the work, now it would be criminal in me to leave it; in short, my conscience would not permit me to take such a step. I have been for 5 years, in the constant practice of preaching & teaching among Whites and Natives; on Shore, in chapels, in the Houses of the Settlers, in the Grog-shops, and in the open air, on board of vessels, &c, &c: I look at my own Insufficiency and utter unworthiness, and at the greatness of the responsibility resting on those who enter into the sacred duties of the Ministry: I endeavor to make up my mind to decline the duty, but, I cannot, I dare not; for whenever I attempt to bring myself to the conclusion that it would be better to give up those duties and to give myself wholly to those of the Press, I feel a something which I cannot describe—a something which reminds me of Paul’s expression, when he said, “Necessity is laid upon me, yea, woe is me if I preach not the Gospel.” At this time, too, for one acquainted with this place and people to be silent,—now that Rome is endeavoring to establish herself under our very windows—now that so many of our countrymen are settled here—would be a matter of joy to Satan. My Brethren, I only wish to be useful, but let me be useful to the full extent of my capacity for usefulness. Permit me to be faithful to what the Lord has been pleased to entrust me with.—I have but a few years, at most, to run, (for, to borrow the phraseology of the world, “Active exertion in N. Zealand will assuredly bring on premature old age.”) I have been, I trust, and may be (since it is the Committee’s wish that I should remain with the Press,) usefully employed in three ways, in Printing, Writing and Preaching, and those three duties might be united in my remaining with the Press. I think, however, that I have fully shewn that the time has arrived, or if not so, is at hand, in which a Layman can not, consistently, be permitted to take a share in spiritual labours; consequently, the only means by which I could continue to pursue those duties I have hitherto fulfilled would be by obtaining Ordination. If, Sirs and Brethren, it still be your wish that I should remain with the Press, grant me this, also, to enter into Orders, and I am settled in my work. By your permitting me to enter into Orders, I shall be lawfully enabled to assist the Minister of the Station in which I may reside, and thus fulfill a duty which I owe to my God. Here, I would say, that I wish it to be distinctly understood, that, in my remaining with the Press, under the abovementioned arrangement, I should ever consider the attending to the operations of the Press, (in a similar manner to what I have hitherto done) to be my primary charge and duty, as long as the Society should think proper to continue me in the said situation.|6. I could here adduce many, very many reasons, why this should take place; Time, however, will not permit. One remark in passing, I would beg permission to make, and that is, That all preachers should be Ordained Missionaries, and, That all should be first tried in the field of labour before they be admitted to the solemn and sacred office of the Ministry. Be not offended, with me, my dear Sirs, when I say, from what I have seen, and heard, and known, during more than 5 years of practical experience in the Mission Field, it is my decided opinion and firm conviction, that it is actually more needful for Missionary Students to be on probation in the Fields of Missionary Labour, than for them to be on trial within the walls of a College or Institution. A man may be able to compose a most excellent Discourse, he may write an elegant and classical Latin Essay, yea, he may pass his Greek Examination with ease and applause, and, yet, be very unfit for a Practical Missionary; and make, after all, but a very sorry figure in the field. This, however, is a digression, but, my dear Sirs, you have my free thoughts on this subject.|6. You will, ere this, have heard from Mr. Wade, who, I believe, has made you acquainted with what he is thinking of doing. In his leaving N. Zealand, his situation of Superintendent of the Press will become vacant, and which situation, I suppose, you will not again fill up, at least, not by specially appointing an extra person to that office,—You will have heard from him about the Press—its present locality—the attempt to move it to the Kerikeri, &c, &c. With regard to the place where the Press shall be stationed, allow me to say, that I think it is quite time that that point be finally settled. Six years will nearly have rolled by, when this reaches you, and yet the Press,—the importance of which is admitted by all, and the beneficial influence of which is seen throughout the Land—stands in the little room, where it was first temporarily placed; still, in a great measure, inefficient, from being unsettled. Much of the Types, which came from England, with us, in 1834, remain in the papers and Boxes in which they came, and the trouble I have had, in consequence of being in want of room, no one knows, nor can imagine. The one little room in the Baker’s house, which has ever been occupied by the Press, being the only place hitherto used for compositing, roll-work, wetting paper, washing Types, &c, &c. Reasons there are for its being stationed at the Waimate, but, I think, there are weightier reasons now for its remaining at Paihia. 1st., Here is a stone building, fitted, when finished, (and which a few weeks would complete) for its reception: At that Station, there is no building, and the time that it would take to get one up (under existing circumstances) is, doubtless, very great. 2nd., This Station is on the sea side close to the anchorage; a great part of the Books, &c, would require to be shipped *** for the Southward Stations, the nearness of this Station to the water is, therefore, a consideration: that Station, is some 10 or 12 miles from the head of the Kerikeri river, from whence, at least, all Materiel for printing, &c, would have to be taken to the Waimate, and to which, all Books, &c, must be again conveyed, in order to be sent to very nearly all the other Stations; the road, too, in winter, is often impassable. I have little doubt myself, but that my Services in Spiritual duties, have been a Cause of why the Committee of Missionaries, wished Paihia to be the Station for the Printing Press.—Still, I think, it can hardly be doubted, but that Paihia will always be the principal Station of the C. Mission, in the N.D. of New Zealand; its natural situation being such as to demand and ensure the same. As to the Kerikeri Station, as a situation for the Press, I could not, conscientiously, consent to be stationed there—for, I should not only have no one to preach to, but I should, probably, have no one to speak to, for days together.|7. I suppose the Committee are aware, that the breaking up of the Kerikeri Station, has been for some time contemplated; and, I have little doubt but that it will soon be accomplished. It cannot, with propriety, I think, be called, a Mission Station, for there is nothing within it to call for the labor of a Missionary; this, I think, will appear to be very plain on referring to the Chart now sent,—there being no Natives living within the Sattion, save the few Domestics of Mr. Kemp, and those 2 or 3 little villages, on the coast, which are visited from it, are as near Tapuna and Wangaroa, (from which places they are also visited,) as they are to Kerikeri. And, even those Native Villages, will, like many others, soon become abandoned, the land having been just purchased by Europeans. Natives will not, (in fact, as they are they cannot) live on land which they have sold: so that a Tribe, which for years has been residing on the shores of this Bay, may, tomorrow, be found leaving for some other place on the coast, or some one of their possessions in the Interior, 10, 20 or 30 miles off. It has also been proposed to sell the Kerikeri Station, Lands, Houses, & Store; this, I think, (indeed I have told the Brethren so) had better not be done just now; were those Houses here, in the Bay, the present might be a desirable period for selling the same. I would humbly suggest that they should be offered to be Let by Tender, in 2 or 3 Lots, at an yearly rent, for a term of 7 or so years; but by no means to be sold privately (i.e. the Sale confined to the Body of Missionaries and, a rule similar to this, my dear Sirs, in my humble opinion, should be adopted relative to all lands and Properties, of the C.M.S., which it may be deemed advisable to Let or Sell, in this Island. I this speak, (though I may be deemed a meddler in the affairs of others,) from what I have seen, and heard, and in so speaking, I trust I am actuated by a single desire for the welfare of the Society.|8. I have heard, my dear Sirs, of your being about to appoint a Deputation to visit your Mission n N. Zealand. I hope, that ere this reaches you, some suitable person will have arrived here. Should such, however, not be the case, I sincerely trust that no time will be lost in sending out a person of sound judgement and experience, as well as of piety, to enter on this office—a person who will not take any thing for granted because such-a-one said it, but who will examine for himself. I forebear saying any thingh more, at present, on this subject, save, that it is my humble opinion, that the sooner such an Inquiry is entered into the better for the Society as well as the Mission.|9. There are a few things connected with the Press, which I would here beg to make known to the Committee, for their Information, and for future guidance. 1. Whether it is the Society’s wish that their Press should be employed in printing for the Officers, who may be appointed by the British Government to N. Zealand? supposing such to be by them required. 2. Whether it is the Society’s desire that Public work generally—at least as far as it may be practicable—should be executed at their Press? Many times already, have I been applied to, on this head; I think, myself, that for the present, this should not be done at the Press of the C.M.S. 3. Whether the Society would not always grant the printing of Religious Tracts, and other works of a Religious and useful nature, for the N. Zealanders, at their Press, without having, in every case, to apply to the Committee of Missionaries here? I ask this, because some of the Missionaries are opposed to any Tracts whatever being printed, and, because, that, very lately, the Committee of Missionaries refused the Auxiliary Tract Society permission to print a Tract of 24 pp., against Errors of Popery, at their Press, although the Committee of the Auxiliary Tract Society, who had read and approved of the Tract proposed, was partly comprised of Missionaries.|10. I think, myself, that the Press should have some representative in the Committee of Missionaries here; otherwise it will never have that efficiency which it requires, in order that it may be always and usefully employed. Your Committee were pleased to order that I should not sit in Committees here,—for which, (as far as I, privately, am concerned,) I would most sincerely thank them; only wishing that some other reason had been assigned than that of being called away from the duties of the Printing Office—for every year I spend many weeks in travelling among the Natives, without interfering with those duties. The Committee of Missionaries finding, that I was excluded from Home, found a reason for the excluding of Mr Wade also, which they have ever done to this day. It is a sad, yea, a very sad theme for reflection, when I think on the apathetic indifference shewn towards what is, at present, of the very first Importance in N. Zealand—i.e. The Press. No one seems to care to do any thing for it, or towards the making it more efficient; here, however, Justice calls upon me to remark: that it is not in the power of everyone to aid its exertions—in one thing only there appears to be alacrity shewn, and that is in the taking up of Books, when finished, for distribution.—|11. I don’t know, my brethren, whether you have thought it proper to seek for a Printer for your Pg. Office in N. Zealand; or, whether such a person has been directed by the Lord to you or not. But should such a person be sent out by you, at any future period, allow me, I pray you, to suggest that he be, first, a married man, second, that he be appointed at a salary from your Committee, without any allowances whatever for contingencies, and, third, that he have nothing to do in preaching, teaching, giving out medicine, or in any thing else, but to attend to his duties in the Printing-office. |12. Enclosed, in the small parcel of Books, which go by this Ship, you will find a return of the work done at your printing press in N. Zealand, from the commencement in 1835, to the present time, which, I trust, will prove satisfactory. The Edition of 5000 Testaments, you will perceive to be fast expending. I have heard that it is proposed by the Committee of Missionaries, that the next Edition be printed in England. I cannot say when the large Prayer Book will be finished as I have but a very small quantity of Copy by me, and I know not when I will receive any more. I understand, however, that the Psalms are translated, perhaps in a few days they will be placed in my hands.—|13. I suppose that the other Missionaries will inform you of what more especially falls under their Notice.—|14. The Romish Bishop has received a reinforcement of five priests, at present they are pretty quiet, and doing but little, but I have no doubt but that they will be soon actively employed. Would that Luther’s example had been followed and the Press usefully and actively employed against them! I heard the Popish Bishop address a young man, who the night previous had murdered and buried a woman, and, also, wounded a man very badly; saying, “Me inoi koe a Mata Maria ma te ripeneta;”—literally, “And pray thou to the Mother Maria for the repentance”! I send you, in the parcel, one of the R.C. Bishop’s Books, which, though not Native, I dare say, Mr. Knight; if he can decipher the same, and is still in your office, may be able to translate. Time won’t permit my doing so; but I here give a literal translation of the concluding prayer on the 4th. page. “Hail! praise to thee; O Maria filled with grace; with thee the God; thou amongst women art praised, [or blessed,] and Jesus, the fruit of thy womb, is praised [or blessed,] also. O Saint Maria, the mother parent of Jesus Christ our God, pray thou for us, a poor sinful people, today, and at the hour of our death.” This last pronoun “our” is the native word which includes the person or persons addressed—consequently Mary is thereby included.—This little Book now sent is the only one which the R.C. Bishop has got published; I doubt not, but that he is busily engaged in preparing others, for he is an active man.|15. I beg to request permission of the Committee to allow me to visit England, in about 2 years hence; i.e. as near that time, (January 1842) as the work in the Printing Office and opportunity for going home may allow of my doing so. I make this request of mine known to the Committee of Missionaries, now about to sit, together with that which I have herein made of being admitted to Orders, that they may report their opinion thereon.|16. I send you pr. this vessel, the “Matilda,” enclosed in a parcel, the following Books:—|10 small prayer Books 10 Primers|6 Bishop’s address 6 Class Books|4 Lessons 10 Catechisms, (first sheet)|6 Tracts 3 half sheets large pr. Book; sig E|Sundry notices of Victorian Chart of Paihia District|Institutions,|Return of Books, printed 1 of Popish Bishop’s Books.|17. Since the foregoing was written, H.M.S. “Herald,” has arrived, came in the Bay and anchored, on the morning of the 29th. Jany. (bringing Lieut. Governor Hobson and suite. His Excellency has issued 2 Proclamations, (copies of which are enclosed in the parcel of Books, &c,)—has assembled together some of the Chiefs at Waitangi, and has got some to sign the Treaty. The Principal Articles of the Treaty are, 1. The Cession of the Sovereignty of their respective Tribes to the Queen of Great Britain. 2. Their consenting to sell their Lands only through the person appointed by the Government. 3. Their being entitled to the Rights of British Subjects, on their Signing the Treaty. Forty five Chiefs signed the document, several refused to do so; there are not many Chiefs of the first rank among those who have signed. This morning (Monday, Feb. 11.) His Excellency went to Waimate, and tomorrow he goes on to Hokianga; and in a few days to the Southward, in the “Herald,” to Issue his Proclamation, and to get the Natives to sign the Treaty. I have little doubt, myself, but that the Natives will come forwards ready enough to sign the same, at the same time, I believe it will be from ignorance of the Articles. [Last week 2 persons, baptized, in the Hokianga district, quarreled, when one cleft the other’s face asunder with his axe, so that he died: and since that, in the same neighbourhood, a Chief of the Romish Bishop’s party, coolly and deliberately killed a man for the stealing of an handkerchief. Chiefs believe they have a right to do as they please with their slaves, and, for a false accusation, cursing, trespassing on sacred places, Sorcery, &c, &c, they are invariably punished with death—and often without Inquiry.] As to their being aware that by their signing the Treaty they have restrained themselves from Selling their Land to whomsoever they will; I cannot for a moment suppose that they can know it. A proof I can adduce; Hara, a chief of the second rank, in this neighbourhood, and one who wished the Treaty to be signed, and who came forward and signed the same, has since offered to sell his Lands, and, on the person, to whom he offered them, saying, “it was irregular, &c, Hara replied, “What! do you think I won’t do as I like with my own?” I believed, and do believe, that the Natives did not fully understand what they signed: believing this, and finding no other person would, I took it upon me to address His Excellency, at the Public Meeting, when the first person was called up to append his Name to the Document. I asked His Excellency, whether His Excellency supposed that the Native Chiefs knew what they were about to do, &c &c. His Excellency, in reply, stated that he had done his best to enable them to understand the same, &c, &c,—I mention this circumstance, my dear Sirs, that in the event of a reaction taking place, you may know the very root from whence such a reaction proceeds.—It is also possible that you may hear of my having addressed His Excellency on this subject from another quarter. Interests are beginning to clash—beginning did I say? they have long since begun to do so—and the dearest must be supported. Oh! how thankful should I be to the Lord, (though I sometimes feel my poverty,) that He has kept me from becoming possessed of Land, and, by that means seeking my own welfare before that of my Redeemer, the Society, or the poor New Zealander! I must be enabled to send you speedily an account of the Meeting, from notes taken by myself on the spot: But have not time at present to fill out the same, and be given the requisite Information.—|18. You will see, my dear Sirs, that what I supposed, in Par. 4, would soon come to pass, has, since my writing, of the same, approached much nearer to consummation. N. Zealand being annexed to N.S. Wales as part & parcel of the same, the Bishop of Australia is now our Diocesan, and I believe, that I may safely say, that His Lordship would never allow such a departure from the discipline of our Church to take place, as for a Layman to stand up in a pulpit, in that church or chapel belonging to the Church of England in his Diocese—at least not in the neighbourhood of the Bay of Islands, the Capital of New Zealand. I pray you, therefore, my dear Sirs, to take my prayer herein made into your most serious consideration|19. I am much concerned, my dear Sirs, at the enormous expenses yearly ***ed by this Mission.—As an Individual causing a portion of the same, I may, perhaps, be permitted to offer my opinion thereon. Three years since I proposed to the Brethren here that they should take the subject effectually into consideration. From that time to the present I have thought of and spoken on the greatness of the expenditure, very many times: and, now, I venture to send you my thoughts on the same. I think, my dear Sirs, that if each in
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SourceFile: doc_0015.txt
Date (precise): 1840 June 27
Addressee: Hobson
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: [Annotated “Copy of a Note to Governor accompg. Document from Opotiki]|Sir,|It should appear that in May last, Mr Mair chartered a small Vessel to go a Trading to the Bay of Plenty placing a younger man (whose name is J.W. Fedarb) on board as trading master. This Vessel touched at Tauranga, and Fedarb was furnished by Mr Stack (one of our Missionaries) with a copy of the Treaty and instructions to get as many signatures from the chiefs, at the places at which he should touch, as he possibly could. He, accordingly, copied the Treaty, and has got it signed by several, as Your Excellency will perceive by the enclosed Document.––At Opotiki the chiefs, who are well-disposed towards us, the Prot. Misss., wished him to make a distinction bet. them & those who had made a profession of adherence to the R.C. Bp.––wh. he did by prefixing a ┼ before their names: there were four names so prefixed, but one, aftds, begged to have the mark erased, as he wod. belg. to them no longer. I mentn. this as accounting for the erasure in the document.|It shod. also appear, my dear Sir, that Mr Stack had desired Fedarb to give them a little Tobacco, &c, which he has done from the stores he had in chge. the property of Mr Mair. The Bill for which I enclose–––|Fedarb was once in my employ; this accounts for his bringing me the Documents &c.––wh. I now have the honour to transmit to Yr. Excellency.|Hoping that Yr. Excellency enjoys good health, and praying for a cont. of the same|I am|My dr Sir|Yr mo ob servt|WC|
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SourceFile: doc_0016.txt
Date (precise): 1840 August 27
Addressee: Coates
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Dandeson Coates, Esqr.,|&c, &c, &c.|Paihia, August 27th., 1840.|My dear Sir,|In speaking to our Storekeeper, a day or two ago, and desiring him, as usual, to forward me some Printing paper from the Public Store at Kerikeri, he informed me that the Paper was nearly finished; at which, I confess, I was somewhat surprised; not having entertained an idea of the kind. I immediately applied to our Secretary, to ascertain if any had been ordered, on which he referred to his Copies of Indents, and wrote me back, in answer, saying, “that none had been sent for.” A Vessel being now about to sail for Sydney, I write this, (with the Secretary’s and other members’ approbation), in order that some printing Paper may be forwarded us by very first ship.—|In my Letter of Jany./36, I remarked on the quality of the paper required for the New Zealanders: and am sorry to have to report that the paper which we have hitherto used is very inferior—not in appearance—but in durability. It is very sad to see some of the New Testaments—not 3 years in use—quite destroyed; arising from the wretched quality of the paper.—A paper bleached with acids, and thus rendered so rotten, that even in passing through the Press, drying and folding. it deteriorates very much: the surface roughens, the strength passes, and it tears with hardly any resistance.—|If, Sir, a paper could be procured, made from Linen rag, the extra expense would be more than met in the durability of the Material. But if such a paper could not easily be obtained, I would recommend that it be slightly sized—somewhat in the manner that writing paper is; which, I think, would be some help towards making Books for the New Zealanders more lasting.—|“Babbage, on Manufacturers,” has an article on paper of great justice, and which ought to be read by all persons who are purchasers of paper, or publishers of works. From what little I have seen, I can, at least in part, affirm the same to be correct.|We are advanced in printing the Psalms to the XCth.—and, with the Lord’s blessing, I trust that the Book of Psalms will be complete by the middle of November. At present the Correcting and preparing “for press”—correcting and revising for “working off”, compositing, warehousing, &c, all falls on one person, which makes the duty rather heavy. To complete the Psalms we shall require about 60 Ream: which is about the quantity at present in the Store.—|Pray send us, Sir, at least, 200 Ream of strong Demy printing paper, of 20lts. to the Ream: as soon as possible.|My Last Letter to you, Sir, was dated Jany./40, pr. Matilda, which I trust came safely to hand.|Praying that the Lord our God may guide you and us, all, continually|I am, Dr Sir,|Very sincerely yours|William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0017.txt
Date (precise): 1840 November 3
Addressee: Shortland
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Copy of Letter to Wy. Shortland Esqr. on age of Native Boy—Novr.3/40|My dr Sir|I have been given to understand that a little native lad of mine, named Raru, (who was confided to my care by his parents when at Poverty Bay 3 yrs ago, and who Native like has absented himself from me for these 3 or 4 days past) has, without my knowledge been out in yr. Boat to day.—I am of course, certain, that his being my lad was not known to you—and, should be obliged, if he presents himself tomorrow, in your not allowing him to enter your Boat.—I would, my dr Sir, most cheerfully assist you with hands to man yr. Boat, were I situated as I formerly was with respect to Natives—but, o tempora o mores, my whole estab. incldg. the little fellow, only consists of 2!—so you may guess I have several things to do which I wod. rather I cod. have done for me.—|I am under engagt. to the Chief of P. Bay to return the lad this Summer; were I not I would gladly part with him, for tho I have taught him to read & write, &c, he, unlike his relatives, whom I retd. a few months since, has behaved very badly to me.—|Pray excuse my troubling, &c|Believe me Very faithfully yours|
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SourceFile: doc_0018.txt
Date (precise): 1840 December 30
Addressee: Hobson
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: [Annotated “Copy Note to Lieut. Govr. Hobson Decr. 30/40”]|To Capt Hobson R.N.|Lieut Govr.|&c &c|My dear Sir,|Your very kind Note of the 24th. Decr., I duly received, and would pray Your Ex. to pardon my not embracing the first opportunity of answering the same. I put off the doing so until I could forward a copy of the “Gazette” which Your Excellency has been pleased to honor me with the execution of. Herewith I send a copy for Yr. Excellency’s Inspection, which I trust will give satisfaction.|I shall, I trust, be enabled (during the present exigency) to execute what little printing Your Excellency may require as a “Gov. Gazette”, but as my present duties are exceeding onerous, and as I have no one to assist me, in the compostg., &c––I would humbly suggest, that the “Gazette” be published once a month, and that the Notices &c be made as brief as possible.|Awaiting Yr. Excellency’s comms.|I am,|My dr Sir|Yrs try|W.C.|Decr. 30/40.|
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SourceFile: doc_0019.txt
Date (precise): 1841 January 9
Addressee: EL Godfrey
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: [Annotated “Copy of a Letter to Col. Godfrey, of the N. Zealand Commission, in ansr. to his, wishing me to become Interpreter, &c.––]|Paihia, Jany. 9/41|E.L. Godfrey Esq.|&c &c &c|My dear Sir,|On returng. last night from a visit which I had been paying to the Natives, on the Coast, I found yours of the 30th. ult. awaiting my arrival.––|I am happy to find that in the execution of the “Gazette Extraordy.”, I have, in any measure, been enabled to give satisfaction.|In ansr. to your request––to my becoming Interpreter to the Land Commission at Russell––I regret (when I consider the absolute need of some efficient and disinterested person to fill that important office) that it is utterly impossible for me to assist you, for, as I said before, my present duties are more than I can (without the most strenuous & unremitting endeavors) possibly perform.|You speak, my dr Sir, of “an ample remuneration, &c”––allow me to say, (whilst I trust I can both discern & appreciate the motive that prompted the generous offer,) that neither pecuniary remuneration nor worldly honor could possibly have influenced me, in my leaving the Land of my Fathers, my connexions, & prospects, & coming to this country, to fill the situation which I at present do, and I trust, that such never will. In the little that I have been, or may be, enabled to do for H.M. Govt., Remuneration, permit me to remark, (unless circumstances with regard to myself sadly alter) I never wish to hear mentioned.|I trust, my dear Sir, that you will yet find a fit person to fill the office of Interpreter on this important occasion.––|I have written to Col. Secy., in conseq. of a Letter wh. I have recd. from the Secy. of the Com. of Misss., on the subject of my doing any future printing for H.M. Govt., wh. I have reqd. him to make known to His Exy. & the Land Commissr.|I am, My dr Sir|With every respect|Very truly yrs|W.C.|
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SourceFile: doc_0020.txt
Date (precise): 1841 January 9
Addressee: Shortland
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: [Annotated “Copy of Letter to Colonial Secretary, in conseq. of a Letter from Secy. of N.D. Com., on subject of printing.”]|Paihia, Jany. 9/41|Willoughby Shortland, Esqr.,|Col. Secretary|&c, &c.|My dear Sir|On the 30th. ulto. I had the honor of writing His Exy. the Lieut-Govr. (in ansr. to a Letter which I had received from him) on the subject of my printing the “Gazette Exy.” &c,––in which I expressed my willingness, as far as compatible with my duties, to execute what I could in the Ptg. Dept. for H.M. Govt. in N.Z.––|––On the same day I left Paihia on a visit to the Natives who reside on the Coast; owing to Indisposition I was obliged to return much sooner than I intended, arriving here last evening. On my return I found several Letters awaiting me, one of which, from “the Secretary of the Com. of Missions. of the N.D. of N. Zealand”, is the cause of my now writing you.––A Copy of which Letter I enclose for His Exy’s. Information.|You will, of course, my dear Sir, readily perceive that, in conseq. of my having recd. these Instructions, I shall not in any case be able to print anything more for H.M. Governt., without first receiving the sanctions of the Com. of Missionaries, and which, I think, may best be obtained by applying to them thro’ their Secretary.|Praying you to be pleased to make this known to His Excellency the Lieut-Govr., and, also, to the New Zealand Land Commissrs. for their information, with as little delay as possible––|I am|My dr Sir|Yours very truly|W.C.|
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SourceFile: doc_0021.txt
Date (precise): 1841 January 15
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Paihia, Bay of Islands,|New Zealand, Jany. 15, 1841.|My dear Sirs|1. My last Letter to you, via Sydney, which I trust you have received, was dated August 27/40. It was a request for a supply of Printing Paper, of which Article we were then nearly in want. The New Zealand Auxiliary Religious Tract Society has kindly lent us a few Reams; this will keep our Press a-going for some little time.—|2. A vessel being about to sail for England, affords me the opportunity of reporting the progress of your Press in New Zealand, during the last 12 months. I hope the accounts enclosed, or work done and Issues made, will prove satisfactory. I have been obliged, almost necessarily so, to do a little printing for His Excellency, the Lieut. Governor. A few copies of different proclamations, &c, done by me for him, you have here enclosed. You will, also, find Copies of the Psalms, which I have alsi been privileged with the editing and Printing of,—of the Catechisms, edited by Revd. W. Williams,—of part of Daniel and the Book of Jonah, which I have been enabled to translate,—and a kind of Almanack, for the present year, calculated & written by myself. The Copies of Psalms which are bound in Black Cloth, shews the manner in which we shall bind them for the Natives.We have not yet been able to get any bound for distribution among them; some, however, I am happy to say, are now in a course of Binding. The 3 parts of the New Testament sent, are merely intended to shew how we intend sending out the few Testaments we have remaining. We are at present going on with the Prayer Book; and (the Psalms being finished,) are advanced in the Collects, Epistles & Gospels, to “the Gospel for the Monday before Easter”. This Book has advanced but slowly, but, by God’s blessing, we shall get it done in time.—|3. I also enclose copies of 2 Tracts in the New Zealand language, against the errors of Rome. They were refused permission to be printed at your Press here, (the person I can not now exactly state,) but, through the kindness of Mr. Busby, and others, out of the Mission, (who advanced the money for the purpose,) 8,000 copies were printed at Sydney and Hobart Town. I intended to have sent you a literal translation of them, and hope, “if the Lord will,” soon to do so, that you may be the better enabled to judge of their tendency. In the absence, however, of a Translation, you may form some idea of their real Character, from learning that they have all been disposed of, at 12/- pr. Hundred, as follows:—|To S.D. Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000 copies|To Wesleyan Missy. Committee . . . . . . . 4,000 copies|To N.Z. Auxy. R. Tract Society . . . . . . . 1,400 copies, and|To Revd. R. Maunsell, and Revd. R. Taylor, and Messrs Baker, Kemp, Shepherd, Matthews, Puckey, Ashwell, and others in the Mission, and J. Busby, Esqr., Mr. Mair, and others out of the Mission, the remainder. For want of funds my Ms. was obliged to be considerably curtailed. These Tracts contain an exposition of 12 only of their errors; whereas my Ms. contained 19.—I hope, by and bye, to be enabled to get it all printed.—|4. In March last, the printing-press was removed from the room which it had occupied in Mr. Baker’s House in this settlement, to the unfinished Stone House, erected by Rev. W. Williams, in which I have always resided. This was done merely as a temporary measure: as Mr. Baker was about removing to Waikare, and His Excellency the Lieut. Governor was waiting nto take up his abode in Mr. Baker’s House, the same having been let to him. I hope before this reach you, to receive your Committee’s determination relative to the final location of the Press.—|5. During the past year I have only been able to make one journey among the Natives, through having so very much to do at home. On the 7th. April, I left the Station, on a visit to the Natives in Wangarei and neighbourhood; we went overland, and returned by the same route on the 17th., experiencing very bad weather. I fear that I shall not possibly be able to give much time to journeying during the ensuing year. I live, however, in hope of better days, but of this I must not—dare not—assure myself.—|6. The Committee of Missionaries were pleased, in August last, to appoint me to the office of Sub-Editor and Superintendent of the Press; and also, in consequence of the great rise in the price of every necessary, to make some trifling addition to my Salary. Of those Resolutions of theirs, you have, doubtless, been made acquainted.—|7. There has been much more work done in the Binding- and Printing-office, thanm what is actually shewn in the Returns. Natives’ old books, rebound and repaired; small Books folded and stitched; &c, &c, have taken up no small portion of my time. I wish to be found every year increasingly abundant in labour, but, I have a presentiment, that I shall never do such another year’s work for the C.M.S., if at all, again, on earth. My own head and fingers, through God’s blessing, have done all—in translating, copying, editing, compositing, reading, correcting, revising, folding, warehousing, packing, &c, &c,—yet this is but a portion of my present labour in N. Zealand. And though I have had enemies, neither few nor small, to contend with, praise be God! I can do all things through Christ strengthening me.—This makes a poor heart glad in the midst of all my toils; yea, and therefore I will rejoice, for He is with me!|8. You will, I dare say, hear, of numbers who have been baptized, &c, &c,—would that you could hear of a tithe of them—in point of numbers—who were bringing forth the Fruits inseparable from a living Faith.—It is a sad and awful subject for reflection: yet I fear that it is generally the case, that vital godliness, heart religion, is little, if at all, known among the Natives of New Zealand. For, notwithstanding the extended increase of knowledge among them and also the great addition to the number of professing Christians, their besetting sins of Avarice, deceit, laziness, and ingratitude, appear to be daily gaining ground upon them: of course, I speak only of Natives who profess to have embraced the Christian Faith. Of all that I have seen published about the Natives of this country, I think that the account given by His Lordship the Bishop of Australia was nearest the truth. His Lordship’s remarks were quite correct so far as he knew, but were he acquainted with all—the little every-day occurrences of life which shews the man—I dare to think, he would not have written any thing near so favorably of them as he did.|9. The Residents, Emigrants, & others in this Country, are all, more or less, in a ferment, about the Land, and the “Land Question”. The Commissioners are soon to sit, shortly after which, it is to be hoped, for the peace and welfare of the Country, things will assume a more flourishing and placid aspect. The present Government cannot please all parties, and, consequently, is not liked. I think it almost a sign that we are indeed living in the “latter days,” when I perceive, even here at the Antipodes, the same anarchical, ultra-republican spirit, which appears to have pretty nearly circumambulated with rapid strides the whole globe. Surely the times, spoken of by the inspired Apostles Peter and Paul, (2 Peter, II, 2 Tim. III, &c.) are come, or, at all events, at hand! Oh! may I, seeing the error of the wicked, and experimentally knowing that I have the roots of the same evil in my own heart, be enabled to cleave the closer to Christ: thus, shall I be preserved from falling.—|10. It is not my intention, my dear Sirs, to say much about passing events, numerous, new, and strange, as they are. But, I think, I may in all truth say, that, the words of God,—my own heart,—the temptations of the world and the Devil—the spiritual wants of the Natives—and six years’ residence in the New Zealand Missionary field, all, all combine in assuring me, that it is almost a matter of Impossibility for a man to be a Missionary among the Heathen and a possessor of Lands and Cattle, &c, &c, the same having to be looked after or attended to, in any way, by himself. Wealth, even in civilized countries, has generally Care, if not Poide also, in his train; and Care too often brings Anxiety, Self, Parsimony, Avarice, &c, &c, ad infin.;—if it be so, how much more is it to be expected that such is the case in uncivilized lands, where moral restriction exists not? I most willingly acknowledge and firmly believe, that a man, abounding in possessions, and flocks, and herds, may, by the Grace of God, become a useful settler in a Heathen Land, and may be of great utility in the little circle around about him. But even this is by no means an easy thing in a Land like this; where the Natives (supposing them to be, in part at least, his workmen,) unused to constant labour, would very soon perceive that they were working for their employer’s profit; which alone, among this suspicious people, would be quite sufficient to neutralize all the efforts he might make for their spiritual welfare. Were, however, such a Settler not to employ Natives as Laborers, the constant trespassing of Cattle on their plantations, would alone prove a fruitful and never-failing source fo discontent, bickering, and quarrelling: for the Natives, from never manuring their ground, only plant one or two, or at most three of four years in one place; hence their cultivated lands are seldom fenced in; and hence, also, the continual inroad of the Cattle of “the Stranger” on their little all. And then, (to place the case in a more favorable point of view,) if we suppose such a settler possessed of a “Cattle run,” (as is, perhaps, the case with some,) large enough to allow his Herds full liberty of roaming hither and thither in search of food, without at all coming near any Native Cultivations; yet, even in this case, there would be often heard, some such expressions as— “You have got all our best land—You have got the Lands of our Fathers—You have got our Lands for nothing—Our Fathers foolishly sold their Lands to you—You, who profess to have come hither for our interest, have taken advantage of our ignorance—You coaxed them to part with their Lands, when they said, No, No, &c, &c,”—which, as I before observed, would, to say the least of it, have a tendency to destroy all such a person’s exertions for their spiritual good; however disinterestedly he might endeavor to act in the matter. Oh! that the Lord, who has hitherto graciously kept me from this snare, would mercifully vouchsafe to waken me every morning, with, “Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world, &c”.—|11. The following is a List of Books, &c, now sent, in a parcel, pr. this vessel, “the Mars”:—|4 Copies Psalms of David,|6 ditto ditto, with morning & evening Service of our | church, and Hymns,|10 ditto Daniel and Jonah,|6 Almanacks,|3 parts of Testament,|Sundry papers printed for H.M. Government in New | Zealand,|3 Copies of an Exposition of the Errors of Rome, part I.,|3 ditto ditto ditto part II.,|Returns of Books printed, and Issued, and of Books bound, | for the year 1840,| and, a small parcel, enclosed, for Mr. Broughton.|12. The Romish leaven is, I fear, slowly spreading amongst the people. The RC. Bishop, Jesuit-like, grasps at every thing that presents itself in the manner and acting of your Society’s labourers, which he thinks may be advantageously urged against the Protestant Cause. He has, I fear, through his specious plausibility, made also successful use of the Holding of Land by the Missionaries, against the Cause of Christ in New Zealand. And, as the Natives become more and more oppressed by the continual arrival of the “White Man” among them, so will Rome, unless God prevent, too fatally succeed through her insidious and wily accusations against the Protestant Missionaries. Their Priests now are scattered in different parts of the Northern Island; two, also, are in the Middle Island; and the R.C. Bishop is now absent, in his Brig which he has purchased, on “an Apostolical tour” (? voyage) to the principal Islands of the S. Pacific. Unfortunately (thinking as I do, I make use of this term,) the Brethren speak of Rome’s exertions in New Zealand, as “a mere nothing”—or, suppose that, “the New Zealanders have too much good sense to listen to Rome”—or, that, “’tis only the last throes of the beast.” It may be so, and I would hope that it is really so, but I would say, as a Christian Soldier—enl;isted under the Great Captain of our Salvation, and bearing in mind my Baptismal Vow, “manfully to fight under His banner, against sin, the World, and the Devil; and to continue Christ’s faithful soldier and Servant untom my life’s end”—never to drop the 2-edged sword which He has so entrusted me with, until either the enemy had quitted the field, or my Master had called me home. May God grant that when He shall be pleased to call me, I may be found in the Van of Battle, having my armour on!|13. In conclusion, my dear Sirs, (hoping soon to hear from you, in answer to mine of Jany./40.) I pray you to pardon all that may seem to be amiss in this Communication of mine. And, praying that He, whose name ois “Faithful and True,” and who delights in “Keeping mercy for thousands,” and in fulfilling His most gracious promises, may mercifully vouchsafe unto us all, that as ourv day so our strength shall be—|I am,|Dear Sirs,| very faithfully yours|William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0022.txt
Date (precise): 1841 July 8
Addressee: EL Godfrey
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: E.L. Godfrey Esq|&c &c &c.|Paihia July 8/41|My dr Sir|Yours of the 27 ult. requestg. my a/c on behalf of the C.M.S. for ptg. perfd. for the Commissr. together with 3 Receipts for the same, came duly to hand, and would have been ansd. ere this had I not day after day delayed doing so in waiting for the sailing of the Vict. She is now, however, about to sail, and I lose no time in forwarding you the same, enclosed, and hope they will be satisfactory.|Our Missn. Schooner Columbine is about to proceed forthwith to Auckland. Mr S. Williams goes & returns in her. You can, my dear Sir, if it meets with your approval, hand over the amount of the Bills receipted either to Mr S.W. or to Capt. Gratton the master of the Schooner.| Believe me|Ever most truly yrs|WC|
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SourceFile: doc_0023.txt
Date (precise): 1841 July 30
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Paihia, Bay Islands, N. Zealand,|July 30th., 1841.|Secretaries,|C.M.S. House,|London.|My dear Sirs|1. My last Communication to you, was dated Jany. 15th., 1841, which, together with a parcel of Books, (both pr. “Mars,” homeward bound whaler,) I trust you have safely received.|2. Your Letter to us, of December 19/40, came to hand a few weeks back. I feel myself bound to thank the Committee for their kind decision therein expressed respecting myself, and trust, that no impediment whatever may arise to frustrate the carrying the same into effect. In consequence of that decision, I cannot now have any reason to assign to the Committee for my returning to England; which, I hesitate not to say, was solicited, in order that (since I could not any longer with conscientious approval serve the Society, to whom I trusted I was still devotedly attached,) I might seek a situation, in New Zealand, more congenial with my inclinations, under some other Christian body. For the present then, my dear Sirs, I most willingly consent to remain in New Zealand; and would hope, through the Lord’s blessing, I may never again have to ask permission to return to England:—a step, which, believe me, I shall never be induced to take, unless impelled thereto. I very much regret that the Letter from Revd. Mr. Vores to me, (alluded to in Res. 3, of Com. of Corr., and, also, in par. 9, of your Letter to us,) has not been received. I have made every enquiry after it, at the Post Office here, and suppose that it could never, at least, have reached New Zealand. Shortly before your Letter to us arrived, I wrote (as a last resource) the Bishop of Australia, on the subject of admitting me to Orders; to which I have not yet received his Lordship’s answer. No vessels having come in from Sydney, since the arrival thither of that which took my Letter.|3. By the vessel which takes the Mail containing this Letter, I send a paper parcel directed to you, in which are,—a faithful & literal English Translation of those two Tracts (sent in last parcel) against the errors of the Romish Church.—Copies of those Tracts, in which the typographical errors are corrected,—and, a Ms. of Extracts from my Journal. The latter is for my Father, (who has often expressed his surprise at my never having given him any Information relative to my movements in N. Zealand,) and I would be much obliged in your forwarding it to him, by Coach, as soon as convenient. Should Mr. Broughton, or the Revd. J.W. Colenso, of Harrow, apply to you for a sight of the same, you will please to allow them to peruse it, ere it be sent on to my parents; but with the express understanding, that it must be returned to you as soon as possible, in order that it may be despatched on to Cornwall, without any great delay. For I am very sure, that my parents, (who, perhaps, are far too anxiously solicitous on my account,) will not be satisfied until they receive it. I enclose, corrected printed Copeis of those Tracts, in hopes that either yourselves, or the Protestant Association, or the Rel. Tract Society, will kindly print us a few thousands for distribution.—For I applied to our Committee, held a few days ago, that some Tracts might be printed against the errors of Rome, and received an answer thereto, “This request to remain over.” The English Translation I should have sent you before, but Lady Franklin (who has been paying N.Z. a visit,) much wished for a copy of the same; the doing of which has necessarily detained the Translation. Nearly the whole of the 8000 Tracts printed, are distributed; and I have already had evidence of their usefulness.—To mention an instance:—At Kororareka, the other day, the R.C. Bishop was endeavouring, as usual, to gain over a Chief of note, who had recently arrived from the neighbourhood of Cook’s Straits, desiring him to conform “ki to Mahi Matua,” (to the Mother Church) telling him, that the Church of England was wrong, &c, &c. The Chief replied, that he would not have any thing to do with him or his Church. The R.C. Bishop, however, was not to be so easily induced to cease his specious oratory, on which the Chief took out one of those Tracts, (which he had brought with him from his village,) saying, “Haere mai; he aha tenei e meinga nei e te Aroho pono ke ti Hahi pokaka o Roma?” (Draw hither, what (is) this here said by the True Love concerning the contrarily-inventing Church of Rome?) On which, the Bishop gathered up his robes and walked quickly away, much to the chuckling satisfaction of the Natives there assembled. Should any be printed, pray let them have covers stitched on them, and, I think, it would also be advisable to have both made to form one Book. Since my last Letter the R.C. Bishop has had an accession of 4 Priests and 8 Catechists, together with a Printing press, &c, &c.—|4. I hope, my dear Sirs, that you have forewarded us a good supply of printing paper. Our press had holyday for about 10 days (!) (not so, however, the printer,) when a small supply arrived from Sydney: this will soon be expended. I hope in a very little while to send you copies of the Prayer Book, complete with all its Services; in the printing of which I am now advanced to the Solemnization of Matrimony.—|5. I would here beg to submit these requests of mine for the kind consideration of the Committee. 1. That the Committee be pleased to grant their Printing-Office a Bracket Timepiece with a large face, as I have had no small difficulty in getting the workmen I have hitherto employed in being any thing like punctual to their hours. 2. That the Committee be pleased to grant me a good silver Hunting watch, as the one I had kindly given me in England by the Society, was well nigh worn out, and cost me more in repeated repairs than its original price. I have advantageously sold it for £4., which Sum the Com. will be pleased to accept in part towards another: it should, however, be a good one; as here they scruple not to charge £1.1.0 for merely rectifying a watch! 3. That the Committee (seeing that I have never received any Books from the Society) will be pleased to grant me the following Books:—|Burnet’s History of Þe Reformation,|Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History,|Milner, with Scott’s continuation,|Nowell’s Catechism,|Canons of Þe Church of England,|Jewell’s apology & reply,|Fox’s Martyrs—complete ed.,|McCulloch’s Commercial Dictionary, last ed.,|Latin Vulgate, and|a good and comprehensive Latin Dictionary,|with any others they may think proper.|6. You will please advise the paying of £5.5.0 on my account, to Mr. J. Reynolds of Penzance, for shoes supplied; and also, of £12.10.0 to Coney, 125, Minorias, for Linen, &c. I confess, I was not a little surprised at Coney’s writing to N. Zealand for payment of his small a/c, the order for which he had received through the C.M. House. I trust that his doing so was entirely of himself. Once for all, permit me to say, that I am not a pecuniary Debtor to the Society, neither, by God’s blessing, will I ever become such, whatever the account at home, in my name, may apparently shew against me; I take care to keep within compass, and to square my little accounts here yearly. I cannot comprehend Coney’s a/c, as delivered to me; he says, the whole amount I owe him is £13.9.2, but only mentions items, in his Bill to me, amounting to £11.15.1. I have written him saying, that if he shews Mr Coates my being indebted the sum of £13.9.2 to Mr Coney, Mr Coates will discharge the same: which I will thank you to do.|Please procure and send me, 1 ream of good T.W. Foolscap, faintlined blue as for long folio. I have so very much writing to do now, in Translating, preparing for press, &c, &c, (in addition to my duties in the Pg Office,) that such paper will prove a valuable auxiliary.|The blessed boon of 5,000 Testaments have arrived, and are in Circulation. It will not be long ere the whole will be disposed of. Evfen with this supply, I am obliged to deny them to some who come with their dollar in their hand to purchase a “Covenant.”—Last week, Mr Davis’ third son, Coleman, died; he had been ill for several weeks. The father is greatly affected at his loss, but bows, as a Christian, to the dispensation; knowing whose the rod is, and who appointed it.|The vessel sails this evening: so I must hurry off to the Post office on the opposite shore. May the Lord, grant, my dear Sirs, that you and me may be graciously guided by Him in all things to His praise and glory!|And believe me|very truly and sincerely yours,|William Colenso.|
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Date (precise): 1841 November 17
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Paihia,Novr. 17th., 1841.|The Secretaries|C.M. House,|Salisbury Square,|London.|My dear Sirs,|1. My last Letter to you was dated September 17/41, since which I have been permitted to make a journey to the Natives residing in Wangarei Bay7 and villages adjacent. And am now about leaving the Station on a visit to the Ntaives rsiding at the East Cape, and other places in the large parish of the Revd. William Williams; and so fulfil a promise made by me unto those Natives some time ago.|2.–Through the blessing of God on my labours, I have been enabled to finish the printing of the Prayer Book—(a few copies of which I send you by the vessel which takes this to ngland,)—it has been a long while, indeed, in crawling through the Press, but, when all the labour whereof , from the translating to the striking-off, is duly considered, and, that much, too, of that labour has devolved on myself, I venture to think that it will be pretty evident, that no time has been lost in the getting it out. Of this Book, the greater number of the Collects were translated by the Rev. William Williams: The Sacramental and Matrimonial Services by Mr Puckey: and the remaining Collects, with the epistles from the Old Testamnet, Thanksgivings and Prayers, Communion of Sick, visitation of ditto, Commination, Rubrics, and Articles of Religion, by myself. The last, alone, required much time and considerable and close attention in Translating, Correcting, Revising and Re-revising, ere they became what they now are. Thankful and humble, however, I would be, in reviewing the goodness of the Lord towards me! “Who am I, and what my Father’s house?” and, “Whence is this to me?” I often ask. When I landed in New Zealand, nearly seven years ago, I often besought the Lord in prayer, to grant me health, strength, and ability to print the New Testament and Prayer Book: He has been pleased to hear and answer my request—and now, what remains? He also knows! This is my natal day, ( a solemn day to me) and I may not see another here! Oh! for grace to say continually, in and under all circumstances, “Good is the will of the Lord.”—|3. I, also, send you copies of the Almanack for 1842, which I have been enabled to calculate and prepare; a portion of Isaiah, translated by Revd. R. Maunsell; and a few copies of a prayer used here for the Governor. We are now proceeding with the printing of the Exodus; and have to commence directly the reprinting of the small Prayer Books, Primer, and Catechisms, our large editions of each being all Issued.—|4. The Paper, and other stores, pr. “William Wise,” have just arrived, all in good condition. We were using the last of our Demy when the Brig came in!|5. On my return from Wangarei, I found that the Roman Catholic Priest had given Revd. H. Williams a challenge to a Public Discussion, to take place at Kororareka in the New Zealand language; which Mr. Williams accepted. The Discussion took place on the Tuesday and Wednesday, the 26th. and 27th. ult., on the one side, were the four Roman Catholic Priests, on the other, were Mr Williams and myself. I assure you, my dear Sirs, I went to the field with much fear and trembling,—not, as to the ultimate result—but as to my own incapacity and utter unworthiness for such a situation. God, however, graciously strengthened us, and we were more than conquerors through the Testimony of Jesus! I could scarcely have considered it possible for men holding ministerial offices in a professing Christian Church to be so very ignorant of Scripture—or, that such men could possibly prevaricate in the manner these did. God enabled us, not only to beat down all their arguments with the plain words of Scripture, but, also, to preach to them the Truth as it is in Jesus. I could but fancy that I plainly saw the same Spirit, which has always so manifested itself in many of their unhappy Church against our Reforming Forefathers! They hesitated not to affirm, over and over, that our New Zealand Testament was all false! being not the word of God, but merely words of our own!! One solitary text of Scripture was all they brought forward during the whole of the first day’s discussion; and this was done to defend their Image-worship, &c, namely, Joshua VII. 6. They laboured most assiduously, to get us to quit the taking up the plain word of God, but they could not succeed. Unhappy men! they found, I am sure, on some occasions, that the sword of the spirit was two-edged. Had I leisure, I should much like to give you an outline of the meeting, from my Notes and other Memoranda, but, really, have not time to do so. It grieved me much, however, to hear them tell the Natives with a triumphant air of assurance, that, by their latest Letters England was again returning to her right mind and to the only true Faith and Church! and that “Pusey, a great Doctor among them, is the great instrument employed by the Lord in this matter”!! Oh! how is the fine gold become dim! how is the faithful city become a harlot! I do not think they will beat all desirous of encountering us again, for some time at least; and would fain hope, that both good to the Natives and glory to the Lord may arise from this meeting. It has, in a measure, opened the eyes of the Protestant community to what the Romanists really are; and has caused many of the former to become exceedingly dissatisfied with the latter.—|6. I enclose, in the small parcel of Books, Notes of my late visit to Wangarei; which I would thank you, my dear Sirs, to pass on to my Father at Penzance; as I have not time to make a copy of the same.|7. The Natives are, in general, pretty tranquil throughout the Island; and the different members of the Mission enjoy good health. His Lordship the Bishop of New Zealand, whose arrival has been for a considerable time expected, has not yet arrived. The Land Commissioners are pursuing the investigation of Claims to Land, and have several knotty cases to unravel: I fear it will be no easy matter for them to do justioce to all parties. A proclamation has just been issued to restrain persons from cutting Pine Timber, which has given great dissatisfaction.—Mr Burrows is still residing at Kororareka. The Columbine has not yet been offered for sale. In fact, another vessel is spoken of as about being urchased!|Praying that the Lord may ever more guide and direct us,|I am,|My dear Sirs,|Yours most truly & obediently|W. Colenso.|
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Date (precise): 1842 April 1
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Paihia, Bay of Islands, New Zealand,|April 1st., 1842.|Secretaries,|C.M. House,|London.|My dear Sirs,|1. The “Mandarin” being about to sail for Calcutta, affords an opportunity of forwarding letters for England, via that port. My last letter to you was dated Novr. 17/41, with which I also forwarded a small parcel of Books.|2. When I last wrote, I was about proceeding to the East Cape and neighbourhood. Accordingly I left this Station on the 19th. of November, and returned again on the 22nd. February. I am copying out my Journal at intervals, and hope to send it home in a few weeks.—|3. The Paper, and other printing Stores per “Mandarin,” have been received all in ggoog condition. I am very sure that we ought to be thankful for the abundant supply so kindly and promptly granted us.—|4. The Natives about us, have been, and are at present, in a very unsettled state. On the 20th. of November last (as I suppose you have already been informed,) a barbarous murder was committed on Mrs. Roberton, (the widow of a Capt. R., who was drowned here a short time ago,) three children, and her Servant, a man of Colour. They resided alone on one of the small islets in the outer part of this bay. It was soon traced to a young chief, named, Maketu, who had long borne a bad character. He was speedily apprehended, examined, and sent to Auckland gaol; and tried and executed, at that place, about 3 weeks ago. As might have been expected, it has caused a great deal of commotion among the Natives. A plan was talked of as being concocting by them, to make a simultaneous rise and murder every white. Several hundred Natives, all armed, have assembled in this Station. As yet, however, no violence has been offered, and I would hope that peace may be preserved. In February last, a baptized Native, employed on the Revd. H. Williams’ farm, murdered his companion in cold blood! What made the matter worse (if possible) was the circumstance of Mr. Williams being there at the time, and the poor creature, who was murdered, had been brought up, along with his murderer, from childhood in this Station, and in one house! Alleged connexion with his wife (another baptized Native;) was the ostensible cause of his committing the dreadful deed. The offender was soon lodged in gaol, where, however, he remained but a very short while, for the Magistrate, hearing that the Natives intended to rescue him by force, liberated him. One teacher has probably proclaimed Mr. H. Williams to be Judas! Another has said, “We can do now without a white Missionary.” Another has torn up his Testament, and that, too, just after receiving the Sacrament. Another has stuck up a notice at his place that the faith is, by him, cast aside. Another has declared that he will be (re-) baptized by the Romish priest; while others are falling through adultery, robbery, &c.—A party headed by Te Tirarau, one of the most powerful chiefs of the N.D., has been to Kapara, and plundered and burnt to the ground the house, store, &c, of a Mr. Forsyth, a Settler here; the alleged cause is, that Mr.F. had been to some one of their burying places and taken skulls and bones away with him; which charge is, I believe, in part, atr least, correct. This party has since been to Wangarei, on the Eastern Coast, and have taken away (report says) ₤200. worth of property from the Settlers there. The xcause in this case, was the selling, by the Wangarei Chiefs, of a piece of land to some whites, which land was “tapu”, (i.e., hallowed, reserved,) in consequence of a sister of Te Tirarau having been killed, roasted and devoured on it, a few years ago by the Ngatimau tribes. Both of these Cases are now about being investigated by the Government. I would fain hope that the worst is past, but, I fear that it will not prove to be so. I have long ago seen enough to lead me to expect a *** of reaction, and, therefore, while grieved at such a deplorable state of things, I am not taken by surprise by them. Sifting times generally prove, I think, times of blessing to God’s people; and I know that “the Lord knowest them that are his,” and that He will keep them in the day of His anger; ****, where such are in New Zealand I cannot say. Still, I would hope that He has a hidden little flock even here. Maketu, was baptized by the Rev. — Churton, previous to his execution. Poor creature! he spent his days, while in prison, in a very light and careless manner, singing native songs, &c; I fear he did not know much of the state of mind requisite for receiving the Sacrament of Baptism. Mr. Churton, *** could know but little of the man, or the New Zealand language.—|5. I very much regret that the parcel of Books sent by me to the “Mars” whaler for you, should have been by them put in the Mail-bag, and so have cost the Society ₤7.12.0. As I have sent 2 or 3 parcels since I fear that you have had further and similar demands. For the future, however, I must endeavour to arrange matters better, and make up my packages in a little box.|6. His Lordship the Bishop of New Zealand, has not yet arrived; we are looking out every day rather anxiously for somewhat of him.—|7. I take the liberty to enclose a Letter addressed to Mr. Bates, as it containes money, in a draft on you, for ₤30.|Hoping to write you again, my dear Sirs, very shortly.—And, desiring a continuance of your prayers for us—that we may, in these peculiar times, be blessed with a share of the serpent’s wisdom combined with the dove’s harmlessness.—|I am,|my dear Sirs,|Ever most truly and obediently yours,|William Colenso.|
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Date (precise): 1842 April 19
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Paihia, April 19th. 1842.|Secretaries,|C.M.S. House,|London.|My dear Sirs,|1. I wrote you on the 1st. current, per “Mandarin,” via Calcutta, since which your Letter to us, of October 1/41, has been received.—|2. I would thank you to cause the enclosed Letter for Mr. Bates, containing a Draft on yourselves for ₤to be delivered to him. Pray excuse my troubling you with the same, as I have no acquaintance in London to whom I might apply to execute a similar commission for me.—|3. Having written you so very recently, and intending to write you again very shortly, I have nothing at present to communicate. Save, that we have at last received Information of several of the Government Offices at Auckland being totally consumed by fire. They were close together in a row, and built of wood, so that, on the fire seizing one, it was not long ere the whole was in flames. We have not heard whether any of their Books or papers were destroyed.—|Praying that the Lord will graciously vouchsafe us to dwell in the light of His reconciled countenance through Jesus Christ,|I am,|My dear Sirs,|Ever most truy and obediently yours|William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0027.txt
Date (precise): 1842 July 26
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Paihia, July 26, 1842|My dear Sirs|1. My last Letters to you were dated respectively April 1st., and 19th.,?42; since which yours of Nov. 24/41 to us, have been received.—|2. The Bishop of New Zealand, his chaplains, and all Missionaries have arrived here. His Lordship first landed at Auckland in the Thames; he subsequently came to this place, where he remained a fortnight; during which time he visited Waimate and Kerikeri Stations. Mrs. Selwyn having arrived, his Lordship left for the Thames, Port Nicholson, and other Colonial Settlements, taking Mr. Reay and others with him.—|3. Enclosed in a small box, (which I have directed Messrs. Campbell to forward to you by the same ship which takes this thence to England,) are 100 Copies of the Bishop’s Sermon, which he preached both at Auckland and Paihia. It is said, “Published at the request of the Congregation,” but it should be understood that only 3 persons so requested it, and two of those three I have since heard state, that “His Lordship will have, ere long, to alter his opinion from what he has therein advanced, when he shall have learned somewhat of the Native character.” I deem it necessary to mention this, as, from what the Bishop has said in his Sermon, persons at the distance of 16,000 miles may indeed be led to suppose, that this is not merely a land flowing with milk and honey, but really the very choicest portion of God’s heritage. To me, every thing appears “unwatered still and dry”. Ordinances and externals of Religion abound, but to my perception ’tis the shell without the kernel. Nevertheless I would believe that there are a few on whom the Spirit of God has breathed; who are beginning to see things as they really are— “men as trees walking.” But the Word of God, and my own experience have taught me, that a “few” only do believe to the saving of their Souls, even when Gospel Truth is plainly and fearlessly declared. In making these remarks, I would to prevent misconstruction, also add, that I have not the vanity to suppose that my ipse dixit will be received in contradiction to the now published opinion of the Bishop. I cannot, however, refrain from giving you the honest convictions of my heart.—|4. There is also in the Box, a copy of my late Travelling Journal, with a few Sketches stitched up with it. This I would thank you to deliver to my old and much-esteemed friend Mr. Broughton, who having read the same will have the goodness to send it to my cousin the Rev. J.W. Colenso, Harrow, who will forward it to Mrs. Garnon, the person for whom it was written. Of course you are quite welcome to make whatever use you please of the contecnts.|5. You will also find a few copies of a little Tract, which I have lately published (as before at my own expense,) against the Roman Catholics. It is a Letter to the Natives informing them of the conversion of three Roman Catholic priests to the Protestant Faith, and of their reception into the Church of England; together with the “Form of Prayer” used on the occasion. I have enclosed therewith a liberal translation of the few sentences which I appended as an Introduction to the “Form of Prayer.” I am sorry, very sorry, that our Missionary Comee., have neither done, nor countenanced the doing of any thing in the shape of Tracts against those artful emissaries of Evil. And, I think I may say, that I have reason to suppose, that less should be done in that way by any one belonging to your Society in this land, who wishes to live in peace with those who are either above or co-workers with him. It is useless, however, for any person or persons to suppose that he or they will ever be able to induce me to cease positively opposing as opportunity may offer these Servants of Rome. Yea, any one, whoever he may be, who shall attempt to preach another Gospel to the poor New Zealanders, than Glad tidings for perishing Sinners through the peace-seeking blood and merits of our glorified Redeemer, or attempt to lay any other foundation than that which is laid, even Jesus Christ, will necessarily be opposed by me. I trust that God will give me wisdom to discern, and faithfulness to expose, the stealthy approaches towards error, so warily made in first beginnings; as well as all the requisite caution which I may need, to keep me within the bounds of moderation.|5. There is also a Copy of the Psalter prepared for Press; concerning which the Comee. of Missionaries have been pleased to adopt a proposition of mine requesting you to get 10,000 Copies printed; as our edition of 5,000 have all been issued. I suppose that it quite escaped their notice to desire the “Order for Administering the Lord’s Supper”, to be printed with it. I, however, venture to think it highly requisite, inasmuch as the number of Communicants are numerous and still increasing. I have, therefore, added a Copy of the Communion Service, which you will get printed and bound with it, or not, at your discretion. In either case I should be happy to have 500 Copies, (in addition) on my own private account.|6. I have also sent you Part 1st. of a “Grammar of the New Zealand Language,” by Mr. Maunsell; which, while it contains much that is excellent, is far from being entirely correct.|7. Our new Printing Press has safely arrived, and is put up in the Printing Office. We want, however, some one to work it, and some one also, to get matter ready for it. At present, and for some time oast we have been busily employed with Reprints of the Small Prayer Book, Primus, Catechisms, &c.; parts of Exodus and Deuteronomy; and sundry Documents for the Bishop.|8. I have also enclosed in the Box, a small Indent, including Articles for the Printing Office and on private account of self and friends; which you will oblige us in getting forwarded by earliest opportunity. I think it needful to say, in order to prevent any degree of astonishment arising in your minds at my writing for a few stores so soon after the arrival of such a large shipment as that pr. “William Wise,” that, although those stores were all immediately divided among the different Individuals of thye Mission, I did not obtain a single article: hence the cause of my now writing for a small supply.|10. I have been given to understand that I am to have a Dictionary of the New Zealand language by the Rev. W. Williams to print. Although, at first reading of the Resolution in Comee., the Comee. of Missionaries rejected the same, at a subsequent Comee. it was again urged and adopted. I have represented—the time it will take to execute it here; the hindrance it will be to other (and much more useful) works intended for the benefit of the Natives; the expense it will put the Society to, with little prospect of a return of the same; the certainty that if printed in England it would be ready for delivery in less time and at a much less expense than if printed here; the probability that, if, when printed here, it should be considered an article worth speculating in; persons would be found to get it cheaply reprinted in England or America, and so undersell our edition; and the almost certainty, that if handed over to the New Zealand Land Company (now that the way is opened) they would not only gladly print it, but also remunerate Mr. Williams (or the Society) for the copy-right;—but to no purpose. A Dictionary of the New Zealand language is merely a Book of reference for the few; for, instead of the Settlers caring to learn “Maori,” they have already shewn that the Natives in order to carry on any dealings with them, will have to pick up some smattering of English, and such knowledge the present (and, I fear, the next in succession) race of New Zealanders will never gain from Books. I am sorry, my dear Sirs, indeed I am, to have to remain with the press to do such (permit me to say) very un-missionary work. I felt the restraint great, when I was closely engaged in working in the Printing Office for the spiritual benefit of the Natives; how much more then may it not be supposed I feel my present and prospective situation, when obliged to execute such work?|10. With the utmost deference, my dear Sirs, I pray you to aallow me to hope, that par.4, of my Letter to you of Jany. 24/40, will receive from the Parent Comee. every kind consideration. I trust, that from my present anomalous situation I shall not be brought into juxta-position with his Lordship the Bishop. I can—through God’s grace which is covenanted—endure poverty, and, like the Apostles, not only consent but rejoice to be counted the offscouring of all things, so that I preach the Gospel; but I never, never can consent to cease declaring to others that blessed Gospel which the Spirit of God (notwithstanding my dullness) has made me in some measure to comprehend.|11. You will, doubtless, hear from others (to whose province it more particularly belongs,) of the present state of things in New Zealand. The Thames and Bay of Plenty Natives are again in a very unsettled condition, owing to a number of the former having made an irruption on the Tauranga Natives and killed seven, while peaceably engaged in planting. The latter have since retaliated, and killed some of the other party; and it is probable that other Tribes, at least those residing in the immediate neighbourhood, will become involved.|12. I mentioned in my last of a disastrous fire having taken place at Auckland, by which several of the Governt. Offices were consumed. Shortly after that event, the Governor’s late residence at Russell in the Bay, (one of the first class houses in New Zealand,) was totally destroyed by fire. Lieut. Beckham, J.P., who occupied it, barely escaping in his shirt. And, about a fortnight ago, the residence of the late Additional British Resident, Lieut. McDonnel, at Hokianga, was also burnt to the ground; the property destroyed, in the last-mentioned fire, is stated as valued at £5,000. I mention these events in order to notice an opinion which is abroad, that there is something more in the consecutive happening of these fires than mere casualty. The Government, unfortunately, is much disliked. I believe Capt. Hobson to be a well-meaning man, but, unhappily, he has those about him who appear to be very bad advisers; and, in connection with them, such a number of dependent place-hunters to be provided for, as actually to eat up all—and more than all—the energies of the Colony can produce. For, in addition to the immense sums realised from the sale of petty sections of Land at Auckland, a debt is already announced, exceeding £50,000! I, however, merely mention this, that you may hear, though briefly, the common report of the Colony, for I have neither time nor inclination, to mjeddle with politics.—|May the Lord of His infinite mercy graciously be pleased to overrule all events for the good of His Church—to direct those who are in Authority in this Colony for His glory and the welfare of the people—to guide us into truth, and, having stablished, finmally to receive us into His Heavenly Kingdom!|Believe me,|my dear Sirs,|Ever most truly yours|William Colenso.|P.S. I have written Berdoe a Letter, in which I have ordered the Clothing mentioned in the Indent, (in the Box,) and, I believe that I am not indebted a penny at this time on the Secretary’s Books.|July 28/42 W.C.|
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SourceFile: doc_0028.txt
Date (precise): 1842 December 30
Addressee: Davis
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: (Copy.)|Mr. Rd. Davis,|Secretary,|N.D.|Paihia, Decr. 30th. 1842|My dear Sir,|Understanding that your Committee are to meet at Waimate on Monday next, I embrace the opportunity thus afforded me of acquainting them with my Sentiments, in answer to a certain portion of your official Letter to me of the 19th. instant, in which you speak of my being “soon at liberty to proceed to a Southern Station.”|That prior to my being removed by the Committee of Missionaries from my present occupation (of Sub-Editor and Superintendent of the Press, as expressed in the last Letter from the Parent Committee,) to any part or Station of New Zealand, I should wish such removal to have the full sanction of the Parent Committee.—|Believe me,|my dear Sir,|with every respect,|Ever most truly yours|Willm. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0029.txt
Date (precise): 1843 March 7
Addressee: Gell
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: J.P. Gell, Esq.|&c &c &c|V.D.L.|My dear Sir,|Since my Note to you of November last, I have been honored in the receipt of yours of Augt. 6th, together with a copy of No. 9 of the “Tasmanian Journal”.|I now send you a paper containing an account of several new Ferns, which I have lately discovered and classified. I have had this ready some time ago, but have been waiting, expecting to see something of those papers already sent, and which, I suppose, will ere long, come to hand. In this paper I have included those six ferns formerly described. Should that paper have been inserted in any no., you will, I suppose, merely notice them again in their place in this paper, something in this way––|––L. linearis, n.sp., vide, no. , p. .––|The descriptions, however, here given of those Ferns, will, I think, be found to be amended a little, in perspicuity, and correctness of detail of minute particulars.|I have sent a copy of my Ms., with dried specimens, to Sir W.J. Hooker, and should be gratified in having this paper inserted at an early opportunity, as I much wish to be able to send him a printed copy.|I have another paper nearly ready–– “Memoranda of an Excursion in N. Zealand, with remarks on its Natural History, &c.”, which, I venture to suppose, will give more general satisfaction than the enclosed.|I hope you received my corrected paper on the Bones of the Moa, in time to supersede the first one sent.|I think I mentioned in my last, that I had not received Nos. 2 and 3: I would thank you, my dear Sir, to get me copies of those numbers forwarded. My friend Rev. R. Taylor, informed me, that he, also, has not received any Copies of those two numbers, and would be obliged to you in your causing such to be sent to him. Mr. T. has, moreover, suggested, that our Society may have some such regulation, as to allow Members copies of those numbers only in which they may happen to have a paper. If this supposition is correct, we would gladly become subscribers, in order to get copies of each number as printed.|I hope to be able to send you the paper I have to hand before the expiration of this month.––|Believe me to remain|My dear Sir|very truly yours|Willm. Colenso.|March 7, 1843.|Paihia, Bay of Islands|
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SourceFile: doc_0030.txt
Date (precise): 1843 March 20
Addressee: Gell
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Paihia, Bay of Islands|March 20 1843|My dear Sir|I last wrote you on the 8th. instant sending you a Paper, giving an account of some new Ferns, which I hope you will safely receive.––It is however, not improbable that you may receive this communication first, as I have subsequently heard of the vessel which took the Mail containing mine of the 8th. instant, sailed with the intention of first visiting the Western Coast of New Zealand.|I hasten to send this communication earlier than I expected, as I have heard of a vessel being in passage for Hobart Town, and an opportunity has now presented itself of sending my pacquet to Hobart Town. I shall send this, under care of the Captain, as the rate of postage, here, is high; and I have experienced, that although addressed to His Excellency Letters are not therefore free.|I have only hitherto received No’s. 1, and 4, of the Magazine.––|I should much wish, (if it could be so arranged, and the extra trouble to the printer would be slight,) that this Communication, the one one of the 8th. instant, (and if not too late) that on the Moa, made up into one continuous work, and a 100 copies strongly bound at my expense.––And, if not destroyed, a 100 copies of the Lithogs. of the Fossil Bones, and of Lomaria nigra, L. linearis, L. rotundifolia, and H. Frankliniarum. My old friend, Mr. W.R. Wade, would, I am very sure (if needed,) kindly superintend the Editorial department. An order on me, to the amount incurred, payable to any one here, or, on the account reaching me, my transmitting the amount of the same to Sydney, would be promptly attended to. I have several scientific friends at home, to whom I should much wish to send a copy. I intend writing Mr. Wade, by next opportunity, on the subject.|I should much wish to send a few Drawings of shells, &c., to illustrate this paper, but have not at present time to do so. If, however, an opportunity presents itself of sending shortly, I shall not fail of embracing it.––|We have had a most brilliant Comet visible here for a fortnight past; its tail, immensely long, apparently occupying an arc of approximately 1/7 th of the heavens. I hope it is visible at Hobart, and that I shall have the pleasure of seeing it noted in our Journal.68 Believe me|My dear Sir|Very sincerely yours|W. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0031.txt
Date (precise): 1843 April 15
Addressee: Mair
Place: Deveron, Wangarei
Letter Body: Gilbert Mair, Esq., J.P.,| Deveron,| Wangarei.|Ki a te Mea| Kei Taua Tawiti,| Kei hea ranei, e noho ana.|Paihia, Easter Eve, |April 15 1843.|My dear Sir,|Your plaguy vessel gave me the slip––and Capt. Lewington, too, served me much as you did when last here, sailed, in another vessel without calling as he promised to do. So I cannot send your daughters watch; at which I am quite vexed.|I write this, and leave it with Walter, to send to you by some Native going that way; just to let you know how things are with me.|I got home on the Saturday night, very well; my cold, however, though little, still remains. I leave on Monday (the 17th.) by Styles’ vessel for Auckland––and suppose I shall be three weeks or so absent.|Mr. Busby left yesterday (Good Friday) for Sydney; obliged to be content with a berth in the hold of the Shamrock! I am quite sorry for him.|Mr. Williams is not yet returned from Oruru, nor has any fight yet taken place—save that little skirmish in the onset, in which 4 lives were lost. I suppose the old gentleman intends to tire them out.|The Bishop is not gone to Auckland, having received the sad news of the death of his Mother; which has affected him very much.|Mr. Dudley is well and preaching.|Mr. Taylor and family have sailed for Wanganui.|The Columbine is sold to Stratton for £600;—I suppose he will have a £100 for this first voyage.—I do not know of any other news.—|With kind regards to your good kind wife—and daughter––and all your bairns—whom I pray God to keep and bless.| I am, my dear Sir,| Very truly yours,| W. Colenso.|I should like to hear how you got on in Kahunui’s case I had a long talk with Iwitahi’s party on the subject.|—W.C.|Kier is doing of nothing; if you think he would suit you, you had better send him a line: wages is not an object with him.|
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Date (precise): 1843 May 8
Addressee: Mair
Place: Victoria
Letter Body: Victoria,|Monday|May 8th.|My dear friend,|We arrived here yesterday—48 hours from the Thames. Through Mrs. B’s. kind and pressing invitation, we remain here for the present. My good wife is pretty well and joins me in sending our kind regards to Mr. and Mrs. Mair and family.|I saw the Bishop at Auckland, on Thursday night last; and had some conversation with His Lordship. He was 13 days coming from Waimate, by way of Kaipara. He intends returning to the Bay by way of Wangarei and, Ngunguru, and I ventured to assure him that you would do all you could to assist him, and put him in your boat to Ngunguru,––I mean to Kaiwa Bay, whence he could get in 3 or 4 hours to Capt. L’s.—I hope the Natives will huihui, and behave well to His Lordship, and remember Neho their old matua.|As soon as he returns We are to go to the Waimate, when I hope to write you again.|Mr. Chris. Davies is at Paihia for the benefit of his health. The Tortoise is here taking in stores, and going home—now is the time to write your father. Capt. Todd is here in the Union—and the Westminster, another merchant ship, is here also; and 6 or 8 whalers—ka pai ha!|I send your daughters watch, and wishing you every blessing—and desiring to whisper, (in love and friendship,) make sure work for eternity—| I am,| My dear friend,| with the kindest regards to all| Yours very truly,| W. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0033.txt
Date (precise): 1843 May 15
Addressee: Mair
Place: Waimate
Letter Body: St. John’s College|Waimate May 15|My dear Sir,|I hope this will find you returned safely from Auckland to the bosom of your family, and with a lighter heart than when you went away. I have scarce a moment to spare, but I would not allow the opportunity to pass without writing a line. You are often in my thoughts, and I pray God to direct and bless you in all your matters: Cheer up, never despair! great afflictions have often befell many of the Lord’s chosen ones even when living close to Him—Yet He has ever proved His promises—who knows but that it may be yet with you as with Job, whose end, even in a worldly sense, after losing all, was better than the beginning.––|Keep by Your Heavenly Father: go not to the right nor left of the one narrow path: a good name is better than riches. Listen not, my dear friend, to any devices of prudence, or expediency, (falsely so called) which do not accord with the golden rule––the Word of God.—This only will give peace at the last. |I would write more, but time is precious. With kind regards to Mrs. Mair and family.| Believe me| Yours very sincerely,| W. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0034.txt
Date (precise): 1843 May 19
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Paihia|Bay of Islands|May 19/43.|My dear Sirs,|1. Some considerable time has elapsed since I last wrote you:— My last Letter being dated, July 26/42. I should, however, have certainly written to you long ere this, had not the many and peculiar changes continually taking place whispered—wait. With my last I sent a small box, containing sundry Books and Mss., the whole of which, I trust, you have safely received. |2. The work of the Pg. Office is now executed by Mr. Telford, who, safely and unexpectedly landed here in the end of the past year, and into whose charge I committed the whole of the Printing and Binding Materiel on the 1st. of January last. Mr. T. arrived just as I was about finishing the composition of the last copy of Translation, and has subsequently been employed on a Dictionary (referred to in my last) of the Native language.—A work which I was sorry to see begun, as it will, I fear, eventually prove a heavy outlay of Money, with little prospect of utility, and less of reimbursement. I wrote a letter to our District Committee (a copy of which I enclose,) on the subject of printing of the Dictionary, which did not, however, cause any reconsideration of their Resolution. Mr. Maunsell has, already, lost £55. in publishing his Grammar, although only three nos. have yet appeared.|3. On Mr. Telford’s arrival, the N.D. Comee. wished to remove me to the Southd., which, following out what I perceived to be the path of duty laid down by the Parent Comee. for me, (as expressed in par. 3. of your Letter of May 17/42.) I would not consent to do without their approval, and wrote our District Comee. a letter to that effect,—a copy of which I enclose. I regret to have to notice, that Mr. Telford, perceiving the state of things, did not act altogether as I think you quite intended he should do; wishing, doubtless, to have the entire Superintending of the Printing Department; and, possibly, thinking by so acting, to obtain it the sooner. Although I assiduously endeavoured to keep from anything approaching collision—by doing little acts of kindness, yielding of many matters which by right belonged to me, and even offering to abstain altogether from the entering the Printing Office, for “quietness sake”. Mr. T. writes, and considers, himself “Superintendent of the Press”; so that, should it be deemed advisable on the part fo the Parent Comee. to continue me in that situation, it will be quite becessary, I think, for them clearly to define our respective duties. In mentioning these matters, I would do so in the kindest possible manner, with regard to Mr. T., consistent with duty, because, considering all things, I can but think it quite natural for Mr. T. to act as he has done. For, at the period of his arrival, I had just finished plastering the house in which I had always resided, and fencing in the ground and stocking the gardens belonging to the same, (having lived for nearly 8 years in an unfinished dwelling,) and completed by degress year after year the various little wants of the Printing Office, so that every thing around looked quite inviting. All which Mr. T. was led to expect he should possess on my being removed to the Southward.—And, because I would believe, (if it be the wish of the Society to keep up a Printing Establishment in New Zealand,) that Mr. T. may, through the Divine Blessing, be useful to the Society and the Mission in the situation which the Parent Comee. have assigned him in the Printing-Office.—|4. Just about thye period of Mr. Telford’s arrival, I had it in consideration to write you my ideas respecting the Press.—I thought that it would be most advantageous to the Society (taking into consideration all circumstances,) to cease keeping up a Printing Establishment in New Zealand; and, I still venture to think that such would be best. There are several Presses now in the Land, at the different large Settlements, where any small printing required might be executed by contract, with the advantage of each district being supplied in its own district. Future editions of the Testament and Prayer Book, will, I dare suppose, be always executed in England; where they can be done better, cheaper, and more expediciously. And, I think, that the fact, of their not being any thing whatever of a direct Missionary character printed at the Society’s press during the last six months, (save a proof “pulled” of the first half-sheet 12mo. of Joshua,) although the Establishment has been attended with a very great increase in expenditure, will tend very much to confirm the truth of my supposition. I venture to think, my dear Sirs, that it will be soon the case with the Press, as with the Columbine, the Farm, and the Public Store; the end being, in a measure, answered for which it was et up, it will be found desireable under existing circumstances to discontinue it. Perhaps twelve months longer trial will more fully develop the truth of my observation. At all events, I would strongly urge on the Comee., (in case they decide n my moving to the Southward,) the necessity of having a Superintendent for their Press, (if possible from among the Clergy,) whose duties should be clearly defined in a Letter of Instruction fromj the Parent Comee.|5. My own situation, during the last six months, has been a very unpleasant one; (not a little reminding me of what Mr. Wade’s was 4 or 5 years ago,) the Bishop, too, being evidently prepossessed against me! Better days, however, are, I hope, at hand. I have often found the path of duty a narrow and apparently difficult one, but have invariably proved it to be infallibly safe. I have had to pass through many sore trials of late, but, blessed be the Lord! I do believe they have been, and will be, for my spiritual good. He has enabled me to live down my enemies, and now the Bishop (from whom I have lately had two kind Letters,) is, without any effort of mine, become my friend. At his Lordship’s suggestion and arrangement I go, in a few days, to the Waimate, there to reside for four or six months, to study preparatory to Orders. I know not where my future lot may be, nor am I at all anxious about the matter, save that (if it please the Parent Comee. to disconnect me from the Press,) I should wish to labour in a populous District, as far as possible from the encroaching white man; and, if possible, among some of those Tribes who have heard and received the Gospel at my hands. His Lordship has already licensed me to Catechetical Duties, for which, I hope, I am thankful. I venture, however, to suppose, that few, if any, among us will ever be admitted to Priest’s Orders,—unless the Standard of Qualification (an Examination in Latin, Greek and Hebrew) be greatly lowered. I trust, however, with God’s Grace, cheerfully to serve Him among the poor Natives in whatever vocation I may be placed,—whether as Catechist, Reader, or Deacon. “For I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wicked ones”.—|6. Among other things, I have to inform you, my dear Sirs, of my marriage; which took place on the 27th. of last month, at Otahuhu near Auckland: Mr. Fairburn’s eldest daughter (of whom honourable mention has been made by the Bishop of Australia and others, as a useful and active member in the Lord’s Vineyard,) is now my wife. It had long been a matter of earnest prayer with me for guidance in this important matter, and I can but believe that the Lord hath graciously pleased to direct me to a partner every way suitable for a Missionary’s wife. It was my intention to have gone single to Waimate, but, at the wish of the Bishop (who, in his Letter to me of March 17th., says “If you would prefer coming as a married man, I have no doubt that we can make arrangements for Mrs. C’s. reception: and she will be of great assistance in the revision of the New Testament. In fact, I should very much prefer this arrangement, as my short visit at Maraetai would prepare me to be glad of any opportunity of extending my acquaintance with her;”) I have concluded to go thither married.|7. I have read the charge brought forward by the Chairman of “the Aborigines Protection Society,” relative to the Sale of Books and more than supposed pocketing of the price by the Missionaries, but am not greatly surprised at it; as such has been the common taunt of our Roman Catholic adversaries for many-a-day. We have often—invariably, when we could do so—sold Books to the Natives, of which I supposed you had been always well aware, from the entering (at least) of those I had sold in the “Return, No.1,” sent by me to each half-yearly Comee., and from the often mentioning of such transactions in Journals, &c, as well as from the more recent remittances of monies received on account of such sale of Books. Until lately, the payments generally received by me have been in work rendered on account of the Society—digging, fencing, &c., &c.,—or in exchange for different fruits of the earth,—melons, pumpkins, maize, sweet potatoes, peaches, &c., &c.,—which were used by ourselves and numerous native visitors on the premises. We ever found that Books (and, in fact, every thing else,) were taken much greater care of by the Natives, when earned or paid for with ever so small a price, than when issued gratuitously. I enclose a List of Books, sold by me at different times to Natives and others, (see enclosure D,) the amount of sale of which was always carried by me to my Cash account in the P. Office Ledger. In August, 1840, I received an official order from the Secy. of the N.D. Comee., (in consequence of the number of Books I was selling from the general Stock,—the policy of which Order, however, is still unknown to me,) to the effect “that no Copies of the New Testament, or other Books, be issued in future, but under the sanction of the Comee., which effectively precluded my selling any more Books fromk the General Stock. I have, however, subsequently sold a considerable number of those which fell to my share, (in making a division of Books among the Stations,) several of which have been sold for marketable produce—potatoes, pumpkins, &c, &c,—and which I have constantly debited myself with at the common market price of such articles; often, I believe, so at too high a rate. Two days ago, an old Native Chief came to see me, and told me he wished a Comm. Prayer, and that he would pay for it (if I was willing) in pumpkins; enquiring, how many would be required. I told him, he should have one for a dozen; to which he instantly and gladly assented. Yesterday, he brought the pumpkins, and received his Book; I charging myself 3/- for the vegetables; which are, to me, of little use. Instances of this kind, only having smaller payments given in return, (such as, a bunch of onions, a fish, a bundle of firewood, a few cabbages, a wild pigeon, and, sometimes, an English Bible or Com. Prayer obtained from the shipping, and, more recently, some one of the Roman Catholic publications in the New-Zealand language, or a crucifix, or medal,) are of common occurrence. We have, however, (at least I have) always freely given Books in travelling, although the doing so has, sometimes, unfortunately caused dissension and jealousy among the Natives of the place, as only a privileged few could possibly attain such prizes. Within the last two years, I have, on 5 different occasions, sold one pound’s worth of Testaments to a single native at once; three of whom sent their money from Port Nicholson. I have, also, had applications from white men, traders on the coast with the Natives, for Books; and, on one occasion, spared one respectable trader 6 Testaments, for which he paid me 6 bushels of Maize, which I set down in my book as £1..4..0, the very maximum price in the market. I, also, enclose, a List of Books, &c., sold (as mentioned before from my share,) by me, during the 2 years ending June next; and which will all have been paid by me in a/c with our Secretary (with, perhaps, some future addition,) at the next Comee. meeting, at the close of the six months ending in June ensuing. I may here mention, that, in addition to monies (or vegetables, &c.,) received for new Books sold, I have, also, received a few trifling sums, or equivalents, from Natives for my repairing of their old Books; which amount, I scarce need say, I have, also, carried to a/c.|8. I have very recently received the Books and Watch; so kindly sent me. Bagster’s version of the Vulgate, however, is of no manner of use as a book of reference when disputing with the Romish priests. I much wish for one of their own editions of this work, together with a few other Books of which a List is enclosed.—And which, I trust, you will cause to be sent me as soon as possible by first vessel to the Bay of Islands, Auckland, or Sydney. Do not send any thing for me to Port Nicholson, or to any other port in New Zealand, for the present, than those two already mentioned. “Scott’s Continuation,” 3 vols., among the books sent, is made up, I find, of three different editions! The 1st. vol. of the 4th., the 2nd. vol. of the 3rd., and the 3rd. vol. of the 2nd. edition!!|9. I enclose a Copy of the List of Printing and Binding Materials and Stores, and Books, &c, &c., delivered by me into the charge of Mr. Telford on the 2nd. of January last; the original of which is in the possession of Rev. R. Burrows, who is now our Secretary.|10. I hope that the Indent of Medicines, Stores, and Books, forwarded in my last, has been attended to and shipped for New Zealand, ere this.|11. Should Mr. Tegg, Bookseller, (or any other person) send you a parcel of Books for me, I would thank you to pay him the amount of his Bill, which will be but small.—|12. I have lately had occasion to write to Mr. Johnstone, Hunter Sq., Edinburgh, and to enclose the 1st. and 2nd. of a Sett of Bills of Ex., for £30, drawn upon you by our Chairman and Secretary in Commee. at Waimate on Jany./43, and numbered 1; should such Bills be presented by him, or his order, please duly honour the same.|13. The Romanists (who have lately had an accession to the number fo their priests,) are active. They have published a Book of 55 pps., 8vo., containing sundry Prayers, a Litany to the Virgin Mary, directions how to cross, and how to use the Rosary, and a long rambling address to the Natives; in which address the Romanists state, that we and “all protestants, (who owe their origin to Henry VIII, Luther and Calvin,) will, without any reserve whatever, when we die infallibly go to hell, unless we conform to our Holy Mother the Church of Rome”! Last week, they had a grand day at Kororareka, consecrating and laying the foundation of their new Church. Were they opposed as they ought to have been, (or were they now manfully met,) I feel quite sure they would soon give up New Zealand as a soil in which Popish slips will never thrive.—I hope, however, (though alone in this warfare) soon to have another little book out against them. I have good reason to know that they hate me with unceasing hatred. I much wish some Christian friend at home, would send me the useful and authentic works of the Protestant Association.|And now, my dear Sirs, I must hasten to bring my long Letter to a conclusion. I sincerely hope, however I may have erred in any of my views herein expressed, that I have been led to lay them before you from no other source than that of a good intention. May the Giver of every good and perfect gift, continually enable us for all things! and, having stablished and strengthened us for all He may be pleased to require, finally bring us all to His heavenly kingdom of peace and rest, through the alone merits of Jesus Christ our Lord.|Believe me,|my dear Sirs,|Ever most sincerely yours,|William Colenso.||Paihia, Monday morning|May 22. 1843.|About to sen my Letter to the Post office; I add, by way of Post Script, that His Lordship the Bishop returned from the Thames on the 20th instant, landing at Wangarei, he travelled hither—having rain every day—by way of Ngunguru, Owae, Papapaaumu, Wangaruru & Waikare, so that the whole of that Coast has, also, been seen by His Lordship.|Since I closed my Letter, I have read our Anniversary Sermon (which has just come to hand) preached by the Rev. Hugh Stowell, and am delighted beyond expression. Blessed be God! for strengthening and enabling His Servant thus fearlessly to speak! I hope its arrival here will be productive of much good among some in New Zealand who have to minister in Holy things. And, as (I hope, in some degree at least) a tried servant of a few years’ standing and experience in the Missionary Field, I implore you, my dear Sirs, and you, Fathers in Christ, of the Parent Committee—in the Name of our Lord and for the sake of the souls of the poor dear New Zealanders—who, though professing Christianity and able to read the Word of God, are, therefore perhaps, the more easily imposed upon by any religious observance of “voluntary humility and will-worship,” having a specious outside—never to send any one to this field of labour, however exalted his attainments, however flaring his zeal, who is in any way tainted with those “anti-christian” principles. Let such come—and we are divided; let such come—and the Natives—our own Natives—are Romanists. May you ever give the fullest attention to what God’s Servant then spoke, especially to the words contained in pp. 18–21, and may the Holy Spirit ever more enable you for your arduous task. Amen, and Amen—— W. Colenso.||
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SourceFile: doc_0035.txt
Date (precise): 1843 July 15
Addressee: Mair
Place: Waimate
Letter Body: G. Mair, Esq.,| Wangarei.|Ki a te Mea,| Kei Wangarei e noho ana.|Waimate, July 15,/1843.|My dear friend,|I have scarcely time to write a line, and I know not if when written it may reach you, but I will notwithstanding make the experiment; a Native going to Owae affords me a kind of opportunity.|Yesterday the Bishop appointed me to visit Wangarei and the Coast in the middle and latter end of August, so I hope to see you on Saturday night the 26 of August; I shall go by way of the Coast and Ngunguru, thence to Tamatarau, and finish at Tauatawiti, returning by Wairua. I have but a few days allowed me, and must therefore make but a flying visit.|I wrote you a hurried line or two the other day: I dare say you have again visited the Bay since we left it as Milne has been in. The Columbine is not yet arrived, nor Mr. Busby; that is when I last heard.|I have no news to send you, here, in the midst of the Ngahere’s, I hear and see nought save trees and kaka’s:—Kei te moana anake nga pipi.|I hope you got well home, and that now yourself and family are quite well: remember us most kindly to all.|We are living in Mr. Preece’s old house; and though it has but 2 rooms, yet we have enough, and are pretty comfortable.|I sometimes think on you and other old friends: we are getting more and more separated from each other, but I hope, through God’s abounding mercy, we shall all meet together at last “to go no more out for ever”: that, my dear friend, will be a happy meeting,—we shall ever have done with sorrow, care, and the 1000 troubles and ills of life, and shall “be for ever with the Lord”.|Remember me kindly to Mr. Kier, who, I hope, is comfortable, and believe me| Very truly yours| W. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0036.txt
Date (precise): 1843 September 27
Addressee: Mair
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Paihia, Sept. 27|1843|My dear Sir,|Being about to sail, in the Columbine, for Turanga and the Mahia, and down below on that coast, I just drop you a line for old acquaintance sake. I heard you were at the Bay and could but regret that I was so far off as not to be able to render you the rites of hospitality. I hope you got back in safety to your dear family.|Of course you have heard of Mrs. Fairburn’s death: a happy release for her from a severe state of suffering of long continuance. I have not the least doubt on my own mind of her having entered into rest. May the Lord prepare and enable us to follow! Mrs. Colenso felt it much, at first, but, I am happy to say, she is now pretty well.|I am to be absent for 5 months––and to come back from beyond Hawke’s Bay all the way by land! I dare hope that the Lord will strengthen me for this work also. We sail in the Columbine, and we shall call at Auckland, Tauranga, Hick’s Bay, Tolaga Bay and Turanga: ka pai! I see Capt. Fitzroy is to be Governor: I hope he will not forget his old friends. I had a letter from Dr. Hooker of H.M.S. “Erebus”, the other day, in which he says, “You must remember me kindly to Mr. and Mrs. Mair, their kindness to a total stranger I can never forget; tell them also that Abernethy is quite well and desires his kind remembrances.” They were 137 days out of sight of land, and were brought up in 78°10` S., just where they were before. They lost one man in doubling Cape Horn, and wintered at the Falkland Islands.|Perhaps when I return—about the 18th. or 19th. of February, I may pass by your kainga. May the Lord ever bless you all, my dear friends—and believe me| Very truly yours| W. Colenso.|(written in great haste)|I heard from Mr. Puckey the other day he was quite well.|
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SourceFile: doc_0037.txt
Date (precise): 1843 October 2
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Waimate
Letter Body: St. John’s Col;lefe, Te Waimate,|October 2nd. 1843.|1. My last Letter to you was dated May 19, 1843; since which we have not received any Communication from the Society.|2. I intimated, in my last, that I expected “to go in a few days to the Waimate,” to study under the direction of the Bishop. We accordingly came hither on the 5th. of June, and (as you will have perceived) still remain. My time has been fully occupied in study; excepting about 3 weeks in August, when the Bishop kindly sent me to visit the Natives at Wangarei Bay and adjacent villages. On the 24th. ult., an ordination was held here—when Messrs. Spencer, H Butt, and W. Bolland, were ordained Deacons. The Bishop has been pleased to defer my being admitted to Deacon’s Orders until September next; which, as it keeps me from active usefulness, proves a severe trial to me. It grieves me much to have to eat the bread of idleness; and more to be obliged to sit still in these peculiar times.—I endeavor, however, to comfort myself, with the Psalmist’s words, XXVII. 14, &c. The Bishop leaves this week to visit his large Diocese, from which he will not return until March next. In consequence of which absence he has just given me a Letter of Instructions to proceed immediately (this day) to Turanga, and thence, under the Archdeacon’s directions, to Hawke’s Bay; whence I am to return over-land, by a kind of zig-zag route among thye villages of the interior, to the Waimate by the end of the Summer. The Bishop has, moreover, informed me, that, in all probability, Ahuriri in Hawke’s Bay will be the place to which I shall be ordained. I am, I trust, thankful for this journey being granted me, and for such a large and populous and distant District being prospectively allotted me as the Scene of my future labours. I can, but feel for my Natives at Wangarei and on the Coast between that place and Cape Brett, among whom also I have hitherto laboured alone, who have not only implored me not to leave them, but have been here to the Bishop, as well as sent him letters, beseeching him not to take me from them. The Bishop, knowing pretty much of the merits of the case, will, doubtless, be guided aright in the matter; for, were it left to me to choose, I could not, I confess, do so. Had these Natives been more in number, (being only about 5, or 600,) or more destitute of Scriptural knowledge, I should then be the better able to decide.|3. Nothing has been printed at your press since I last wrote, save a few chaps. in continuation of Deuteronomy and Joshua and the N.Z. Dictionary mentioned by me in my last. A short time ago, the Bishop informed me, that he had written to you respecting the Press; and, following out the idea faintly sketched in par.4. of my last communication, I think thye disposal of the whole Printing establishment to him, would be well-worthy of the attentive consideration of the Parent Commee.: mainly so, from the fact, that it will henceforward be done there which shall not have received his Lordship’s imprimatur; and that in the so disposing of the Printing Establishment, our Society will be relieved of a heavy and continual expense; and, also, that in my being entirely separated from the Press, there is no one (I speak in confidence) among them save the Archdeacon W. Williams, and the Rev. R. Maunsell, who is fully qualified—by a good knowledge of the Native Language, freedom from worldly cares, and an entire adaptation to the office of Superintendent—to undertake the arduous task of conducting same.—|4. The Bishop has a little Press of his own, in which (among other things,) he, every week, prints the heads of his Native Sermon on the ensuing Sunday; these he distributes with suitable instruction among his numerous Native Teachers, for them to deliver to their hearers, and hence, ensures a similarity of teaching, and, as far as man may, erects a safeguard against heretical or novel doctrines. An admirable plan fraught with incalculable good to the Natives! I have the pleasure, and honor, and benefit of translating and preparing these skeletons for Press. It would be well if each Clergyman in the Land was to procure a little Press and a few types, and thus follow the Bishop’s good example.—I have of late been endeavouring to use it on some, but, I fear, without success. I venture, however, to enclose a little order for a small Press and a few Types, to enable me to do so;—and which,. I dare to hope, the Committee will be pleased to grant me. Should, however, t6he state of the Society’s funds be such as not to permit of their doing so, (although the whole expense would not, I should think, be above £50. or £60.) I hope the Commee. will be pleased to make the outlay on my behalf, and to send me the whole order without delay, kindly allowing me to pay it by instalments of £20. pr. annum, until the whole be liquidated.—|5. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer sail this day with me for Tauranga, on their way to Rotorua and Taupo, at which latter place he has been stationed.|6. It pleased the Lord to take to himself the spirit of Mrs. Fairburn on the 2nd. ult. For a long period previous to her death she had been a great sufferer, but was continually enabled to draw water with joy from the well of Salvation. God graciously fulfilled all His promises unto her, and strengthened her to meet her last foe, whom she overcame through the blood of Jesus—(her only hope)—leaving a stedfast testimony behind her. Mrs. F. was a woman of no common mind, and had always been a working female Missionary; and when, at last, her heart so far failed her as to preclude her moving out of doors, her chiefest delight was to assemble as many Children as she could and to instruct them in reading and in Catechisms.—Being herself a Convert from the errors of Romanism, she eagerly embraced every opportunity of exposing that master-piece of iniquity, for which work her own personal knowledge availed her not a little. Latterly, evangelical truth was the only theme on which she delighted to dwell: her many and serious charges to me, on the faithful preaching of the same, I trust I shall never forget. In her the Natives have lost a Mother;—and in her departure the Missionaries—the elder ones especially who for a long period had been co-adjutors with her in the Missionary field, have had another admonition from on high, that this is not our ***. May we with the warning receive such a measure of Grace as shall enable us severally to heed it!|7. We are daily expecting to receive Communications from you, and from friends at home; not having heard for a long period from “our father’s land.”|Praying that every needful blessing may be graciously imparted unto you in these critical times, and craving our interest in your prayers, I am,|My dear Sirs,|Ever most sincerely and affectionately|Yours,|William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0038.txt
Date (precise): 1844 March 1
Addressee: Mair
Place: Deveron, Wangarei
Letter Body: Gilbert Mair, Esq., | Deveron, | Wangarei.|St. John’s College,|The Waimate.|March 1st., 1844.|My dear Sir,|I wrote you a scrap of a Note when near Waiomio on my way home—which you may not have received. I returned to the Waimate on the 15th. of February, having been absent 137 days. I had a very long round, and quite an adventurous one—had, also, the pleasure of seeing Mr. Kissling, Mr. Stack, Mr. Brown, Mr. Baker, Mr. W. Williams, Mr. Ashwell, and Mr. Buller—and they are all well. I must defer anything like an account of my trip until I see you, which I hope to do, sometime this winter. I suppose you will have heard of the stranger, who arrived before me—on the 1st. Feby. Mrs. C. was safely delivered of a daughter, and I am happy in being able to say they are both doing well. I found, also, your kind note of November 4th., for which I thank you much; I shall always be most happy to get any information respecting the Natives of Wangarei, (who are dearer to me than they have any idea of), and such information will always be doubly valuable when it happens to come from an old friend like yourself. I do not see any prospect of my being allowed to spend my days among those Natives,—should I not, I hope they will have a Pastor, who, knowing the green pastures and cooling waters belonging to the Chief Shepherd, will delight in leading his flock thither. Poor souls! I often think of them.|I am very sorry to find that a Collection was made for poor Gordon Brown during my absence; I did all I could to prevent it before I went away, and thought I had succeeded in putting a stop to it. I have had letters lately from Octavius and Charles, and shall write them in a day or two. Poor Gordon’s sun has set under a Cloud! I dare however, hope that our Heavenly Father—whose tender mercy is over all his works, and who never willingly grieves nor afflicts the children of men—has had mercy on his soul. We have good reason so to believe, for we know that HE hears and answers prayer—and many, very many, have been the earnest petitions on his behalf at a throne of Grace. Octavius says, (in his letter to me of the (some day) February 1843), “Remember me most kindly to Mr. Mair and family, from whom I have received many kindnesses.” I will show you his letter when I see you; it is a very nice one.|I have, also, had a letter from Dr. Fox, Hooker, (who was here in H.M.S.S. “Erebus”, in 1841), written from the Falkland Islands, in which he particularly requests to be remembered to his “kind friends, Mr. and Mrs. Mair”.|Really, when I look back upon past days, and think upon the many events which have from time to time come under my observation,—the many happy hours I have had,—and the many dear friends with whom I have had the pleasure of conversing—I ask myself the question—are such times for ever fled? Oh, Yes!—there is indeed a wonderful alteration come upon people, as well as upon times, and I fear not for the better either – – – – but this is, to me, a painful subject, so I will quit it. May we, my dear friend, seeing the vanity of earthly happiness, seek and gain that heavenly inheritance, which is incorruptible, undefiled, and fadeth not away!|Blessed be God! that is “reserved” in Heaven for all His people!!|Mr. Davis has this day heard from Serena, they are safely arrived at their station (Nelson), and like it pretty well: the country about appears to be barren. Mr. D. has, also, this day heard from Mr. Jos. Matthews—his good wife has just had a daughter!—One generation passeth away and another cometh.|Remember me very kindly to Mrs. Mair, Miss Mair, and all your family, as if named, taki tahi. I must write a line to Mr. Kier, and Stephen, and Manihera. Tautore has turned out, what I always suspected he would. Mr. Busby is very well—but low spirited. His cattle sale, the other day, was a very dead one. His largest fat bullocks only realized £10––cows, £5.10.—bulls and steers, £4 to £6, ewe lambs 4/- each and so on—about £100 pound’s worth only was sold. I hear that John Busby is quite sick of the Natives at Kaitaia—I told him how it would be, before he went,| Once more, my dear friend,| Believe me, very truly yours| W. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0039.txt
Date (precise): 1844 April
Addressee: Mair
Place: Deveron, Wangarei
Letter Body: Gilbert Mair, Esq.,| Deveron Wangarei.|Ki a te Mea| Kei Tauranga haku,| e noho ana.| (Beginning of letter missing)|... of tomorrow; make what provision Christian prudence dictates, for the future, and leave events with God. His are the gold and the silver and the fulness of the world, and he can give, through a 1000 ways, whensoever he pleases. As the psalmist says— “’Tis when they are diminished and brought low through oppression affliction and sorrow, that he setteth the poor on high after affliction, and maketh his families like a flock”;—as we see in the case of Job, who had more in the end, than he had in the beginning. God, too, has the hearts of all men in his hand, and he turneth them as He pleases—Look to Him, then, my dear friend—tell him all your griefs:—your debts, your losses, your incumbrances, your fears—make Him your friend, (like Hezekiah in his trouble, Isaiah XXXVII, particularly the 14 verse,)—tell Him all (and more) than you would tell me, and sure I am that our Heavenly Father, who waits, will graciously direct you; and by thus dealing with him, you make him the friend of your children—who will want a friend when you are gone.|I could say much more, but I will stop—only hoping that you will not be offended at my freedom and faithfulnes which, I trust, arises from my regard for your welfare,||Monday Morning, April 15th. (1844) |As Stephen and his party are about returning I must hasten to finish my Letter. I have little however of news to communicate. I have heard of Capt. L’s being up from Ngunguru, but I have not seen him. The Columbine has not yet arrived although we hear by the Thomas Lord that she is outside. Parata is coming over-land (so we hear)—and his new house is not burnt down as reported. Mr. Davis is gone to Kaitaia, and Mr. Puckey and Mr. Matthews are expected here daily. Stephen cannot make the Bishop alter his plan respecting me, although they have had a long korero. The Bishop told me last week, that he should send me down to visit Wangarei and neighbourhood in about 2 months—and that he himself should go there in about 4 months. When I know the time I will endeavour to let you know,—it will be somewhat grievous to me to have to go, as it will be the last! (this word sounds awfully dismal in my ears.) But we look forward to a meeting under happier circumstances, and where parting will be unknown. Blessed be God for this hope! May we use all diligence to make our calling and election sure! From a letter just received, I learn that Capt. Ross is preparing for another expedition to the North Pole by way of Spitzbergen. There is an English whaler now in the Bay, refitting for voyage home.—Such an event nowadays, reminds us of old times.|I am happy to say our little girl is pretty well—and growing fast—she is not yet baptized, as we wait for Mr. W. Williams and Mrs. Chapman as Godfather and Godmother––we intend calling her Frances Mary. My “missus” desires her kind love to Mrs. Mair—and I am sure I will not be behind.|And now my dear friend, good bye, and may God bless you!| Prays yours very sincerely| William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0040.txt
Date (precise): 1844 May 30
Addressee: Coates
Place: Waimate
Letter Body: Dandeson Coates, Esq.,|C.M. House,|Salisbury Square,|London.|St. John’s College, Waimate,|May 30, 1844.|My dear Sir,|This Letter will, I trust, be delivered to you by Mr. James Busby, late British Resident at this place, who is now about to leave for England viâ America. As Mr. Busby only arranged to sail by this vessel two days ago, and she is to sail from this place the day after tomorrow, I have only tme to write a few words. From Mr. Busby, however, you will be enabled to obtain a much more correct account of the present state of N. Zealand; the Mission, and the Natives, than from any person who has merely visited these shores, or resided for a short time in the Country.|My last Letter to the Secretaries, was dated October 2/43, at which time I was about to leave the Waimate on a visit to thye Natives in the Southward. From that visit I returned on the 15th. February to this place, and still remain. I hope to leave the Waimate at the end of the term—September next; but I do not know whether I shall of not. At this time several of the Mission are here:—1st., Archdeacon W. Williams, Rev. R. Maunsell, and Mr. Puckey, on the revision of the Testament, &c.,—(although the Archdeacon has not yet arrived to the Waimate but is near by.)—2nd. Messrs. Chapman, Hamlin, Jos. Matthews, and self, and Mr. C.P. Davies, (Mr. H. Williams’ son-in-law,) as students.—You may truly suppose, the Natives in the different districts are nothing bettered by their Missionaries being absent.|I hope, my dear Sir, that God will still graciously overrule all events for the good of His Church in N. Zealand and still bless the C.M.S. in their Missions. I dare think you particularly need His guidance just now. Mr Davies is at Kaitaia, and Mr. Dudley is removed to the **** and the Waimate District may be said to be without a Missionary:—other Districts, too, are loud in their complaining. Popery is active: one of the P. Priests was introduced the other day by the Bishop’s Chaplain into the Native Infant School in this place under Mrs. Colenso. I hoped to have sent you a copy of my Journal ere this, but the Bishop has it still in his possession; I dare say, however, I shall soon have it returned. The Press is now engaged in printing 500 Copies of the Sunday 1st. Lessons in 8vo., with which, however, I have nothing to do. Rev. H. Williams is about leaving to supply his Brother’s place at Turanga.—But, as I have already said, Mr Busby can give you much news respecting the Mission.|I hope, C.M.S., have been pleased to grant me the little Press, &c, which I wrote for. If I go to Ahuriri, I shall have an immense parish, (from some miles N. of Ahuriri to Palliser Bay!) containing a scattered people, to look after; and shall be almost cut off from the other Missionaries—being six day’s journey from Turanga, the nearest Station; or, if Wairoa be occupied by Mr. Hamlin, 4 long day’s-journey from that place. But, if I go, I hope to go in faith, and in the strength of the Lord, and to make mention of His righteousness, and of His only. I feel, at times, much cast down, at the many obstacles which still appear to lie in my way to active Missionary duty;—and, I often fear, that ere I go forth (if I ever do?) I shall in some respects be unfit for much exertion:—but I endeavour to “look up,” and at times am enabled to cast my care upon the Lord who careth for us. My longinmg ardent desire is still to serve the Lord Jesus Christ among the poor Natives of New Zealand, who now, more than ever, need loving, discerning, and zealous guides. Oh! pray for us—for me.|A party of Natives from Wangarei, with their Teacher at their head, was here the other day to “fetch me”; they endeavoured in two days’ striving to prevail upon the Bishop to consent to their request, but he told them he could not do so. We could not help weeping at parting. I am (I believe) to go to see them in about a month’s time; which, however, being mid-winter, is a bad season for travelling in.|As your Public Store is no longer in being, I shall soon be necessitated to send a large order to England for necessary stores for forming a new Station, if I am to go to Ahuriri.|In the last Lot of Goods which were kindly sent out from C.M.S. to me, the Contents of the Case No. 24, containing Maps, Umbrellas, and Binder’s skins, were entirely destroyed by salt-water, which eat even the tin-plate Case, in which they had been packed, full of holes; the value of the Contents, as per your Invoice, was £4.17.6. Should you be pleased to procure and send me any more Maps, &c., before my next order, please get me some additional Blank Maps, from the Society for the promotion of knowledge, which I can fill up for the Natives.—|I am happy in being able to add, that Mrs. Colenso’s health is good, and that she is usefully employed in the Native Infant School: my own health is rather fluctuating, owing, no doubt, to my situation: our little girl is exceeding well.—|And now, my dear Sir, I must conclude my short Letter. Wishing you every blessing, and, above all, the continual guidance and comfort of God’s Holy Spirit, and craving an interest in your prayers— I am,|Very affectionately and obediently|yours|William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0041.txt
Date (precise): 1844 July 16
Addressee: Mair
Place: Deveron, Wangarei
Letter Body: G. Mair, Esq., | Deverons,| Wangarei. |Waimate, July 16, 1844.|My dear friend,|Although I do not know of any direct opportunity by which I could send you a few lines, I write, and send to the Bay, in hopes of its reaching you: that you may know that I do bear you in mind, and often, too. For some time past I have hoped to get a Letter from you, just to know how you are enabled to bear up under the sad and dark cloud which at present hangs over you. “Dinna despair”, as your countrymen would say,—God’s hand is not shortened; His alone are the silver and the gold and the cattle upon a 1000 hills. He gives, and He takes away, and He gives again. Job’s end, was better, in every respect, than the beginning. Endeavour, daily to look to Him, who feeds the Ravens when they cry, and the young Lions when they lack and suffer hunger, and be assured that God’s promise shall never fail—they that trust in the Lord shall never want anything that is good. Oh! My dear friend, not only daily make known unto God your situation, but, live upon your faith—dare to exercise it—believe that God will help, though you know not how. This is the glorious triumph of faith, who lives and flourishes and rejoices, where every thing of sense dies. Take God at his word, and leave events to Him. If you do so, I feel assured that all will be well. He knows your state, and waits to be gracious. Think not that this is confined to spiritual matters—it is not so, but for “all things”. Again, by thus living on your faith in God, you will be daily blessed with cheerfulness in the midst of thickening trials, and nightly strengthened with refreshng sleep, which, otherwise will not be your portion. I write the more, just now, because I know somewhat of Satan’s devices, having been sadly mauled by him myself. He strives now, to keep you from fully believing in God’s promises, that you may not rest in God—but, do as David did, who in his troubles said, “Thou hast been a shelter for me,” and so comforted himself by reviewing God’s past mercies. You can do the same—do so.|I had hoped to have seen you ere this, but I know not when the Bishop will send me to Wangarei. I suppose we shall not leave before November; I hope to be permitted to see you first. Mr. Brown is here from Tauranga, and Mrs. Brown is coming; their son Marsh is still very ill: 11 weeks he has been confined to his bed. You have, I dare say heard of Mr. Busby’s things being taken, the Bank allowed Mrs. B. her clothes and ₤50 worth of furniture; the rest has been sold and the Stores and Cattle are about to be sold. There was a row at Kororareka last week about Gray’s widow—Heke, went down with a large mob, took her away, cut down the flagstaff to light the hangis with—stole all the pork in the Butcher’s shops, etc., and returned. Soldiers are sent for to Sydney; what the end will be, I don’t know. It is a comfort to know, that while the heathen may rage—the Lord God omnipotent reigneth! Rewa and Warerahi have put up another Flagstaff; and Tamati Pukututu gave old Marupo a good thrashing, at Paihia, for joining the party. We are to have a meeting here tomorrow, may it result in good.|Mrs. Colenso is pretty well, and so is our little girl. We hope that Mrs. Mair is well, and. all your family, to whom we wish to be most kindly remembered. Cheer up, my dear friend, cheer up, put your trust in God; Comfort your wife and little ones—and Look above.| And believe me| Yours very sincerely,| W. Colenso.|If you have no means of sending the note to Mr. Kier, please send it on to Tipene.|P.S. I think the Gum speculation will yet prove a good one. I hear (privately) that it is fetching 4½d. per lb. in Sydney. |
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SourceFile: doc_0042.txt
Date (precise): 1844 November 19
Addressee: Coates
Place: Paihia
Letter Body: Dandeson Coates, Esq.,|Secy. C.M.S.|Paihia, Bay of Islands, Novr. 19, 1844.|My dear Sir,|1. My last Letter to you was dated May 30/44, per Mr. James Busby, since which I have received yours to me of Decr. 4/43, authorizing me to draw upon you for the sum of £50, on a/c of the late Mr. G.D. Browne—this I have subsequently done, having drawn two Setts of Bills of Exchange, (one, No. 12, for £30, to order of T. Addeman, and one, No. 13, for £20, to my order,) at 35 days Sight and dated August 9/44 upon you for the said Sum of £50. I should have written to you immediately on drawing those Bills, but as I had reason to believe they would not be presented at Salisbury Square for some time, and as there would soon be an opportunity direct for England (by which vessel I now send this letter), I delayed the doing so.|2. The Bishop was pleased to admit me—together with Mess. Hamlin, Chapman, Jos. Matthews, & C.P. Davies,—to Deacon’s Orders, in the Church at the Waimate, on the 22nd. of September last. It was a solemn time—one to be ever remembered by us all. The Service was in the Native Language, and the Church was crowded to excess. I trust that God will ever supply all our need through Christ Jesus for the work to which we have been called; and that your prayer and wish for me, as expressed, my dear Sir, in your last Letter,— “determine to know nothing among the New Zealanders save Jesus Christ and Him Crucified,”) will be graciously answered. During the term previous to our Ordination, we each had a series of essays to write, (on “the Creation and Fall of Man, Redemption, Justification, Regeneration and Adoption, Renewal and Sanctification, The Sacraments, The Church, and the Duties of the Christian Ministry,”) and which I thought might prove a great obstacle, if not an insurmountable one—to my being admitted to Orders. However, fearing and preparing for the worst, looking up for strength and direction, and leaving the event to God, I wrote on each subject—and that without concealing or altering the doctrines I had already embraced and preached,—and was much and most unexpectedly gratified to find that all of my essays received the imprimatur of the Bishop; with scarcely any correction or remark,—none whatever in doctrine,—to God alone be all praise, who in this, as in many other instances, was greater than my fears! Having by God’s help surmounted this difficulty, another presented itself—in the shape of a circular Letter from the Bishop, sent to each of us for our consideration and consent (vide, enclosure, No.1.). This Letter (unfortunately for my peace of mind at such a period) was sent to us in the fortnight preceding the day of Ordination, and, after having considered it, we were each to have a private conference with the Bishop upon the subject of the same, to which honor we were selected according to our standing in the service of the Societyl consequently I stood in my lot as the 4th. person though I knew that those who preceded me had consented to the Letter in toto; and knew, also, from conversation with the Archdeacons that they approved of it, I could not bring my mind to do it, and so I told the Bishop, with whom I was closeted, on this occasion for more than 5 hours, Archd. Williams being present.—I particularly objected to par. 1, alleging I could not subscribe to it without the Consent of the Society, adducing what the Society certainly states, in “Appendix II to the 39th. report,” p.xi, (in an extract from a Letter of the Bishop of Calcutta,) and, also, in “No.V. Appendix to the 43rd. report,” p. 138,— “the Committee unquestionably and avowedly possess—the appointment of spheres of labour, the temporal power, including pecuniary support.” And, in answer to plain questions put by the Bishop, further told him, that I could but consider myself always bound to obey the Society. On this the Bishop plainly told me, unless I would subscribe to the Letter he would not ordain me; when, seeing I had no one to hold with, and, that I had been already a long time shut up from active service, that if I ventured to refer the question to the Society my very doing so (not to mention other matters of which I had no reason to be careful) would perhaps have always powerfully operated against me, and that Archd. W. Williams expressed opinion before the Bishop, that he saw no just reason whatever for my refusing to subscribe to subscribe to that Letter—I assented to sign it. I confess, not with the full consent of my Conscience. There is one thing, it is true, which cheered me—a ray of light in the midst of gloom—the declaration of the Bishop, that in signing I only bound myself for the seven years mentioned in the Letter, after which time I was free from what I then bound myself to. And, I also considered, that you had not made any remark in your two last Public Letters, concerning me, although I had more than intimated—both in my Letter of May 19/43 as well as that of October 2/43—the great probability of my being sent to the Southward, and which Letters you had acknowledged the receipt of. If, however, I have done wrong, I am sorry for it: I hope I have not: I am sure I have not willingly: and I am equally sure that I will do all that man can do towards reparation: but let me hear from you, my dear Sir, on this head. My head and mind is somewhat confused, for I have been sadly knocked about of late,—but God is good, and “all things,” I know, (blessed be His Name!) shall ultimately be for my good.—|3. The day after my Ordination, Mrs Colenso and myself proceeded to pack up our few things and to leave the Waimate, which, in company with Messrs. Hamlin and Chapman and Mrs. Chapman, we did on the 26th., and arrived at the Bay of Islands, by way of Kerikeri and Tepuna, on the 28th. On the 5th. October they all left the Bay for Auckland; and on the 10th. of the same month, I commenced my leave-taking journey to the Natives residing on the Coast and the shores of Wangarei Bay, and returned on the 28th. to Paihia. During my journey I baptized 9 infants and 1 adult—a sick and dying Chief at Wangarei. Since my return to the Bay I have been employed in packing up and making arrangements for leaving for Ahuriri in Hawke’s Bay, to which place I have been stationed by the Bishop. I am now awaiting the arrival of a vessel from Auckland, which will at the same time take Mr. Hamlin and family to the Wairoa in Hawke’s Bay, where he has, also, been stationed by the Bishop.|4. In a small Box, which goes by this vessel, the “Bolina,” Capt. Daldy, you will find—a Copy of the Journal of my journey to the Southern parts of this Island during the summer of 1843–4, together with a map of a portion of my route:—a copy of an Address, written and presented by the Clergy whose names are annexed to the Bishop at the Waimate:—a Copy of the Bishop’s Circular Letter to us, referred to in par. 2 of this Letter:—3 Auckland Newspapers which contain 3 Letters published by one of the Wesleyan Missionaries in N. Zealand, and which made no small sensation among the Colonists generally.—A parcel for Sir W.J. Hooker, containing a few dried Specimens of Plants.—A small parcel for Mr. Octavius Browne, containing accounts and papers relating to his deceased brother Mr. G.D. Browne.—And a small parcel from Mrs. Williams for Mrs. Heathcote.|5. Since the date of my last, the Natives have been in a very disturbed state, especially in this district. You will, doubtless, have heard of John Heke (one of the principal Chiefs of Kaikohe near the Waimate,) having gone with a large party of Natives of that village and neighbourhood to Kororareka in this Bay, in June last, and cut down the British Flag, chopping up and using the staff for firewood, and breaking windows, plundering the houses and shops, and ill-treating some of the Whites. On the Governor’s hearing of this outrage, a ship was immediately chartered to Sydney for troops, whose arrival the Natives expected with the utmost nonchalance—often declaring what they would do by them and all White residents the moment hostilities should be begun. The Troops arrived at the Bay, together with the Governor and Mr. Clarke, and every endeavor was made use of to get Heke to see the Governor, but he would not leave his village Kaikohe. A Meeting was finally held at the Waimate, when a few muskets were demanded by the Governor, as an acknowledgement of having done wrong, which were immediately brought forward and laid at his feet by some well-disposed Chiefs, when the Governor immediately returned them. All things passed off very well;—but it required little knowledge of the Native Character to discern much of dissatisfaction in the speeches of the Native Chiefs made at this and other meetings. They compared the present and prospective state of things with the past,—praised several of their old Missionaries and Mr. Busby,—and spoke ill of the new Missionaries, the Bishop, and the Government, whom they always class together. They, also, spoke much against the continual moving of their Missionaries from them to other parts of the Island,—of the alteration of the Liturgy, praying for the Queen, Queen Dowager, Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales, & others instead of the Native Chiefs, and of many other things, both Ecclesiastical and Civil; which shew, at least, their great powers of discernment. The Governor returned without seeing of Heke; who, a few days after, rode through the Waimate, with about 150 followers, to attend a Native feast held at a pa close by. On his return the day after, he stopped at the Waimate and wrote two Letters to the Governor, which were of such a nature that the Bishop would not receive them, nor allow any one of the Mission to write one for him. At our request Heke remained until Archd. W. Williams arrived from Paihia, when he was induced to write Letters of a better description. Shortly after the Governor’s return, and towards the end of September last, a young woman, the sister of a Chief at the Kawakawa named George King, got wounded in an affray by a policemen, on which a suitable payment was demanded by the Chjiefs from Lieut. Beckham the Police Magistrate, however, not being fully aware of the merits of the Case, and misled by the representations of his Interpreter, (Henry Kemp, son of Mr. Kemp,) refused to give any payment for the offence done, on which George King, with another Chief named Broughton and their united band of followers, immediately made an inroad on Capt. Wright, an old & respectable Settler residing in the Bay, and took from him by violence 8 horses! Archd. H. Williams used all his influence to get the horses back, but only got grossly insulted and laughed at. During thye month of October various means were used; Mr. Clarke came up again from Auckland, and, at length, six horses were restored to Capt. Wright, on the Natives being paid by Lieut. Beckham, 1 Horse, 1 Cask Tobacco, and 1 part of a Cask of ditto. Mr. Clarke had scarcely, however, returned again to Auckland, when George King with all his party visited Kororareka, plundered the shops, and the Jail of Soldier’s stores; whilst another party visited Mr. Hingston, a respectable Settler in another part of the Bay, & took away 3 horses. Mr. Busby’s horses have, also, been attempted, and Archd. H. Williams’ large farming establishment at Pakaraka has been more than once threatened with a visit. Several of the Natives now declare, they are tired of the English, and wish to have either the Americans or French, or both, to be their friends; while from many of their speeches it is too plain, that both Republican Americans and French Papists, have had their share in the late commotions.—A consequence of this very unsettled state of things—the independent spirit of the Natives—and the Governor’s present, powerless situation, (together with, perhaps, a wish to abstain, if possible, from all collision with the Native Tribes,) the Governor has stated this part of the Island to be, pro tem, without protection, and the Government Officers (it is said) are to be removed forthwith. Hence several Settlers have left, and more are now leaving: to which, perhaps, I should add, the Bishop’s removal with the Students, Scholars, & Mechanics from the Waimate has not a little contributed. Those Natives, George King, Broughton and their followers, have quite thrown aside their profession of Christianity,—(it has been said, have destroyed their Books,)—and are now talking of making war of the Christian Natives in the neighbourhood of Wangarei, to seek payment for some of their relatives slain by them in battle many years ago. While, on the other hand, the more quiet and well-disposed Natives of this neighbourhood are so disturbed as to be bent upon emigrating (!) to Sunday, or to Curtis’s Island, in S. lat. 30 ͦ., or to some other uninhabited Islet of these seas; from which we with difficulty dissuade them.|6. Of the many alterations and appointments you will, perhaps, have heard before this can reach you. Rev. A. Burrows has been removed from Korareka to Waimate, and Rev. W.C. Dudley is at Kororareka, pro tem, until the Bishop ordains a Deacon for that place, which, I believe, he intends doing on Trinity Sunday next,—some young man, a Settler residing near Auckland, is the person,—when Mr. Dudley will proceed to Orere in the Thames. Rev. J. Hamlin I have already spoken of as going to Hawke’s Bay. Mr. Kemp was removed to the Waimate, (to which arrangement, I believe, he at first acceded, but afterwards declined it,) to Superintend the Schools at that place; this is now to be done by Mr. Edward Williams, Archd. H. Williams’ son. Rev. R. Davis will soon be at Kaikohe; and Rev. J. Matthews is spoken of as being about to be sent to Matamata or Opotiki, perhaps to the latter place. The Natives in connexion with us, are, from various causes, very generally dissatisfied, and what will become of my old Congregations in the villages on the Coast and about Wangarei I do not know; my heart feels for them, while I endeavor to remember them before the Lord. Look on whichever side you may just now, there is little indeed, that is cheering. I dare not commit all my thoughts to paper, but (although I may not now be believed) I may yet be allowed to say, it will be well, if ere long many of the Natives do not turn to their old customs of Heathenism, or become Papists or Infidels. Ten years experience in the Mission field has taught me, that nothing short of the plain and practical preaching of the truth as it is in Jesus, in all its simplicity and pureness, will be blessed by God, either in bringing sinners to a saving knowledge of Jesus, or in keeping them humbly in the way.—The rage for proselytising, and the undue exaltation of the Sacramental elements, will, I fear, be eventually found to be the openings through which no small amount of evil will have been inflicted upon the New Zealanders. Perthaps a few years may fully display to the C.M. Society the truth of several remarks, which, from time to time, I have ventured to make in my Letters to you. I know, my dear Sir, that such a prospect as I have here scarcely outlined, is, by several among us, denied. Flattering hopes are cherished; high-coloured pictures are drawn; and Peace, peace, is cried, when there is (to me) no prospect of “Peace”. All I can now say, is,—Happy, thrice happy shall I be, to be found a false prophet: but to me the signs of the times are clear enough; coming events too often, alas! cast their shadows before.|7. Before I conclude this Letter, I would, my dear Sir, venture to speak on a subject which has been long thought upon by me; and to which I am the more emboldened from a belief that you will at least give me credit for having the welfare of the New Zealanders at heart. With all due deference then, and yet in my plain way would I say,—Let it be the Society’s particular aimto fill up and strengthen her Mission here with evangelical preachers from England. I will not, I dare not, make any comparisons, which are at all times invidious, but we know, alas! too well, what is meant in England by being “educated for the Ministry”;—where the Holy office is selected and entered upon in much the same spirit as the professions of Law, Medicine, or Arms. Further, I would venture to say, my dear Sir, Hesitate about receiving sons, or sons-in-law, or relatives, or friends of Missionaries to the Heathen. If such must be put into the Priest’s Office in New Zealand, there are other Societies than the C.M.S., and other situations than those of Missionaries. A clever moral man, or a good classic, may (?) fill the situation of a Chaplain, who is utterly unfit for that of a Missionary to the Heathen;—such must be converted men; such must know something more powerful than Baptismal Regeneration. It was remarked to me a short while ago, by a Gentleman who had resided for some time in N. Zealand, and who is a keen observer of men and manners,— “Should the C.M.S. ever relinquish the purse-strings they would cut off one of their wings;”—to which just remark I would add,—should the C.M.S. be ever induced to concede the selection of their men, they would as certainly cut off the other. For it is possible that you may be necessitated, for Peace-sake, to concede the selection of Stations, but never give up the selection of men to fill them. And, still keeping from comparison, I would further venture to say,—that converted men of the lower or middle classes will, in general, make more useful and more acceptable Missionaries than men from the higher ranks. They are better fitted to go among men of low estate, and are better able to put up with many things, which, too often, astonish and shock the finer feelings of persons educated in a higher rank of life. For there are many plain blunt and naked things, of all kinds—in words and works—which yet are not sins, among a people emerging from the gross immoralities of Heathenism—which must not only be patiently borne with, but had sometimes better not be seen.|8. A fortnight ago I received the 4th. edition of the Vulgate, which you so kindly sent me—and for which, my dear Sir, I am greatly obliged: I hope (D.V.) to make a good use of it hereafter. It is just the copy which I wished, containing, as it does, all Jerome’s prefaces. As Archd. W. Williams has returned to Turanga, (which he did while I was absent at Wangarei,) I cannot now send you an authorized Indent for a large Bell and Communion Service for Ahuriri, and small Bells for the many villages, and Slates, &c., for the several Schools—but I hope to do so ere long; meanwhile we must be content to use our clanging hoe, or “bent musket-barrel”!|9. I shall be obliged in your paying (£4.) Four Pounds to the Secretary of the B. & F. Bible Society for me, for Bibles and Testaments sold on account of the Society: I have written a Letter to him explanatory, which I enclose.|10. I have been obliged (in winding up Mr. G.D. Browne’s affairs) to draw a Bill upon you for (£25.) Twentyfive Pounds: Mr. Octavius Browne had authorized me to draw upon him for £50. additional, if I required it; finding, however, that (in consequence of the conduct of Major Browne’s agent in Sydney, who refused to honour our Bills,) a Bill drawn on Mr. O. Browne would not now be cashed, and being about to leave this neighbourhood, I was necessitated to do as I have done, and have not the least doubt but that Mr. B. will retire the Bill immediately. Should, however, anything arise to hinder his doing so, please to retire the same and charge it to my account. This Sett of Bills is, also, drawn in Duplicate, “No. 14, 35 days sight, to my order, and dated, Paihia, Novr. 25/44.”—|11. In one of your last Letters you speak of the Society’s wish to form a Corresponding Committee here—at Auckland. Such an Association, would, I think, be very desirable, and be of great benefit to all, if it be composed of pious Laymen. Such a Commee. would, in my opinion, be a very great blessing.||December 2, 1844.|12. I am still here awaiting the vessel’s being ready,—(or rather waiting for Mr. Hamlin to be ready, who had until the 15th. to do so,)—and went yesterday (Sunday, Decr.1,) as usual to the Kawakawa to hold Service. When near the village, I found the unhappy George King in the enclosure in front of his house; I went in and talked with him, and got him to go to Chapel with me; after Service I conversed with him for a long while, and I was, on the whole, pleased with his conversation. He said, his heart was very sad for his deeds; and that he feared God would not receive him again. I gave him, I trust, suitable advice, and recommended him to follow the examples of Peter and Zaccheus. I have now some hope that this poor wanderer will be restrained from going further in the broad way of open and notorious wickedness.|13. I have, from time to time, heard of several Books (some published by the Protestant Assocn., and some others, such as, “Ancient Xy.”, “The Bp. of Ossory’s charge”, &c.,m &c.,) having arrived here, being sent, perhaps, by the C.M.S. for the use of their Missionaries in N.Z. I have, however, never been able to obtain one, and have only been able to borrow, for a short time, one of the Bp. of Ossory’s charges. I mention this now, that you may know the tue state of the case, and that, should you send any more of such works to N.Z., and wish me to obtain any of them, (as I think I have been in the vanguard against the Papists, and am, moreover, a subscriber to the Prot. Assn.,) you will please to cause the same to be directed to me at Ahuriri.|And now, my dear Sir, I must conclude my long and prosy epistle. I trust I shall not have offended you with anything herein written. And, praying that the Lord may be pleased evermore to guide us all—always, I am|My dear Sir,|with every respect,| ever most faithfully yours|W. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0043.txt
Date (precise): 1845 March 27
Addressee: Gell
Place: Wellington
Letter Body: Rev. J.P. Gell|&c &c &c|Wellington,|Mar. 27, 1845.|My dear Sir,|Being on a journey among the Natives in this vicinity, and having just called here at this rising town, and finding the Brig “Victoria” on her way to Hobart, I just drop a line (in the greatest possible haste) to ask the favour of any subsequent nos. of the Tasmanian Journal which may have been published––to be sent on by this opportunity. Rev. R. Cole of this place will kindly take charge of any Letters or parcels for me. I have been stationed by our Bishop on the E. Coast (of which I think I informed you in my last) and am therefore far away from the scene of blood & devastation, of which you will hear by this vessel. Capt. Richards will kindly take charge of any parcel for me.|With every respect|I am|My dear Sir|Ever most truly|Yours |W. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0044.txt
Date (precise): 1845 November 18
Addressee: Eraihia
Place: Te Kopi
Letter Body: Copy|Mr. — — — — — — —81|(Called by the Natives of|Te Kopi, “Eraihia”,)|residing at Te Ẁatakahawai.|At Te Kopi, Novr. 18, 1845.|Sir,|I have been informed by several Natives of this village and neighbourhood (which information has since been confirmed by many respectable persons at Wellington), that the Europeans residing in the Wairarapa Valley, yourself, and (in particular) the men employed by you among the number, have been speaking of me in a most unwarrantable manner; imputing many things to my charge of which I am utterly ignorant. At the wish, therefore, of some of my friends at Wellington I write you this (you being the European resident nearest to this place,) to request you, your men, and the other Europeans residing at Wairarapa, to substantiate those charges which from time to time you have been pleased to make against me. I intend (by Divine permission) to pass through the Valley of Wairarapa towards the end of February next, when I shall make it a matter of duty to call upon every European resident in the valley, for the purpose of enquiring into this matter.This I should now do (as I fully intended on my leaving this place for Wellington,) but I have to proceed without loss of time to my Station at Hawke’s Bay, to prepare for the arrival of the Bishop, who will be there in a short time.|The Bishop intends being here on or about the 14th. December next, when, if you, or any other European residing at Wairarapa have any charge to prefer against me, you will have ample opportunity of so doing.|I am, Sir,|Your obedient Servant|William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0045.txt
Date (precise): 1845 November 19
Addressee: Selwyn
Place: Te Kopi
Letter Body: Copy.|The Right Rev.|Bishop of New Zealand.|Te Kopi, Nov. 19, 1845.|My Lord,|On reaching this village a fortnight ago, I received from the Christian Natives a long account of certain charges preferred against me, and of bad language spoken of me, by several whites residing in the valley of Wairarapa: of this, however, I should not have taken any notice—being pretty well used to such treatment—had not the Revd. Messrs. Hadfield and Cole also informed me that certain evil reports had reached them; and, when dining at Mr. St. Hill’s with Major Richmond, His Honor the Superintendent told me, he had been applied to upon the subject, and had written to me a Letter— “as a friend”—to inform me of it. The charges, as far as I can make them out, appear to be, to the effect, that I had recommended the Natives to rise against the Whites, and to drive them from Wairarapa; that I had said, “They were all evil persons—taurakareka’s (slaves)—&c., &c.—ad infin.—|On my return, yesterday, with Archdeacon Williams to this place—our intention was to have gone to see some of those Europeans, but—our being already behind time—they at some distance from us in a contrary direction, and we tired with a long journey before us—and your Lordship’s speedy coming into our respective Districts for the purpose of holding Confirmations—make us desirous of proceeding onwards to our Stations without loss of time.|I have, however, my Lord, written a Letter to the nearest resident Europeans, a Copy of which I enclose.|It is scarcely needful for me to add, that I am utterly ignorant of those things so laid to my charge, and that all the Natives of the valley with whom I have conversed appear to be equally ignorant as to the person or persons with whom such accounts could possibly have originated.—|I am,|my Lord,|Your most obedient Servt.,|William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0046.txt
Date (precise): 1845 December 31
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi Heretaiunga|Decr. 31, 1845.|During the last six months I have been engaged as follows. On the Lord’s day in holding divine Service twice occasionally thrice—i.e. 2 N.Z. and 1 E. Service whenever any Europeans are at hand and a Catechism in schools &c. And on weeks days in attending to the morning adult male school instructing and nominating of Native Candidates for Baptism, Communion and Confirmation, holding Bible classes, visiting sick, Dispensing medicine, settling Disputes, &c &c &c and on Thursday evenings lecturing and also attending to mant secular duties of the Station. On the 24th. July I was necessu=itated to leave the Station in order to carry Mrs. Colenso and child to Turanga; we reached Turanga in safety on the 6th. August and I returned to my Station on the 21st of the same month. On the 12th. Sept. I left the Station on a visit to the villages in the neighbourhood of the Rotoatara and Waituma Districts and returned on 25th. of same month.|On the 18th. October I left the Station to visit the Natives throughout the District by line of Coast and on to Wellington, and returned in company with the Archdeacon of the District on the 4th. Decr.|Mrs. Colenso prior to her leaving for Turanga attended to the daily Female and Infact School. This last half year has been a time of unusual trial both mental and physical.|The natives of the neighbourhood have behaved themselves in a very rough manner but I venture to hope that they are becoming more tractable.|Signed — William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0047.txt
Date (precise): 1846 January 20
Addressee: Owen
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi, Hawke’s Bay, E. Coast N. Zealand,|January 20, 1846.|Prof. Owen|&c &c &c|Dear Sir|Your kind Letter of enquiry of Octr. 23, 1843 only reached me 4 days ago! It came in a case of Books per “Nelson,” which vessel arrived at Wellington on the 27th. Decr. last, so that it may have slumbered somewhere on your side of the water.––I lose no time however in acknowledging the receipt of it; and in thanking you for the copy of the “Proceedings of the Zoological Society,” for Jany./43, which you have honoured me with.|Long ere this you will, doubtless, have seen a few remarks on the Moa (Dinornis) in a monograph of mine which I drew up for the “Tasm. Philos. Journal,” and which was subsequently published in No. vii of that work. Since which I have sent you (on 2 or more occasions, through Sir W.J. Hooker, such Bones as I had by me––even all I had as I hoped to get more in this locality. I regret to have to state, that I have not at present any further information to offer you relative to the Dinornis, nor have I succeeded in obtaining any more Bones, though I have little doubt but that I shall in time be able to obtain a good supply, which, if I do, I shall not fail to remember you at first opportunity. I have (as I suppose you have already noticed) treated, as most chimerical, the idea of the Dinornis being now alive, and further than that too I have gone; and I have not met with any thing subsequent to cause me to alter from my recorded opinion.––|It is rather unfortunate that your Letter should have come so late to hand, as, when I resided at the N. parts of the Island, it was no very difficult matter to obtain an Apterix. I have had several:––their bodies, I regret to add, I uniformly cast away. On one occasion a Native brought me 7 at one time! I just mention this, that you may be solaced in this belief, that the Apterix is not so near becoming extinct as you (from casual visitors, and half-enquirers in N. Zealand,) have been led to believe. The immense and increasing number, however, of wild Cats, Rats, & Dogs, with which the wooded region of N.Z. abounds, are daily carrying on the war of extermination with this Bird and its Congenors. This Apterix was to be universally found throughout N. Zealand, and is stll (though reduced in number) to be obtained pretty generally throughout the Island. Not so, however, the Huia (Neomorpha), which,––being at best a strictly local Bird, confined to a few spots only, easily snared, and a tempting article of barter among the Natives––promises again to follow the Dodo, as one of the things which were.––|The memoir on the Dinornis (which you speak of as being engaged in preparing, and of which you kindly promised to send me a copy,) I have not received. Perhaps any future communication you may honor me with, you could make through the Ch. Missionary House; or, by any vessel direct to Wellington, to the care of the Rev. R. Cole, M.A., of that place.|This is merely a line written in haste in answer to your Letter: I hope, ere long, to send you some Bones.––By the bye I have a portion of the Jaws of an Amphibious animal (? Phoca leptorix, Blair,) for you, which was killed here a short time ago by the Natives––I shall have to send a case of plants to our esteemed friend, Sir W.J. Hooker in a little while, when I will send these Bones.––| And am,| Sir,| Yours very faithfully| William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0048.txt
Date (precise): 1846 January 20
Addressee: Gell
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: (Duplicate)|Waitangi, Hawke’s Bay,|January 20, 1846.|Rev. J.P. Gell,| &c &c|C.M. Hobart.|My dear Sir|Believing that, ere this, you will have seen some late numbers of Sir W.J. Hooker’s “Icones Plantarum,” and of Dr. Joseph Hooker’s “Antarctic Botany” in which my name is mentioned as having published a description of cuta in filices novæs in the Tasmanian Journal, and which publication is in those works referred to as a kind of authority for such plants––I venture to write you, hoping that you will not deem it an annoyance in my requesting you to procure me copies of the numbers of that work containing the Descriptions above referred to, as well as my rambling Journey into the Interior, supposing the same to have been published: or, if that work has been discontinued (which I almost conclude to have been the case) to send me back those Mss., with a note from yourself as editor at the period when those papers were written and sent to Hobart, stating the time when they were received and the reason why they were not published. I am the more constrained to exert myself in this matter, because, some other Botanists have subsequently described those Ferns, &c., whose synonyms Sir W.J. Hooker has kindly set aside, referring to my prior publication: it is, therefore, incumbent upon me to make some enquiry in the matter, and not knowing the gentleman on whom the Editorial department may have devolved after you, I am necessitated, as it were, to make this application.—|I think I wrote you a short note in March last from Wellington, which perhaps never reached you.––|Having been so much in correspondence with Hobart in connexion with our Journal, several of the Members residing here––Major Richmond, Dr. Sinclair, Revds. Taylor and Maunsell, & others––look to me for some information concerning the same, which I am not able to give. I mention this, my dear Sir, as a further apology (if needed) for my intruding upon you again in this matter.––|Here, in a new Station in this all but unknown part of N. Zealand––I have too much to do to attend to Botanical researches: yet I have in my lonely wanderings among the Natives––or rather in searching after them––detected several new and curious (if not lovely) additions to the Botany of N.Z., which I hope in time will find their way to England.|I know I know little of what is going on at Auckland, or the N. parts of the Islands: my last information was dated September. We are sometimes 6 months without hearing from those quarters, and without seeing a white face!––happily the horrors of war have not yet caused any Commotion in this neighbourhood.|As I much wish for this note to reach you without loss of time, and as I have to send many days overland by Natives ere it can be posted at any of the towns, I have, in order to guard against any casualty, written to you in duplicate: the original I sent via Auckland, this I shall send via Wellington.85|Please when you write, direct to the care of Rev. R. Cole, M.A. Parsonage, Wellington.|Believe me|My dear Sir|Very faithfully yours|W. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0049.txt
Date (precise): 1846 June 18
Addressee: Dandeson Coates
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Mission Station, Waitangi near Cape|Kidnapper, Hawke’s Bay, June 18/46.|My dear Sir,|1. Time has, indeed, rapidly flown since I last wrote you! Very often have I purposed to write, but, want of time and quietness, and of opportunity of sending from this desolate region, have combined to prevent me. I enclose a portion of my Journal, which will serve, in some degree, to shew how it has been with me since I came here. I hope to send the remainder of my Journal (up to the present) as soon as I can find time to copy it. I cannot write to you quite so confidentially as I should wish; because, I must either send my Letters by WEellington (where I almost believe a Letter from me to you would be, at least, opened), or through the Missionaries residing on the Coast, who generally send their Letters (en masse) to the Bishop’s College, or to Archd. H. Williams.—Your kind note of May 31/45, I, at last (after several months of interval), received, and then, I may say, by chance!|2. I have heard, that your Comee. had negative to receiving of youngt men here upon the foundation of the Society. This step, if you can persevere in it, and, at the same time, fill up the ranks, as they become vacant, from England, with men of your own selecting, will be, I believe, one of the very best the Comee. could have adopted for the Religious welfare of the Natives. In a little while, however, you will have to guard (upon the same grounds) against Native candidates for the Ministry; because, what you at home would, in the very first place require, would not, I fear, be so needed here.|3. I have, also, heard fo your Comee’s. determination to adhere to their original Resolution respecting Salaries;—a Rule, which, (while it shews in the strongest light the kind paternal feeling of the Comee. towards their Servants, and encourages us anew to trust the Comee. in the fullest manner,) may yet, I think, be advantageously modified, so as not only to meet the majority of Cases, but to please (as far as may be) most parties. Now there are two classes of persons who may (I think) be fairly exempted from that Rule: the one, those who have acquired a good amount of present-available property in New Zealand, whether in Money, Cattle, Crops, or Land; the other, those who have been, or may be, ordained or received in N.Z. since the arrival of the Bishop. By adopting the first, you would do much to stop the mouths of an angry public now every where opposed to us (and not, it may be, altogether without a reason) and, what is more, do justice to those few among your Servants who, while they have ever conscientiously kept themselves from “buying and selling and getting gain,” see, that some who have done so (and who, perhaps, do the least work) get almost double-wages. While, by adopting the second, you will please the Bishop (who, in this matter, is, I think, right) & save a few hundreds a year—and do no injustice to those persons who may fall under it—from their not being sent out byn you, nor received upon any such understanding. Besides, (I speak with especial reference to those who have been received here,) why should such persons ave a larger Salary than those of the Propagation Society, who are in similar situations? and, it may be, ordained at the same time? Such tends (among other things) to cause and perpetuate a feeling of jealousy between them. I f***, my dear Sir, those who have been received here, ought, in strict justice, to have a much less salary than any other, from the fact that it was the settlement (at all times desirable, and doubly so in a strange land) that naturally followed the marrying of a Missionary’s daughter which was the main thing sought after, (as some have, witness enough, confessed). The Bishop mentioned to me, in a particular manner (and I have no doubt he has done so to your Comee.) the case of Mr. C.P. Davies,—a person who, humanly speaking, will never do much Missionary duty—who would never have been passed by Dr Whiting—and who was, spite of all the influence raised in his favor—kept back for 12 months by the Bishop, solely on account of his physical inability. Now Mr. D. has (at present) the same salary as myself, with less expenditure, less exposure, and very many more priviledges, and (according to present arrangements) should his family increase his salary would also! Among the persons who may be considered to fall pre-eminently under the first class, are, Archd. H. Williams and Mr. C. Baker. Of the Archd. I need say nothing to shew, (for common fame has already said too much,) that for many years he must have been a steady gainer to a large amount; and even in the late troubles, I think this equally clear, that whoever has been a loser he has not.—Of Mr. Baker, I would just note, that he has very valuable Land in Kororareka, which did not originally cost him £10., and of which (while he lived in the Bay) he sold, to my knowledge, for the amount of upwards of £1100; and now, that Kororareka is about to be rebuilt and repeopled, the value of his land there, (not to mention his valuable farms at Waikare and Kaipara) will be almost incalculable. Yet, while I am barely advocating the equity of the principle which I have here laid down, two things should not altogether be lost sight of—the first, the saving to the funds of the Society; the second, the saving of many of their servants from that insatiable lust of wealth, which, in a most peculiar and dreadful yet stealthy manner, grows with its growth,—enervates the whole man,—and eats out the very vitals of Religion.|4. In a little while (as soon as I can find time to condense and make out the accounts) I shall have to appeal to your Comee. against the decisions of this local Comee., respecting their allowance for this Station and District (of which I have not only already given them notice, but, also, of my intention to do so through their hands). You, perhaps, will scarcely credit me, when I say, that the only sum which this Comee. has been pleased to allow for my forming a new Station in this wild place (and that without any collateral aids from the C.M.S. Store as formerly, and which they enjoyed,) is £70!! Since which, they have refused to allow for Medicines; for Pencils &c. for Schools and Teachers; for Travelling Expenses; and the heavy Discount which I (alone) have to pay at Wellington, upon their Bills drawn upon you. A reason which they assigned for mot paying for Medicines and Travelling Expenses is, “there being no available fund”; when, on enquiry, I found, they had (following out your Resolution to the letter) paid themselves up all their arrears of past Salary, and thus settling Private before Public matters! But, anon. Had I that support I need, I could now do much among these Natives in the way of Schools, &c: all my own little overplus means (I may tell you) I freely use.|5. I have mentioned Schools: I have introduced a simple plan among my Natives, (which I, also, worked upon at Paihia in 1836, 7, 8,) namely, to make out a Scxhool Book for every village, in which is inserted the names of all the professing Xn. Natives, these are marked daily by the Teacher according to the attendance or non-attendance of the people, and, hitherto, they have succeeded admirably,—no one being desirous of having a bad mark put against his name. Two days ago, I closed for the time my Teacher’s School (another new thing of mine). I collected together nearly all the Native Teachers and Monitors of the District, 20 in number, (some having travelled about 200 miles to come hither,) and held School with them 8 hours daily during a fortnight. By this means I have advanced a step towards unity of Teaching and Doctrine. It would astonish you, my dear Sir, (it astonishes some of the old Missionaries when I have mentioned it to them, but the worst ism, they wont believe it,) were I to relate the many and different erroneous opinions which the Natives hold. There is scarcely a heresy of ancient days which is not both held and taught by some one or other of the Baptized Natives. Yet, I am thankful to know, unconscious of its being wrong, and willing to cast it away on being taught the Truth. But, what is unconsciously received and inculcated by them now, will, by-and-bye, be pertinaciously defended, and then the evil which is now by some scarcely admitted to exist, will show itself rampant. Every year I trust (D.V.) to have a similar School;—but, here, too, I need support. It is a heavy expense for me to feed 30 or 40 Natives for some time, and then to give them each somewhat on departing—which I think they fairly deserve. The Comee. here will, I know, oppose it: because, some of them may not see the utility of it; others may (say, they) have no time to do the same; others again may not have the requisite ability, from ignorance of the past times of the Church, or ignorance of the Native language; while others may object to it from want of inclination—no great need to teach Natives such high things—or, (such perversion I have heard)— “God knoweth them that are his, and will take care of his own”! Iam satis!—|6. And now that I have touched upon the subject of Schools, allow me, my dear Sir, to request you to procure me the following donation:—2 or 3 ream of writing paper; 1 ream of ruled paper, 5 lines to the inch, for teacher’s books; ½ ream imperial Brown; 5 quires of blotting; 3 or 4 gross of hard lead pencils; 1000 quills; a little Indn. Rubber in small pieces; ½ gross of strong pen-knives; a Sett of Maps on a large Scale, comprising, The World (Mercator’s Projn.), Europe, Asia, Africa, America & Polynesia, & Palestine; a Sett of ditto ditto, outlined without names to be filles up here; 1000 Slates; Slate Pencils; writing Ink, &c, &c. If you can possibly procure me these articles you will ineed confer a favour upon us all. Now if I am not allowed & encouraged to feed the Native mind, and to lead it on a little in its thirst after novelty, (although I believe in no case will it ever make any great advance,) I shall do not a little towards keeping the Turbulent Native Tribes about me in peace. But this must not be fettered down by rigid rules, & Inspection, & overseering, for the Native mind will not at present bear it. The way to lead this rising generation on, is, to take them somewhat in their own erratic way; regular Schools must be left for those who come after, who will have finer materials to work upon. For, notwithstanding all the beautiful theories which are afloat, I, feel bold to say,—we must be content to use the Coarse Seive; that is, if we really wish to benefit the mass of the people. Hence, in my opinion, the Bishop’s Schools for Natives, wherever established, will ultimately fail; because they are not suited to the wants and habits of the people; they attend for a time it is true—indeed, considering all things, they hold out wonderfully—but, I see, plainly enough, that it is to him an infliction.—Hence the reaction. They return to their Native liberty with much the same feelings as a bird has which escapes from a cage, or a white mouse from the revolving-box of an Italian boy. I have often asked the question, could our Schools of the present day have succeeded in the times of Boadicea, or Egbert? I have (from my arriving in N. Zealand) always encouraged Letter-writing among the Natives—often sitting up late to answer their numerous Letters—some of my brethren, I know, have smiled at the thing, but, I have reason to believe, that a Letter is likely to do more good—to cause more thought—than a ½ doz. Sermons;—such being read to all, and by all who can read, over and over again. I have now by me more that a 1000 Letters from N.Zr’s., some of which (from my older Correspondents) exhibit the working of the Native mind.—Shortly after I came here I received a Letter from the Teacher of Wairarapa, containing a long list of different texts which he wished to know the meaning of; pressed, as I then was for time, I answered his Letter, which, though I condensed as much as I could, took about 12 pages; to my great astonishment I found, on visiting those parts, that several Copies of my answer had been made by the Natives.|7. And if, my dear Sir, you could also send me (I ca not afford to purchase just now), a good Copy of the Septuagint; ditto of Josephus (Eng.); and a Greek Concordance to the N. Test., Glasgow Ed.,—you would still add to the obligation.—|8. The Press, &c., has just come safely to hand; but, judge of my disappointment when I found that Watts (as once before) had sent me b’s and v’s for h’s and n’s!—so that, for utility, the Press might just as well be at Cape Horn, as here at Cape Kidnapper! I am now obliged to write out many prayers, &c., for the Natives—which is very onerous. It has been said,— “Why write out prayers at all? why bind to a dead form? why cramp the spitit? (!) They know how to pray.” This latter, I, however, in general deny. Oh! I have heard of horrid things said unwittingly by them in prayer, aye, by their Teacvhers too. Many, I doubt not, of the Natives of this District have received Baptism with just as much thought about it, as Cattle have which are driven up to be branded! Start not, my dear Sir,—time will shew:— “Tell it, however, not in Gath, lest the uncircumcised triumph.” Here, I may remark,—The Natives, for many years, have been in the habit of holding Prayer-Meetings on 2 evenings in the week—viz. Wednesdays & Saturdays. For some time past (2 or 3 years) there has been a negative attempt (so to speak) on the part of several to put them down: why, you must guess. Some time ago, I was not a little amused (rather grieved), to hear one of our Archdns. say,— “One reason I have for being against them, is, everyone prays, and the prayers which are offered are such poor things,”—and this, after 10 years (at least) experience!!—(how soon an excuse is found). I, however, venture to uphold them, but, in this way:—I select from among the Baptized Natives 4 or 6 persons only for that office, who stand for 6 months, when I select again; and, moreover, compose Prayers for them to offer.|9. During the period of my residence here, I have, in visiting the Natives, been thrice to Wellington—by way of the sinuous & rocky coast, a mostr desolate and heart-dispiriting route of 240 miles!—and have mourned again and again over the sad spirit exhibited by many of the Settlers (especially the N.Z. Company’s folk) towards the Natives. A truly Nero-like spirit, which, if fostered, must inevitably end in either the destruction of the Native, of the disappearing of the N.Z. Race. My Journal, by-and-bye, will shew a little of what I have been called to endure from my own Countrymen. When last at Wellington, in March in the very midst of their troubles—I found not only the whole locality placed under “Martial Law,” but, nearly one-half of this District! Extending, by Proclamation, to “Castle Point”—over a Country where I had been peaceably employed during the preceding fortnight in Teaching, Baptizing and Marrying, without ever dreaming of such a thing!—and where the Natives (even on to Parangarahu, a village only 2 miles from the S.E. head of P. Nicholson,) were quietly attending to the ingathering of their Wheat and other Crops;—80 bush. of wheat I found threshed out of Parangahau alone, and, even there, all hands quietly at work. On arriving at Wellington I found, that 2 Natives had been apprehended on the serious charges of burglary, &c., and placed in close custody on board of the War Steamer. I heard of their intention to destroy themselves, through fear, and I sent them word not to do so. In a few days they were examined, (or, rather, the whites who came forward against them,) when six white men swore in the most positive manner to the identity of their persons—of course, they were Committed for trial; and, the Supreme Court only closing the week before, these 2 Natives would necessarily have to wait nearly six months, immured in a gaol during the whole winter, before they could be tried. Two days after, on returning to Pitoone, (a village at the mouth of the Heretaunga R., and about 6 miles from the Town,) I found the whole Ngatiawa Tribe loud in their expressions against (what they called) the injustice of the Pakeha. I enquired of the Xn. Teachers—there are 2 good ones here, & some very nice Natives—I found, that the barest alibi that can possibly be conceived could be most easily proved upon the united and clear statement of no less than 15, or more, unexceptionable Native Witnesses. The reasons why they did not come forward to clear their friends, were,—1st. Fear, Martial Law; no body of Natives being allowed to enter the Town—2nd. Not being called upon by the (so-called) Protector—3rd. “The alibi” (as the old Chief said) “being so very clear, as not to need 2 words before Natives, much less before Whites, who boast of their superior discernment of Justice.” My time, however, was expired I considered; I wrote and sent the whole case to Rev. O. Hadfield and Mr. St. Hill (the P. Magistrate who had committed them,)—venturing to recommend their speedy trial, inasmuch as they were apprehended during the time of Martial Law,—and now Mr. Hadfield shall relate the sequel—in a Letter I received from him only 6 days ago:— “On receiving your Letter from Pitoone, I spoke to the Governor about the 2 Natives, and he, after making some enquiries, issued a special Commission for their trial, and appointed a Counsel to defend them. William was acquitted, but Kumete” (unbaptized) “was found guilty, and sentenced to 10 years transportation. I was fully convinced that he was innocent; and consequently having acquired some new facts, I wrote to the Govern. upon the subject: he came to me and said, that if anything could be brought before him in an official way, which was not adduced at the trial, he would take cognizance of it. Mr. St. Hill worked hard in pulling together some very strong evidence, and then both he and I each wrote a strong official Letter to the Governor. The facts, &c., were laid vefore the Judge, and, upon his recommendation, Kumete was discharged.”—|10. There are several Settlers located here and there in the extensive bvalley of Wairarapa (Palliser Bay), these have mostly taken leases of land from the Natives, at a trifling yearly rent, varying from £8. to 12£. Now this plan, when fairly managed, is one of the very best that can be devised. For, it is equitable—by it the Native has something to look forward to—and, as a necessary consequence, protects his Tenant. But here, as in every place where it can be done, the simple Native has been over reached, for these Settlers have taken pieces of good level land varying from 4 to (I believe) 10 miles, or more, in extent, and that, upon leases extending from 30 to 60 years! at the paltry annual sum of £10—which leases (of course!) include “all below” the surface—and which Ten Pounds has (perhaps) to be divided among from 10 to 40 persons. One Settler told me, that during some weeks of the first year of his residence in the valley, he had mafe 150lbs. of butter a week, for all which (& more too) there was always a ready Sale at a good price at Wellington.—Beef, Mutton, and Cheese, moreover, find a ready sale at a good price at W.,—8d, 10d, per lb. for the 2 former, and 1/- to 1/2d for the latter. Now the Natives, in some places, are beginning to see that they have been again duped; hence they become discontented, and eventuially refuse to stand to their agreements. Upon which they are not only abused, but their Religion, and (above all) the Missionary, who is sure to come in for his share. Again, the respectable Settlers at Wairarapa not only told me, that they were living in peace with the Natives, and never wished the plan of leasing Land from them to be interfered with, but, also, that they dreaded its getting into the hands of the N.Z. L. Company, who (bu their Agents) had already tried again & again, to purchase the whole valley from the Natives, over their respective leases. How easy it would be, for the Governt. to allow and encourage such Leases; and, by laying a tax upon them, curtail their size, raise a revenue, and protect the Native! I was very sorry, indeed, to see, while at Wellington, a proclamation issued, waiving the Crown’s right of pre-emption over all Lands which might be purchased by the N.Z. Land Company, and in “their favour alone, without any regard to any other class or party of persons whatever”! The Newspaper which is published at Wellington, (by a Mr. Stokes, who was, I believe, a Surveyor under the Compy.,) should never be depended upon for any thing mor especially any thing in connexion with the Natives & Governt.—I merely mention this, that you may not, at any time, be led astray through any misrepresentations.——|11. A sterling strong-minded Missionary, not over-sensitive, is much wanted for Wairarapa and Wellington. Those Natives who reside there are very much exposed, and I, at this end, with 2 ͦ of lat. between us, can do but little for them. The sooner you could place one there the better—even in a political point of view—for now they have no Matua (Father, Director, one to whom they can look for advice,) and, in too many cases, every man does what is right in his own eyes. I think your Comee. ought not to allow of a Missionary being placed at any old Station where there is another Missionary, merely because that person is an Archdn. To me, such appears to be utterly at variance with the very foundation of a Mission to the Heathen. If the Bp. chooses to place one of his young men under an Archdn., so much the better, in such a case the young man will, doubtless, be a gainer;—but, I think, your Missionaries should be dispensed abroad according to the present wants of the Natives. I just touch upon this, because I have heard, that in Case of your sending out any Missionary (which, it is expected, you will shortly do,) one is to be placed at Turanga with Archdn. W.W. Wairarapa and Wellington I would more especially recommend to your particular consideration.|12. The Natives, in several places, are in a very unsettled state; which is no more than might be expected. More particularly (just now) the Ngatirangaratahi, Ngatiraukawa, and Ngatimaniapoto Tribes, from Porirua, Otaki, and other places up the Western Coast, and near to Wellington. They have murdered ** whites in the Heretaunga valley, and surprised the Military & killed 8, without a single Native being wounded! This has made them presumptuous; and now, the whites, rising in arms against them, and fearing their strength, have got these Ngatiawa (a nice Christian Tribe) to join them; which will, I fear, ultimately prove to have been a bad step, and one which may involve the whole S. in war.—For Rauparaha would, I believe, remain quiet, had the Ngatiawa (his old enemies) not risen and become co-operators with the Pakeha. The Troops are again sent for; and what the event will be, no one knows. But, in order that you may have a better understanding of the matter, I should tell you, that when in March last, the Natives were ordered off the grounds on which they were dwelling in the valley of Heretaunga by the Governor, they would not leave until the Military were ordered to advance; the Settlers then rashly interfered—(I enter not into the prior matter, of the Settlers having been long kept out of their purchased allotments by, and of the great annoyances they had been continually receiving from, the Natives, which may be, in the main, correct,)—and, seeing that the Natives (about 60 in number) had left their villages, tore up some of their crops, (then ripe,) speared and seized their pigs, and burnt up their houses, canoes, & Chapel. This is the great sore.—Had the Military done it, the Case would have been different. Yet, not a word of this is to be found in the Newspapers of the day!—I had my information not merely from several Xn. Natives who lived close by, but from a highly respectable Settler residing in the valley, who also told me how sorry he was that they had so precipitately acted. Hence arose the plundering of the out-settlers on the Sunday following—hence the murders which have since taken place—and, hence, this more than prospect of intensive War. Further; on the Governor’s message being conveyed to the Natives residing in the valley, to leave quietly, a small party under Taringakuri readily obeyed and came directly to Wellington; yet, Tarangakuri’s Canoes and Houses shared the same fate.—On which the Chief said, “I thought the word of a Governor was sacred, but now I see that he too is nothing in the eyes of his own people”! And, when the Governr. went round in the War Steamer to Porirua, (taking the Military with him,) in order to see the Chiefs, (Rauparaha and Rangihaeata, and to establish a peace, some of the whites of Wellington (I should hope of only the canaille,) told the Natives, with many significant gestures and signs, “Ah! soon will Rauparaha & Rangihaeata be hung up by the neck for the massacre (!) at Wairau!”—what was the consequence? why, long before the steamer got to an anchor, Native expresses on horseback had arrived at Porirua from Wellington, bringing the news (the atrocious falsities) which they had heard.—Of course the Governor’s visit was worse that useless; all his endeavours to see the Chiefs were only mocked at. The foregoing statement—as far as concerns the information given to the Natives—I had from Dr. Fitzgerald (a warm-hearted friend to the Natives though a Romanist) while the Governor was absent at Porirua, who had been told it again & again by the Natives; and the result proved its correctness.—|13. I understand that the present Protectorate staff are about to be abolished, one only Protector to be retained. Mr Clarke has resigned the office, deeming the Salary too small. The Sub-protectors are, I believe, of little worth. Nor will any person paid by the Government ever do for that office. A Protector should be appointed by some Philanthropic Society in England; he should be a man of strong mind and body, devoted to the Native’s Cause, utterly careless of making a fortune for himself, and, if possible, a sincere Xn. I place this last, believing the other requirements in his situation to be most needed.|14. I can but think, that this yearly meeting of the Syndicate at Auckland—there to remain during the whole winter—ought not to take place in these unsettled times. True, a revision of the Scriptures and Prayer Book is needed, but he Natives are not now in that state to be left long without their guides. I believe that Archd. Williams will take the whole of his family with him when he goes—which will be I suppose in a few days.|15. The Bishop was here in January, and remained 8 days, examining Natives for Confirmation. At this Station his Lordship confirmed 130, and, in the District, 244. He only confirmed 44 at Te Kopi, where there are nearly 15o Baptized Adults! the most of whom were Baptized by Mr. Cole without (it is said) any examination on his part!!—Several of them have apostasized. Last month, the Archdeacon came here from his Station, and administered the Lord’s Supper to 130 Commts. But those Baptized Natives who are scattered here and there in the various vgillages throughout this immense Parish, can only partake of the Communion once a year at most, (i.e. when the Archdeacon, according to the Bishop’s wish, goes his annual round,) and then (in consequence of his time being so valuable as not to allow of his making any stay) without preparation; and, in some places, on week-days, which the Natives very much dislike.—Now all this tends, among this people, to lower in their eyes the resident Missionary, which is just the very opposite of what should be done. Again, with regard to the Baptism of Adults,—a Conon has been set forth, committing this to the especial charge of the Archdeacon, which Canon is, ]moreover, not to be interpreted according to (what I call) its literal meaning, but according to a something which is only known to those who are in possession of it. When the Bp. was here, we freely conversed together; I seized the opportunity and cleared my own conscience; pointing out many things which I had seen at Waimate and elsewhere, and had heard talked of among the Natives. He took all I said, very well, thanking me for it. On Whitsunday last, I Baptized 26 adults here, with whom I had taken much extra labour; which alone has given the old Baptized Natives of this neighbourhood better views of their ordinance than they ever had before. Since I came into this District I have Baptized 106 adults and 95 children; with every one of the former I had much searching examination, and felt satisfied that they had, at least, a good head knowledge of the way of Salvation; I have also married 35 Couple. On my coming here I found there were 5 half finished chapels throughout the District; there are now eleven finished, & 7 in course of erecting. In almost every village I have a daily adult-school, which is well attended. And, I have, at present, about 2*** candidates for Baptism. I have plenty of Enemies, (vide, Journal,) and have been ill, but I am again pretty strong, and hope to work a little longer for the glory of God in pointing poor sinners to Christ. The Natives of the Manawatu District wish very much to belong to this parish; they are at present said to be under Mr. Govett—though they say, and seem to belong to “Noman’sland.”—I have been obliged, at last, to lay the matter before the Bishop. They have much to say in favor of such being permitted, and, I think, rightly too; they have seen the Archdn. upon the subject, and I think the Bp. will consent to it. This will add a little more to my work. There are a fgew (about *** or so) Papists in Wairarapa, to whom, shortly after my arrival, I addressed a Letter. They shewed it to their Priest (who happened to be there just after my Letter had reached them), who said I was *** and took possession of it. Subsequently, when the Bp. was at Wellington, the Priest sent I to him, with his own observations upon it. The Bp., when here, told me, he found no fault with my Letter, but that he did not approve of the printed Scriptures (which he had enclosed) being headed “mot e pikopo,”—(i.e. for the Papist,) I enclose a copy. It passed off, however, very well, and I have since (spite of the Priest’s efforts) gained one of his proselytes,—and hope, yet, to gain them all.|16. I dout not but you will find several little blunders in my Journal—for I have not had time to read it over since copying. Shoul such be the case, be lenient towards them. If, my dear Sir, you can find time to write me, do so by post, to the care of Rev. R. Cole, Wellington, (who is a warm friend, and always on the qui vive,)—but do not use any seal by which you may be known: as, I believe, I am on every side a marked person.|17. I have heard a report of Mr. Busby’s safe and prosperous return to the Bay of Islands; which, I hope, is correct.—We rarely get any News here until it is very old. This place is quite out of the way; low, damp, cold, and unhealthy, surrounded with morasses, and having Snow upon the mountains and hills during several months of the year. The Bishop said, he thought it was the most disagreeably situated Miss. Station of all in N. Zealand! In fact, there is nothing whatever to recommend it. No water—no wood—no good harbor—no shelter from stormy winds, not having a hill or tree or bush near us—no female domestics to be had from among the Natives—and, worse than all, no good well-disposed Natives. All my stores, cases from England, &c., have always come to hand more or less wet and rotten; and my loss (on Flour, Clothes, and Books,) has been great. Mrs. Colenso has given birth to another Child, whom I have named, Ridley Latimer, for, living as I do in these truckling times, in which, some soon change their opinion, or lay it aside on the shelf,—and others, who hold the truth, are afraid to speak out,—I have concluded, not only to shew my Colours (as I have always done), but to let it be seen that they are nailed to the mast.—|We are all pretty well—but not very well. There is too much to be done, and too many “stirs” continually about us, for any one but a stone to enjoy good health. Our hope, however, is in
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Date (precise): 1846 December 31
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand,|Decr. 31st. 1846.|My dear Sirs,|1. It is not without some amount of diffidence that I venture to trouble you with the accompanying memorandum of an account between myself and the C.M. Society; the more so, too, because I have (I believe) hitherto invariably chose (for peace sake) rather to put up with several pecuniary losses than to refer them to the Parent Commee. I feel, however, honestly emboldened to lay this memorandum before you—from a conscientious belief that the whole will bear close investigation—from having applied again and again to the E.D. Comee. to settle the same, but in vain—from having patiently waited nearly 2 years in hopes of having it settled—and, also, from my peculiarly expensive situation in this isolated Station.—|2. Having openly sent you through the E.D. Comee. the Duplicate of the original enclosed, I will not (I think) make any further remark thereupon, unless such should be hereafter alled for: only, that when I found the E.D. Comee. would not sanction the outlay which I had made, I desired them to point out and set aside whatever they might consider objectionable; this, however, they also declined to do.—|3. I may, notwithstanding, add, that my leaving my old Station to form a new one, was a very different thing from that of Mr. Baker’s, or Rev. J. Hamlin’s, or Archd. Williams’ doing so; or (in fact) any other person’s, because, first, they had at their old stations a large quantity of Tools, &c, &c, and useful Stores of all kinds (which from year to year had been granted from the Society’s Kerikeri Stores), and which they brought with them, whereas, I, living at Paihia, and in a very different situation, had none of such necessary articles by me, nor yet (when my time came to leave) the advantage of a Public Store to draw from. And, had I not (in some measure) foreseen what would be required and so get them in time from England, as well as been kindly favored by Rev. W.C. Dudley and other friends, the actual outlay would have been much greater than it is.—And, in reference to the reiterated remark, of “£70. being all that was thought proper to be allowed by a Comee. which was held at the Waimate in 1844,”—I would merely observe, That that Comee., formed of persons who knew nothing whatever of the place nor people, and assembled together in the Bishop’s house (I do not say resolving & concluding under his direction), ought not so positively to have limited the amount of outlay; especially, too, when the total cost of the formation of each (of the lowest of their own Stations is duly considered: which Stations of theirs were also (for the most part) formed, when both materials and labour were cheaper and more easily obtained.—|4. I have mentioned, my dear Sirs,— “my peculiarly expensive situation in this isolated Station”: this I will briefly explain.—| 1. There is no Firewood upon the spot, nor near at hand. While then many of my more fortunate brethren have an abundance of this necessary article cost free (in the woods of the C.M.S. upon their grounds), I, in perhaps the coldest Mission Station in N.Z., (where, in winter, the milk freezes in the pantry and the water in the bed room) have to buy it and that at a very dear rate. During this past winter, notwithstanding the utmost economy (often sitting cold) I have paid several pounds for Firewood alone—and the year preceding much more; independent of what drift wood has been collected by my own lads.| 2. There is no Water at hand fit for drinking or washing, of Clothes,—this we have to fetch in Casks from a considerable distance, at the rate of 1/- pr. Cask.| 3. From vessels not calling here but very seldom, we are obliged to have a larger quantity (from 6 to 12 months stock) of articles of daily consumption—such as, Flour, Sugar, Rice, oatmeal, &c.,—hence the loss occasioned by long-keeping, as well as by Rats, &c., is great. In Flour alone I have lost 1400 lbs. during the 2 past years—this, however, may not happen again to such an extent.| 4. Another head of loss arises from Goods being wetted by Salt water in landing, and this is much greater than at first sight may appear. Our harbour is 8, 9 miles distant, small and seldom entered, vessels choosing to land, or taher drop, their goods into boats or canoes off Cape Kidnapper. By this means our better articles of clothing, especially black, has (in common with groceries, &c) suffered severely; and some valuable Books (particularly a new Encyclopedia Brittann.) from England, all but ruined.| 5. Again a further Loss is sustained, from my goods often having to be left any where upon the Coast (in consequence of foul winds); a short time since a case of Goods which I had purchased at Wellington, were opened at a Whaling Station where they had been landed and seven Blankets, &c, abstracted therefrom. Owing to the length of time which necessarily intervenes before a Letter can be sent to, and an answer received from Wellington, it was some time before I could ascertain what Goods had been actually forwarded. It is but justice to mention, that the Master of the Whaling Station knew nothing whatever of what had been done by one of his men.| 6. Another Item of Loss is occasioned by my being obliged to take up my Salary in Bills on yourselves, instead of Cash; for I have to pay, firstly, a heavy Discount at Wellington to get the Bank Paper (!) for those Bills; and, secondly, a premium to get the Bank Paper converted into Cash—Paper being of no use here among the Natives. Asll to which, the certain expense and no little risk attending upon the transmission.| 7. Other memoranda of Losses may be easily gathered—from my not keeping Tobacco to pay the Natives for provisions and labour supplied (as is almost every where done to their injury);—from my heavy and constant Travelling; from having no fund nor allowance to meet the expenses attendant upon the supplying the very many sick of this large District with Flour, Sugar, tea, &c,—from the Native Chiefs immediatelky about me being all Heathen, so that whenever any of the Teachers or Christian Natives from a distance come to see me (as is constantly the case) to get advice,. or medicine, or for instruction, I am obliged to supply them with food, &c; (The other day, to the Chiefs, Teachers, & friends (Xn. Natives) who came from a great distance bringing Timber with much labour down the shallow rivers for the Churchyard Fence, &c,—I gave 2 Barrels Flour and a Lot of Sugar, for they were totally without Food,—Potatoes not being yet ripe.)—from having to pay agent’s Commission upon every thing purchased at Wellington;—from my being the only European here and living moreover in the way of whites travelling to and from Wellington,—and thus subject to many unlooked-for demands upon one’s hospitality, &c. &c.—|Had I chose to have done so, I could, I think, have advantageously referred the matter to the Bishop; but I was, and am against doing so, from principle.|I have been obliged to write a great deal more than I either intended or wished, or than I have time to afford for such a subject; yet I have aimed to be as concise as possible, even to the keeping back of several things which might have been alleged in my favor.|I am,|my dear Sirs,|Very sincerely and obediently yours| William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0051.txt
Date (precise): 1846 December 31
Addressee: Gunn
Place: Clifton
Letter Body: C.M. Station, Hawke’s Bay,|N. Zealand, Decr. 31, 1846.|Ronald Gunn, Esq.,|&c &c &c.|My Dear Sir|Although an entire stranger to your person yet not to your name, nor to that Science in which you have done so much for your adopted land––I venture to write you a few lines respecting the Nos. of the “Tasmanian Journal,” and of some little printing which (I believe) Mr Wade got done for me in Tasmania.––To which I am the more emboldened from the kind manner in which you make mention of my name in your note to Rev. J.P. Gell, of June 4/46.––|The last No. of the “T. Journal” which I have received, is no. vii vol. 2,––any subsequent nos. I shall therefore most gladly receive. I wished to have duplicates & triplicates of those nos. which might contain any papers of mine. I cannot account for Mr. Wade’s not informing me.––|If the Tasmanian Society still continues to publsih their Journal, I may yet be able to add a Contribution, having one or two things upon the stocks.|If there are any specimens among the N.Z. Flora (of this district) which you would like to have, I would endeavour to secure them for you. We might, in fact, exchange “to mutual advantage” as they say. The Ferns of your Country would be to me a desiderata, and, as I suppose you have a good garden and I have a place fenced in intended for one, I will even venture to ask another favor,––in the shape of Bulbs of any plants––or roots, anemones, ranunculuses, &c––or seeds––in short, anything that may be safely packed up with the books.|Forgive me, my dear Mr. Gunn, if I have unwittingly exceeded.––Command me in any way in my power, and | believe me, with much respect, yours very sincerely|William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0052.txt
Date (precise): 1847 January 20
Addressee: Venn
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi, Hawke’s Bay,|New Zealand, Jany. 20. 1847.|Rev. J. Venn,|&c &c &c|London.|My dear Sir|I have only very recently received the afflicting tidings of the death of our very dear and faithful friend Mr. Coates. It came upon me most unexpectedly—and occasioned great searchings of heart—I thought much and prayed earnestly that God would raise up a suitable person and direct the Parent Comee. to such an one to fill that important post—rendered doubly so in these critical times. And now I have been refreshed and gladdened indeed, in hearing that you have accepted that situation. Oh! my dear Sir, may God Almight bless you continually for your having so acted, and make you a blessing in every way to your numerous missions. I can not tell you the thoughts—I dare not give vent to the feelings—of my heart. It seems to me to be not a little analogous to the death of Moses when Israel was about to enter into the Promised Land—at the time when apparently such a Leader was most needed; yet, through God’s foresight and providence, more than made up in Joshua—may it be so now. Amen.|I wrote a long letter to Mr. Coates in June last, which petrhaps may have safely reached the C.M. House. My Letter was a Confidential one, and I was led to write as I did to our lamented friend, in Consequence of a Note from him, bearing date “May 31/45” (but which was a very long while in coming hither) in which he says— “Pray continue to write fully and unreservedly . . . . . . . . write to me private Letters if you wish it.”—Believing the, as I do, my dear Mr. Venn, that in may (may I not say all?) matters concerning the welfare of the C.M. Society—the spread of Evangelical Religion through her instrumentality—and the benefiting and inmproving of her Missions (*** Missionaries and Converts)—your heart is, like that of your predecessor in Office, already given and firmly fixed, I have no scruple whatever (confiding in my belief) to keep me from desiring that that Letter, written by me and addtressed to Mr. Coates, may be received by you as if in every respect it was written to you.||[pp153, 154 missing]***********|
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SourceFile: doc_0053.txt
Date (precise): 1847 March 13
Addressee: Gunn
Place: Clifton
Letter Body: C. Mission Station, Hawke’s|Bay, March 13, 1847.|Dear Sir|On the last day of the old year I did myself the pleasure of writing you, via Wellington, enclosing the original of a Sett of Bills upon the C.M. Society for ₤10. I hope that Letter will have safely reached you ere this––but, to make sure work (an opportunity offering) I now transmit you via Auckland, the Duplicate of that Sett of Bills––which will I believe cover the expenses incurred in printing.––|I am but just returned from an interesting journey in the mountainous interior, and have fortunately added a few more curious plants to its flora. I suppose our good friend Dr. Hooker will soon be at work on the Botany of Tasmania.––I find several genera, if not species, to be common to both of our adopted Countries.|I may add (although I mentioned it in my former Letter) that the last no. of the Tasmanian Journal which I have received is no vii, vol.2––and should be obliged for copies of any subsequent numbers.–––|We are pretty peaceable in this (the Southern) part of the Island: I know not how it is at the North. Road making appears to be the order of the day––but such heavy work requires no small amount of money. I hope our Governor has a Fortunatus’s purse at Command or, I fear, a truce with the forests and swamps will soon be proposed.|Pray make my respects to kind Mr. Gell; and––hoping soon to hear from you––believe me|My dear Mr Gunn|Yours very respectfully|William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0054.txt
Date (precise): 1847 March 16
Addressee: Dixon & Co.
Place: Ahuriri
Letter Body: Ahuriri, H.Bay, N. Zealand, March 16 1847|and Dup. June 3/47)|via Auckland)|Mess. R. Dixon, & Co.,|Gentlemen,|I sit down to write––having 8 letters (!) and 2 Invoices of yours laying on my Table before me. I wrote a very short note to you in Decr., informg. you of the goods pr. Madras havg. safely arrived last week (the 12th.), the goods pr. “Gypsey” made their appearance in no very good condition,––and now I lose no time in writing, and shall freely remark seriatim upon several items.––|No.1. earthenware, vulgar & common––blue––not accordg. to order|2. spades, of 2 kinds––the better kind will do;|4. Liq. Plants, &c,––I think I merely wrote for fresh & good root, for medicinal purposes; and for seeds; However I have (out of the whole) 3 plants living in my garden.|6. “Fancy” (!) wafers––complete Trash| Handkerchiefs––the red ones (tho’ small) are near the mark––the common ?Scotch (“Monteith––Glasgow”, marked up on them) are very inferior| 2 Tweed coats––almost the best & most suitable articles sent| Scarlet Large shirts––rather short| 4 angola coats––unsuitable––too high priced for Natives|7. Wedding rings––much too small for N.Zealrs.|Scarlet cravats––very much too dear; just as good (equally as suitable) an article is to be had here at 10/. pr. doz. The com. retail price at Wellg. is 1/.|8. Drab umbrella sent––white one ordered; such as the Quakers use: I believe they are made of W. Brown Holland.––|Moleskin Trows. sent, good & suitable––but all came much spotted; yet goods w. them were perfectly dry.|9–11. 3 Bs. spades, said to be “w. straps”––only 2 Bs. howr. of that kind. The 3rd. very infr. article, not only without straps, but T-handled.|14. axe heads! a sad mistake this––but partly perhaps my own fault, ––what I wanted were small bright axe heads weighing about 4oz. each, which may be had here for abt. 10/. pr. doz. This is a dead loss the art. being next to useless, having also previously more than a doz. by me.|The Mills, I hesitate to speak of, from not having it in my power to prove them. They do not look so well-finished as those already among the Natives in the neighd., wh. have some little addl. apparatus, brass gudgeons, &c. They got a little rusty in coming water having got into the Cask; thro’ wh. many of the Combs were spoiled; and the B. Cotton, & Blankets damaged.––|The articles I have not noticed you may consider as generally giving satisfaction.––|I may just mention, as a general rule for yr. guidance, that I always wish to have a serviceable yet cheap article for Native use; and, in addn. to what is good & useful, neat for my own. I utterly dislike, any thing that is very inferior in quality for them, or vulgar or “flashy” in appearance for my own use.––|I enclose the origl. of a sett of Bills on the Rev H Venn89 for £50 (Fifty pounds)––the Dup. of which I will also forward in a few days. I regret now I had not got them drawn for a higher sum––you will perceive they are drawn in adv., wh. is only done to come agt. that quarterly salary. I hope with them you will pay yrselves the Bal. of yr. a/c £25.18.5––and, will with the remg. sum of £24.1.7, execute the small enclosed order mkd. A.|In my note of Decr. last, I ordered,––|–– a copy of P. Times for 1846|–– 2 doz men’s cott. Braces|–– 2 eye glasses nos. 2, 2½ in Tortoiseshell––|which, if not already sent, you will please to add. to the order marked A.|(I have requested the “Pictorial Times”––but I am in ignorance whether to prefer that paper to the “Illustrated News”––should the above mentioned articles not have been sent, will you have the goodness to make the selection?––I order the Paper wholly on account of its cuts.)+++|––for order see Order Book––|2 Wheat mills complete . . . . . . . . . . . £7. 0. 0|1 small stove (say) 2.10. 0|6 Japanned Bed Chamber Lamps–(see Curator) 1/6 9.|Lucifer matches not Cosgroves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.|Pictorial Flora, by Miss Jackson, Longman’s 15.0 15/- )|Cory’s Anct. Fragments, Pickering, Londn., last ed. (say 10/-) )|Relig. of Anct. Britain, Longman 8/- )|Bickersteth’s famy. prayers Longman 7/- )|Pollock’s Course of Time––latest ed.––Longman 7/6 )|Cowper’s Poetical Works by Cary ditto 14/- )|Milton’s works by J. Montgomery, 2 vols 8vo 120 engs. 1.4.0 ) 5. 8. 0|Bp. Wilson’s new work on the Colossians say 12/- )|1st. vol. of Carne’s Lives of Missionaries, cloth Fisher (6/-) )|1 doz. Colenso’s Cott. Prayers 3d. Rivingtons 3/- )|1 Last Day, 3/6 Nisbet 3/6 )|1 Cat. of Articles of Ch. of E. )| by Owen. Houlston & Stoneman say 3/- )|2 or 3 boxes of really good medall. wafers, C. silvered|mags. Blkwoods, Frazer, Quarterly Rev.––when old––at low p| (1 drum Turkey Figs say 10/- )|all ( 1 Box Fr. Plums 5/- ) |new ( 4 Bottles Pickled walnuts 4/- ) say 1.10. 0| (1 Bushel Walnuts 4/- )| (1 d------ soft shell almonds 1/- )| macaroons 17.13.0|------------------------------------------------------------------------| 17.13. 0|½ doz. Tweed Coats similar to those sent, ) 8/6 2.11. 0| but, at least 6, of sizes larger )|1 doz. Moleskin Trows 5/- 60/- 3. 0. 0|½ doz. Printed ditto, dark, not lined, abt. 10/- 60/- 3.10. 0|6 doz. Rack Combs –– 2/2 10.10|1 doz. Com. Silk Pockt. Hdkfs yellow, orange, Blue, or Red| ––I think they are called “Bandana’s” abt 25/- 1. 5. 0|4 doz. best red Cotton Hdkfs. @ 8/- 2. 8. 0|4 doz red & yellow ditto 5/3 1.11. 6|1 doz. Men’s Cott. Braces 12.|1 doz. Tinder Boxes 10.|2 doz. Scizzars 10.|1 Small Pocket Compass (I bot. one for 2/6 when in England 2. 6|1 Small Thermr. with Japanned bk. to fix agt. wall 4.|Sardines in oil, 1 doz. tins 12.|2 do. Carb Soda 5.|2 Blk. & Green Men’s Straw hats, 1¼ size,––large brim 5.|2 doz. Shaving Boxes w. Glasses|Pelisse|Carpet, yds. good, Kidderminster| dark, small pattern|Maps, & Josephus––ask of Rev. H. Venn|1 small stout Black Tin Teakettle oval, small spout, 3 pints 2. 6|1 Com. Cloaks for Natives )| stout Blue Cloth, fur Collars ) not above 40/- ea. 2. 0. 0|| £46. 4. 0|Or in next order|wove Cotton Drawers––|Blk. Waistcoats––|Blk. Cler. Cap––light 7¼|Blk Trowsers|White P. Hdkfs|1 p. Shirts Calico|Rockg. Horse wh. will carry a boy price|1 doz. Twil. waistcoats @ 40/-|Pelisse Newd. Cad.|Carpet.|Copy Letter to Dixon March 7/47. Dupl. June 3/47|Ordered also Coat for Cole90 2 prs. Blk Trowsers, self |of Berdoe June 3/47|
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SourceFile: doc_0055.txt
Date (precise): 1848 January 18
Addressee: Gunn
Place: Clifton
Letter Body: Ch. Miss. Station, nr. Cape Kidnappers,|Hawke’s Bay, N. Zealand, January 18, 1848.|R.C. Gunn. Esq.,|&c, &c,|Launceston.|My dear Sir|An opportunity offering of sending Letters from this out-of-the-way place to the Capital (which is, indeed, a rara avis!) I eagerly embrace it, to tell you how very much I am indebted to you: and to thank you for all your kindnesses. Your two kind Letters––the one, dated 6 Jany./45 (!!), the other, July 1/47––with the box of pamphlets, &c, arrived here together last month!!––The box, I believe, napped by the way both at Sydney and Wellington.––And even now I do not know whether you received a Letter from me containing a Bill of Ex. for ₤10.––which (to ensure as far as possible its reaching you) I sent in Duplicate,––the origl. in January, & the Duplicate in March of last year,––as you do not mention in your last of such having reached your hands.––|I am greatly obliged to you for the many Serial works with which you crammed the box; but, I fear, you have been depriving yourself to your own disadvantage. I have––even here––a tolerable share (comparatively speaking) of Botanical works, in D’Candolle’s Prodr.––Kunth’s Enumerat. Plant.––Brown’s Prodr. Flora Nov. Holl.––Forster’s Gen. Plant.––Don’s Gen. Syst. of Bot.––most of Lindley’s & Hooker’s works,––Newman’s Brit. Ferns, and the different Bot. periodicals of the day, together with what may be the last ed. of the Encyclop. Brittanic. How I am to make a step towards the shadow of a return, I scarcely know at present. I shall, with pleasure, send you specimens of N.Z. plants, and some other things, but I shall first have, I fear, to test your patience largely. For, not to mention the difficulty of our speedily corresponding, &c., my time is so taken up that I am often at my wits’ end, and always in arrears. And then, living as I do (for the present) in a Raupo (typha) house, which swarms with insects––such a devouring multitude!––I am necessitated to pack up every thing directly (after culling them for Hooker) as securely as possible, intending so to leave them until his work on the Flora of N.Z. shall be finished, when I hope once more “to break bulk”, put my Herbarium to rights, and remember my friends. By which time, too, it is possible, I shall be in a more permanent dwelling, where my treasures will be for a time rescued from the devastating multitude which now surrounds me.––|I mentioned (I think) in my former Letter, the immense size of my parish––larger, in fact, than many English Counties––and the consequently scattered state of my charge, so that my time is in great measure, consumed in painful & dangerous travelling. Last year, for instance, I was absent from home, journeying about, 205 days! One good, however––at least, for science––results therefrom; I am enabled to gather together much more of the flora of the Country for our friend, than he could ever possibly have received any other way––and thus I shall be able to do my share towards the making known the curious Botany of this hitherto little-known part of Colony. During the past year, in particular, I have made several pleasing discoveries. Among my novelties are some ferns,––Lomaria, Gleichenia, Lindsæa, Adiantum, Dicksonia, Cyathea, Cheilanthes, ?Caterach, Grammatis, &c: some Taxaceous and Labiate plants: several Orchideous and other Monocotyledons: and not a few Compositæ, Umbelliferæ, Myrtaceæ, and Aralaceæ: while the genera, Coprosma, Veronica, Myosotis, Plantago, Epilobium, Pimelia, Loranthus, Dracophyllum, Cardamine, Clematis, Carmichælia, Fuchsia, Oxalis, Acæna, Rubus, Viola, Suttonia, Gaultheria, Olea, Elæocarpus, Ranunculus, and the very-Protean Jungermannia will receive great additions; as well as the Orders Gramineæ, Cyperaceæ, Musci, Lichenes, & Algæ. Among the many late novelties which highly delighted me—I may more particularly mention––a fine Ranunculus, having leaves 5–7 in. broad! a glorious plant from the top of the mountn. range, bearing a profuse golden panicle of 20 or more large flowers; a species widely distinct & far surpassing A. nivicola––an enormous Aciphylla, with flower-stalk 5 feet high, and leaves standing out all round like a coach-wheel of bayonets––a new & elegant Forstera––a minute Astelia very diverse from AA. pumila, alpina, and linearis––several species of Veronica, some highly curious––a 2nd sp. of Chrysobactron (young Hooker’s new genus)––3 species, or more, of Arthropodium––a Dacrydium, an elegant looking tree in miniature, only 10–15 inches high and loaded with Cones––a second species of trailing moss-like growth––a Phyloclades––several species of Carmichælia, highly interesting; one, (elegant & lissome!) a lovely drooping sp. full of leaf & fragrant flower; another, growing like a Juncus; another, a little stubborn thing, only an inch or so above the soil; another, with very long drooping filiform branches, &c.,––a curious ?Euphrasia, ditto Ourisia––most elegant Loranthi, 2 species, now the glory of the mountain forests––2 or 3 sp. of Drosera––ditto Pterostylis, 3 or 4 sp.––Caladenia––Microtis––Cyrtostylis––Earina––a handsome Myrtus––a little Eryngo––a Melicytus––some peculiar water-plants, one of which may prove a Vallisneria––a climbing Fuchsia––2 sp. of Elæocarpi––an Androstoma, &c, &c., and a lot of curious, and (to me) unique plants from the mountain summits, the affinities of which I can scarcely guess at. No doubt Hooker will do them all justice. I would they were all safe in his hands. I have––with incredible difficulty––got one box packed (since I wrote you last), and, when my Summer wanderings are over I hope to put up another which will certainly not yield the palm to any of those gone before.––|I have not seen any very late serials: no. 18 of Flora Antarct.––no. 54 of Lond. Journ. Bot., part 14 of Icones Plant.––& Part 3 of Sp. Filicum being my latest.–––|Of course I cannot enter the lists against Sir William, respecting the N.Z. Ferns, some of which he has (I dare to think,) lumped together sans ceremonie. Black, Brown, and Blue, are, in common languages, widely different Colors, but it is easy enough to make them appear as one. Hymenophyllum Frankliniarum may be identical with H. æruginosum; and H. atrovirens may also be H. crispatum; but neither H. ærug. nor H. crisp. were in my list of N.Z. Filices. Again, if my other Hymenophyllæ are identical with those known N.Z. ones under which Sir William has ranked them, all I can say is, that they possess characters differing from those of the species with which they are now classed. H. villosum, I feel assured, will be altered upon reconsideration; if not, HH. imbricatum and revolutum; but, as you justly observe, the coming work of Hooker fil., will clear up all.––|You mention having lately discovered (among other things) a new Fagus, at which I rejoice. I think there are several addl. species of that genus, yet to be brought to light from among the N.Z. ones. A monstrous ill-shapen Fungus, sometimes a yard broad! is found adhering under the upper branches of F. fusca at the more N. parts of the Island. I sent one to Hooker some years ago; the Natives use it for tinder, for which purpose it is excellent.|Had I the time & opportunity I once had, when residing in the Bay of Islands (though then my hands were full), I could, I think, scribble you a few interesting things for your “Journal”. I had begun some papers, but, I suppose it is better to await Hooker’s forthcoming work, ere venture to say much more upon the Botany of N. Zealand. I hope, however, to send you a short paper or two, soon.|I have been a dabbler in Conchology from the beginning of my residence in this Country; but I, last year, wrote to some eminent conchologists in England, through Hooker, offering my many species novæ for publication, &c, and now I await his reply. I have, I doubt not, many novelties––although we have scarcely any beautiful or elegant species––which I should like to make known. Some, which I gave away a few years ago, have been, I find (from Dieffenbach’s work) surreptitiously published and that by those persons to whom I gave them! My shells, too, are like all my other Natural Treasures, obliged to be carefully packed up & nailed down to keep them from their enemies; most of them I have not seen for years, yet I go on collecting & adding to the stock.|We are now, all hands, laid up with Influenza––some severely. This epidemic visits us annually about the close of the year, and is by no means a welcome Christmas guest. And now, my dear Sir, I must close,|Believe me ever sincerely yours|William Colenso.| I perceive, Hooker has already rescued Hymenoph. minim. from among H. Tunbridgense! vol.i. Flora Antarctica.|
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SourceFile: doc_0056.txt
Date (precise): 1848 March 15
Addressee: Grimstone
Place: Ahuriri
Letter Body: To,|J.E. Grimstone, Esqr.,|Acting Colonial Secretary,|Wellington.|Church Mission Station, |Ahuriri, Hawke’s Bay,|March 15, 1848. |Sir,|1. I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter, dated “Wellington 13 Decr./47”; together with two enclosures, the one being a copy of a letter from a Mr Nairne to Mr Fitzgerald, dated “Paiotumokai, Novr. 25/47”;––and the other a copy of a letter from Mr Fitzgerald to yourself dated “River Hutt, Decr. 4/47.”—Which, although duly forwarded by the Rev. R. Cole to Wairarapa, only reached me on Thursday night last (the 9th inst.) by Archdn. W. Williams, who brought them thence. Our having been closely engaged with the Natives assembled here according to annual Custom to meet the Archdeacon and partake of the ordinances of the Church, will fully explain why I have not sooner replied thereto.|2. With many thanks to His Excellency for his kindness towards me, as expressed in “his belief, that the serious reflections cast upon my character in those Letters, must have arisen from some gross mistake”;—and as further shewn, in his being “most anxious to afford me the opportunity of putting it in his power to deny that there is any truth in the allegations against me”:—I shall now proceed to notice them, premising it to be rather hard to have to answer Charges which appear to me to be of a very undefined and indistinct nature.|3. From Mr Nairne’s Letter to Mr. Fitzgerald, I gather, that he, Mr Nairne, or, rather, they, Messrs Nairne and Deighton, upon “the word of one man,” (Ngatuere, a Heathen chief,) charge me with:—|—i. Having forbidden the Natives returning to the work on the Public Road on pain of Excommunication.—|—ii. With having said,— “You Maories are fools for making a road for your own destruction.”—|—iii. With having said— “Kei hoki koutou ki tena mahi he mahi whakaheke toto;” —which “expression” is said to have “particularly attracted and astonished” Messrs Nairne and Deighton; who, commenting thereupon go on to state, “whatever Mr Colenso intended to impress upon their minds, we are perfectly at a loss to find out, but the impression it has left us, is, that it is a work which will cause their blood to be shed.”—|—iv. With having “addressed the Natives of the Kerekere village in a body to the same effect.”—|—v. With having “turned out of the Church several who had returned from the Road;— and,|—vi. With having “forbidden a man of the name of Tamati to attend prayer, for an act of kindness on his part on going on a Sunday in search of two Europeans who were supposed to be in distress.”—|Here follow—first, the names of four Natives who were “questioned minutely by Messrs Nairne and Deighton to ascertain the actual facts of the case;”—and second, a Certificate from Mr Deighton, who declares “the above statements are perfectly correct.”— From Mr Fitzgerald’s Letter to yourself, enclosing Mr Nairne’s, I gather,—|—(vii.) 1st. “That it is not the first time he” (Mr. Fitzgerald,) “had heard of my endeavours to prevent the Natives from working on the Road”:—and,|—(viii.) 2nd. “To the carrying out of which by Native labour I am using every means in my power to obstruct.”—|4. In replying to, and completely refuting the whole of the eight foregoing extracted allegations, I see no difficulty whatever. And, inasmuch as I wish to do so in a manner at once satisfactory to His Excellency, I will not occupy much time in stopping to notice,—|—firstly, The incongruity or the charges, if charges they be any ways affecting me before a civil tribunal; for I have yet to learn if, even supposing I had been guilty of “excommunicating” the Natives of my parish, of “turning them out of the Church,” and of “forbidding a man to attend prayers for an act of kindness on his part,” as contained in charges I, and v, and vi, (setting aside the utter impossibility, not to say the ridiculousness, of such things being done by a Christian Missionary, he, too, being only in Deacon’s orders,) that I am therefore amenable to the Civil Laws of my Country.— |—Nor, secondly, The curious admission made by Messrs Nairne and Deighton, in charge iii, in which they give a Native sentence which “particularly attracted and astonished them,” and concerning which they “questioned minutely the Natives,” and yet (though doubtless vexed at their not succeeding in their errand) could come to no other conclusion than “Whatever Mr Colenso intended to impress upon the Natives’ minds we are perfectly at a loss to find out”!!—|—Nor, thirdly, The literal translation of those ten native words, though evidently intended to be the ground of the Case, (and which, as they now stand, form at best an imperfect sentence, and said to be a portion of an address made to the Natives at Kerekere village, is not as they have given it,— “that it is a work which will cause their blood to be shed.”—|—Nor, fourthly, The impression left upon the impartial reader’s mind from finding the only short and plain sentence of ten native words mistranslated, certainly prepares him to admit the rather more than probable mis-translation of the sentence (whatever it was) which has been rendered in charge ii, as meaning,— “You Maories are fools for making a road for your own destruction.”—And this supposition receives no small confirmation from the fact, that “the late Interpreter to H.M.S. Calliope”, who accompanied Mr Nairne, (doubtless as Interpreter, seeing he has appended his Certificate to Mr Nairne’s letter,) hesitates not in his zeal to attest to “the whole of the statements as being perfectly correct.”! As well as from the circumstance of Messrs. Nairne and Deighton being “particularly attractyed and astonished” by a plain sentence of ten words, (spoken, doubtless, quickly and energetically by the vivacious Chief Ngatuere,) which, after all their “minute questioning,” their united ability could not faithfully translate!—|—Nor, fifthly,The certainty of my never having once entered the Kerekere village; not even knowing exactly where it is.—|—Nor, sixthly,The assertion of Mr. Fitzgerald, that, “this is not the first time he had heard of my endeavors to prevent the Natives from working on the Road,”—when considered in connexion with the fact of Mr Fitzgerald having called upon me at Wellington parsonage on the 2nd. November last, (in what I supposed to be a friendly candid and gentlemanly way,) when we had a long conversation entirely concerning the Road, yet not a syllable escaped him of that nature.—|—Nor, seventhly, The assertion of Mr. Fitzgerald,— “That I am “using every means in my power to obstruct the carrying out the Road by Native labor,”—when taken in connexion with the fact, that he sought me at the Rev. R. Cole’s for no other purpose than to gain all the information he could respecting the state of the Country over which the Road was intended to be carried, and of the Native mind concerning the same, and the Native Tribes and Chiefs &c., &c.,—which information I certainly gave him to the best of my ability, not merely in words, but actually in making little rough outline sketches of the different Chains of’ hills, which I further endeavored to illustrate by arranging books upon Mr. Cole’s table:—|—Nor, eightthly,The “principal Natives,” who are said to have “made the statements,” and whose names are given, being not altogether unexceptional characters. Two of them, (Ngatuere and Te Rahui) being Heathen; and the chief, Ngatuere, particularly incensed against me just now. Of the other two, one, Te Ropiha, had been very severely rebuked by me for his cruelty to a poor white man, whom he refused to put across the River Ruamahanga in his canoe, at a dangerous crossing place, and at a time of heavy flood in the winter; as well as for his attempt to ill-use Mr Tiffen: the other, Rawiri Te Raro, I recollect little of, but I perceive his name is not in the List of Baptized Natives who received Instruction from me when last at Wairarapa, neither is it among those of upwards of 100 Communicants who there partook of the Lord’s Supper last month at the hands of the Archdeacon, and from which no Christian Native is ever excluded except for very gross misconduct.—|But now, that matters are assuming a rather serious appearance, it will be needful for me to go back a little in time, and commence at the beginning; although in so doing I shall, I fear, be necessarily prolix.|5. I was first stationed in this wild district, in 1844. In March /45, I visited Wairarapa. On arriving at the Kopi, I found no small commotion among the Christian Natives, arising from the grossly profligate conduct of a white man called Te Kati (Scott), who, a very short time before, had called there some time about mid-day, and finding the Native Teachers and male Christian Natives absent, and observing a young woman named Caroline Makarau (the daughter of the principal Chief, Simon Peter Te Inaki), insisted upon having her. It was in vain that he was told, she was a Baptized girl, betrothed to William Thompson Hiko—a Native Teacher, and about to be married to him, and it was equally in vain that she herself protested against such an act, he finally succeeded with the heathen relations of the poor girl, and for three shillings got her conveyed into and shut up with him in a hut for a short time, when, having accomplished his vile purpose, he left the village. Soon after I arrived at Te Kopi, and married Caroline to W. Thompson, joining several others at the same time. After the ceremony was over, I addressed the newly married couples, praising those who had patiently waited my coming, and, touching upon Caroline’s conduct, told her, I could not praise her: she mourned so much over her state, which she now saw to be a degraded one, that, in a little while after, I heard she was “dead in consequence of the evil done to her by Te Kati.” This man is, (I believe, if I am informed correctly,) an overseer upon the Road, (or, at all events, somehow connected with the Natives) in the Government employ, and, if he should prove to be the David Scott whom I once knew in the Bay of Islands, and who formerly resided in the Thames and subsequently at Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty, a more immoral person could scarcely, I believe, be found in the three Islands of New Zealand.—|6. In November, in the same year, I again visited Wairarapa; when I heard from the Native Chiefs and Teachers, that the white Residents about them had often greatly abused me, assuring them, that if I went to Wellington I should be cast into gaol! I asked, what for?—but they could not inform me. I went on to Wellington, where I heard, that certain heavy general complaints had been made against me, “by the Squatters at Wairarapa”; and which some of my friends wished me to notice;—but, as I could not particularize any thing, and had ever been accustomed to such ill treatment during the many years of my itinerating in New Zealand, I declined doing so. In dining, however, at Mr. St. Hill’s, the Archdeacon of Waiapu, and Major Richmond being also present, His Honor asked me, “whether I had lately received a letter” from him; I replied in the negative. On which he added, “I have been applied to by a person from Wairarapa, who appeared to have some charge against you to this effect—namely that you had been inciting the Natives there to rise and to drive all the Settlers into the Sea”!! I told his Honor, that he might rely upon my solemn word that the allegation was false. He replied, that he did not believe it, yet he had written to me; and that now he wished me to aid in keeping the peace between the Natives and the Squatters; which I promised to do. (How faithfully I have kept my word, let some of the Wairarapa and Coast Settlers answer.) I requested the name of the person who had applied to him; this, the Major said, he had forgotten; but would send me. (Which, however, with his Honor’s letter, I never received.) The next day I related to the Archdeacon our conversation, observing, now that his Honor has been applied to, this must not rest here; I, therefore, propose, as we are returning together by Coast to our Stations, to call upon those whites residing in the lower part of the Wairarapa valley, and hear what they have to say.—To this the Archdeacon agreed. Before, however, we could leave Wellington, the Victoria brig arrived, having the Bishop on board, from whom we learned his intention of almost directly proceeding up the E. Coast to hold Confirmations at all the Mission Stations. Hence we had to make as much haste as possible to get back to our respective Stations, so as to be in readiness for the Bishop’s arrival; and, consequently, were obliged to relinquish our intention of calling upon the Settlers of the Wairarapa valley; notwithstanding, we hoped to visit Mr. Russell’s Station, being near the sea, but were so very late and so very tired in toiling across the heavy sands of Palliser Bay as to be obliged to give up that also, intending, however, to make a visit on the morrow from Te Kopi; which again the heavy Southerly gale of wind and rain which that night set in, ultimately caused us to abandon. While here at Te Kopi, confined in our tents, several Christian Natives of good character & standing came voluntarily forward to tell me what vile language had been used by some of the whites of the valley (the names of several were particularly mentioned,) concerning the Holy Sacraments, and myself, since I had lately passed on towards Wellington (one of the objects I had in view in going to Wellington being, to fetch either the Rev. R. Cole, or the Archdeacon, to administer the Holy Communion at this place). Some of those expressions I took down, before the Archdeacon, and left, with a letter, for the Bishop, who was soon to be there. To the Natives of Te Kopi the Holy Communion had been blasphemously and degradingly called a Stercus, &c., &c.,—and that, among others, by James Grindell, now an overseer upon the Public Road. Being obliged to hasten our departure, I wrote a letter to Mr. Russell; and, soon after, the Bishop arriving at Te Kopi, and receiving my letter, and enclosures, determined to proceed up the valley (instead of by the Coast as he had intended) and to call upon every Settler. He did so; and, on his arrival here, had nothing to charge me with.|7. In March, 1846, I again visited Wairarapa, and, in fulfilling my promise made in my letter to Mr. Russell, called upon the different Settlers residing there, and among the rest, upon James Grindell. He told me, plainly, he believed in no religion, and disliked all; allowing that he very often spoke ill of Religion and of Missionaries to the Natives; and often made use of Native maledictions to them, in order to vex them, because they often vexed him. And on my pressing him for a reason, why he was so very bitter against Missionaries, and among others, myself; who was an entire stranger to him and never did him wrong, he replied,— “one reason why I am so against the Missionaries is, because before these wretches” (the Natives) “took to psalm-singing I could get a woman and a pig in every village; but now I can get neither.” On leaving him, I considered it my duty to tell the Christian Natives, to have as little to do with him as possible. It was during this visit, and while at Pitoone, that I heard of the positive swearing of (I believe) six whites to the identity of two prisoners, then confined on board of H.M. Steamer, who were said to have been engaged in plundering up the Hutt. These poor fellows finding themselves to he falsely accused and closely incarcerated, sworn to by so many whites, and not a soul appearing on their behalf, with, at least, a long winter’s duration within the brick walls of the gaol before their trial could come on, had determined to make away with themselves. I sent them word not to do so, and, being forcibly struck with the clearness of the alibi which the Pitoone Natives could prove; and also the state of feeling among that Tribe, at what they considered their unjust imprisonment, I wrote to the sherriff, Henry St. Hill, Esqr., through the Rev. O. Hadfield;—and the prisoners were forthwith tried and acquitted.—And, doubtless, Dr. Fitzgerald recollects the vile reports which were industriously circulated at this time by whites among the Natives at Kaiẁaraẁara to the effect, that the Governor’s visit to Porirua was to seize and hang up Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata, which news was immediately carried thither, and reached those Chiefs before the Governor could get there in the Steamer; hence it was that His Excellency’s visit proved altogether fruitless.|8. It was in September, 1846, that I next visited Wairarapa. Some Christian Natives who had come on with the Rev. R. Cole, from Port Nicholson, applied to be permitted to partake of the Holy Communion, among whom was Zachariah, the Native Teacher at Te Aro, who, with the others, in the preparatory examination, related, with evident disgust, the manner in which they had been treated by the Military, when they were acting in concert with them against Te Rangihaeata and his party,—stating,—that every effort was made to cause them to sin, through tempting them with Ardent Spirits, &c., and that their Prayers, &c., had been continually mocked,—insomuch, that “no Native who cares for himself will ever join the Soldiers again.” This sentiment I have subsequently often heard expressed by thinking Natives, who had been in the Government employ. It was, also, during this visit, and whil sojourning at Wairarapa, that a young Chief—formerly a Communicant and one of my first-class men, but now (thanks to the wretched Europeans with whom he had associated!) a confirmed Rum-drinker, came to my tent, and producing a paper begged me to look at it. I did so, and whn I found it was a deed of land I soon returned it. He strove with me a long while to look over it, and give my opinion thereupon, saying, it had been given him by the Pakeha who drew it up to sign, and he had done so, and was now about to return it. Consenting, at last, to look over it, I found several long erasures here and there in the agreement, and four or five large blanks left in the body of the Instrument!—and yet the Chief had attached his name thereunto! and was now on his way to return it!!|9. My next visit to Wairarapa was in April, 1847—at the examination of the Communicants at Te Kopi. I found some who had hitherto run well missing; on enquiry, I found, that the Races at Wellington had drawn them aside; once there they soon became intoxicated, and that boundary passed all was easy. They had even become pimps and panders in the lowest sense of the word, to gain a few shillings at the time of the “Annual Festivities”! It was shortly after my return to my Station from this visit that a false, malicious, and (to the Natives) startling report was widely and intentionally circulated.—The substance of which was, that I had gone up the Hutt, and into the house of some white man engaged upon the Road, that there I Baptized his two Children, and then had criminal intercourse with his wife! Foolish as the report may now appear to be, it made no small stir at the time, some of the weaker-minded Natives believing it, were led thereby to renounce their profession of Christianity; while the principal Chiefs in this neighbourhood assembling together, called for a “Committee” to enquire into the matter. Fortunately for them, my baggage bearers testified, that I had never been up the Hutt, and a party of Native Teachers arriving from Wairarapa and the Coast in July to my annual Teachers’ School, brought letters and witnesses to prove, that the notorious James Grindell had been the author of the fabrication, and that he himself had first mentioned it in the lower Wairarapa, to Richard Taki and William Thompson Hiko, Native Teachers there, because none of their young men would consent to go with him to the Road. In writing subsequently, to Campbell Hawea, the Native Teacher at Te Kaikokirikiri, (a village at the head of the Wairarapa valley,) I said,— “Try to keep your people quiet; tell them to take no notice of any such reports concerning me until they can be proved: the author is now known to you, and unless he is careful he may yet mourn his conduct.”—On the receipt of my letter Campbell wrote to James Grindell, who, of course, treated his letter with the greatest contumely; but, by-and-bye, (during my last visit to Wairarapa in October last,) while at Pahawa, a village about 2 days’ journey N. from Cape Palliser, I received a letter from James Grindell, through the aforesaid Native Teacher. This letter was brought me by Zachariah Te Pukenui, a tried and faithful Christian Chief and Native Teacher from Te Kaikokirikiri; who, also, told me of the stir which was them among them; in consequence of Barnabas Tamaitakahia (who had been at work upon the Public Road) having given way to the worrying incessant demand of James Grindell, the white overseer over them, to bring him the little daughter of Nicodemus and Mary Tia, he (Barnabas) being the Child’s uncle, for which purpose James Grindell had given to Barnabas a piece of gown-print as a payment to Mary to coax her into compliance, and to send the child, who had cried a great deal and was unwilling to go. Zachariah, also, told me much more of a similar nature which had been done upon the Public Road; and how that he, and other Christian Chiefs did all they could to keep their young men from going their and thus destroying themselves. I may here, also, mention, that a fortnight previous, when at Waimarama, (a village a few miles S. of Cape Kidnapper,) a respectable looking white man came to my tent, and said,—that he had lately come from the Government Road, where he had been employed (I think as overseer,) that he wished me, not to take any notice of a report which had been widely circulated against my character and which had originated there among James Grindell and others, “for every body knows Grindell”; that it was raised to rease the Natives, and, he was sorry to say, it was too common a practice on that Road to tease them in this manner. I did not learn the name of my informant at the time, for I was not well, reclining upon the fern in my tent, but I have since had reasoon to believe his name is Strutt. On reaching Wellington I mentioned to my friends the manner in which I had been traduced, and showed them Grindell’s letter, and the Rev. O. Hadfield took Mr. St. Hill’s advice upon the matter; but being myself most unwilling to prosecute it went no further.—|10. Onm leaving Wellington for Pitoone, on Saturday the 30th. October last, there to spend the Sunday, (notice having been given to the different parties of Natives at work on the Road up the Hutt,) I met large number of young Natives coming in to the town from the Road, several of whom had young women with them. A few of them accosted me in a civil manner; others, most rudely and indecently (and not at all after the manner of even the Heathen New Zealander,) bawled out, as they approached,— “Kahore he Hapa?” (meaning, is there not to be an administration of the Lord’s Supper?) while others, on seeing me, struck-up a portion of some native song; and not a few shewed sufficiently by their lascivious looks and gestures, what they were bent upon. Arriving at Pitoone, Henry Te Ẁare, the Native Teacher, told me, with evident chagrin, that he had been striving with several of the Natives of Ngatitoa and Ngatiraukawa (who had just passed through his village on their way from the Road to town with their female relations, their wives, their sisters and daughters, there to prostitute them to the Soldiers and stopping as usual upon the Saturday and Sunday, and thence to return again to their work on the Road on the following day,) to leave off their abominable traffic, or, if not to abandon it fully, at least to give up the going through his village upon such errands, but that they would not listen to him. He also told me, (among other mournful news,) that he had received a letter from “Taylor, Kaiwakawa,” (a native who had been made an “Assessor,”) in which he wished Henry to do as he had done, and to cast aside receiving the Sacrament, as now that he was become a kaiwakawa he should not do so any more. I found that a good number had collected tgether at Pitoone, many, I fear, from novelty, for, on Sunday morning before Service, such was the great confusion (worse than I had ever seen in any Heathen village upon that day,) singing songs, storing up bestones, riding horses, shouting and quarrelling, &c.,—that I was obliged to leave my tent and go pout among them, and ask, whether they had not forgotten the day. You may better guess, Sir, than I describe my feelings , and, I trust, I preached faithfully before them, when I warned them to the best of my power, of the fatal end of those who pursued such paths. Of course my Sermon was not relished, and several rose and left the Chapel, muttering as they went; and not half of those who were present in the morning remained for the Afternoon Service. On the following Thursday (Novr. 4th.) I left Pitoone, and proceeded up the Hutt; in passing the parties at work, some few hailed me in their usual cheerful manner; others preserved a dogged silence; others struck up some Native songs of more than doubtful meaning; other unceremoniously said, “Go back to your place and remain there; while others, who had their faces marked with soot (which is a sign too well understood by all who know the New Zealander to be mistaken,) commenced the lewd words which accompany their Heathen obscene dances. To some, who seemed rather more quiet than the others, I said,— “Be strong, my boys, to your work, and make a good road for us, but remember the fourth Commandment.” When they replied, “Pooh! that is cast off long ago.” To some other few, I said, “Don’t forget the Laws of God.” On which they replied, “We knew them once, we know them not now.” Oh! how I grieved for them, poor Natives, as I travelled on the Road which they had made, yet, blessing God withal, that I had yet a better and a brighter prospect among the uncivilized and rude Tribes of Hawke’s Bay. I may mention here, that I had heard, both in Wellington and at Pitoone, that the greater number of those Natives who had left the upper Hutt, would not return again to the Road.|11. In the course of the following week I arrived at Huaangarua, where were a number of Natives, gathered together awaiting my arrival. Here I learnt, that “Ngatuere” had set up an iron pot for me at Otaraia, (one of his villages a little lower down,) and had gone, boiling with rage, to Te Kaikokirikiri, the village at the head of the valley, to set up another! These horrid imprecations (being amongst the most direful that can be uttered to a Native ear, and always unpardonable,) were vowed, because I had dared to marry a young couple at Te Kopi, he having long striven, but in vain, to get the woman to become his wife, his first wife being still alive and with him.—Leaving Huaangarua I called at Te Ahiaruhe, Messrs. Northwood and Tiffen’s Station, During my short stay, Mr. Tiffen asked me if I had received a Letter from James Grindell, relating to that shameful report he had circulated. I said, I had: on which Mr. Tiffen rejoined, “When I heard of it (the report,) I sought for and saw James Grindell, and told him, if you do not make an ample apology to Mr. Colenso, I will report your conduct to the Governor, for it is really too bad.” I suppose, therefore, the Letter which he sent me is to be attributed to Mr. Tiffen’s kind and seasonable remark.|12. Leaving Te Ahiaruhe I passed on to Hurunuiorangi, a small village about 3 miles further up the valley. Evening Service over, I heard that Barnabas Tamaitakahia was here, so sending for him, and finding he had still the print in his possession, I gave him a severe lecturing before all the Natives; in which, without doubt, I spared not to lash the enormities committed upon the Road. I exhorted him, to take back immediately to those base whites who had employed him upon such an errand the wages of iniquity, the proce of blood, and to save the soul and body of his little niece from ruin. He sat very quietly, and during the whole night said not a word. The next day, on my arriving at Te Kaikokirikiri, I found a large party assembled, among whom were Ngatuere and his adherents; with Ngatuere I declined shaking hands until he shall have made a suitable apology for his conduct. In the evening, after Service, the Native Teacher, Campbell, came as usual with his Book of School attendance, and List of Transgressors, expressing his great grief at having such a black Catalogue, “all,” he said, “to be put down to working on the Road.” Among those who had been upon the Road, some were marked as Sabbath breakers, their employment upon that day being Pigeon shooting, Pig hunting; Clothes-washing, Fetching and Carrying Loads, &c., others, were marked as Rum drinkers, and Gamblers, Singers of obscene songs, and Dancers and Performers of filthy and lewd heathen games and dances, others, as having also been induced to prostitute their wives, or their wives having prostituted themselves, and others as having promised to procure girls from their relations for the white men working upon the road. But all were convicted of the crimes laid against them upon the clearest possible evidence—their own admission. As a first step, the next day, I refused at this time to receive into my Class of Candidates for Baptism those Catechumens who had not observed the Rules stuck up on a pillar in their Chapel, one of which is, “To be diligent in attending Public Worship and school during their time of probation.” Which Ngatuere’s Heathen party hearing they soon concluded to withdraw and to return to their homes; several Baptized Natives of that Tribe going with them. They left, too, on the Saturday, choosing nrather to spend the Sundayy any where on the way than with me at the village. Those Baptized Natives who left had only been Baptized by me at my last visit, after two years and upwards steady probation; during that time they had clung close to me, and had paid no little attention to my Instruction, which they then seemed to value. Whence, then, was this wonderful change? Now, too, that they were within the pale of the Church? Why, almost directly after they had been Baptized they went upon the Road, led, undoubtedly, by a very different Spirit from Him who led their great exemplar from the waters of Baptism,—But, to return:—I, also, gave out that I was ashamed and grieved at the conduct of several of the Baptized Party, and that I should not shake hands with them unless they gave some evident signs of amendment. After Divine Service on Sunday Morning, I heard, that Thomas Voyager Te Kotare, (“Tamati,” I presume,) Henry Mahukihuki, and William Thompson Rauhanga, who had been at work on the Road, and, whose names had been particularly noticed in the Native Teacher’s memorandum of Transgressions, were sorry for their errors and wished to speak with me (they had attended every Service since I arrived, six in number); so assembling them in the Chapel together with the Native Teacher, I conversed with them. They appeared to be now sorry for their evil deeds, and readily promised not to do so again. I carefully shewed them (as I had always done) that is was not the mere work of Road making, of itself a good employment, but the abominations which were there committed against which I waged war. But these persons needed not to be told this; their consciences plainly told them they had been doing wrong, and their recital was sickening indeed. W. Thompson Kauhanga and Henry Mahukihuki had taken their wives with them both of whom had been often prostituted. And now W. Thompson’s wife (late a Candidate for Baptism,) says, “She will not promise not to return thither alone without her husband! Returning to my tenty, I sent for Nicodemus and Mary Tia, (whose only little daughter, a child about ten years of age, had been sold by her uncle Barnabas to the celebrated James Grindell, at work upon the Public Road for a few yards of Print Cotton!) an
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SourceFile: doc_0057.txt
Date (precise): 1848 March 23
Addressee: W. Morris
Place: Clifton
Letter Body: Mission Station, March|23, 1848.|Mr. W. Morris.|My dear Sir|Yours of the 21st I received on the same day, and thank you much for your kind and warm feelings so freely expressed. I can, however, but believe, that you magnify greatly the very few little offices which it has been in my power to do for you since we have known each other. I scarcely need say to you, that I shall always consider it a pleasure to be able to aid you in any way in my power. We all, at one time or another, need each other’s assistance, during our passage through life.|I am now about to leave on my long journey. I expect to be back about the middle of June. We may not see each other again. You leave us with regret on my part, and I hope your successor (if one comes) may be so friendly a neighbour.|And now that you are, as it were, retiring from the turmoil and bustle and anxiety of active life, allow me, as a well-wisher to your interests, to suggest, that you seek to turn your thought towards those things which are solid and sure, and which only can bring a man true peace at the last.––I wish you, from my heart, the best blessing, when I say, May God, in mercy, cause His Holy Spirit so to shine within, as to lead you to a loving acquaintance with our Saviour Jesus Christ.––Amen.|I enclose a little Prayer Book for your acceptance in token of remembrance and of kindnesses received from you: also, two little books of Tracts, and a copy of a little publication of my own. Mr. Kier will supply you with whatever you may require, and| Believe me ever| Very sincerely yours| William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0058.txt
Date (precise): 1848 May 4
Addressee: The Colonial Secretary
Place: Wellington
Letter Body: Copy|To |J.E. Grimstone, Esqr.,|&c &c|Secretary’s Office,|Wellington.|Wellington, May 4th, 1848.|Sir,|1. On my arrival at the head of the Wairarapa valley, on the 13th. ultimo, I lost no time in forwarding by a special messenger my answer to yours of the 13th. December last; and which Letter, I believe, you received on the 24th. ultimo.—|2. While at Te Kaikokirikiri village, I happened, most accidentally, (I may truly enough say, providentially,) to obtain possession of a note written by the Chief Ngatuere to the Native Teacher of Te Kaikokirikiri in September last; a copy of which, numbered 1, I enclose. During my stay at this village, I enquired of the Native Teachers Campbell Hawea and Samuel Pakaiahi, whether they had seen and conversed with those white men (Messrs. Nairne and Deighton) on their visit to Wairarapa in the spring; and on their replying in the affirmative, I requested them to write briefly the substance of their respective conversations, and to send the same on to Te Kopi in Palliser Bay, where I intended being on on about the 30th ultimo. They accordingly did so; and I also enclose copies thereof. That of Campbell Hawea’s, the Native Teacher at Te Kaikokirikiri, being numbered two (2); and that of Samuel Pakaiahi’s, the Native Teacher at Hurunuiorangi, being numbered 3. I may, in passing, remark, that I had very little conversation with them upon the subject of the charges contained in your Letter; and though I saw, and spent several days in company with, the Chief Te Ropiha, I never once mentioned the matter to him, but treated him in the same friendly manner as heretofore.—|3. Leaving Te Kaikokirikiri and proceeding down the valley, I met the Native Teacher of Huaangarua, Lt Paioke, who (I was told) had both seen and conversed with Messrs. Nairne & Deighton. I, therefore, requested him also to write briefly the substance of their conversation, which (as I perceive he has addressed the same, though I believe unintentionally, to His Excellency,) I also enclose, numbered 4;—taking, however, a copy of the same.|4. While at Te Kopi I received a Letter from Te Ropiha; a copy of which numbered 5, I also enclose.|5. I did not pass through the lower part of the Wairarapa valley—my route, on this visit, being to the Kopi by the Coast—I have therefore not see Ngatuere, and the other Wairarapa Natives.—|6. I was sorry to find, that, in spite of my repeated remonstrances, backed too by those of the Native Teacher, the little daughter of Nicodemus had been taken by her parents to the “Ara-ruri”—(Government Road). – – – –|7. I can but hope that these enclosures will prove as satisfactory to His Excellency as they have to myself.|8. I have only to add, by way of elucidation,—that Campbell said the “turituri” (disagreeable noise) which annoyed the whites, (mentioned in Ngatuere’s Letter to him,) was their, the Natives, rehearsing their Catechisms, &c., when they had School together in the evenings. “Taare,” of “Tare.” is Nairne; and “Ritara,” or “Tiki” (Dick?), or “Taitene,” is Richard Deighton. Those three Native Teachers are all quiet respectable men, who have been for several years regular Communicants,—|With every respect,|Believe me,|Sir,|Your most obedient Servt.,|William Colenso,|Missionary C.M.S.|
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SourceFile: doc_0059.txt
Date (precise): 1848 September 14
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi, Hawke’s Bay, N. Zealand,|Septr. 14th. 1848.|My dear Sirs,|The usual little trading vessel having just arrived from Wel;lington, affords me the opportunity (long desired) of transmitting you the accompanying papers.—Being Copies of a Correpondence between H.M. Colonial Government and myself; together with sundry other Papers (“enclosures”), elucidatory of certain facts therein contained or adverted to. Although the matter is now at rest (as far as I am concerned), I have, nevertheless, deemed it my duty to send you Copies of every paper; (although to do so I have had to fag hard indeed,) lest you might hear of a part only of the business, and so not be able to form a correct judgment thereupon.—His Excellency the Lieut-Governor behaved very kindly to me when at Wellington, paying me every attention. I dined and spent two nights with him during my short stay there. On leaving, he presented me with a Copy of his travels in Australia. He also sent me Mr. Fitzgerald’s letter to his private secretary for my perusal, &c., on which I took a copy of it. I may trulky enough say, that I am right glad the affair is now over;—more on account of my not having any time for such matters, as well as an utter disinclination thereto, than because I care for them. The Whites generally in the Wairarapa District (not to mention those who are nearer to and within Wellington,) are still greatly incensed against me; and will be so, until one or other changes. Yet there are one or two honorable exceptions, who love and receive me for my work’s sake. Would to God, my dear Sirs, you could send some strong sound Minister for that valley, who would look after that end of this immense parish! In a little while it will be, perhaps, too late. God has given me great influence over the whole fo these Tribes; still I fear much for that part of my parish, it is very exposed.|In a second packet which accompanies this, I send you nine months of my Journal, which leaves me still one year in arrear! when I shall close quite up, I cannot say: I work, almost night & day: I hope, howeve, to take another portion on with me to Wellington, when I travel that way next month.|There is great change talking place (I may almost dare to say, an alteration for the better) among the Tribes immediately about us. Two, out of the four, principal Chiefs of this district (Tareha and Kurupou) have lately embraced the Faith with all their followers, many of whom are now Candidates for Baptism. And of the other two Chiefs (Te Hapuku and Puhara), the eldest son of Te Hapuku has also become a Candidate for Baptism, and the young brother of Puhara, and several of his relations, and also four times the quantity. I am sadly off for Prayer- and Elementary- Books. To a party of forty, who lately came over to the Faith, I was oblige to arrange for them to use the Lord’s prayer night & morning (which they had got by heart), not having a single book to give them. I have given out upwards of 200 Testaments during the last 2 months: the greater number of the applicants, now received the Word of God for the first time.—My little press, too, is working, spite of all difficulties and impediments; my old Native lad, Samuel, being Compositor & pressman;—the correcting, &c, of course I have to attend to.—We have printed some (25) experimental & Doctinal Hymns, (composed in Native Idiom,) which will (under God) be of Service against error;—also, a little Tract, the happy death of a little Sunday Scholar, which has already done good;—and a prayer, &c., for Catechumens;—and we are now printing a Catechetical work (based on those of Dr. Watts’) in which we are advanced to the 24 p.—but we get on but very slowly from want of type, &c., being only able to print 2 pages at a time.|Our Congregations, too, at the Station, have greatly increased, instead of from 50 to 70, as formerly, there are now from 80 to 160 and 200; and, although more than three fourths of those who attend have to come several miles, they are seldom absent on the Lord’s Day, generally coming on the Saturday afternoon, bringing their food, &c., with them, and remaining until after Monday morning’s School.—|I have not time now to add any more. Save to desire and crave interestin your prayers: & to express a hope, that amidst the confusion and disorder which at present is so very conspicuous throughout Europe, our Native land may be in mercy preserved.|I am, my Dear Sirs, |Your mo. ob. servant|William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0060.txt
Date (precise): 1848 November 9
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Te Kopi
Letter Body: By my tent, at Te Kopi,|Palliser Bay, N. Zealand,|Novr. 9, 1848.|My dear Sirs|Having come thuis far towards Wellington (in my usual spring journey among the Natives), and being about to send thither my Letters for England, among which is one to Messrs. Dixon & Co., containing an order which I ma desirous should be executed with as little delay as possible, and not having Bills on CMS. to an amount sufficient to meet the same, I am, in a measure, constrained to write you this note, to request you to pay to Messrs. R. Dixon & Co., the sum of £50. (Fifty pounds), on my account. I am aware that my so doing is somewhat irregular but I trust that my peculiar situation will be more than sufficient to account for my request. For, firstly, (as you know) our Bills are only drawn when our local Comee. meets, which is once an year (in January), and seldom or never in advance; consequently, at this time nearly a year’s salary has become due:—and, secondly, the necessary outlay made in forming this Station, and made by myself too out of my own stipend (and which I duly acquainted you with, has not yet been repaid. I am, therefore, obliged either to wait 3 months, or to draw in this manner upon you.—|The Natives are all very quiet in this District, and, considering all things, in as good a state as could be expected. I fear, however, before another 12 months have elapsed there will be a great alteration for the worse. For the white man is now seeking to settle every where—even in the wilds about Ahuriri—and thus arousing the cupidity of the Natives. The Government too wishes “to purchase the whole of the Country from Wairarapa to Ahuriri”! which, if done, will certainly seal the Natives’ ruin; for, unless their “reserve” is in one block, and at a distance from the white, I can not see any chance of their escaping the hitherto common fate of all aborigines with whom the white has come in contact.|In great haste|(and surrounded by Natives)|I am, my dear Sirs,|very sincerely yours|William Colenso.||P.S. Novr. 10th., midnight.|Late this evening, Rev. Mr. Cole arrived from Wellington, bringing me 2 Letters—one from the Col. Secretary & one from the Govr.—wishing me to cooperate in getting the whole of this District from the Natives!! May the Lord guide me in this matter! Amen.|
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SourceFile: doc_0061.txt
Date (precise): 1848 December 23
Addressee: Lieut. Govr. Eyre
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: (Copy) Church Mission Station |Waitangi, Hawke’s Bay, Decr. 23/48.|Sir,|I have to acknowledge and thank you for your very kind and condescending letter of Novr. 7th., with which you favored me by the Rev. Mr. Cole, on his visit to Wairarapa last month. I duly received it, late at night, on the 10th. ult., and should have answered it long ago (as I feel convicted I ought to have done), but, believe me, Sir, I could not.—|—For, on the following day, the 11th., I was closely engaged from sunrise till late, in examining and instructing Candidates for the Holy Communion; and, on the Sunday, on the various duties of that day; and, on the Monday morning Mr. Cole left on his return to Wellington. I had hoped to have gained a spare hour, or to have stolen one from sleep, in my journey up the valley, but, ion this, too, I was disappointed—from my daily travelling—the thronging of the Natives—and the extreme shortness of the nights.—|I said very little indeed—in fact, I may say I cautiously abstained from speaking my own thoughts—to the Native Chiefs at Wairarapa, in passing through the valley, on the Land Question (although I did, in very strong terms, denounce the conduct of those who, in defiance of your Excellency’s late proclamation, were still seeking to let Lands to the Whites, they being urged thereto by the Whites themselves. At the same time, however, I endeavoured quietly to gather their own opinions upon the matter, which I found (as I told Messrs. Dillon Bell & Kemp) to be quite opposed to the parting with the whole of their possessions.—|Your Excellency having been pleased to inform me of a Deputation having visited you from Wairarapa, offering on the part of the rest to sell a portion of that place, &c.,—You will not, I venture to think, deem it obtrusive on my part if I acquaint you with what I heard, when at Wairarapa, as the Cause, &c., of that movement.—|—Te Manihera te Kehu, a young Chief of inferior rank and of similar character, had privately consented to let a piece of land at Tauŵarenikau to a Settler named Gillies, residing at Otaraia: this, he (alone) had no right to do. On the transaction being known, the anger of the Natives was greatly excited, and some of his own relations not only proposed but sought him to put him to death!—For they were quite tired with talking to him, and he had long been one of the principal peace-breakers of the valley. Upon his hearing this he fled precipitately across the Ruamahanga towards the Tararua range; upon which some of the more moderate of the Tribe proposed that as Manihera could not be reformed, the better way would be to go and offer that Tract fo Country (including Tauŵarenikau) to the Government. This some few of the junior ones did, forging the assent of some of the principal Chiefs of Wairarapa, who are largely concerned, among whom I may mention—Ngatuere, Ngairo, and Wiremu Kingi te Hiakai, who never so much as heard of the intention of the junior party much less assent to it. Great indeed was the stir among them, when, at the return of “the Deputation,” it became known. So that from what I saw and heard, I could not but conclude, that it would prove a difficult matter to get even the land offered to your Excellency by “the Deputation” from the rightful owners.|I returned to this place on the night of the 18th. instant,—a week behind my appointed time. Having been taken seriously ill when in the Patea District (beyond the Ruahine mountain chain), during which I was 3 days and 3 nights stretched on the ground in my tent, in extremity of suffering, with scarcely a hope of recovery. How I got home across the mountains I scarcely know. I am now very weak indeed; with an afflicted household, and, plenty of March Fever (always common here at this season) about me.|The day after my return, the 19th., not wishing to lose any time, I sent notes to Te Hapuku and to the other principal Chiefs, to meet me at his village on the 22nd.|Yesterday I went there, and spent some time with the Chiefs there assembled, in informing them concerning the projected “Canterbury Settlement” and its “benefits”; and of the wish of the Government to purchase the whole of the Country between Ahuriri and Port Nicholson, &c., &c., as detailed in your Letter to me (one thing, only, as far aws I recollect, I did not mention, the proposed life annuity of £25. to four of the leading Chiefs). Having faithfully informed them of what I knew from your Excellency’s Letters; I, also, told them, that henceforward I should not interfere nor have anything to say in the matter of their doing as they pleased with their Lands; and, that I could not conscientiously deviate from the advice I had formerly given them,—1stly. Never to sell the whole of their Land; and 2ndly., If they should conclude to sell it, to be sure to have their “Reserve” in one block, with a good natural boundary between.|In conclusion—as I have told the Natives, that I do not intend to say any thing more to them upon the subject; and as I cannot conscientiously advise them either to alienate the whole of their Lands, or to accept of “Reserves” (when so alienated) in scattered or detached parcels among the Whites—both of which plans are, in my estimation, equally fraught with their speedy destruction; and, as I wish to live in peace with all men, and to be as far as possible from bringing myself into Collision with H.M. Government,—Little now remains for me but to be perfectly neutral in the matter: this, therefore, I hope strictly to be. Your Excellency will, therefore, not be surprised, if, (in the event of the Commissioners or any other Government Officers visiting this place upon this errand,) I should, deeming it my duty, be led to refuse to have any thing whatever to do in the matter.|I could say, Sir, a great deal more on this subject (closely connected as it is with one so very dear to my heart—the welfare of the Natives) but I have not strength just now. I may, perhaps, incur your Excellency’s displeasure for not seeing and acting with the Government, for which I shall be sorry;—but I dare not go against the established convictions of my mind, grounded too, as they are, upon my knowledge of the Native Character, and the painfully striking contrast between the rude yet prospering and healthy Native of the Coiuntry, and the daily decreasing and demoralizing ones of the Towns.|May the Almighty Disposer of all things so enlighten your Excellency, that you may not only do all things for the honor of the Quieen’s Majesty, but, also, for the good of His Church, and the welfare of this Territory and People.—|Iam,|Sir,|with every respect,|Your Excellency’s|most obedient Servant,|William Colenso,|Ch. Missionary.|
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SourceFile: doc_0062.txt
Date (precise): 1848 December 23
Addressee: The Colonial Secretary
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: (Copy.) 96|Church Mission Station,|Waitangi, Hawke’s Bay,|December 23, 1848.|Sir,|I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 7th. ulto., in which you are pleased to give me a sketch of the plans of the proposed “Canterbury Settlement,” and in which you further wish me to aid (as far as I may be able) H.M. Government in obtaining the whole if this District from the Aboriginal Proprietors, &c.|I should have answered your Letter long ere this, but having been absent, travelling among the Natives of the District during the last 2 months, and having only returned to this my Station on the 18th. instant, I have not been able to do so.|In reply to your Letter, Sir, I have to state, that I have attentively read it, and (I trust) duly considered the principal subject thereof in all its various bearings upon the Natives; and I regret, deeply regret, to have to say, that I cannot conscientiously aid or assist or in any ways use any influence which I may possess over the Native Chiefs to prevail upon them to alienate the whole of their Lands to the Crown, or to accept of “Reserves” for themselves (when the Land has become so alienated) in scattered or detached parcels or blocks among the whites. Both of which plans being, in my humble opinion, equally fraught with no less than the utter and speedy extinction of the whole of the Native race.—|I have, however, Sir, in compliance with your request, made known to the Native Chiefs of this neighbourhood, the wish of his Excellency to purchase the District, and the “benefits” arising from the location of the “Canterbury Settlement,” &c., &c., as contained in your Letters.—|As I cannot conscientiously advise the Natives to part with the whole of their Lands, nor recommend them (in the event of their doing so) to accept of Scattered or detached reserves—and as I equally wish to live in peace with all, and by no means to bring myself into collision with, or to obstruct the carrying out of the plans of H.M Government—my aim will henceforward be to preserve a strict neutrality in this and other similar matters; and peacefully endeavour to follow out my Calling.|Having lately been very ill, and being still but very weak, with an afflicted household, and numerous cases of the usual Summer March Fever of this locality about me—I cannot now remark on many things which I much wish to bring before His Excellency’s notice concerning the matter in question. But, with His Excellency’s permission, I would beg briefly to call his attention to two important points, both of which I humbly conceive to be to the future general interest of the Colony: the one, the speedy carrying into effect that portion of the Queen’s Instructions (chap. xiv.) respecting the Aborigines of New Zealand, and the formally setting apart of those Aboriginal Districts therein mentioned, as the only human means of preserving the Aboriginal Race:—the other, that in the event of any Tract or Tracts of Land being purchased by H.M. Government in this District, great care shall be made to obtain it only from the rightful and bona fide proprietors; otherwise you may depend upon similar scenes being acted (only on a larger scale) to those of which the neighbourhood of Port Nicholson so lately became the theatre.|Believe me, Sir, (though I may be unfortunate in my views) to be actuated by a conscientious regard for the welfare temporal and eternal of this poor people; and allow me to subscribe myself,|Your most obedient servant|William Colenso|Ch. Missionary.|
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SourceFile: doc_0063.txt
Date (precise): 1849 January 4
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Church Mission Station,|Waitangi, Hawke’s Bay,|January 4, 1849.|My dear Sirs,|I lose no time in transmitting you copies of a correspondence which has very recently taken place between H.M. Government and myself.97|It is more than probable that my declining to cooperate with the Government in the matter, may be by them advantageously used against me on some future occasion.—But my trust is in the Lord.|Allow me to remark, that I am now entered on the fifth year of my ordination to the Ministry (I may say, in the very van of the battle), during the whole of which, and notwithstanding the many onsets which have been made upon me, I have never received a single line of direction or encouragement from either the Bishop on the one side or the Comee. of the C.M.S. on the other. It was anciently said, “Va soli!” and such should I have long ago oroved it to be, had not Christ graciously fulfilled his blessed promise— “Lo! I am with you all days.”— —|I write now in great haste.—I only returned from my usual long spring journey on the 18th. December (I wrote you a short note from Palliser Bay during my Journey), and have just finished making out my yearly Returns which I this day pass on to the Local Committee.|I may just copy therefrom, for your information (as you will in all probability receive this first)—|1848. average attend. of Congregations . . . . . . . . . 2175| ″ ditto Scholars . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1570| ″ Communicants, Males, 357 )| ″ Females, 185 ) 542| ″ Baptisms Males, 111 )| Females, 110 ) 298| Children, 77 )| ″ Marriages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52|So that we have much to be thankful for.|I have been very ill, but am now rallying again. Plenty of March Fever about. The Natives are peaceable, and are now beginning to cut their wheat. I do not think the Commissioners will get the District by fair means: but I have heard enough to convince me that they are determined to get it somehow.— —|I have no trust in man; I am sick; every one is striving for his own ends; every thing now-a-days is masked.|May God preserve the Church Missionary Society, and make their laborers faithful! Pray for us.|Believe me|my dear Sirs|Yours very sincerely|William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0064.txt
Date (precise): 1849 March 2
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Ahuriri
Letter Body: List of Medicines wanted for |Ahuriri Station| |Calomel, 8 oz.|Quassia (raspings) 3 lbs.|Tartarized Antimony, 2 oz.|Extract Conii, 1 pound.|Blue Pill, 1 pound.|Sulphur Vivum, 10 pounds.|Turpentine, 2 gallons.|Opium (crude) 8 oz.|Ipecacuanha Root, (Brown), 1 pound|Antimonial Powder, 4 oz.|Dover’s Powder, 1 pound.|Quinine, 4 oz.|Newberry’s James’ powder, 1 bottle.|Sulph. Potass. (pulv.) 1 pound.|Zinc Sulph., 4 oz.|Zinc Oxyd. 2 oz.|2 Lancets|1 Mortar (Wedgwood)|William Colenso|March 2/49.| In sending in the above to E.D. Comee. I did not | mention any quantity.|
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SourceFile: doc_0065.txt
Date (precise): 1849 April 8
Addressee: Gunn
Place: Wellington
Letter Body: Wellington|Easter Sunday, 1849.|My dear Sir|Your very welcome letter of 24 July reached me duly in the summer, but from illness, household affliction, then ever press of business (and I may truly enough say lack of opportunity from my out-of-the-way Station), I have again procrastinated until the present, and now, being here only for a few hours, I write in a great hurry.|Your letter contained much of News––for, had I not received it I should have been somewhat uneasy at not hearing from, nor of, our Botanical friend. Up to the present I have neither heard from Sir William nor Dr. Jos. Hooker—If I except a note of Introduction which came from Sir William enclosed in a Letter from Dr. Harvey of Fl. De ****. I have however received the last no. of the Flora. Antarca., so that now my sett is complete. Had Dr. Hooker commenced with N.Z. Plants––more, perhaps, than half of his Flora Antarca., would have been there included.|In spite of all my labours & distractions, I managed to send them another case of specimens since I last wrote to you; making the third from these parts. I confess, had I known the Flora N.Z. would not have been commenced ere this, I should not have exerted myself as I did by night & day––to get them off.|I have had several applications both from Noble & Scientific men for specimens––which I have been obliged to refuse to attend to, sorely against my will.|I cannot attend to Reeve’s requests in any other way than my proposal which I made to him through Dr. J. Hooker––viz.–that I would send him specimens of all my shells (perthaps amountg. to 200 species) for a sett of His Conchological works99––a fair exchange, and a finish.––|Swainson lives in this neighbourhood, and is, I suppose, busy––as he keeps little or no company, & lives retired: he has ample opportunity for doing a great deal.|I suppose you have heard ere this from Dr. Hooker––any Information you can give respecting him will be always acceptable.––|I have had during the past year, a great deal of writing to the Government––at first of a very unpleasant nature. This consumed no small portion of time which might have been more profitably––or, at least, more pleasantly employed. Into that vortex I was drawn through some of my miserable countrymen, who were pleased to charge me with something akin to Treason! I scarcely need add, that I came off, as they say, “with Flying Colours”––much to their chagrin & bitter disappointment.100|I still hope to do somewhat for your “Journal”––but I must not again promise.|I am still in my uncomfortable quarters, with little prospect of a remove.|Some of the Books (and perhaps Letters) sent from the Hookers have for certain been lost––as Dr. H. mentions particularly Raoul’s Flora N.Z., & some other Frenchmen’s productions, which I have never seen. Any thing on N.Z. Botany, or the allied Flora’s (V.D.L. & the Southern Islets,) interest me much.|In my last case despatched, were some new Ferns, & new Cryptogamic plants; little else of novelty, save some Algæ.|This town has been all but completely shook to pieces with the numerous shocks of earthquakes which have lately occurred. The House in which I now am is completely ruined, and is deserted! but all this you must have read in the papers. It is a curious fact, that at Hawkes Bay (my station) where earthquakes were so common, we have not had a single shock, since the first which floored the Wellingtonians. The shocks still continue here at intervals.––a barbarous murder has very recently been committed in this neighbourhood––a quiet Settler & his 3 little ones all murdered in the night: a Native is now in custody upon circumstantial evidence, and a special Commission has been called to try him. I am now going to visit him.|I leave (D.V.) on my return Journey tomorrow, & hope to reach my station by the middle of May.|I am almost ashamed to send you such a uninteresting scratch––but, the thing is, this or none at this time.|Believe me|My dear Mr Gunn|Always sincerely yours|William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0066.txt
Date (precise): 1849 June 27
Addressee: W. Morris
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi|June 27, 1849.|Mr. W. Morris.|My dear Sir|Returning to my Station a few days ago, after my usual long autumnal rambling (upwards of 90 days)––I found among other welcome Letters one from you––and now that I am about to send a Native on to Turanga, I must find time to write a line to thank you for the same.––|Since you left our neighbourhood, I have very often indeed had you in my thoughts;––and had heard you were coming back again to Rangaika, which pleased me not a little; for I have proved you to be a good neighbour, and am still indebted to you for many little acts of kindness.––|The goods you so kindly brought me, I duly and safely received; the Cooper brought them in his boat to the door––following out, as it were, your kind example.––Of course you will receive freightage for them from Mr. Williams––who has generally paid freightages from Poverty, I repaying him again.|It is now very wet & stormy; the Gipsy is undergoing repair at Ahuriri, and was very nearly lost, in the late severe weather, off the Cape.|Mr. Kier has left me at last,––he went away about 2 months ago, during my absence; he has bought some Land in the Rangitikei River, where, I suppose, he will eventually settle down. I feel as if I had lost an arm, now that he is gone––for I scarcely know any thing about the stores or their places.––|I hope you are doing well and that your Children with yourself enjoy good health. We have very much of sickness about us. I am thinking of removing to Waimarama, which place has several advantages––I want a warmer & dryer spot than this.|May God bless you my good old neighbour Morris, and give you to see & know that true treasure Jesus Christ,––may you find when in your need––whenever that may be––that you live in Jesus, through God’s mercy, all you need––a friend who sticketh closer that a Brother. A line from you will always give me pleasure.|Believe me, ever sincerely yours| William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0067.txt
Date (precise): 1850 January 7
Addressee: Renata Kawepo
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Translation of Native Letters|Copy of my letter to Leonard Kawepo|To the Pokonao,|To Leonard Kawepo.|Waitangi, Monday night|January 7th. 1850|O Sir,|O Leonard, greeting to thee, my love to thee is great. Yes, indeed, O Sir, true is my saying, here am I sorrowing for thee; here am I concerned for thee. If I had no love for thee, thou wouldst not at this time see my writing, neither should I be sorry or concerned for thee. Notwithstanding, Sir, I did not exactly know this morning what I should say to thee; I have indeed considered deeply, and now at length my mind is fixed. On my praying just now for thee that thou mightest be spared & be brought back into the right path; yes, it was then, O friend, on my remembering the word of our Lord which I read at morning prayer this day: (viz.) Matthew V. 42.|O Sir, O Leonard Kawepo, greeting to thee, that is to say to that Leonard who came with me from the Bay of Islands, to that Leonard I now write. O Sir, alas! greeting to thee. May God direct and teach me; as that my writing to thee may be correct.––|Behold, O Sir: Alas! we must be separated. Now immediately I will cease thy word of being Teacher now thine heart be dark without cause at this word. Say not, “This thing is done suddenly”; or “done in a hurry”; or “no one knows what this is for”. O Sir, not so. For a long period have my thoughts wrought within me that thou shouldest sit still, ever since the other year, even 1848 while Mr. Kier was still here; at that time it was that my thoughts & thy actions began to (degenerate?). But, O Sir, it was but a little then at the first commencement of thy starting aside; yet it has long ago been perceived by us, that is, by all of us, and we have all felt much concerned on thy account. Yes, I bore long (with thee) I said in my heart, that thou wouldest surely see thy own degeneracy, & that thou wouldest then return. |But, not so. Then I thought, when Hirini Tarahawaiki comes (here, to remain as teacher,) then perhaps; or at the time perhaps when I should remove inland to the Waitaurakai; yes, even thus O Sir, was it within me. Nevertheless, that thou mayest not say that this word of mine is untrue, let me now remind thee of the numerous admonitions I gave thee in the year which is just passed. Did I not O friend, remind thee privately, of the numerous things which were said by the people concerning thee? yes, & of thy growing apathy towards School and prayers,––of thy never once visiting any of the numerous sick, although close to thee at thy own village,––of thy approaching more & more towards heathenish ideas, with regard to land, to women, to chiefs, to trading, and to many other things––(also with regard) to thy continually keeping thyself aloof and out of the sight of me thy Minister, thou didst never come near me unless expressly sent for. And, with regard to these likewise, (which I now for the first time mention to thee,) viz., the altered and unprofitable nature of thy sermons on the Sabbath-days; and the altered and unprofitable nature of thy prayers on Prayer-meeting evenings, (this was the principal thing in which I detected (the declension of) my friend, and I felt grieved for thee,) and, certain of my native teachers likewise spoke to me concerning thee, grieving on thy account, and saying, Alas! how much altered for the worse, is the manner, and the talk, and the style of writing of Leonard; and, they word to me likewise at our last conversation, thou didst say, that, “Thou didst not understand the meaning of the Chapters so as to explain them in class.”––|Now, O friend, it is not that thou mayest be completely cut up, that I write these things to thee, not so indeed; but rather, this is a true thing to destroy the natural heart which is continuallky striving and searching for something whereby to excuse itself. Therefore it is that I give thee these little promptings of admonition. In asmuch as I consider,––that the conscience of my friend, who accompanied me from the North, is not yet perhaps utterly destroyed.|O Sir, O Leonard, thou wast a different man formerly. Yes, thy conversation was pleasant to me; thy prayers were good; thy ways were correct; at the period when thou wast spoken against by the many, but, wast praised and kindly treated by his Minister. But as for this, the fine gold is become tarnished, and that which was light within thee is become darkness! And for this reason, formerly thou didst not approve of those who receive the truth in unrighteousness; thou didst not care to have any fellowship with them; thou didst not approve of heathenish talk and wrong actions. But, at that time, thy reading was pleasant to thyself, thy secret prayers to God were sweet; thou wast joyful, and thoughtful, and internally illuminated when thou hadst a word to say for thy Lord, or when thou didst expound – – – – – thou didst not tire, nor be at a loss for words. And thy words to us were good, and to some of thy friends and mine; good words, peaceable words; words of Christ were thy words and thy writing too.|Now, O Son, O Leonard, I am thoughtful much for thee,––for thee and for thy wife (Maud) and her child. Suffer my single word O friend, that is, dwell quietly. Do not thou have anything to say against the faith, or against the ruler of the church; lest thy lips should err. Yes, dwell peaceably, and repent thou when the stirring up time shall come from the presence of God. Do not thou attend to Heathen men, to their sayings; perhaps it would be much better if thou wert to listen to that of thy Minister who truly loves thee, & who watcheth for thy soul––having regard to his own Judge–– And, although perhaps thou will not assent to what I write at this present time, nor will thou perhaps receive what I say when it reaches thee; yet leave it awhile; to my mind it is true; and I yet look forward in expectation of receiving thy full assent thereto, hereafter;––when the scales shall have fallen from thine eyes.|Behold, I am left alone, O Sir, O Leonard, I am left alone by myself; but, not so. Here, with me, is my Protector. Greatly hath he comforted me this day; He will not forsake me. Yes, this day, at this time, this time of weakness, and trouble, has he made His strength to appear in his weak servant, that the churches may see that from Him alone is strength derived.|Now, know, O Sir, I pray for thee, that thine eyes may be opened; that thou mayest be lifted up out of the miry pit, and that thou mayest be made to stand anew upon the Rock. Yes, &, for thy wife likewise for Maud, that her heart may be consoled by the Comforter. That is all, it is finished.|From me is this writing|From thy loving Minister,|From Colenso.||No. 3.|Extracts from Leonard’s answer to the foregoing|“O Sir, O Colenso, greeting to thee, the man who is crying to God, greeting to thee, yes, O Sir, greeting to thee. This is my word to thee. Good is thy word of condemnation of me, it is good. Yes, I will assent to thee on account of my sins. Yes, I am a sinful man, I will not deny that which thou hast here said, it is good. I told thee on this Sabbath-day, & before also, that it was want of food, and the continual wandering of the people, and the thought for my body, this is the root of my errors, of my sins, this is the very thing. xxxxxxxxxxxx O Sir, behold, that thou shouldest put me down is good, thou didst say that I should be a Teacher, and thou hast taken it from me it is good. xxxxxxxxxxx. For two weeks hast thou been preaching about me, therefore I went inland, to my estate, to Heretaunga, and on Sunday when you saw me you were again angry with me, and so on to the Monday, I said this is Heathenish anger against me, for two weeks hast thou been at me, then I said, It is just as though I had made myself the head of the teacher that thou keepest grumbling so at me, for two weeks hast thou been mocking me, I will go out x x x x x. Now, if it is for my sins that thou hast put me down, why didst thou not put me down at the time? rather it is because I answered thee that thou hast thus put me down. x x x x x Thou seekest to see upon me the fruits of repentance; let that wish be there aside; if thou shouldest see that it is true, if wrong let it be so. x x x x x|Behold, here is my one word, that is concerning our bodies; behold, I have been a shield (for thee) the breakwater of the bows, but now that it is broken down, the waves will rush into midships; this is sufficient. I, perhaps, had better step aside, I, this defence of this storehouse, I, the door which has been broken; I, this fence which has been battered down; being dirty, being defiled with wickedness, with sin, with darkness, with error; henceforward nothing but wind shall blow on the earth; take back then thy gift of kindness to me x x x x x|That is all, from thy son formerly, now from error, from sin, from wickedness this to thee, |(Signed) From Leonard formerly, at present from error this letter to thee.”||A day or two afterwards (during my absence at Tangoio) he sent me another letter, extracts from which I here subjoin.––|“O my father, greeting to thee. Good is thy word of lamentation over me; it is good. x x x x Behold, my words against thee are gone forth, of which thou hast already heard through Heihei. It was thy fault, in that thou didst grumble so continually at me, therefore I said to thee, that I am a body shield, a break-wind and these thou hast broken down. Behold the wind blows upon the earth how violently! Notwithstanding my words concerning thee are nothing but bad, because thouy didst find fault with me. That is it––it is evil, a thrusting thee forth, that thou mayest begone; and I, I have been seen by the shepherd’s of Christ’s flock, and they have known me. I do belong to the fold, an erring sheep whom Satan & Colenso have slain, & Christ will leave the flock and return to search for the sheep which erred. |Behold, hear thou, great will be the wind blowing upon the earth. Behold my anger against thee is great, but within my heart there is nothing but love towards thee. Behold, be thou very patient when the wind shall have reached thee,. That is all, here I am still feeling love towards thee, From thy bad son, From Leonard.|If thou shouldest be thrust out by the people & bid begone, do not thou be cast down at that saying. Presently I will be angry with this people, I shall fight against them this day. When thou arrivest here, a Committee will be held about thee, by this people, and if their talk concerning thee be bad, then will I turn upon them and chide them. I will not permit thee to be killed by them, no, thy being angry with me, and my being angry with thee is all very good, because it is a parent’s anger and a child’s anger, afterwards the parent is a parent and the chiold is a child, sympathizing back and sympathizing forth, loving back and loving forth. And there is love yet with in the heart, although great may be the evil towards thee, be thou very patient, for if they should leap forward to attack thee it will be bad.”|(I suppose, that Leonard having succeeded in rousing the evil passions of the Native Chiefs (and seeing the extent to which he had carried them,) his heart began to fear the ultimate consequences, and therefore he wrote me the foregoing. Mrs Colenso tells me, it was brought by Muora, L’s. wife, on the evening of the 16th. Jany., the day of my return to the Station)||(copy) No.4.|“From the Rongootuhawaiki.”|(the name of the large house of K. |Takau in the pa at Te A.)|To Waitangi, to Colenso|O Sir, greeting to thee, this is our word to thee, listen thou, on Friday come hither, that we may talk together, and put in order the talk which is straight and the talk which is wrong, which has been shewn to us this year, and the ways of former days which are good or bad. Those which are bad to be cast aside, those which are good to be retained as valuable and as work for the people. If thou assent to these words, that is all the talk will be finished upon thy assenting, that is all.| (Signed) From me, From te Moananui| From Karaitiana| From te Ahu (Tareha)| From thy loving friends.||No. 5.|(1.) O ye people, O Ngatikahungungu, greeting to you. This is my question to you, What is this Committee of yours? Is it a committee upon native things? or is it a committee upon sacred subjects? If it be a committee upon native things, it is very good, to yourselves belong those things; but what have I to do with them? If it be a committee upon sacred things, things appertaining to worship, – – – – listen all of you, for me alone, for the root is it to think & direct about such things; as for this committee of yours, it is mere children’s work, a canoe without a figure-head or rudder, a committee idly called without authority. From me| From Colenso.|(2) Come hither, my writing and go to the sheep of Christ, sitting astray here at the Awapuni. O my flock alas! greeting to thee; behold, this is from thy Lord to thee O flock, that is, “His sheep hear his voice”: behold, here with me, with his servant is his voice. Therefore it si that I say unto thee, O flock; Arise, depart, hasten to your own pastures, and feed there upon sweet grass, for at the Awapuni is no sweet grass or cool water.|From me––From the Shepherd of Heretaunga.|Catechism. “To submit myself to all my governors, teachers, spiritual pastors, and masters.”|3.) “From Waitangi to the Rongootuhawaiki.”| To te Moananui, to Karaitiana, to te Ahu, to my loving friends, that is, who are said to be. Listen! your writing has come to me; behold, ye say, that ye are my loving friends; now then, if that be true, cease back-biting me.–– “The thrust of a stick may be parried aside, the thrust of a word will not go aside.” (a well-known nat. prov.) I will not go (to you),|From me, From Colenso||No.6.|From the Awapuni.|“To Colenso, Waitangi. O Sir, here is this word to thee, we shall not go to service on this Sabbath, for it is of no use to attend service, and turning away at the same time, better to make peace with man, & then make peace with God. If thou hadst listened to those our words which were written to thee, by this it wd. have been over. As it is, thou hast drawn it out to a great length; behold, sufficient is this, there is no more good that we should attend service together. Notice this, remain thou away on that side (of the river) to prayers. Here is this word of ours likewise to thee, listen thou, on Monday we shall come over to thee that we may talk together; do not thou set this aside; this is a good thing. For if thou set this aside, the flock will no longer look upon thee as a shepherd. Then, depart thou hence from the whole of Heretaunga; think not thou, from hence, from the Awapuni alone, but from the whole of New Zealand. It is finished.”|(Signed) From Te Moananui| From Te Ahu| From Karaitiana||No. 7|On the Sunday evening.|O Sirs. I have only just now looked at your writing; on my return from bathing. Here I have torn up your letter, and returned it to you; it being a writing of bad words. [I have already written to you,––saying, ye have nothing whatever to do either with me or my work; ye take too much upon you to dictate thus to me. Now I will not see you tomorrow, even though ye should take upon yourselves to come across. For this reason that your error is increasing. When ye shall have repented heartily of your misdeeds, then shall we see (one another). But from me will be the appointment.|From me, From Colenso|To Karaitiana & Co.||No. 8|From Waitangi, on the 21st. January.|O Sirs,––O te Hapuku and Pukara greeting to you. Here am I much ill-used by Ngatikahungungu. Begold this is mine which I enquire of both of you, Are ye assenting to these doings, or not? Write hither, that I may know. Seeing that it was you two who fixed me here upon this spot from wh. I am now thrust forth. Neither I nor Mr. Williams saw these men who are now thrusting me out, that is, when we arrived here (in 1843); but rather you two. That is all. From me,| From Colenso.||No. 9|(Copy)|“To the Awapuni, to Colenso. O Sir, greeting to thee and to thy children, sitting there surrounded by evil. O Sir, this only is ours weeping continually for thee. We will not mix ourselves up with that evil. The suffering is not for thee alone, for us also. Soon perhaps shall we be murdered (by them). Nevertheless be thou very patient. Do not thou upon any account leave, nor we either, until the arrival of Mr. Williams & the Bishop, then thou wilt be able to speak when there shall be Europeans to listen. Behold, here is the word which we have heard, That a payment is being collected for their having bound thee. Do not thou on any account turn to them, (i.e. receive it) for the causelessness of they suffering is fully seen. It is thy son Leonard who has murdered thee. This also, we have heard, that Tareha, Te Moananui, and Karaitiana, are writing for another Minister to come for this place. Let there be no other Minister but thee for Heretaunga. Write thou a letter for thyself to the Bishop, and to Mr Williams.”|(Signed) From Te Hapuku| From Puhara.||No. 10.|From Sydney Hoekau, Chief of Kohinurakau,|January, 1850.|“Go then, my love to my Father to Colenso. O Sir, greeting to thee who art being devoured by evil. Thy very own friend hath betrayed thee. Like Judas giving up Christ to death. O Sir, be great-hearted towards those evils. That very own son of thine hath murdered thee. The lifting up that of Leonard’s heel against thee.”|“That is all, From Sydney to Colenso.”||From Elisha Huakuru, N. Teacher, Kohinurakau.|Hanuere 23rd, 1850.|Go then my letter to my loving Father, at Waitangi perhaps. O Sir, O Colenso, greeting to thee, here is love gnawing painfully in my heart towards thee. When the news concerning thee arrived here, that thou wert being ill-used for the holy word of God, I said, It is well; because, is it only so now, in these latter times? no, from of old, even so says the preacher of his word. Stephen, what was done to him? He was stoned. What was done to Paul? He was put to death for the word of God. What was done to Shadrack & his party? They were cast into the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. Therefore do I say concerning thy ill-usage, it is well. This is my word of simile; even thy own word, when thou and I were at Port Nicholson “What effect will that have upon flint, upon iron, upon lime, the fire will not affect them. O Sir, do thou & I cleave to Christ, even as the paua haliotis cleaves to its rock in the sea, the waves affect it not. x x x x x This is my idea, (concerning those who are to be Baptd.), if there is much noisy talk out there, let them come here & be baptized, this will be well.| (Signed) From me, From Eraihia Elisha||From Te Awi, a heathen Chief at Tangoio.|“Written on the 25th.|Go to Waitangi to Colenso. O Sir, give me the hand that we may “How d’ye do” and the nore that we may rub noses. O Sir, greeting to thee, great indeed is my love for thee, because thy love hath come to us, therefore I feel love towards thee now that thou art ill-used. What of it? Thou sufferest for the work of the Lord. Good indeed is thy ill usage, O servant of God. x x x x x Behold, here is another word of mine to thee, if that fall (of theirs) had been ours we would not have turned upon thee & ill-used thee. It is better (for them) to call to God, that he would give wisdom unto the evil hearts of the people. O Sir, here is a song from of old, from our ancestors,| | That is all, From Te Awi.||No. 11. Letter to the Governor||(Copy) No. 12.|Go then my writing to the other side of the river, to Colenso, O Sir, greeting to thee, listen thou to this word, the men from inland who come here, that is those teachers of thine whom thou hast directed to come & hold service here. O Sir, they must remain each at his own place to prayers. Do not thou appoint people to come here to ridicule and to taunt at error because they are native men precisely the same as the men of this place. O Sir, we do not like those men. Although said to come to prayers.––|(Signed) From Karaitiana Badman.”||No. 13|O Sir, O Karaitiana, greeting to thee,––all that the man of the church has to do is to attend to that which his Minister approves of. There is the answer to thy letter hanging up at the church porch!| From me, From Colenso|(That is, the arranged & printed place of visiting, wh. had been there for some time.)||“Though men of spite against me join|They are the sword, the hand is thine”|
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SourceFile: doc_0068.txt
Date (precise): 1850 February 25
Addressee: William Williams
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi Feb. 25 1850|typescript|My dear Sir|I cannot but deem it a part of my duty to make you acquainted with some of the more prominent features of the late extraordinary commotion here. And, chiefly so, first, from the fact (as I have been credibly informed) of some of the ringleaders therein having had the hardihood to write letters to the Bp. about me!—and second, from my having written to the Lieut. Govr. to inform him of my ill usage and to claim his protection.|From multitude of causes however I can only give a meager outline, and pass over many minor matters.|On the 13th. Decr./49 I returned to the station from my inland journey to Patea, &c. having been absent a month. I found the place all but deserted by Natives, no prayer meetings, nor schools, nor daily prayers.|On Sunday the 16. I held the usual Services and Schools (though not well myself, as I scarcely ever am when at the Station at this Season, owing to the presence of March malaria) and, endeavoured, as usual with me at the close of the year, to stir up the Congns. and Schools of the Station to consider their ways, speaking more particularly to the Teachers and Monitors:—Renata K., Apiu. P., Noa, Katene. Noticed congregation generally being very careless and indifferent and many of them asleep in Ch. during D. Service.|On the 19th. I conducted our usual prayer meeting; lecturing upon Ps. 101.1 Noah & Katene not present.|On the 20th. I held a full evg. Service discoursing from 2 Pet.iii.17; 3 out of 4 Teachers absent.|On the 21st. and 22nd. I was engaged with Porangahau natives, going with them to Ahuriri to return some stolen propy. and to give 4 hogs as a payment for what was said to be still missing. In the evg. I held pr. meeting, lectg. fm. Jno. xx.25 Abraham not present.|23rd. Lord’s Day. I held the usual services, and school. At the mg. Service the Natives were as last Sy. unusually sleepy, insomuch that I paused consy. during my reading the Litany, in order that they might start up as some wre snoring loudly, and other wrapped up in their hot blankets lay stretched out at length. (I had again and again cautioned them about their hot dirty blankets as not only being a cause of sleep, but also a cause of fever at this hot season.) The Litany ended I rose up, and it was some minutes before the congr. had aroused themselves or rather each other; much grieved I proceeded to give out a hymn, but on seeing some still lying stretched out near the doorway, I called to them and desired them either to sit up as they ought to do in the Ho. of God, or if not to go out. Some one called out loudly, “Ko koe ranei kia haere atu ki waho”. The Porangahau and nother strange Natives, assd. here for the Xmas, being present, I deemed it most unwise to pass this by; so walking out of the desk, I went towards the place where the one to whom I had party. spoken was (and whom I supposed to have ansd. me,) and asked him, “E ta, nau ranei te kupu ki aau kia haere atu I taku nei ware karakia?” He quietly ansd. “Ehara I aau, na tera tou”. I asked, “Na wai?” and the person was then pointed out—Te Waka Te Kawatini, a chief of the Ngatihori tribe (an old offender, who had again been excluded from the last Com. for stealing a Blkt. from Mr. Alexander) who was sitting against one of the pillars of the chapel. Going to him, I twice asked him these words, “E ta, nau &c.” To wh. he made no answer. His large Test. wh. I had formerly given him, lying before him, I took it up and returning to the Desk and pulpit continued the Service. After Service, I was informed that the person who slept so long on the ground near the door was Oneone, Tareha’s father. At evg Service, at Tareha’s request, I Baptized his dying child; a pretty little girl named Tahitio, who had been gradually sinking for several months, and for whom we had done all that was in our power, in food and medicine, and washing, &c.—by night and by day—her mother being the sister of K. Takamoana, and a niece of Te Waka Tekawatini.|25. Xmas day. I struggled hard, and held Mg. Service and School as usual; but was very unwell. Mrs. Colenso distrib. 100 cakes, to as many wom. and child. With diffy. I read the evening prayers but cd. not preach. I should have asked my N.T. Renata to address the Congn. it being very large, but I had done so, on 3 several and similar occasions in the spring, to all of which he refused; and, I had often heard of the pitiable alteration in his discourses in my late absence.|26–29. Very closely engaged in making out yearly papers for Comee. Teachers, Helpers, and Monitors, all away scattered.|30. Sunday. Held usual Services and Schools. Mg. preaching from rom. xiii.ii. Evg. Ps. xc.12. Gave notice of a extray. Prayer meetg. tomorrow (being the last) evg. in the year, to be held as usual in the School-room.|31. Morning read prayers and held Schools. Evg. Prayet Meetg. but was so unwell as to be obliged to leave in the midst; I strove hard and returned but could not address the few present. I was quite ill.|1850 Jany.1. Though very unwell, I sent for R., not having had any close conversn. with him very lately. On his coming I pd. him £1.10.0 ( a ½ yrs. stipend) and we talked together in my study for some time:—I told him of several things wh. I had lately heard against him, all of wh. he denied; I remarked, that the evil report wh. one of 2 persons might raise about a bridge or a canoe or a road, wd. not be greatly noticed; but that it was a common saying that everyone says must be true, and that he should get up and testify to the falseness of these many “little things” now so commonly sd. concg. him. I said, I had scarcely a peson about me now on whom I cd. depend; that I had (on my return from T.) called on all, and party. on the Teachers and Helpers, to consider their ways at the now closing year—but that out of 4, 3 had immy. gone off (N. and K. to Ahuriri and A. to W.) and had only sleepily showed themselves on Sundays. He replied, It was very wrong in them to have done so. I said, another thing I am told is this, That whenever you conduct school you merely read the chap. and them conclude, without taking a single question; is it so? He replied, “Etika au, ekore ahau e kite nga tikanga o nga upoko e wakamaori atu ai ahau I runga I te karaihe”! This statement and the manner in which it was spoken, opened my eyes a little; I talked to him seriously and affy., for I loved him, showing him, that he shd. have been the last person to have entertained such an idea, &c.—and once more begged him to consider his ways, this too being the 1st. day of the year.|2nd. Two Wairoa Natives arrd. from Rev. J.H., bringg. letter for me. Busy all day in writing letters to N. Teachers at Wairarapa. Having rung the Bell for our usual Prayer Meetg. I went to the School room, and, after waiting and only 2 Natives coming (besides the 2 from the Wairoa), I held a service and came away much grieved. On enquiry I found, that Renmata had early this morning left with his people for the swamps a few miles off, there to scrape flax for Mr. Alexander; he and Katene had in September last taken taken the putting up of a fence on the station, for which they had asked £2.14.0, and I had promised to give them £3.0.0. but this they soon threw aside—and that he had told Abm. and others, on my return from Taupo, that for them to do as I wished was the way to kill and starve themselves outright— “What! School Monday morning, prayer meetg. Wednesday evening, School Thursday morning, a full Service Thursday evening, and prayer meetg. again on Saturday evening, where is the time for work?” Hence it was, that Abm. left for Waimarama.|5th. At sunset the Natives congregating here as usual for the Sunday, I caused the bell to be rung, and finding R. was not forthcoming, went to the Chapel and read prayers, 62 present. Had some diffy. in hetting across the river from the large canoe being aground. R. was not there.|6th. Sunday. (Here I should remark that my plan is to ring twice on the Sunday morning, the first bell at ½ past 8 as a preparatory one, and the 2nd. at 9, when I leave the House.) This morning after the ringing of the 2nd. bell, on going to the river with Mrs. Colenso and family we found the large canoe (wh. serves as a common floating bridge for all) aground, and my 2 household lads vainly attempting to drag her into deep water. While we were standing on the banks, Te Moananui and his people (upds. of 20) came up from R.’s village, and I said to them “Did you not hear the first bell? Why did not some of you make more haste here, and get to rights our bridge—it is the bridge of all and cannot be done by two persons.” And aftds. on entg. the canoe I said nearly the same words to the Chf. himself (who was next to me), adding “Why did you not send some of your young men on before you to help my two lads to float the Canoe for us?” No remark whatever was made by anyone to what I had said—there not being room for any. Just as we were shoving off, Renata and Katene and their party came hastening down to enter the Canoe. On seeing them, I said, “Ihea koutou i te pere tuetaki, te haere mai ki te parepare i te waka? Kore hoki e taea e te tangata Kotahi; no tatou tahi hoki tenei arawata.” L. replied, “E taea ano e Matiaha (one of my lads) te parepare atu kaua e waka iwinuitia ekoe hei matenga mo ngatangata.” I sd. “I spoke just now to Te M. and his party and they said nothing; but when I speak to you, you turn upon me directly. You, L. should have been here to your duty instead of being away the whole week. Upon which he sd. a good deal. And on desiring him to cease, he replied, “Kati ranei koe te korere &c. – – Ko koe anake, – – ko koe anake —kati koe te korero.” Katene also said, much in an undertone. A great deal more was said by R. who remd. on the banks of the Pa talking loudly, while we were crossing which from the noise of the paddles I did not catch but I heard “Titiro! e haere riri ana kit e karakia; akaunei ia te iri ai ki nga tangata o te ware:—kota anake e wakakino ana I te ratapu. Emara! Ehara ahau I te mea wakarite na te komite,” &c. On landing, I said, “A., if that is the state of your heart I think you had much better return to your house, and not come on to Ch.” When he replied, “Ki te hoki ahau! ka hoki katoa, kahore he tangata mo tau karakia.” Mrs. Colenso, stepping on shore, said to me, “ he seems determined to contend”; so, leaving him talking we went on to the Chapel. Mg. Servive over, I remained alone as my custom is in the Chapel until the bell rung for School; during wh. time I thought deeply whether I should place some one else over the 2nd. Reading Class instead of R.; at last I concluded that he should come to school, and rise to take his class, to say nothing (at present) but to allow him quietly to do so. The bell rung, and the Sch. having been opened with sg. and prayer, T. rose and took his class; and no allusion was made by any one to the occurrences of the morning. At Evening Service there were only 3 women present besides our own girls, and 35 men; the Cong. of the mg. being m. 60, w. 30, ch. 16—the majority who were absent sitting idle in the pas. A sad beginning for the n. year!|7. See Journal:—|To the few who remained, I said, “you have heard me accused by my Teacher of error,k sin, &c. Now, I will confess my error, this is it. My admitting many of those Natives, T. Pekapeka and others to the Holy Comn. the other day. You know that I said I would not take upon myself the responsy. (under existing circumstances i.e. an oppory. of the L.S. once in 1 or 2 years), of keeping any one away therefrom, unless for very gross and unrepented crimes; now this is my great error, that I should have allowed such persons, whose conduct is more that of pigs and dogs than Xns., to drink of the Cup of the Lord.|However, one thing will result from this—there can not now be any adult Baptism here next month. The few natives who have remd perceiving I ceased talking also withdrew. I, being now alone, went to the Comn. Table, and there thanked God with an overflowing heart for his great deliverance, and prayed for forgiveness and guidance, and felt greatly comforted.|After we had all left the Chapel Abm. Pown (the only Teacher who had stood by me, and who, every time that T. Pekapeka rushed upon me with his threats, walked close up to my side) said to Katene (who was sitting in the village, nr. the path), Thou art the cause of all this contention; for it is mainly through thy continual talking to us about the excellencies of other Ministers, and finding fault with our own, that we have been induced to act in this way.”|This evening Tareha’s child died, and great wailing was made for her.|8. Wrote and sent a letter to R. (Note. As translationms of this, and of all letters wh. passed bet. us have already been sent to the C.M.S., they are barely mentioned in the Journal.) Red Evening Prayers; R. attendg.|9. Read Mg. prayers, 52 present. As soon as prayers were ended they all went out. I afterwards heard that they had leagued together 1st. to attend no more Schools; and 2nd. not to allow me to appoint anyone to be Teacher, save one of themselves. This mg. I recd. a letter from renata in ans. to mine of yesterday. Heard during the day that the Heathen Chiefs generally greatly disapproved of the treatment which I had received from the Baptized Natives. This evening I buried Tareha’s daughter, Aui Tuhitio; and read prayers in the Chapel; 88 present|10. Read mg. prayers at the close of wh. all again marched out. Engd. in ppg. p.p. 23, 24 H.D. and in preparing to leave tomorrow on a visit to Tangoio, etc., as previously arranged. Had extreme diffy. in getting any one to go with me as baggage bearers, R. having succeeded in keeping back those who had promised to go. After evening prayers wh. I read, I had a long conversn. with Tareha (who mourns the loss of his child very much) in the verandah of my house. Endeavoured to comfort him—gave him totara timber and nails for a fence round her grave; and lent him my boat and oars (the first time of their being used) during my absence, to go afishing. He tried much to persuade me from going to Tangoio; but I told him I cd. not remain not merely on account of the Natives having assembled there, but that this was a journey to make peace with and restore the Tribes of that valley, from their late fall, which he also knew.|11. Left the Station this mg.—leaving a note for Abm. to take the Sunday and Monday mg. Services at xi. After we had crossed Ahuriri harbour, Parsons Te He—a Thames N., whom I was glad to get to go with me, told me what R. had told him that mg.—he had endvd. to persuade him not to go with me to T., and finding he would not disobey his Minister, he R. said, if Parsons had been from these parts he would make him remain, and that this mg. as soon as I should be gone, he, R., wd. go to the pa and use all his influence to get the Native Chiefs to rise against my cows, which were eating their grass and not paying for it; and, further, thatn he wd. not be satisfied with any thing less than their driving me from the whole Island!! and, as to Apm. Brown, if he or anyone dared to take the Services on the Sy. he R. wd. get up in the Chapel and strike him, and put him down.And that he would soon get anor. M., for M’s were plentiful enough.|12th. and 14th. at Tangoio.|15. Returned to Petane.|||to here 4403|
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SourceFile: doc_0069.txt
Date (precise): 1850 June 24
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: This is taken from a Bagnall typescript, needs to be corrected from original|Waitangi, Hawke’s Bay,|June 24, 1850.|Secretaries, |C.M. House, |London. |My dear Sirs, |1. My last short letter to you was in February of this year. With it I forwarded a portion of my Journal down to Feb. 16/49, and a copy of a letter which I had just sent to the Archdeacon.|2. I now send you another small portion of my Journal down to June 8/49; and a copy (translated) of the Appendix to my letter to the Archdeacon, and also a copy of my letter to the Bishop. |3. I returned on the 16th. of April from my usual autumnal tour throughout the District. At Wairarapa myself & nearly 200 native communicants (many of whom had assembled thither from a distance to partake of the Lord’s Supper) were greatly disappointed in the non-arriva1 of the Rev. Mr. Cole, who was absent with the Lt. Govr. at Taranaki; but of which we knew nothing till after our arrival at Wairarapa. |4. Nothing very particular among the natives has lately occurred in the neighbourhood. The disaffected party are now both (outwardly) quiet and inwardly vexed; so that I see but little of them.|5. On the 31st. ulto, at 6 p.m. a very severe shock of earthquake was felt, which made us all leave the reeling houses as quickly as possible; it was the most severe of any we have hitherto experienced, & lasted about 1½ minutes; we, however, received no damage. On the 14th. inst. our Station was again inundated through the late heavy & almost continual rain, & we feared the worst as the mouth of the river was dammed up, but we were again providentially delivered from our fears. A large portion, however, of a new totara fence was torn up, and some timber & 6 goats carried away, and the whole place, including garden, transformed into a most miserable quag through mud & water. About 3 weeks since I had a public interview with the principal chief, Te Hapuku, and other chiefs, at his village, relative to my proposed removing to Waimarama; to this, however, he would not consent unless I purchased the site for which he modestly demanded £200! I am, therefore, still hedged in. His wish is, I know, to keep me by his side on account of medical & other collateral aids.|6. I have been, and still am, suffering much from rheumatism which is increasing in the violence and duration of its attacks. Such is the loss of strength and mental depression attendant upon it, that I have been unfitted for almost everything. I believe that it is in a great measure to be attributed to the unhealthy low & wet spot on which we reside; to which, doubtless, our continual headaches also owe their origin. |7. I have not yet heard from the Lieut. Governor or the Bishop. But from the Archdeacon we have lately had a kind sympathising letter, in which he says (Vid. letter of April 6, 1850.) “I have just been reading your long account and must express my entire satisfaction with the statement you have made, and my conviction of the hard measure dealt out towards you. ‘If when ye do well & suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable unto God.’ I doubt not you will see hereafter that good will arise out of this evil. It seems clear that there was deep rooted evil in the heart of Renata—this had begun to show itself in the careless apathy of his conduct during your absence from home, and hence the necessity of his removal when amendment appeared to be hopeless,” We have also had similar letters from others of our brethren, particularly from Mr. Baker, (who, during his residence at Turanga in the Archdeacon’s absence, had ample opportunities of seeing and conversing with several chiefs who went there from this neighbourhood), he says (Vide Letter of Mar.27/50): “Your public letter to the Archdeacon of Feb. 25 I have read very attentively. I have grieved much over the events mentioned in that letter; they are of a very painful character. You have indeed been in the hot fire of persecution. The treatment you have received from your people exceeds all I have ever heard of in this country. A viler proceeding has not yet been known in New Zealand. The source from whence this persecution has arisen is clearly traced to Renata, your chief teacher, and upon whom you appear to have bestowed greater attention than to any of the others. What base ingratitude. What a complete Judas Iscariot he has proved himself to be! I can very closely enter into your circumstances, knowing your ardent zeal for their good, and only receiving in turn the abuse of those who ought to manifest the greatent sense of obligation”. Leonard, the ex-teacher, is now at Manawatu, endeavouring to stir up some of his own tribe against me—and still threatens vehemently what he will do. But our Lord lives & reigns.|8. There has been no little talk among the settlers at Wairarapa, and the inhabitants of Wellington concerning the late ill-usage which I “The Natives’ Friend” have received from them. May I be allowed to request for my family’s satisfaction that you will kindly grant the loan of the copy of my letter to the Archdeacon with its Appendix to my cousin,—the Rev. J. W. Colenso of Tharston Hall, Long Stratton, Norfolk? And, should he draw upon you for £20 (Twenty pounds) please honor his draft and charge the same to my debit. |9. I have not yet received any answer from you to my letter of Decr./46. I trust I have still the confidence of the Commee. of the C.M. Society. |10. I hope to send you some more of my Journal by an early opportunity. And, desiring to be constantly remembered by you in your prayers, |am, my dear sirs, |with every respect, |Your mo. ob. servant, |William Colenso. |
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SourceFile: doc_0070.txt
Date (precise): 1850 September 17
Addressee: Gunn
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi, Hawke’s Bay, N. Zealand|September 17th 1850.|My dear Sir|I once knew an old lady in Cornwall, who used continually to be saying, “My dear Child, it cant be helped, you are born under a malignant planet!” Now it is not to profess to you my belief in astrology that I preface my letter with the foregoing sentence, but merely to give you my own opinion of our unlucky correspondence, or rather, of that share of it which falls to myself. I have now before me two of your kind letters, dated, respectyively, 5 Sepr./48, and 26 Augt./49, which, with Copies of the Tasmanian Journal, and a Letter from Mr. Gell (dated April 13/47!), reached me together onm the 20th. Jany. last. That was a time of unusual bustle––I should rather say, trial––(a sad state of things which lasted some time, during which my life & property were in continual danger, being hourly threatened by a large body of the Natives living about me, who, finally, siezed my person and carrying me off, bruised me much,––the sole cause, my putting down a Native Teacher who was unfit for his office!) during this time of trial, I was obliged to write to the Lt.-Govr., to inform him of my situation. And though I despatched a special messenger with my Letter, early in February an answer thereto only reached us here 4 days back––on the 31st. ult.! Mrs Colenso’s sister was married at Auckland in March last, and, although the news was quickly despatched, we have only now received it! From my good Correspondent the Parson of Wellington, I have only heard once during this year––i.e. on the 31st. ult.––And all this I write that you may the better comprehend my isolated & out-of-the-world situation. For, alas! now-a-days, in these unique times, when every one not only grasps Time by the forelock, but actually leaves him a long way astern––thanks to the march of intellect––the Steam––the railways––the Montgolfiers104––and the electric-lightning-winged posts––I fear you will be half tempted to think, that I am trespassing upon your credulity, did I not thus bring forward a few such plain facts, and thrust them into your witness-box. And then again (for I have not yet done,) I have not been to Wellington since I last wrote you there; and, of our 4 little trading-vessels––one foundered with all hands, and a second went to pieces at Cape Turnagain, in the winter of /49, while the third, too surely following in the wake of her sisters, also foundered, with all her crew, in the beginning of this present winter; by which, too, I lost (as I now find) all my Letters and Papers, &c., which had been quietly accumulating for me at Wellington! And, though I might give you some more, of the chapter of accidents and disagreeables, I will even now stop––or, I shall fill my sheet with anything but pleasant information. Now, is it at all unreasonable for me to think upon the exclamation of the old Cornish Lady? Seeing, too, that little wee things often lead one’s mind to a most heterogenous association of bulky ideas. I just now carefully looked out at my window, and, on beholding the snow still lying on the mountains, I thought on Humboldt on Chimborazo; while the keen “Southerly” which has been blowing all day, with its usual accompaniments of blackness and darkness & cold, immediately took me to Ross’ huge Antarctic Barrier of Ice, and the fearful collision of his two ships––a mental scene, at which my mind instinctively shudders.––|But I must rein in my wandering imagination, and endeavour to begin to write something that may, (through your kindness) pass for a Letter. But first I must thank you (which I see I have not yet done), for your two kind Letters and their Companions. And now, what shall I tell you in our way? Why, first, that I have been doing what I can during this past winter, in putting up plants––Marine & Terrine––for our friends, the 3 H’s.––i.e. the Hookers and Harvey. Of Phænogamous plants I have but a few––about 200 lots; of Crypts. (mostly Lichens), about 600, and of Algæ, about 500 Lots––making, in all, about 1300 separate lots––of which, if half prove to be of Service, I shall be amply repaid. To Dr. Harvey, I have only sent specimens of Algæ, which, however, will cause the gross total to amount to nearly 2000 separate lots––all marked, & commented upon! A job which I have only just brought to a conclusion, which has consumed all my spare time, and which I hope not to have to do again. I think, I must have told you, that I had received from the Doctor a copy of his splendid “Neries” (the 1st. part), in /47, and, in Jany./48, I promised him to do what I could for him. I hope his patience has not been quite exhausted in waiting so very long for the fulfilment of my promise, and even now (or, rather, when he gets the specimens, which are about to be shipped), he will find so many bad, half rotten & imperfect, that his opinion of me will not be improved, thereby. But I have done what I could; and, shall, I believe, henceforward be almost necessitated to give up the work––for such I now find it to be.––Quite enough, alone, fully to employ any one person. And, when I speak of giving it up––it is upon the principle of Dr. Johnson (as reported by Boswell), who would not taste wine, because, forsooth, if he commenced he would be sure to go right through;––and, so, I think, I must be content to relinquish my favorite pursuit, because, I have not time to do it well, and I cannot, for the life of me, be satisfied to do it badly. I have not, I confess, greatly cared to send off my boxes till now, as Dr. Joseph has been away visiting all nations:––one day we have him in Egypt––that land which has well been denominated “the Mother of Sciences and the race of Gods”––seriously contemplating the Pyramids, and there musing intently over the mighty dead;––and the next, rattling across the Arabian deserts like a true man-o’-war’s man! Again, we have him steaming down the Red Sea––the cliffs of which, with Sinai towering above them, must necessarily have recalled him to grave soliloquy––and, anon, on Elephant-riding in the Himalayan Jungles!! I sincerely hope he will reach his paternal roof in safety, and, being doubly moored (this time), get laid up in ordinary and in full pay for some few years at least. It is now about 12 years since I first had the honor of sending Sir William specimens of the N.Z. flora, and ever since I have been adding thereto; and I really do wish to know somewhat more of the Botany of this Country than the less than the tithe of a tithe of the same which has since then been published, and most of which I knew before. In so speaking, however, I do not include what the French have done; for, unfortunately (again! see how my “malignant planet” works!!) their publications I have never seen, although Dr. Jos. says he forwarded them to me. Raoul’s I should much liked to have got, but as I have long ago clean forgot all the little French I once knew, I care not to order any work in that tongue.|I hope that “Sp. Filicum” has not died a natural death. I have long ago received the iv. part which completes the 1st. vol. The “Icones” has, doubtless, ceased to be; and the “London Journal of Botany” is, I suppose, merged into the “Kew Garden Miscellany”. My English friends have been very kind––and I have had lots of Books sent me––among which, “Strickland on the Dodo”–– “Ralf’s on the Desmideæ”––“Hooker’s Rhododendrons”, and splendid “Centuryof Orchidaceous Plants”, have greatly interested me. From Reeves I have heard nothing, ditto returned. I have also had a letter from another new correspondent of Botl. fame––Ralfs; accompanied, too, with a whole lot of specimens of the English Flora in very excellent state. Would that I could immediately reply thereto as I ought, but this I cannot now do. For, although I know that there are several Collectors––Scotch, French, and German––here, all busily engaged, I will still hope, that Hooker will, ere long, resuscitate all those long-buried New Zealanders––and then I shall gladly remember you, & Ralfs, and one or two others, to the utmost stretch of my means. I have recently written to my agents, to send me, Acharius Lichenographia Universalis, & Hooker’s B. Flora, & some other similar works. I have been much pleased with an Enumeration of N. American Lichens, by Tuckerman, which has reached me. Have you ever seen any of the Scientific Publications of the American Exploring Expedition, which, under Com. Wilkes, was in these seas about 12 years ago? I have seen the Ethnographical part––a ponderous 4to. vol., and have, in fact, ordered it, and I should greatly like to get hold of their Botany if it has been published. In my present lot to Sir William there is not very much of novelty among the phænogamous plants; the principal ones comprise––another handsome Pittosporum, 2 fine Gaultheriæ, another Dracophyllum, a little Liliaceous plant––a perfect gem!––a few more Orchideæ, a couple of Veronicæ, perhaps another Podocarpus, ditto Fagus, ditto Suttonia, ditto Coriaria, ditto Elæocarpus, and a curious climbing umbelliferous plant, possibly an Angelica:––and, also, of the larger Crypts.––a Fern or two, but of nothing will I now speak positively. In Lichens, and the smaller Algæ, I trust much will be found both new & interesting.|I have, also, procured a couple of the ancient and all but quite extinct N. Zealand rat; which, until just now (and notwithstanding all my endeavours, backed, too, by large rewards,) I never saw. It is, without doubt, a true mus––smaller than our English black rat (mus rattus), and not unlike it. This little animal once inhabited the plains & Fagus forests of N. Zealand, in countless thousands, and was both the common food & great delicacy of the Natives—and already it is all but quite classed among the things which were. I have, also, a Bat––which I believe to belong to the genus Vespertilio, at all events widely (generically) distinct from the species mentioned by Gray, in Dieffenbach’s N.Z., vol. ii. p.296. This little creature I kept “alive” a whole month, and was not a little amused with its habits. And, among other novelties, I have discovered another & very distinct species of Vegetable Caterpillar, of which, however, I have only hitherto detected 2 specimens. It differs widely in general appearance from Sphæria Robertsii, and is somewhat thus. |Some fine specimens of Aseroe, and of that other nearly allied genus, Ileodictya, of which I have a new & very large species, which I call, I. laticostæ, and which, when fully evolved, forms a living mat of nearly 18 inches in girth!–|You enquire after an Apteryx.––How delighted should I be to succeed in getting you one. Three years ago, Owen expressed a similar wish, & I have repeatedly tried but failed. Yet here they still are in the mountain forest, though, doubtless, fast hastening towards extinction.|I saw a live one in its wild state two years ago in the dense woods of the interior; I saw it clearly, and watched its movements for some time without being at all perceived by the creature. It moved quickly along,––much like a hen when running after a fly. On seeing me it quickly dived into the untrodden recesses of the forest. Two live ones were lately taken by the “Acheron” steamer to Sydney, where they died; these were obtained at the Bay of Islands––where, also, I once got three at one time; the largest & finest of which I dare say you have seen as I gave it to Lady Franklin; the second I gave to Mr. Taylor; and the third (a small one, and which I believe to be a distinct sp.) to one of the Government Officers, on the arrival of the Govr. Since then I have not been able to obtain another, although I have offered a great price for one. The fact is––the younger Natives do not know how to take them, and the elder ones having but few wants and these fully supplied, do not care to do so. Further, they can only be captured by night, and the dog must be well trained to be of service; consequently, my hopes of getting any specimens are but faint.|With regard to the Moa (Dinornis), after which you also enquire, I candidly confess I have not cared to do much, because so very much has recently been done by others, who are not only far better qualified for such research, and have more time for it, but who also reside, or visit, the very “diggings” of the Moa.––Witness, Mantell’s account, to which you refer. I should much like to see his paper; and, also, my paper as republished by Owen in the “Annals of Nat. History”, in August/44, (mentioned by Owen himself, in his splendid 4to. memoir on the Dinornis & Palapteryx). I saw an extract from Mantell’s paper, (or rather, I think, this was by the junior Mantell,) published in one of our Wellington Papers, in which I was gratified in finding him express strongly his belief concerning the truth of my deductions as to the age in which the Dinornis lived. That such a bird now exists! or had existed during the occupancy of these Islands by the present race of Aborigines, is, to me, most fallacious. I have, during my residence here, obtained a few bones of these birds––some, too, of very large size, larger, I almost think, than any which have been described by Owen,––but I have never yet found time to examine & compare them. But really, now that the Natives have such a preposterous idea concerning the transcendent value of every-thing after which a European enquires––which is sure to be connected in their minds with gold––that it is a very difficult matter to get them to procure any pecimen, however trivial or common.––|You have, indeed, some lovely Algæ on your shores, and I dare still to hope, that ere long we shall be reciprocating delight over our exchange of specimens. Yet ours are not perhaps very beautiful––they may be curious––and cannot fail of proving interesting.––|I think I saw in some Paper, brief mention made of a new Scientific Society having sprung up among you. What is it? Is it a Phœnix; arising from the ashes of its sire, of which it will not be ashamed, and which it is gloriously to surpass? or, is it a kind of anti-association? Seeing that our Colonies may almost be termed, the very prolific hot-bed of opposition.––|From an English Paper I gather that Mr. Gell is there, and exerting himself in his Vocation. I suppose he will, in due time, return to you again. What he must think of my not answering his long and friendly Letter of /47 (only now however received), I cannot divine:––I hope he is endowed richly with that never-failing blessing––Charity. If you correspond, and should you write again to him, just mention, the 3 whole years which his Letter took to crawl from Tasmania to Cape Kidnapper; how it wholly escaped kidnapping by the way is a mystery.––|You speak of being “₤100. out of pocket in publishing the Tasmanian Journal.”––How is this? Why not call upon the Members to bear their respective shares therein? Poor though I am, yet cheerfully shall pay my proportion be it what it may. Let me know, when you next write this way, and I will transmit it.––|Well, now, I must indeed conclude. I trust the length of this Letter will bear ample testimony to my good will towards you––my time being my greatest valuable. And hoping to hear from you, at your convenience, and fully intending, one day, to make you ample amends for all.––| Believe me always,| Most sincerely yours William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0071.txt
Date (precise): 1850 October 21
Addressee: McLean
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Church Mission Station.|Waitangi,|Octr. 21. 1850.|Sir|Having just returned from visiting my northernmost villages, and understanding from some Natives that Te Hapuku and the Chiefs are gone to the Waipukurau with the intention of meeting you there: and hearing also that you have already been some time in the Manawatu District, and thinking that you may probably require a few little necessaries―such as Tea, Sugar, Bread, &c.―I write this, to beg you not to allow yourself to want any thing of that kind, and to request you without delay to send freely to us, assuring you, that we will gladly do all that we can to make your present bush life comfortable.―|We do not know whether it is your intention to come on quite so far North as the Mission Station; but, should you come into our immediate neighbourhood, we must regret that, under existing circumstances we have it not in our power to offer you a residence during your stay in these parts. Let not this, however, we beg, deter you from making every application to us for whatever you may need, and which we may be able to supply―and to which―should you reach our vicinity, we shall be truly happy to add from the produce of our little dairy.| I am, Sir,| Yours very sincerely| William Colenso|____________________________________||1850 October 30: to CMS Secretaries|Copied from Bagnall typescript needs correction by original.|Waitangi, Hawke’s Bay, |New Zealand, October, 30, 1850. |Secretaries, |C.M. House, |London. |My dear Sirs, |1. My last letter was written on the 24th. of June; with which I sent a portion of my Journal down to June 8/49, and a (translated) copy of the appendix of my letter to the Archdeacon of the District. |2. I now gladly avail myself of an opportunity of transmitting you (via Wellington) another portion of my Journal down to Jany. l6/50: together with a copy of a letter from Lieut. Govr, Eyre to the disaffected natives of this place. |3. I am both thankful and happy to be able to say that I am once more at peace with my late turbulent neighbours. Having had good reason for believing them to be pretty well humbled for their conduct, I called a public meeting at the Station on the 2nd. of August, and fully made up matters with all those residing near us. Two, however of the ringleaders, (Leonard Kawepo & Christian Takamoana) were absent at Manawatu, from which place they have not yet returned; and another of them,—Katene te Kori—(whose behaviour was so extremely unkind, and of whom I had heard no subsequent good report) I particularly excepted for some time longer. Those chiefs have now had a humbling which will do them good: the chief Tareha especially (who made himself so very conspicuous) having been severely visited. At the commencement of the outbreak he lost his eldest daughter, and during the winter his 2 remaining children followed her; about the same time his beloved wife was also brought down very low; and he himself is only just recovering from a dangerous illness—with which he was suddenly attacked shortly after our peace had been made. Seldom, indeed, in these latter days has the powerful arid retributive arm of the Lord been more clearly and speedily manifested for the deliverance and re-establishing of his servants, and for the rebuking of the proud thoughts of the Heathen, than on the present occasion! they themselves being judges (***Marginal note) And I could not but think, when the great chief Tareha was brought to me in a helpless state by his tribe to beg my instant aid, (and I, constantly attending upon him in Christian Talamoana’s house in the pa, which I now entered for the first time since my being seized and carried thither as a slave, and held so tightly by him who was now stretched at my feet, was made the means under God of restoring him from the brink of the grave)—(*** marginal note Matt.V. **.45: **. XII **-21) that a glorious opportunity was now afforded me to shew those b1ssed fruits of our Christian Faith, which even the veriest slave of the tribe could not but in some measure appreciate! & that a great moral victory had been indeed gained! “Thanks be unto God who always causeth us triumph in Christ” |4. I have subsequently received a very penitential note from Katene te Kori, and have also seen & had some conversation with him, and cannot but believe him to be really sorry for his share in the matter. I have not yet, however, restored him deeming it advisable to allow him to remain until the Archdeacon shall pay us his annual visit in the summer and for him to admonish and raise him. This I have also told him, and he has expressed his willing assent thereto. |5. One reason I had for not making earlier peace with them was my not having heard from either the Bishop or the Lieut. Governor. On the 31st. of August, (just a month after we had finally adjusted matters) I received a letter from the Lieut. Governor (Vide copy of Lt. Govr’s letter, & translation enclosed *** marginal note) addressed to them, which I delivered, and at their request, publicly read to them on the morning of the 2nd. September, immediately after school. A note from the Bishop in answer to my letter of the 23rd. February only recently reached me on the 30th. ulto. From which I extract that portion of his Lordship’s communication relating to the matter in question, which I also enclose for your Information:—“St, John’s College, 15 July, 1850, My dear Mr. Colenso, Your letter of the 23rd. February was more than 3 months on the road, and when I received it, it was too late to take any steps to assist you in the very unpleasant affair which your letter relates. I can only hope that it has pleased God to appease the tumult, and to bring back your people into their right mind. You will have received, I do not doubt, the advice & assistance of your Archdeacon, who is better able than I am to understand the course of native feeling which led to the outbreak. The occurrence is so unusual, I may say, so unexampled, in the whole history of the Mission that I am quite at a loss to account for it, especially as I have not heard anything of it from Archdeacon Williams. You may, perhaps, find an opportunity of telling Renata and Katene that this is not what I expected from them, and, that if I thought that my Scholars would often act in this manner, I should break up the school tomorrow”. |6. And now, upon a calm review of the whole affair, I am constrained to acknowledge that I have been taught 2 great lessons, which I hope may be of use; namely,—that the Christian’s duty in the most perilous times is to be still and see the salvation of the Lord; and, that i erred in seeking to an “arm of flesh”. In so doing I certainly departed widely from my usual course, and sincerely hope I shall never do the like again. It was indeed a fortunate, or, rather, a providential circumstance, that I never mentioned to the natives of my having written to the Governor, seeing my application met with such an uncommon delay, and brought from him such a mild notice. I am also right glad that I did ***not?? wait the arrival of either the Governor’s or the Bishop’s letter, as, in so doing, I should have been greatly disappointed. |7. Since the date of my last I have again endeavoured to secure a suitable site for a Mission Station, and had very nearly, in fact, quite succeeded; and had even commenced making out the necessary writings. (Having arranged to give 2 horses—or, rather, £40 wherewith to purchase them—and 6 cows, value £60 for a piece of land on the banks of the river Tukituki, situate between the villages of Ngawakatatara and Patangata, about 20 miles S.W. from the present Station, and containing, perhaps, from 2 to 300 acres; not all, however, being good land, or even useful as a Mission Station save from its natural situation.) But, just as all things were necessary, the Heathen (or worse, the semi-papist) chief, Puhara, made a demand (for the fiftieth t time) to be paid for our having resided on this present muddy spot! considerately and respectfully stating that 2 horses and 2 cows (£6o!) would be the very minimum he could take for his 10 acres of swampy flat!! Knowing the utter impossibility of our coming to terms (as I had often declared I would never, from principle, pay a needle for what had been freely given by them to the C.M.S., and for which they had received far more than a tenfold value in medicine & food)—I throw up the whole affair. I was induced to offer to purchase a suitable site for a Station,—from having already suffered so much through coming to reside on ground which is unpaid for (and which I will never do again); & from knowing that I could not get one without paying for it;—and from the increasingly rapid occupation of all the country round about us by settlers (for sheep and cattle stations) for which they pay high rents,—£40 – £60 per ann.!! And I was inclined to take that quantity (or even more if I thought I could peaceably and lawfully (I use this term “lawfully” here in the sense in which it is used by the colonial Government; and not in what I consider to be its true & legitimate sense) retain possession of it), on account of several Xn. natives (the jewels of this flock) of the middle and lower ranks, who, in consequence of their lands being either let or sold by their principal chiefs, and they themselves greatly persecuted, and, moreover, wishing to dwell quietly, away from the bustle & turmoil of their noisy and money-loving neighbours,—much want a home. I am again, however, hedged in, and see no prospect whatever of an opening. But this, too, will doubtless be overruled for good. Perhaps before this can possibly reach you, the whole of the surrounding country will have changed lords, as the Government Land Agent is now at Manawatu buying up that district, and his arrival in this neighbourhood is by the chiefs daily expected. Should this take place, it will have a most important bearing upon the destiny of these tribes. Without doubt their temporal welfare will be (apparently) bettered, but their spiritual welfare will be greatly endangered; and, in all probability, the Faith of the majority will be scattered to the winds. |8. Notwithstanding the many serious and altogether new obstacles with which our work has had to contend during the year, especially in this neighbourhood, a decided progress has been made. Thirty-three adults, principally natives of this vicinity, have been baptized; and a very nice little chapel (with glass windows, door, pulpit and reading-desk) has been erected and finished at Te Rotoatara. Among the adults lately baptized is the dear old man, To Motu; formerly ( and until very lately) the heathen Priest of Te Hapuku, and the principal “sacred” man of the district. Of the native sacerdotal rank very few indeed now remain among us,—and about half those are also candidates for baptism; while the others, though they still keep back, cease to perform their heathen rites, even when asked to do so; thus virtually consigning them “to the moles & bats”. Te Motu was baptized with several others at the opening of To Rotoatara Chapel in July last, when he received the name of Melchisedec. |9. My annual Teachers’ School was held, as usual, last month; when 16 teachers & monitors attended from all parts of the district. I had, for some time, almost feared that I should not be able to hold any school, in consequence of the state of the principal natives about me; but in this too, God, “always wont to give more than either we desire or deserve” graciously opened a way for us, and my teachers, though summoned very late, attended to their day. One of them, Richard Taki (an indefatigable & trusty native of many years standing in the church and of service in the mission—a stranger in these parts) had just gone on foot (for the fifth time!) from his Station in Palliser Bay to Wellington (a distance there and back of a 100 heavy miles) upon matters connected with the boarded chapel building at his village. Upon his return to his hone & family he immediately left them again for the Mission Station, in order to attend the Teachers’ School;—reaching this place in time but with sadly swelled and painful feet, which affliction he had to endure nearly the whole of his stay, but which never kept him from attending daily morning and evening prayers and school. By the time he got back to Palliser Bay (after the fortnights’ school), he would have travelled nearly 500 miles in 7 weeks, over ouch a country as this District! entirely for the purposes of the Mission. The only remuneration he got, (if such it may be called), being a few garments for himself his wife and 5 children; costing the C.M.S. the sum of £1.13.2—which, also, included his share of payment for a twelvemonth’s steady and heavy service! Surely the pitiful pittances, of late years doled out to your valuable native teachers in these parts, deserve on your part a serious & generous re-consideration. |10. We have just received the bare information from the Rev. R.Cole of the separation by you of Archdeacon Henry Williams from the C.M.S. Not knowing the reason which may have induced you to take such a serious step, we await rather anxiously the arrival of further information on the matter. |11. I hope, ere long, to be enabled to send you another portion of my Journal. |And, begging you to remember us without ceasing always in all your prayers, |I am, |My dear sirs, |Your very obedient servant,|William Colenso. |
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SourceFile: doc_0072.txt
Date (precise): 1850 December 30
Addressee: McLean
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Mission Station|Waitangi|Decr. 30 1850|My dear Sir|We send you a few loose cherries, a little wine, milk & Butter, and a Cake, & would that they were both larger & better.—|We should have sent to you on Thursday or Friday last, but we have been, all hands, laid up with Influenza—several of my household (now 20 in no.!) are still unwell.—|We hope you are well—& beg you will not fail to send to us for whatever you may want which we can supply. And with compliments to Mr. Reed, I am| (for self & Mrs Colenso)| Yours very truly| W. Colenso|P.S. I write in a very great hurry—but add, by way of postscript,—our hearty wish of a happy New Year to you both. W.C.|
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SourceFile: doc_0073.txt
Date (precise): Undated
Addressee: McLean
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Mission Station|Waitangi|Thursday 2 p.m.|Donl. McLean Esq.|&c &c|My dear Sir|Your kind note & accompaniments have just reached me.—I thank you much for all—but can scarcely reply to your note just now. I was yesterday aftn. siezed with a violent headache, which, spite of medicine, still continues, so that I scarcely know what I am doing.—|We send you some milk & apples—the 4 or 5 red ones are fathered, & may be nearly ripe, being summer fruit.|We regret, however, that you should have deprived yourself of the ale—as it is of great service to you, whether at Ahuriri (without good water), or travelling: if I thought you would not be offended at my doing so—I would return it to you by your Natives.|I hope to write you again in a day or two—when I will return your paper & Mr. Morgan’s letter.—|And I also hope to send 3 or 4 packages to Ahuriri on Tuesday next for Wellington per Rose.| Excuse this my dear Sir| & Believe me| Yours sincerely| W. Colenso|
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SourceFile: doc_0074.txt
Date (precise): Undated
Addressee: McLean
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Tuesday noon|D. McLean Esq|&c &c|My dear Sir,|I am indeed much obliged to you for your kind forwarding my letters &c by your lad.—|But I have not any particular news—save that Gov. Grey & Lady were at Port Nicholson, and Archd. Williams had sailed from England. Archd. Hadfield too had a severe fall from his horse but was better.|I now send you a native almanac—I have but 100 for the whole Dist!|We send you a little Milk and would send you an Apple Pie, but, alas! we have no Lard nor Butter wherewith to make the Crust. This Mrs Colenso regrets. Would you like any green apples for cooking? i.e. the thinnings of the Trees.—|The day you left a taua of ducks—11 in number—gobbled up all the remaining gooseberries!|You will further oblige me in letting me know the day on which the Rose sails. I have hopes of being in time for the ship for England; although Cole says I must not be behind Feby. 1st.—|Pray excuse this, and| Believe me| Ever yours truly| W. Colenso|P.S. The “Black Cow” has been driven out nearly 10 times from the natives’ kumara & potatoes for which she seems to have taken quite a fancy. I have heard shooting her proposed. W.C.|
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SourceFile: doc_0075.txt
Date (precise): Undated
Addressee: McLean
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Thursday morng.|D. McLean Esq| &c &c|My dear Sir|I am doomed to be ever in a hurry! Your kind note of yesterday arrived by water just as your after messenger did by land!! I, therefore, could not answer it.|I now send you a couple (or rather 3) notes, for Wairoa & Turanga, which I venture to burden you with. I hope you will have a pleasant journey. I suppose you will still find me at home (home?), on your return. The Baptism is to take place on Feby. 9.|We ask each other (vainly) what can we do for you for your journey? I am quite tired writing. You can tell Mr. Hamlin much of Ahuriri and Waitangi news.—| Believe me ever| Very faithfully yours| W. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0076.txt
Date (precise): Undated
Addressee: McLean
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi|Saturday 1 p.m.|Dear Mr. McLean|I have just received your note with the printed form to be filled up.—|The “form” appears to me to be an uncommonly curious one (to say the least of it),—in your accompanying note you speak of the “European population”—the form has a column headed “Race”—& another headed “sex”!! after the European name of the person!!|As I do not know how many head of cattle there are, ditto goats—I am obliged to leave the filling it up until Monday—the live stock being absent & my lads at Ahuriri, getting the goods which came by “Rose.”—|Of course it is utterly impossible that I could fill up a sheet for Mr. Hamlin—I do not even know the no. of his family.|Had we known that you were still at Ahuriri, we should have sent you a basket of Lettuces.|Believe me|very truly yours|W. Colenso.|
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Topic 16: one balfour also well little specimens week found mail sent lot small may kind bush put last the two box think pleased next hope good: 0.04
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SourceFile: doc_0077.txt
Date (precise): Undated
Addressee: McLean
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Monday morning |D. McLean Esq.|Dear Mr McLean|I send you with as little delay as possible the “Form,” filled in to the best of my ability.– – – –|I regret your not having received any Papers, especially as I myself am in the same predicament. I have received a lot of goods (from England & Wellington), but the odd one (a “Parcel”—as per Bill of Lading,) has not come to hand—and this, doubtless, contains both Letters & papers: should it yet be found, & there are Papers within I will send them to you immediately.—|We send you a basket of Lettuces (in their leaves to keep them fresh & cool) & would we had something better.—|I write in haste|Yours sincerely|W. Colenso|
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Topic 5: natives upon native among that made the also chiefs chief sir district service letter road government man wellington waitangi ahuriri land station wairarapa archdeacon governor: 0.05
Topic 6: dear kind colenso napier well january hope december february believe yours late regards christmas mrs march sincerely note your thank year write better with keeping: 0.07
Topic 7: will see shall know say hope little you get may find now glad write much must like can look way hear think well just sure: 0.02
Topic 8: harding hill last letter sunday good bishop see also evening old long dannevirke herald one night day came late copy read paper return much mrs: 0.04
Topic 9: auckland will the yet yesterday good doz times governor private got march general article lose fox red believe hours ordered speech just order agent bill: 0.03
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Topic 11: the also great water far however high little two known several this place form side around common course forest one ground small trees low country: 0.03
Topic 12: new zealand specimens sir hooker specimen ferns plants species time little november several found however flora among much mentioned seen plant many work kew years: 0.02
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Topic 15: sir wellington dear maori colenso hector note time notes government please essay will napier return much printed grey may send wish manuscript ask work written: 0.02
Topic 16: one balfour also well little specimens week found mail sent lot small may kind bush put last the two box think pleased next hope good: 0.02
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Topic 18: send evening said give morning present make left very still thus going lad schools service take usual save words nga after might asked mind read: 0.03
Topic 19: old well may many town colenso dear much good hand william poor ever better father august and years knowing family remember also pleased best health: 0.06
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Topic 21: god will love word may shall colenso thee thou heart man child life from words come things now thy good men sir father the even: 0.03
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SourceFile: doc_0078.txt
Date (precise): 1851 January 21
Addressee: McLean
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Tuesday Morning|21st [January] 1851.|My dear Sir|In a world of hurry I hasten to send off my packages, so as to ensure their going. I hope they will reach Ahuriri, & Wellington too, safely & dry.— I cannot now send a single Letter, but I hope to do so this morning or tomorrow morning.—–I am happy to get rid of these, & hope to be in time with my Letters. By the bye did you intend your Messengers to reach Wellington in time for the “Ld. W. Bentinck”? He certainly will not do so, in starting hence “tomorrow or Thursday.”—that is if she is to sail by the 1st. of Feby.—| Pray excuse this| Ever sincerely yours| W. Colenso|Please tell Mr. Aukatele, that I will write to him tomorrow.|
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SourceFile: doc_0079.txt
Date (precise): 1851 January 22
Addressee: Owen
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi, Hawkes Bay|N. Zealand,|Jany. 22, 1851.|Prof. Owen|&c &c &c|Royal Coll. Surgeons,|London.|My dear Sir|I have this day sent off some packages of Botanical specimens for Sir W.J. Hooker, and have enclosed therein a small bottle containing specimens of (alas!) all the known terrestrial mammals of this country!––viz. 2 specimens of the N.Z. rat and 1 ditto of the N. Zealand Bat;––which I do myself the honor and pleasure of sending to you, and hope they may be not altogether undesirable.––|For upwards of 15 years have I (in all my wanderings), diligently sought for a true N. Zealand Rat, but have never until now been so fortunate as to procure one, although I had offered large rewards for any that should be brought me. A short time back, however, I was unexpectedly delighted with some, which were dug out of their burrows in the grassy plains of this neighbourhood. Two of them were alive, and them I kept several weeks, in a common wire rat cage; during which period I had ample opportunities of observing their habits, &c.––They appeared to be very inoffensive creatures, remaining all day in the centre of their grass bed, only eating by night, when they preferred maize to any other food, and seldom uttering a sound, which, when they did, was only a small squeak.|I think you will find this animal to possess all the characters of a true Mus; and in fact, approximating (outwardly) very near to one of our common British species. I have, therefore named it Mus Novæ Zelandiæ; which name I should wish it to retain, if, on further examination, it should be found (as I suspect) to belong to that genus.––|The other (dead) specimens, turned bad in the solution, (yours, “No.II,”) and I was obliged to throw them away.––|The Bat, I got, also, alive, and kept it so upwards of 6 weeks. It amused us much with its tortuous flights when taken out to be fed at evenings in our parlour; as well as with its peculiar mode of eating––which is well described by Daniell, in a note appended to (Bennett’s) “White’s History of Selbourne,” Lett. xi. p50; and which is equally true concerning this species. It preferred the liver of a fowl, and, above all, the large “blue bottle” fly (Musca –––); it would, also, drink a little milk; but on the whole, took a very small quantity of food.––It invariably shunned the light, both natural & artificial; and hung suspended, all day and night, by its hind paws, generally clinging by one only.—|I have not a description of Forster’s Bat, (Vespertilio tuberculatus, G. Forster;––Gray’s List of Mammalia, Dieffenbach’s N. Zealand, vol. ii, p.181,) but that species is there stated by Gray to be “Yellowish brown, &c,” which does not accpord with this species. Nor can I reconcile it with a species of Vespertilionidæ, which Gray summarily describes at p. 296 of that volume; and which he states to be a “new genus, (Myrtreina),” and, yet to be identical with Forster’s V. tuberculosus: in this Gray evidently confounds the 2 species.|I believe that there are several species of Bats in this country; and that this, which (from its ear, &c,) I think will prove to be a true Vespertilio, will make, with Gray’s and Forster’s, a third distinct species.––|Forster’s Bat (V. tuberculatus), was discovered by him at Dusky Bay, where, I have lately learned, a species of Bat is now found, inhabiting the deserted subterranean holes of the “Mutton-birds”;––possibly a species of œProcellaria or some other nearly allied congener.––|This species now sent is, when alive, of a fine glossy black-brown color, fur rather long. From hollow trees, in the low lands, near the Mission Station.––|I, also, sen you 4 Bat-skins, from the hilly country in the interior. These I lately obtained from a Nativewho had preserved them for me; and, though in a bad state, yet (as they have the jaws & ears & forepaws attached, I send them also. I think these may also prove to be distinct, at least from the one in the solution.|I have recently received a small lot of Moa (Dinornis?) bones of large size and in excellent preservation. But, being the first I have been able to procure for a very long period, (in fact, all that I have gained since I sent you my last,) and believing, (from report,) that you and others must by this time have been pretty well stocked, through the exertion of Mantell (fil.) and other Collectors,––I do not now send them. Nor can I do more than passingly advert to them, through want of time just now––they are, however, among the largest I have yet seen.–– |I sent you, some time ago, portions of the jaws of a Seal? (Phoca leptorix?) I hope you received them; although they were scarcely worth your notice. Should you particularly wish a perfect skull of that animal, I think I might, some day or other, be able to get you one.|Believe me.|My dear Sir,|very faithfully youirs,|William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0080.txt
Date (precise): 1851 March 26
Addressee: McLean
Place: Manawarakau
Letter Body: Manawarakau|Wednesday, noon,|March 26/51|My dear Mr McLean|Your very friendly note of Thursday last duly reached me—and I came to this place fully expecting to find you here, or that you had preceded me—in both, however, I am disappointed.—|At present I can only thank you for your kind wishes, &c.—I fear, however, that the prospect of my continuing in this country is daily getting fainter—a short time will, however, decide. I firmly believe that things are rapidly altering for the worse in the district (as well as in others),—and I cannot remain to see the utter spoliation of my flock without having it in my power to do them the least service. Much however will depend on yourself, while you retain your present situation.—|Since we last met I have heard much—a tithe of which I cannot write.—But 2 things I may mention, as these appear to be beyond question,—first, that you have in some measure departed from the original expressed intention, of taking only those lands which were waste, & then from the rightful owners only; and, of standing by the poor Xn. man, to preserve him from being beaten and brow-beaten by the Heathen Chiefs—and, second, that you told Hupata (when defending his right to his own, & declaring that he would not part with his land, he having several children)—that he, as being only one had no right to stand against the wishes of the majority!—|These things I have plainly and faithfully written—they have already wonderfully operated against you (they may, I allow, be false),—and, although I have done what I could to allay the angry feeling—I can not but express to you that I have some ugly doubts which I could wish to be fully & for ever rid of.|Were I not friendly, & Xtianly attached to you I should not write as I now do. And I hope you will forgive my blunt and rude way of expressing myself. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —|This, is one of those places I once thought of as a somewhat desirable place for a residence—it is isolated & in many respects suitable.—|Mrs Colenso will gladly do what she can for you. Do call.—|A Dieu my dear Mr McLean—my heart is full.—|Believe me| Ever truly yours| W Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0081.txt
Date (precise): 1851 April
Addressee: McLean
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Rev. W. Colenso|Waitangi|Monday morng.|D. McLean Esq.,|&c &c &c|My dear Sir|Mrs Colenso gladly avails herself of an opportunity to send you a little Butter—to which I add a few nuts—having nothing better of fruit kind to offer.—|There are however a few bottles of gooseberry & elder wine remaining which are wholly at your service.|I saw a Brig off on Saturday which (at first) I took for the Govt. Brig—but afterwards supposed to be a whaling one.|I suppose you heard of my “Maumauhaere-noa” to Molangiangi: whence I returned on Friday 4 a.m.|I should like to know when you may be coming this way—that I may be at home when you call.|I should have told you, that the 2 vols. of “Mitchell’s Travels in Australia,” which you so kindly lent me, are still here.|There is a young scamp of a Chief belonging to Ngatihineuru Tribe, but who chiefly resides at Tangoio, called Mohi Tarapuhi, of whom you should know something.—As, (in addition to his having taken a second wife,) he has very recently taken away from her husband the mother of his 2nd. wife! with whom he is boldly cohabiting: relying upon our forebearance & his minga.—| Believe me| Yours truly| W. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0082.txt
Date (precise): 1851 August 1
Addressee: McLean
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Ch. Miss. Station, |Waitangi,|August 1, 1851.|My dear Sir,|In a prodigious hurry I scribble you a few sentences:—|—To thank you for your excessively kind note, and all its accompaniments, which I found at Ngaawapurua, on the Saturday after you had left.|—To express my great regret that you should have deprived yourself of what you certainly needed far beyond myself—and|—To tell you, that I have little or nothing to say—being still on the tip-toe of expectation of getting some Letters, &c, per “Rose”, now due.|I reached the Station (by forced marches) by the end of May. I made haste to meet Mr. Grace, who arrived here the next day, and who remained a week, or more.—|My “mate” detained me 12 days at one place—and, through travelling long before I ought I made it worse, insomuch that I thought it would end badly, and cost me a journey (or, voyage) to your town.—It has only just healed—for which I am thankful.—|About 10 days ago, Karaitiana, and a Mrs. Valentine Smith, suddenly appeared here. They came just in time: the weather, which, had been for 6 weeks remarkably fine, suddenly changing to wet which still continues.—|During the last 9 days we have been twice flooded—the first time severely so—garden, kitchen and back-rooms, deeply under water. Natives dogs, cats, &c. &c. in wakamahau and sitting room. Fortunately the river opened itself a new mouth, & we received a benefit—water leaving, mud remaining. And since, owing to the very heavy rain, we have been again, and are still, half submerged.—|The Natives are rather clamorous about our immediate removal.—|I feel myself in a strait.—|All pretty quiet around: Hapuku at Te Waipukurau, erecting a house for you.|Several deaths at Tangoio—among others the pakeha “Reino”—rather suddenly.|Mr. Val. Smith has taken a part of Karaitiana's house in the neighbouring pa.|You, who know our situation, &c., can tell all who may be strolling Ahuriri-wards—that any supply in the way of kai, which the Station may afford, they shall ever be fully and gladly welcome to: but Lodgings and Time I have not for any one.|It is well not to be disappointed.—|Two days back I returned from Tangoio; and tomorrow I leave for a fortnight. When I rest another fortnight (i.e. cease travelling; rest is not here)—September is wholly occupied, accordg. to arrangement:—ditto, October.—|Yesterday we had 2 severe shocks of Earthq.—the first one, at ½ past 2 p.m., which made us all run out into the rain; I think this was the longest in duration that we have yet experienced. The second, happened at 20 m. past 9 p.m., and, both coming in one day, made us fear the worst.—|2 vessels in together from P.N.— “Phœbe” and “Twins” —several horses have arrived since you left.|I think I shall be quite ready to buy a few acres of land from the Govt.—immediately after you have settled with the Chiefs.—|Mrs. Colenso is not, I am sorry to say, very well; owing to a severe Cold. The Children are much as usual. The Kai-tuhituhi of this rheumatic, and going-out to get more so.—|And so the wheel revolves.— |Believe me, My dear Mr. McLean,|Very sincerely yours, |William Colenso.|P.S. I have lately heard (from Whites) of the Small Pox having arrived in N.Z., & now committing fearful ravages at E. Cape. Pray get me some vaccine virus, that I may do all I can for the infants and others here who are not vaccinated. I have at different times vaccinated a large number, but there are still hundreds who have not been done. If you can, pray get it from two sources; & send immediate. It is a national good, & one which I am willing to perform gratis. W.C. |
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SourceFile: doc_0083.txt
Date (precise): Undated
Addressee: McLean
Place: Porangahau
Letter Body: Tuesday Morng.|Porangahau|My dear Mr. McLean|It occurred to me last night, that, while a probability existed of the Chiefs being unwilling to consent to my going to Manawarakau, they would not be so greatly unfavorable to my going to Waimarama. Seeing too, that this had been agreed to publicly by them before the Archdn. & myself, & had only been set aside on the score of ₤100. being demanded by Hapuku.—Now I think—on reconsidering the matter—that, in many respects, W.marama is preferable to M.rakau—I should be much more central to those at N. & W. of me.—And this spot you can boldly speak on without any fear of arousing unnecessary suspicions—as they now know I cannot legally purchase their land. If you could see that little glen (which Mrs Colenso has seen) & purchase it for me—10 acres of it, as a Missy. Station—& the remr.—no large qy.—I would purchase immediately of the Government. I feel almost sure this could be done directly—it has natural boundaries & “no mistake.”|Please confer with Mrs Colenso on the matter, & if you can settle it, do so.| Ever yrs truly| W. Colenso.|P.S. Hapuku’s demanding ₤100 was merely a pretext to break his word, hoping to keep me by him: the glen can be of no use to any European settler.|
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SourceFile: doc_0084.txt
Date (precise): 1851 September 8
Addressee: McLean
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Mission Station,|Waitangi,|Sept. 8 1851.|My dear Mr McLean|Although I have more than both hands full—I cannot allow the “Rose” to return to your Town without a line of congratulation from me upon the late auspicious event of your marriage—of which your note of the 27th, & Mr Cole’s letter of the 28th ulto., informed us two days ago.—|We wish you every blessing which the Bounteous Giver of all good may have in store for you—and that you may have grace supplied to enable you to bear & forebear.—|By next vessel, I suppose I shall have to write to my old friend Mr Cole in a similar strain. You mention the intended Mrs Cole as having “lately arrived in the Colony”—I hope (may I be allowed to say,) that he is not in too great a hurry.—|And then you mention Dr. Sinclair, as having “often enquired for me, & requested to be remembered, &c.”—By this, I infer, that you are a friend of his, & therefore, I may (also) be allowed to ask you to enquire of the Doctor, whether he received the letters which I did myself the honor of writing him—namely, in July/45, & again in January/48,—as well as a packet, containing copies of my little publications,—as I have never received any acknowledgement of the same.—|I thank you much for your very kind & early offer of a home when I may visit Wellington—but, (lest you may possibly become offended hereafter,) allow me to say, that I must continue to do as I have hitherto done—travel snail fashion—carry my house with me.|I must venture to suppose, that some of my few friends, to whom I had mooted the subject of my migrating to the interior of the Australian provinces, will think that I had a kind of foreknowledge of the gold of those regions! Be that as it may, I can not but believe, that had I gone thither, many would have said that such was my purpose. I have, however, fully set aside that mission, perhaps for ever.|In thinking over our last conversation, at Porangahau, relative to Waimarama & thence to the Cape as a desirable N. Reserve, I have, I think, concluded upon not moving in that direction—mainly upon the belief, that I should be alone, or nearly so.—For, even as you said, the Natives will assuredly be near to the Whites. For them, therefore, I have decided to endeavour to get upon the Tukituki R., (or, the nearer R. Ngaruroro,)—and, if possible, at or near Patangata—perhaps the piece of ground which I had nearly obtained in the autumn of last year (1850). This spot has been again spoken of to me by Te Hapuku & others—and, as it adjoins your boundary, it could be very well added thereunto for this specific purpose. Karaitiana, & the other Chiefs of these nearer sub-tribes, wish me to locate myself upon a piece of ground about 2 miles or more from this, & nearly opposite to the village of Tanenuiorangi, upon the R, Ngaruroro—which is, I confess, desirable enough for a station, only, as they were going to have their own “Taone” there, they could not well allow more than 4 or 5 acres for a Mission Station.—|I intend, however, to get the matter settled upon your arrival hither—unless the Govt. should be pleased to put any obstacle in the way—i.e. should not see proper to consent thereto. For I intend never again to dwell upon land which is not bona fide my own purchase, so as not to be disturbed any more, having had so much trouble that way.—|I hope you will have full powers to do what may be required in the matter: seeing, too, that I wrote His Excellency the Lieut. Governor upon the subject last summer.—But I will tell you more when I see you.—|I send you a note & a parcel, which we have received for you since my last.—|All local news, I dare say you will get from Mr. Parks.—|My annual teachers’ School is now in hand—so that I am closely worked: this will be over in a fortnight—when I shall be able to breathe again.—And make my Northern visits as arranged.—|Should you see your friend Mr.Taylor, gently tell him, that he is a letter in my debt:—ditto, Archd. Hadfield, & Rev. S. Williams.|Our garden is beginning to shew signs of returning life—cheering token of the paternal love of God, and of His truth, & of the sureness of our Resurrection.—|Mrs Colenso is pretty well—ditto Fanny—Latty very so—myself tolerable. I am sure that Mrs. Colenso would wish to unite with me in kind respects to your good lady & yourself—I am|My dear Mr. McLean|Yours sincerely, W. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0085.txt
Date (precise): 1851 December 13
Addressee: McLean
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi,|Decr 13/51|My dear Mr. McLean|Enclosed is a paper which I will thank you to lay before the Governor at yr. earliest convenience–|It is written in a hurry.|I hope you will not do any thing towards causing the Priests to remain where they are, until my paper has been laid before the Governor.––|I enclose some Letters which reached me yesterday against the proposed transfer of some more land: I recommend them to your consideration.––|I also enclose your little a/c––as requested; I believe it to be correct. Mrs Colenso has some vague remembrance of some silver being paid to you on your former visit, and of some arrangement about it; (either in the cheque for ₤14. or otherwise) but does not know exactly.|Don’t forget your Code of Laws––and a note from inland. If you could so arrange that some one of the Natives who may accompany you should return with your note to me, & conduct me upon your track––it would be so much the better.–––|You know I have a long walk today before me––which will excuse this.| Believe me| Ever yours| W. Colenso||Waitangi|13 December 1851.|Certain reasons against the granting of the request of the French Roman Catholic Priests to be located here at Heretaunga in the immediate vicinity of the |Church of England Mission Station.|Respectfully submitted for the consideration of His Excellency the Governor in Chief. |That the Church of England Mission Station at Waitangi was commenced by myself in the year 1844.|(I had, also, the year before laboured among these tribes; and during the year previous—1842 Archdn. W. Williams and the Revd. W. C. Dunckley had also visited them; and the Bishop had also passed through and, at the pressing desire of the Chiefs had promised to send them a Minister).|That the only piece of ground which could then be obtained with their unanimous consent has subsequently proved to be utterly unfit for the purpose.|That notwithstanding upwards of £250 has been (necessarily) expended upon the same.|That in the winter of the Year 1846, the floors of our house although raised nearly 3 feet from the ground (and the house itself on the highest elevation) were 9 inches under water.|That every winter we have been more or less inundated. That from that period (1846) I have diligently sought a suitable place to remove to having been greatly urged thereto by the Committee of Missionaries as well as by the Archdeacon of the district.|That all places which from time to time I had chosen, I have not been allowed to occupy partly owing to the jealousy of the Chiefs, partly to the exorbitant sum (£100 and upwards) demanded for a site for a house and partly to my consideration for the proclamation of His Excellency and the (then) expected coming of Mr. McLean and also to my not knowing where the natives would concentrate themselves when they should have transferred a portion of their Lands to the Government.|That some time before Mr. McLean’s first arrival here (in Decr./50) the Native chiefs had (partly at my suggestion) quite arranged among themselves the boundaries of the blocks of land which they intended to offer to him for the Government and had also selected a spot (about 2 miles from Waitangi) upon which to commence a township for themselves.|That an offer had been repeatedly made to me by the Chief proprietors for a piece of ground for a Mission Station close to their proposed township.|That in the end of November of last year (1850) while I was absent visiting the Natives on the coast a French Priest suddenly arrived here (he having been recently expelled from Te Wairoa) and proceeded immediately to purchase a piece of land situated very near to the proposed township from the Heathen Chief Puhara.|That Puhara is the only Chief on this side of the Ahuriri and his little party the only natives (with the addition of 2 old persons at Waimarama and 1 at Manawarakau) amounting scarcely to 30 in all including infants who profess to uphold the Roman Catholic mode of worship.|That there is no prospect of the French Priests increasing the number of their proselytes in these parts unless some of the natives in connection with the Church of England mission should go over to them which however has never yet happened in this District.|That according to the Returns laid before the last Committee of Missionaries of this district our Congregations averaged 2205 the number of Baptisms performed during my residence amounted to 1314 of whom 751 are communicants we have also 27 chapels some of which are fine Native buildings.|That according to a return of the Native Population of this district which I sent to the Native Secretary at Auckland in June 1849 the number was 2700 of which however more than an eighth have since died.|That Puhara is not a Principal Proprietor of this ground the titles thereto of the Chiefs running thus.|1st. Karaitiana|2nd Tariha|3rd Te Hira te Oha|4th Te Waka te Kawatini|5th Puhara|That the majority of the Chiefs proprietors are wholly against the selling of any portion of their land to the French Priests and refuses to cooperate with Puhara in the matter.|That the Chief Te Hapuku has no claim to the land in question neither in fact has he even asserted that he has.|That if the French priests should become located on the spot in question it would be a highly injudicious step for me (on the part of the Church Missionary Society) to accept of the offered site near the proposed Native township as in the event of my going to the Western side of the same the French Priests premises would immediately adjoin mine.|That while I am very willing to remove further inland if I could but prevail upon these natives or the majority of them to accompany me, there is not another place equally suitable for a Mission Station and Native township upon the whole of this low ground.|That in the event of my not removing to the offered site adjoining the proposed Native township it is highly probable that the said township will not flourish.|I might also mention the state in which we found these tribes as contrasted with their present altered condition—the ill-usage which both Mrs. Colenso and myself have repeatedly received from them during the long period in which they were slowly advancing to what they are now—the many censurable attempts of the French Priests to disturb the peace and confidence of our people and ourselves not only here but also at Te Wairoa and at Turanga (plain demonstrations of the antagonistic principle) their constantly urging the Natives to come and take up the price for the piece of ground in defiance of both, the Colonial laws and of Mr. McLean’s intimation to them and the long looking on of the Native Chiefs to see whether the word of the Governor (as repeated by Mr. McLean & hitherto looked up to by themselves and inculcated by myself) shall stand or whether it must fall before the word of those French Priests.|This last remark was only yesterday uttered afresh to me in a powerful speech, by the principal proprietor Karaitiana. I might reasonably enough urge all these and many other such matters against their request being granted but I am conscious of having already I fear trespassed upon His Excellency’s valuable time.|William Colenso|Church of England Missionary |
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SourceFile: doc_0086.txt
Date (precise): 1852 March 3
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Copied from Bagnall typescript needs correction by original.|Church Mission Station,|Waitangi, Hawke’s Bay, N. Zealand.| March 3, 1852. |Secretaries, |C.M. House, |London. |My dear Sirs, |1. My last letter to you was (I think) dated October 30/50; since which, however, I have sent you two portions of my Journal—one, in January, 1851, containing my Journal down to May 11/50, with a copy of my report for that year (1850),—and one in September. 1851, containing my Journal down to March 12/51,—all which, I hope have long ago safely reached your hands. |2. I had hoped to have sent you some more or my Journal, as well as to have written to you fully before this; but want or time has hindered my doing the former, and my not having heard from you respecting my two letters or Decr./46, and Feby./49. prevents my fulfilling the latter. |3. I only returned from my exceedingly heavy mountain journey (Patea) on Sunday morning last, the 29th. ult. (To which place I have been twice within 5 months, owing to the sad state or things, which existed there.) And have to commence, according to appointment, my usual long autumnal journey to Wairarapa, etc., next week.—|4. I write, at this time, principally to inform you of the Bishop’s having very recently visited us; and to enclose a copy or my Report for the last Year; as well as a copy of a memorandum concerning the two Roman Catholic priests who reside near us, which (after a conversation held with Mr. McLean, the Government Land Agent, and with his concurrence,) I wrote for the Governor’s consideration. |5. On the 3rd or January last, I most unexpectedly received a packet from the Bishop, containing printed notices informing us that he intended to be here to hold a Confirmation on Sunday the 25th or that month. The packet, however, had been despatched in November, and,—though our time for preparation was exceedingly snort, and at a bad season or the Year (owing to the potatoe crops not being ripe, and the natives engaged in cutting their wheat),—we exerted ourselves so as to be ready against his coming. The Bishop arrived here, via Manawatu, on Saturday arternoon the 24th. of January, (on Sunday morning administered the Lord’s Supper to 40 selected and previously confirmed Natives,) and on Monday evening confirmed 229 persons. On Tuesday morning he publicly restored our ex-teacher Leonard Te Kawepo, and left for Te Wairoa. On Wednesday morning he confirmed 19 more (aged) persons at Tangoio; and on Thursday at noon we parted at Waikari,—whither I had accompanied him. He evidently suffered much from his heavy walk against time from Manawatu; fortunately I had been enabled to obtain him horses & a canoe to assist him, both in coming to and going from the Station; so that, when he left me at Waikari, he appeared to be very much better than when he arrived at the Station. |6. During his short stay one of the two R. Catholic Priests who live near us wrote him a long letter of accusation against myself & Rev. J. Hamlin, and our people,—which letter the bishop answered from Te Wairoa, in a manner which has pleased me not a little. |7. The Bishop expressed himself gratified with the alteration which has taken place among these Natives since he last saw them.—But, upon this head he will, I dare say, write you fully. Among other important matters which he mentioned, he wished me to prepare for Priest’s Orders; to this, however, I am not inclined, owing, in great measure, to my growing opinion, that I have not the confidence of the C.M. Society.—| 8. For, during my seven years residence here, devoted as I have been to your service,—and exposed as I have been to numerous (and almost unprecedented) assaults—from the Natives, the Settlers, and the Government,— and, also, referring, from time to time to You, respecting matters between myself and the Local Committee—(of all which you have had, long ago, full & reiterated accounts,) you have never communicated with me once! |9. Such, I cannot but think, would not have been the case had I been filling but a very low position under the smallest of the Colonial Governments. |10. Your recent painful decision in the case or the oldest Missionary in New Zealand—and the one to whom (notwithstanding his failings) you, and all, (and none more than the Government,) are the most indebted—strengthens me in my opinion.— |11. The last year—or, rather, 16 months, (from the time we first heard of our old Pastor being openly “Gazetted” in the Colonial Papers to the exultation of our numerous enemies,) has been a most particularly painful period to me (and to many more). I cannot tell you a tithe of what I have felt, and still feel. I cannot venture to write you upon the subject. For, “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh,” and the hand writeth; and I know that “in multiloquio non deerit peccatum”;120 still, I dare not be altogether silent. Under these circumstances I cannot perhaps do netter than give you an extract from a friendly yet confidential letter, which I wrote to our Archdeacon on his leaving N. Zealand, and which, I think, he has subsequently received in England; “I assure you, (and it is with highly painful feelings that I write it,) that I have not that confidence in the Society which I had, and it may, ere long, grow to a separation. You know somewhat of my situation: I am all but friendless, and that for the C.M.S.—namely, in carrying-out to the letter—rather, to my utmost ability— those principles which were their delight, and which they valiantly upheld, careless alike of the frowns or the smiles of the titled and honoured of the world. On the one side, I have the Government and Settlers more or less against me; on the other side, I have many of the worldly and evil-disposed Natives, the whalers, and the Papists; while behind, those on whom I relied are fast altering—the C.M.S. If, as you truly say, the C.M.S. will not defend their Servants from the men of the world; then, I had better cease to occupy a situation, which, sooner, or later, must bring my disgraceful dismissal. I firmly believe that a Missionary cannot any longer serve his Society than so long as he has their full and entire confidence. I am but a poor man, but the C.M.S. should believe my words before those of a Governor, or a Minister of State—even when backed by the influential and imposing authority of the Queen herself. If not, then the sooner we part the better. I am getting old,—prematurely old—in the Society’s service; and, if the end is to be, my being thrown aside for any and every thing which man may consider to be erroneous, the sooner I look out for a shelter from the storm the better.—For I am in an enemy’s land, and I have nothing to fall back upon.— |12. Yes, my dear Sirs,—with my present belief and under present existing circumstances,—of the two—to take Priest’s Orders, or, to retire upon a small allowance, I would prefer the latter; if, in so doing, I should both meet with your approval, (for I still consider myself the property of the Church,) and see a fit person in Priest’s Orders sent here to take charge of this people. As, in retiring from Public life I should spend the remainder of my days quietly, (at least, comparatively so,) and be able to educate in a plain way our 2 children (one 8, and the other 6 years of age,) who cannot yet speak English. |13. Do not, however, for a moment suppose, that, in proposing—or, rather, barely mentioning—such a thing as retiring from Active Service, I have any such thing in view as Farming, or any money-getting occupation: for all such matters I feel myself altogether disinclined and utterly incompetent.— |14. Your allowance (strange as it may seem,) will not enable us to give our children a plain education; for, £40 per ann. is demanded for boarders, which, with the many incidentals peculiar to a new country, would amount to £100 per ann. for our two children; to meet which you allow us £20 for each child:—More than enough in some cases—where Missionaries reside in or near towns,—yet, in our case, the very reverse. Further, in a letter which I have just received from the local, committee at Turanga, they inform me, that I have “overcharged in my account £20.”—in putting down, as hitherto, £40. for the two children; thus reducing the sum to £20., which is what I have been allowed (erroneously, I still hope,) for this Year.— |15. You may, my dear Sirs, answer this by saying,— “Send them to England & we will educate them.”—And (while I have my doubts whether such a step is quite in accordance with the Divine will,) I readily acknowledge that such would be in many cases,—(e.g., a numerous offspring,—an unhealthy climate,—one not subject to British rule,—no Schools in the country,—children not likely to return,—etc.,) a boon, for which, as one of Your old Missionary Servants, I would gratefull thank You;—still, it does not, in my opinion, meet our case.— |16. Further: there must be an immediate reconsideration of the allowance for Travelling expenses (not to say of that for Native Teachers,) in this (Waitangi) District. It cannot be supposed, as the Bishop himself remarked, that Natives will work for you for less than they get from every one else. The Government—the Surveyors—and the Settlers would more than employ every spare hand, and their pay now is 2/- per diem. Hitherto my baggage-bearers, etc., have scarcely received more than 6d. a day; so that nothing is more clear than that my Travelling Expenses will not be less than £60.–£70. per ann., unless my Journies are made fewer, or shorter—and even then the Sum will amount to nearly £50. per ann.—The same reasoning also applies to the Native Teachers; these cannot he any longer expected to give up their time & wear out their few clothes and bodies for little or nothing,—while their people are (comparatively) abounding. To insist upon their doing so, is, to place them in a most dangerous temptation, which will final be most injurious to our cause.— |17. I wish you would write me—as I have endeavoured to write you—plainly and with candour. I may, perhaps, have erred in speaking too warmly; which may possibly be construed into a sad want of courtesy; such, however, is very far from being intentional on my part. I have, I believe, served You faithfully & devotedly for 18 years, and the Searcher of hearts knows, that if I had ever any preeminent wish, it was, to serve You in the Mission field until the hour of my release.—|18. I also enclose a Copy of “Return No.1”, (as I know not whether you have copies sent you,) by which you will know the amount you are still indebted to me upon this Station. This sum, be it observed, is independent of the Sum for Medicines, Tools, Nails, Iron, Glass, etc., (as per account rendered in 1846,) with which Your Native converts have been benefitted and Your numerous Chapels built & rebuilt.— |19. In conclusion—and, especially as I suppose that this will find our Archdn. still with you—I once more venture to express a hope, that You will not only notice but reply fully to this Letter; and so do much towards enlightening & easing my mind upon more than one subject mentioned herein.— |I am, |my dear Sirs, |Yours very truly, |William Colenso. |
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SourceFile: doc_0087.txt
Date (precise): 1852 April 3
Addressee: McLean
Place: Wairarapa
Letter Body: Wairarapa, April 3/52.|Dear Mr. McLean, |Your kind note of Feb. 5 duly reached the Mission Station, but being myself absent at Patea, &c., (a second time! this season.) I did not get it until my return; when, there being no opportunity for Wellington, and I only at home for a few days, I brought it with me, intending to answer it during my journey hither, as I expected to meet Mr. Hadfield in the valley.—|As I have not any desire to become a Land holder, save for my own residence or use, and as I have not the most distant intention of ever moving farther South, and as (as you state) Scrip will not be received in exchange for Land about us at Ahuriri, I must consequently give up all thoughts about obtaining any—and am really sorry that I have given you so much trouble on my account—at the same time, thanking you heartily for having so kindly interested yourself on my behalf in this matter.—|Your pencilled note, written (I believe) from Te Waipukurau, I also received—and, sometime in January I visited Hawea. I did not go very far in, as I did not like the aspect of the country thereabouts.—|I have also called on Mr. Park, who very kindly shewed me his Map, &c., but as I neither know how, or when, the suburban land of the Ahuriri City! will be offered, (nor size of allotments, nor price) and as the want of firewood in all that locality is a great drawback to a person selecting thereabouts, (unless he had some specific object in view), I am still at a loss how to act.|I think it is likely, I may go upon some of the Native ground (unbought) in order to be near them, and out of the way of others. It is high time that I should do something in the matter.—|I have also to thank you for the Newspapers—sent and promised—and shall always welcome a note from you, whenever you may have time and inclination to write.|Mrs. Colenso was well when I left—ditto, the children who often speak of you, & of your travelling together so far as Te Pokonao, & of your horse, &c.—And I am very sure that Mrs. Colenso would wish me to remember her kindly to Mrs. McLean & to yourself did she know of my now writing—and|Believe me, |Dear Mr. McLean, |Yours sincerely, | William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0088.txt
Date (precise): 1852 October 12
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Church Mission Station, |Waitangi, Hawkes Bay, |New Zealand, October 12, 1852.|My dear Sirs, |My last to You was dated, March 3, 1852; which, with enclosures, I trust you have safely received.— |For some time past (down to the present hour) I have exerted myself in copying out a portion or my Journal; upwards of a 100 pages of which I now send You via Wellington, by a little vessel going thither; and hope to send you more shortly.— |I also enclose a copy or a correspondence which I have recently had with one or the Popish priests of this place. This man has very recently left this neighbourhood, (it is said) for Wanganui—to trouble Mr. Taylor & his flock. It is the same person who, two Years ago, gave both Archdn. W. Williams and Mr. Hamlin so much annoyance. He returned no answer to my letter. |I have not time at present to write any more; And, if I had, I could not use it so as to send by this opportunity—as the vessel sails directly.—|The Rev. T.S. Grace was here in August, and I assisted him to administer the Lord’s Supper at 6 villages (including the Station); the total number of Communicants being above 350, of whom nearly 100 were new. There would have been a much greater number, had I chosen to admit all those Communicants who are still unconfirmed; this, however, I did not think proper to do; at least, not at this time.— |In July last I obtained a grant of Land for a Mission Station from the Chiefs, Proprietors. This piece of Land, which may measure 100 acres, is nearly a day’s journey inland (S.W.) from this, and near to the lake and village of the Rotoatara. It contains both wood (timber) & water; and is, I think, eligibly situated, both as regards the resident Missionary and the Natives. The deed of gift has been made out and signed in the clearest and most open manner, without a single dissentient voice; & from the number & rank of the persons (proprietors) engaged in making the transfer, I cannot but believe, that a demand for payment (such as we have often been tried with here) will never be made.— |The Native tribes about me are all tolerably quiet at present, preparing for the return of the Government Land Agent to pay them their 2nd. instalment. Two Magistrates have just been appointed for this neighbourhood: one, being Mr. Alexander, whose name has been more than once noticed in my Journal; the other is a stranger.— |My own health is pretty good, save a pain in my chest, (which has been almost constant and, I think, increasing, during the last 3 or 4 months, and which every sermon I preach makes me feel anew,) and my right shoulder, which I strained through a fall received in travelling in the summer, and which still pains me considerably at times. |I am, |My dear Sirs|William Colenso. |
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SourceFile: doc_0089.txt
Date (precise): 1852 October 14
Addressee: W. Morris
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi,|October 14th. 1852.|Mr. William Morris|Waikokopua.|My dear Sir,|For some time past I have been thinking of writing you a few lines; and, I believe, that I told one of your Natives (whom I happened to see at Tangoio) as much in the winter.––Mr. Grace, when he was here, also mentioned your name; and, after him, my brother-in-law, Mr. John Fairburn; and now, this day, your old assistant Angus McQuarrie having called, and said, that he was going your way next week, I eagerly lay hold of this opportunity to send you a few lines.––|I had heard of your doing well where you now are, having had some luck in the sperm whale way, and I was very glad to hear of it. Not that I think you will ever become rich, that is, as the term is generally used; yet a contented mind is riches; and to this, I do not think you are a stranger. I had also heard of your being about to come this way again, to return to your old quarters at Rangaika; and, while I felt glad in one respect, I felt sorry in another; for I feared, that you would not do much here in the whaling way.––|I had also heard of your having opened a Public house; but as this may be false I will not say anything more about it, only, that I would rather you should follow anything else than grog-selling. I am sure you won’t be angry with me for my blunt way of speaking.––|Well, and what shall I tell you? why what you have already heard––that a great portion of this country has changed owners since you left, although its appearance is nearly the same. And, before long, I suppose much more of the Land will be sold; for I believe the Natives here will act, much as children with a box of gingerbread,––a bit today, and a word heoi ano:123 and then a bit more tomorrow with the usual heoi ano: and so on until all is gone; and then –– –– what then?––|Why, when all is gone, (if there should be any Natives left,) the Natives will know the value of time, and of money,––and be much more steadily industrious and less independent than they are now.––|Your old friends––Moananui, and the other chiefs are all living, and much the same as ever: They have now plenty of taonga, but I question whether they or their people are greatly the better for a large portion of it. With all their property,––their horses––and their gold (for this Land),––they still beg tobacco, and (through their own improvidence) often want a meal!|I had, in the winter, thought, that everything was settled, and that I had nothing to do but to put up a house as quickly as possible on the spot of Land which I had got in near to Te Rotoatara. I had engaged Mr. Edwards to saw timber, and so on; but now, all is stopped again.––It is not unlikely, but that I may leave this neighbourhood for good, ere long.––|My garden is now in pretty good order; if I can supply you with any thing––seeds, roots, shrubs, flowers, or trees––in the proper season, I shall be glad to do so.|Both myself and Mrs Colenso feel greatly obliged to you for your kind and prompt attention to her brother on his way hither. I dare say you may have seen our two dear children in their way to Auckland. We feel their loss very much; our house seems quite lonely without them.––|Mr Kier is, I believe, doing well; he is living on the Rangitikei River, and not very far from its mouth, upon his own land. I believe that he bouight 200 acres there.|I suppose, that we shall have Mr. Williams back again soon; I think, that we shall all be glad to see him. It is now nearly 8 years since I landed here! how fast the time has rushed by! what a large piece this is out of a man’s life! How much nearer we both are to our last day––and to the great day of account. I often think, what a sad, what a poor account I have to give;––what a blessing it is, to know, that we have a merciful Judge, who is both Saviour and Friend. May you and I be enabled to value Him more;––&, seeing that we have an open door before us, even Jesus Christ, may we both be enabled to enter there.|I hope to look out a little book or two for your Son, (supposing that he may be able to read English,)––which however may do for you both.––|We are beginning to want a little oil; what I am now burning I brought from the Bay of Islands! If you have any good, and the Cooper can bring me a little I should be glad to get some. I can pay you either in cash, or order payable at Turanga or Wellington or Auckland.|Once more then I bid you Farewell!––May God ever protect & bless you. Believe me,| very sincerely yours,| W. Colenso.|P.S. Should you ever get a little ambergrease, I would thank you to remember me with a small bit.––W.C.|
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SourceFile: doc_0090.txt
Date (precise): 1852 December 4
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Church Mission Station, |Waitangi, N.Z., |December 4, 1852. |My dear Sirs, |A little cutter-boat being now about to sail from Ahuriri for Wellington, allows me an opportunity of writing You a few lines, just to inform You of the present sad situation of myself & my flock. |On Monday morning last, the 29th. ulto. the Rev. J. Hamlin most unexpectedly arrived here from his Station, bringing me a packet from the Bishop of New Zealand, containing his definitive judgement against me,—inhibiting me from performing any ministerial duty,—revoking his Licence,—and closing with no hopes of a reversal of his Sentence!— |This unwise step,—this most harsh most hurried judgement of the Bishops—not only as far as regards myself (that is the least of the matter), but as it regards my flock, whose very remaining together is now imperilled,—has been pronounced by my “spiritual father and Ordinary” in consequence of a voluntary confession which I had made to him of an error I had committed nearly 2 years ago.— |My letter to the Bishop was marked “Private,” and written (as I firmly believed,) in accordance with the Exhortation in our Communion Service and the concluding sentence of the cxiii Canon of our Church,—and, above all, the copious & repeated directions contained in the New Testament concerning all such sad matters.—My “spiritual father & friend” has, however, not only pronounced his hasty & severe judgement against me, but has also broken Confidence in giving my Letter into the hands of 5 Clergymen; all of whom, had I been present, or cognizant, I should have challenged, as being prejudiced against me. His own 3 peculiar clergymen on account of their Tractarian views; & Messrs. Kissling and Burrows—the former, from my often having denounced his incessant German habit of smoking tobacco and his dwelling in a Colonial town, while the latter, (who was formerly my intimate friend,) has, for some reason best known to himself, ceased from even noticing my Letters ever since I left the Bay of Islands. The Bishop too, as my “Judge”, has not allowed me to speak in my own defence; for, in my letter I had said, that there were many things which I could tell him, which might be urged in my favor;—these, however, he cared not to hear. His Lordship also wrote to Mr. Hamlin, to “advise me, as a friend, to leave Ahuriri immediately!” Had I received such unhappy advice I need scarcely tell You, that Your flock here would have been for ever gone from, at least, the outward communion of the Church of England.— |But, to return:—On recovering a little from my surprise, (I had just returned from our Chapel with a wedding party, having, the day previous, had a larger congregation than usual,)—I informed Mr. Hamlin, that I would fulfil that part of my Ordination vow & obey the Bishop, but that the consequences would rest with him. Mr. Hamlin also told me, that the Bishop had written to Archdn. Hadfield to send Mr. S. Williams here to take charge of the Station. This information was the only gleam of light afforded us. Mr. Hamlin having fulfilled his unwelcome mission, wished to return quietly in a day or two; but I insisted upon his declaring the Bishop’s judgement to as many of my Native Teachers & Christian Chiefs as I could collect to see him. To this he, at length, assented: so I exerted myself: and, though my messengers and they (the Teachers & Chiefs) travelling all night, they arrived here from the nearer villages by Wednesday noon, when in the afternoon, the sad & most unwelcome tidings was by Mr. Hamlin publicly made known.—|I will not attempt to pourtray their state on hearing it. We fell on the ground & wept together. I endeavored to pacify—1st. by example; declaring I should assent (though never never consent) to the Bishop’s order; and, 2nd. by leading them to consider the near approach of a useful minister in Mr. S. Williams. |Their feeling oratory flowed till dark. To the proposal of Mr. Hamlin, to remove me hence;—they repeatedly expressed their great indignation.— “What” said they, “if Neho (myself) had died naturally wouldst thou and thy Bishop come here to remove his body? and now that he is dead (Ministerially), cut down by thee and thy Bishop, will you attempt to remove him?—No: no.—Leave his body here that we may daily look at him,—still our father, still our friend,—whom, thou sayest, we can no longer hear.”— — |Fortunately Mr. Hamlin left at a very early hour on the ensuing morning, unnoticed; or, I fear, from what I have since seen & heard, he might not have got away so safely. It being the ancient & superstitious custom of the New Zealanders to kill or greatly abuse the messengers of bad tidings.— |Ever since the Natives have been in a state of the greatest excitement. Fresh parties are continually arriving to condole, etc., after their fashion: and it requires much tact & firmness on my part, and all my belief in, & submission to, Episcopacy, to keep the flock within anything like proper bounds. They have tried to induce me, at least to continue to attend to the duties of the Ministry until Mr. Williams shall arrive, but without any success on their part. I have promised to instruct privately the Teachers and others; and have declared, that I shall always go to Church to hear & pray with them. They, however, say, (and I partly believe it,) that if Mr. Williams does not come soon, they shall all be scattered. |I cannot, however, write you any more at this time. In fact, I fear I am too late for this boat, and I have to send this 7 miles to the harbour. I write you now, my dear Sirs, chiefly to beg You, to defer answering the Bishop’s communications to You respecting me until You shall have received my explanatory letter, which (D.V.) will follow this at an early date; I hope, within a fortnight, if an opportunity should offer.|I have indeed erred, erred greatly; but I dare believe, that my most gracious Lord and Master, the Bishop of Souls, hath long ago forgiven me the iniquity of my sin.|Praying You to remember both me & my flock in Your prayers, I am,|my dear Sirs,|Yours truly though unworthily, |in much affliction,|William Colenso.|Secretaries, |C.M.House, London. |P. S. I had almost forgot ten to say, that Major Straith’s valued letter of January 31st. (for which I thank him much,) only came to hand a short time ago; having slumbered 3–4 months in Mr. Cole’s study at Wellington! I sent You a large packet of my Journal about 6 weeks ago. W.C. |
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SourceFile: doc_0091.txt
Date (precise): 1853 January 18
Addressee: McLean
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Church Mission Station|Waitangi, Hawke’s Bay|January 18, 1853.|Sir,|The very extraordinary and hitherto (I believe) unprecedented proceedings of last week, in which a Missionary to the Heathen, of nearly 20 years’ standing, had to appear before a Magistrate of this Province, in open Court, to defend himself against a charge of Assault, preferred against him, and sworn to by one of his own “children” (converts)!—the unfortunate conclusion of that matter—and the consequences which will assuredly flow from that unfortunate conclusion—are matters of such great importance, that neither apology or preface on my part, will be necessary in my writing you concerning the same.|And this I should have done immediately on my return from Court, (being legally inclined thereto,—if I may so speak,—from referring to the “Fines for Assaults Ordinance A.11”, which I had not till my return, seen,) had not my disorder (Influenza), which I was suffering from when there, increased so rapidly, as utterly to preclude me from doing any thing till now; and even now I feel that I am not well enough to be able to the task.|Still, believing as I do, that it is now an imperative matter of duty upon me to write you upon this unpleasant subject,—a duty which I owe (not to mention myself) to all Missionaries and Missionary Societies,—to the New Zealand settlers,—and to the high cause of Order, Justice, and Truth;—and, that I should also do so before you leave these parts, that you may have it in your power to test the truth of my statements;—I, believing that God will be my helper, will at once essay to do it. |The remarks, Sir, which I intend to make, I shall for brevity’s sake, class under two general heads:— 1st. The Impropriety of such proceedings; and, 2nd. The illegality of them.—I shall also, throughout, write, as if the whole of the charge made, and the evidence offered before you, was quite and wholly true.—|And here I should state, that I had intended to confine myself only to the making known the former, being quite sufficient for my purpose; but since I believe that I have it in my power also to shew the latter, it is, consequently, my duty to do so.—|Firstly, then, the impropriety of such proceedings:—i.e. of a “child” (or convert from the heathen) being allowed to prefer and swear to trifling charges of assault against his own Missionary Pastor—I shew, first, from the universal office of a Missionary; and second, from my own peculiar situation here among this people and tribe.—|The general Office of a located Missionary, (as you well know, and as all the natives allow) includes that of Schoolmaster, Guardian and Parent; now to each of these persons is allowed (even in our own highly civilized country) a certain latitude over their pupils, wards and children; which is not, and can not be conceded to any other. And although some Schoolmasters, Guardians and Parents are much more severe than others, the Law never interferes, except in cases of great excess of punishment. Were any irrespectful, malicious, & vindictive case to be there brought by a pupil, ward, or child, (as the case might be) the refractoriness of the individual being shewn, the Magistrate would immediately side with the said Master, Guardian or Parent; and not only justify his acting, but severely blame the promoter or principal actor in the Case; which, indeed, from the very principles of his Office, he could not refrain from doing. Now such being undoubtedly the case at home, at the very abode of Order, how much more then is it needful than here in the Colonies—in these Colonies!—the authority of the Schoolmaster, Guardian and Parent, should be by the Magistrate rigidly upheld & respected? And if it be the more needful here in the Colonies to uphold such Authority among the offspring and descendants of Europeans, how much more needful is it to do so among the but recently converted, and half-civilized savage Aboriginies of these Islands?—And here, in order that no link may be wanting in the chain, I will now shew, the general and well-known refractoriness of the “child” who preferred the charge against me;—leaving the particular and special instance which brought on the assault complained of, till I come to the second part of my Letter—1st. (and since his Baptism) that, when he lived at Table Cape, he was engaged in the shameful plunder of the U.S. brig “Falco”, on board of which vessel was a quantity of his own Pastor’s property (Arch. W. Williams) which was also plundered by that party; but finding that I would not receive him here into the Communion of the Church, until he had restored the same, he subsequently gave up what he had remaining, to the Agent who had been appointed by the U.S. Consul there.—2nd. That, last year he gave up attending Divine Service and Schools, and wholly separated himself from his brother Micah, the N. Teacher of his village, and a good and useful man, (as you, yourself, know).—3rd. that he had taken a near female relation (a widow and the mother of 4 small children), and against the expressed wishes of all his Christian relations, sanctioned her cohabiting with a miserable white man, called “Taare hauaitu”, (i.e. Meagre Charley), whom you “know to be a thief and a bad man”; and in order that they may not be disturbed through the indignant feelings of the Native Teacher and the Christian inhabitants of his village, he has taken them both into his own hut!—4th. that on his bringing the young woman Arabella Te Ngira, whom he himself had brought up, to Pakowhai, there to be married by the Popish Priest, to the son of Puhara, to whom she had been betrothed from her infancy, he joined the Priest and the Heathen Chief, Te Hapuku, in counselling her to forsake the Christian religion, and profess the Papist!—5th. that he told the Heathen Chief, Te Hapuku, (who is exceedingly superstitious) that I had said, “that I had caused the death of the Chief Tiakitai through the potency of my prayers, and that I was now praying to Te Atua that he, Te Hapuku, also might be speedily cut off!!” which (as Te Hapuku allowed before you and others in open court) was the main reason of his being so greatly determined against me.—6th. that on the close approach of the day in which (according to appointment), I was to visit his village, Patangata, he told his people, (on the Sunday evening after they had returned from Divine Service) that he had made up his mind how to act; and they must not think of moving him from his purpose; that, inasmuch as no one had heard of the name of Maketu until he had laid hands upon the white man, neither had anyone heard of the fame of Maroro until he had done the same; but that now their fame was great, and their names would live; even so, he had determined it should be with him, &c., &c. Maketu, you will recollect, most cruelly murdered poor Mrs. Robertson, her servant, and 3 infant children, in the Bay of Islands, in the year 1841, for which he was executed at Auckland; and Maroro committed a similar foul deed, in the unprovoked murder of poor Branks and his infant family near Wellington, for which he was also executed. |———Now, from these few facts I leave you, Sir, to draw your own conclusion as to the mind or moral character of this “child” of mine.|—–Further, if it be so, (as I have shewn) that the Magistrate’s duty is both concurrent with, and coadjutant to that of the Master Guardian or Parent (as the case may be), all of whom are supposed to reap some advantage from their respective situations; how very much more then is such assuredly the case, when all those important duties are merged in one solitary and unaided individual, who not only reaps no advantage whatever from his situation, (which not one in 10,000 ever wishes to fill), but, actually, casts away those advantages which he, in common with his fellow-countrymen, might have enjoyed—forsakes his home, his country, and his friends, embraces poverty and hardship, endures contumely, and is often, alas! ill-used by some of his own “children”! Should not the Magistrate more particularly side with such a man as this? And lest you, Sir, might be induced to think that I am over-colouring my picture, I may tell you that my Salary, throughout several years of heavy service, was only £30. and that I have often been beaten and ill-treated, and my blood shed by a portion of my large family of unnatural “children”.—My work, for them, I leave for others to shew.—|I purposely set aside viewing the case in another strong light, that, of its being made, (in addition to the foregoing), against his Minister; against the person appointed to watch over his soul as well as his body—lest I should (by some) be accused of unduly magnifying the Office of the Ministry.—|Again:— in reference to my own peculiar situation here among this people and Tribe. And here, I think, I have only to remind you, Sir, of a few well-known truths; for, fortunately for this part of my letter, you have been long enough in this country, and in these Southern parts, to bear me out in much of what I shall here say—namely, that this tribe (the Ngatikahununu), was, till very lately, considered the most ferocious and untractable of all the New Zealand tribes; which their intercourse with whaling ships and with the few unfortunate strangers who had hitherto ventured to exist among them, had rather increased than diminished; and, that their Chiefs were hated by all white men. In fact, I know of but one Chief of importance throughout New Zealand whose name was, perhaps, equally with those of the Chiefs of this large tribe, an object of abhorrence to the generality of whites—namely, that of Te Rauparaha. At that time it was also believed, that the Missionary, whoever he might be, who should be sent here to look after this Tribe, would necessarily have a deal of trouble to endure; trouble, not only as far as concerned himself and family, but also, almost necessarily arising through the resorting hither of Europeans for the purposes of trade and commerce, who would soon follow his steps.—And such, as is well known, has been the case. And how was it met? Why by the present vilified individual throwing himself into the gap, and (often at the risk of his own life) standing up for Order and Justice, (whether between Native and Native, or whiteman and whiteman,)—sometimes, as a Master Guardian and Father, and sometimes (from the sheer necessity of the case) as a Native Chief, or even as a Magistrate, though without legal authority. Yet, with the sanction and approval of all authorities. Hence it is that there has been as little crime here in these parts, and as good order as in more highly civilized and highly-privileged communities. Time would fail me, were I to attempt to notify particularly to you, all those many and striking cases in which, during a close residence of upwards of eight years, I have been successfully concerned; and for some of which I have had the repeated thanks of the local Government, and of not a few of the settlers.|Hence you will, Sir, perceive, that I have been called into no small nor easy Office, as Conservator of the Peace among this people, and among many others equally lawless residents. Nor is what I have been able to accomplish a small matter; nor could I have accomplished such merely by fair words, or by the authority only (however proper) of British Law alone. You may try it now, the ground has been prepared for you; but in those days to which I have alluded, such would have been (as I once told a whaler), equally as vain an attempt as to lance a whale with a pen-knife; or to bind Samson with green withs.125—You have, I believe, Sir, already more than once, spoken approvingly of the order which you found in this large District; this, I believe, you will still readily allow. If, then, this once ferocious and untractable Tribe, and their lawless visitors and residents, have been brought into anything like Order, through the exertions of one poor unassisted individual—allow, that the manner through which such order has been attained (through now, perhaps, both severe & unadvisable), to have been just that which was suitable and needful for those times, and commensurate to the end. If you allow this, (and I cannot myself see how you can reasonably refuse to do so), the necessary inference therefrom is, that it was highly improper for one of my “children” to prefer a charge against me for endeavouring to preserve that Order after the manner I had always hitherto followed, and which had ever proved eminently successful; seeing, too, that no other way or manner of maintaining Order was then at hand. This, I further think, will yet be made more plain, when you shall have read what follows.—|I come now, Sir, to the second part of my Letter, in which I proposed to consider what I have termed “the illegality of such proceedings”, or in other words, their not being in strict conformity with the letter of the Colonial Ordinance.|In the “Fines for Assaults Ordinance”, it is enacted:— “When any person shall be convicted before any police Magistrate, or any two Justices of the Peace, of an assault, and it shall appear, upon the evidence of a credible witness (other than the party assaulted), that such assault was wanton and unprovoked, and attended with bodily injury to the person assaulted, and where in any such case a fine shall have been imposed upon the offender, it shall be lawful for such Police Magistrate or Justices as aforesaid, when it shall appear to him or them proper that compensation be made for the injury inflicted, to award to the party injured, such portion of the fine so levied, as to them shall seem meet. Provided always that the sum so to be awarded shall not in any case exceed one half of the fine levied.”—–That you, Sir, acted upon this Ordinance there can be no doubt, because you stated that “half of the fine” (the very maximum) would be paid to the plaintiff.”|Now it appears to me, that there are, at least, three things to be found, before that any decision can be legally made:— |1st. The assault must be proved to have been “wanton and unprovoked.”|2nd. “And attended with bodily injury.”|3rd. And proved “upon the evidence of a credible witness (other than the party assaulted.”—|I will now proceed to show that none of these three absolutely necessary things were found on the day of hearing:—and this I purpose doing (as before) as if the whole charge of assault were true.—|1. The assault, the complainant stated, took place about the last day of August, (or 1st. of September) last. The cause, the gross provocation which led to the assault, I stated plainly to the Court, and I am not aware that the complainant attempted to contradict a single particular thereof. I stated that, in November 1851, the complainant purchased some cattle; and, not knowing how to manage them, had enticed my two household Natives, who well knew how to do so, to leave me, and to live with him. That those two natives I had brought with me from the Bay of Islands in the year 1844, and that one of them had been living with me from the year 1835, I having, in fact, brought him up from his childhood.—That this Native had often promised never to leave me (he being also a slave redeemed from death by the Mission), and that I had consequently taught him, and got him taught, many useful arts—such as Printing, Bookbinding, Carpentry, Glazing, Painting, Tent-making, Cooking, &c.,—which made him of very great use to me, both at home and when travelling; and through which, and his own letters to my parents and family, they had, for several years, shewn him great kindness.—That in consequence of their abruptly leaving me and my family, we were often badly off for domestic help.—That, on my arrival at Te Aute, in February, 1852 (on my return from visiting Patea,) I found a note from Mrs. Colenso (with whom I had left instructions to forward some food to meet me there, as I knew I should be in want after my long mountain journey), in which she informed me of her having done so, but only at a very great exertion and inconvenience, from her having no domestic help, which she had felt the more from both herself and the children having been seriously unwell.—That, I then informed the complainant’s three Brothers (with other of his relations) of this; and that they then expressed their sorrow at their eldest brother’s conduct, and promised to remonstrate with him upon his keeping my two servants, (which, as you well know, is, in the Native estimation, a much more serious offence than it is with us, one that has often led to war and loss of human life here in these parts.)—That, they did so almost directly, but that he refused to listen to them.—That, in the month of March, I, being at Te Waipukurau, (and about departing upon my usual long Autumnal journey of 9–12 weeks throughout the district), wrote a note to the Complainant, desiring him not to continue to hold my domestics.—That, he also took no notice of this note.—That, I subsequently wrote him a long, and, as I believe, a proper Christian Letter, from Manawatu, upon the impropriety of his conduct, again desiring him to return my domestics.—That, to this Letter, also, he paid no attention.—That, in his thus treating me, he had caused a large majority of the Christian Natives to be greatly grieved at his conduct.—That, several of them had, from time to time, remonstrated with him thereupon; and that he, consequently, had left their company, and endeavoured to form a schism among them.—That, I had never been so treated by a Native before.—That, in June last, shortly after my return from my long journey, (at which time my two domestics returned, but not at, or through the request or wish of the Complainant—far from it,) I had heard from several Christian Natives, upon whose word I could rely, that the Complainant was in the habit of going from place to place, saying, in public, (both to white men and Natives) many things against me, for which he had often been reproved by some of the N. Teachers and others, but to no purpose.—That, I found he was in the habit of continually writing to my own two returned domestics, not to heed me, but to look to him, with many other such words.—That, in July he called at my place during my absence, and spent a Sunday there; and that, on my return, I found my two domestics considerably changed for the worse.—That, I knew of his having enticed them again to leave me, and of their having partly promised to do so.—That, I consequently, sent him and his little party word, through his own brother, the N. Teacher of this village, not to come on my premises again, without my permission.—That, in July, when at the Te Tamumu village, I was informed by several native Teachers, that the Complainant had stated that I was afraid to meet him; that he, the complainant, had often gone to the different villages where I was, but that I was afraid to see him.—That, this false statement irritated me, especially as I saw some of the Christian natives ready to believe it, which they were in a measure led to do, through my patient forbearance towards him.—That, I found, that he, the Complainant, had engaged the Heathen Chief, Te Hapuku (a near relation) to espouse his cause, and to aid him in again getting away my two domestics.—That, on (or about) the first day of September, I being just going to finish pruning the trees in my garden, in which I was assisted by one of those two domestics, and having taken my pruning-knife in hand, went to the front garden gate to call him.—That, there I met Ahipene Tururu, (whom I had not before that day seen), who informed me that the person whom I had been calling from the gate, was, with his companion, down at the side of the river engaged with the complainant, who, with his party, had recently landed thither.—That, on hearing this, I went there.—That, I accosted them, the strangers, 5 or 6 in number, with “Whence are you?”— That, they turned their backs towards me, and returned no answer.—That, I asked again, “Are you from Patangata?”—That, they did not speak.—That, I again enquired, “Did not Micah, your teacher, tell you that I had prohibited your coming hither?”—That, they answered not.—That, I then accosted the complainant, (who was sitting on the ground behind a thick bush of rushes, with his head between his knees, and his large blue flushing jacket over his ears,) saying, “Art thou Wi Tipuna?”—That, he returned no answer.—That, I again put the same question, and that he still remained silent.—That, I then upbraided him with his ungrateful conduct (for both myself and Mrs. Colenso had done much for him in medicine and diet, and actual attendance,) reminding him particularly with his oft repeated statements of my being afraid to see him, and of my having sent him word not to come upon my premises, and that in his now coming in this open way, it was, in their (the Native) estimation, identically the same as a challenge to a fight.—That, I did not wish to fight with him; and that therefore, I sent him away—ordering him, at the same time, to go.—That, this order to go, I repeated six several times.—At the conclusion of which, the assault (the “one kick”)—sworn to by him, was said to have been committed.—|Now, Sir, I ask, in the name of common sense, whether such an assault committed under such circumstances can be by anyone construed to have been both “wanton and unprovoked.”?|2. The Ordinance further enacts that such assault must not only be both wanton and unprovoked, but “attended with bodily injury to the person assaulted.”—And here, under this head, a very few words will, I think, suffice to shew, that no bodily injury whatever was inflicted, or could have been caused by such an assault. For, from the complainant’s own statement, the whole assault amounted to one kick. Now the probable maximum of “bodily injury” one kick, given by myself (a man of very inferior physical power, with my foot clothed with such soft shoes as I am well-known always to wear at home,) could inflict upon the person of a hardy tattooed New Zealander, clothed in a heavy blue flushing jacket, and other under garments, I confess I am not skilled enough in dynamics to determine, I willingly leave it for those who are.——But he, the Complainant, also swore that the one kick was given him “on his head”!! and that, too, in a base, cowardly way, namely “on the hinder part” of the same. My reply to this, I will defer to the conclusion of my letter, and will only here ask, whether you, Sir, really believed that portion of his statement although made upon oath?—|3. The Ordinance further requires that all such assault— “wanton and unprovoked” and “causing bodily harm”—must also “appear upon the evidence of a credible witness other than the party assaulted.” And here I shall unavoidably have to trespass a little longer upon your time and attention. And first, with reference to the words of the Ordinance— “credible witness”; this can only refer to either the probability of the evidence given, or to the character of the witness himself:—it being an ancient axiom that “things are made credible either by the known condition and quality of the utterer, or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves.” Now, the “manifest likelihood” of any unassisted sane and sober white man, living solitarily and far away from help and friends, first arousing all the evil passions of a fierce New Zealand Chief, and that, too, before several of his own people, and then kicking him on the head, appears so very improbable that we cannot willingly yield assent thereto. How very much more averse, then, must our minds be from assenting to “the manifest likelihood” of such a thing being done by a Missionary to the heathen, of nearly 20 years standing!! So that the credibility sought for must be found in the character, or “known condition and quality of the utterer” which is, I apprehend, what the Ordinance means in these words— “credible witness.”|Now the one witness who (as it appeared to me) rather unwillingly came forwards, upon his being repeatedly called, (although present, and standing next to the complainant from the opening of the Court,) was Ahipene Tururu, concerning whom I have something, Sir, to state, which, if I am not mistaken, is not altogether unknown to you. And the few facts which I have to record concerning him, I will make, as before in reference to the complainant:—1st. as to his general character fitness for a witness against his Missionary; and 2nd. as to his statements in Court before you.——A few years ago this young man, with his Mother and Sisters, became candidates for Baptism; after some considerable time spent in preparatory Instruction, the day fixed for their Baptism was Sunday, February 9th, 1851. Great part of the preceding week was occupied in Instructing them, during which period, the son, Tururu, went with some others to Ahuriri, to sell some Flax, which they had prepared, wherewith to purchase English articles of dress to wear on the approaching occasion. When near to Ahuriri, he, Tururu, stopped the canoe, and deliberately poured salt water through the middle of every bundle of his Flax, in order to increase its weight, against the remonstrance of some who were with him. He sold the wetted Flax to Mr. Villiers, who paid him for it, not detecting the imposition. On their return to Te Awapuni, his companions, struck with his conduct at such a solemn time, informed me of it; and I, when I found it to be true, immediately sent him word that I should not Baptise him. He returned such an answer as I had (in part) expected—that, “if he fell, all should fall with him”! which evil plan, however, he failed in effecting.—For some time after I would not see him; at last I consented again to receive him as a Candidate, provided he would take a letter to Mr. Villiers from me, acknowledging his fraud, paying him (Mr. Villiers) whatever proper compensation he might require, and bringing back a certificate from him to me, to assure me of his having done so. To these conditions, Tururu, seeing there was no alternative, consented. I have now Mr. Villiers’ note—thanking me, and informing me of his having been satisfied. Tururu was again admitted a Candidate, and subsequently Baptised. About this time, his wife (who had lived a most miserable life with him) died; and soon after he wished me to marry him to a young woman of Petani. For a long time I refused, knowing how he had ill-treated his late wife, and in so doing got into no little difficulty. At length I gave way, and about a year ago I married him to his present wife. About 6 weeks back he committed adultery and incest with a child named Ramari, a sister of his former wife, for which he has justly been put down by the N. Teachers. He is (I believe) the only Baptised male Native of our Church dwelling at Pakowhai—the village where his Heathen relations and the French Popish Priest reside; and during the last 8–9 months I have rarely ever seen him at Church or School. As a universal liar, I regret to say, he is well-known among the Natives generally.——|In his Deposition and manner in Court, I noticed several things, some of which would not have failed to attract your attention.—On your administering the Oath, (and observing, that he was the same person to whom you had both administered and explained the solemn nature of an oath at your Court held at Te Waipukurau a week before, where, too he was an evidence against some European) you desired him to commence and proceed;—this, I think, you repeated 3 or 4 times. At last he said—It is even as the complainant has stated. You again desired him to relate the assault with its circumstances; he did so; much as the complainant had done, (whom he had heard) but with this material difference—that I had kicked him on the right cheek, pointing with his hand to the spot between his eye and his ear! Puhara, the heathen Chief, who also dwells at Pakowhai, who was present, immediately exclaimed, (in order to correct him, his near relation) “No, no; it was on the back of the head.”——If I recollect aright, I asked him two or three questions:—Whether there was not a bush of rushes between me and the Complainant? Whether (in his opinion) the Complainant could see me kick him? And, whether he, the witness, had seen me do so? To all of which he answered affirmatively. (I should have asked him a great many questions, as I had previously stated my intention of doing), through which I felt persuaded that I should either elicit the truth, or completely shake the value of his testimony as a witness; but when I found that I could only do so in an indirect way, through yourself, I declined to ask any more.) About this time, another native, named Pahoro, (a heathen) and one of that same party who was with the complainant on the day in question), said, out loudly, that he, the witness— “Ahipene could not see from where he was the kick I gave to the complainant.” This blunt exclamation (made, I have no doubt, in anger, at the witness’ saying that I had “kicked the Complainant on the right cheek” and so departing from their deeply devised and well concocted story), is not far from the truth. For both Ahipene and Cranmer, not being of the party, were a good distance to the left of the Complainant and his party; and that they should have been then separate, is, as you must know, quite in accordance with New Zealand etiquette. Ahipene also stated, on oath, (following the Complainant), that I had lifted my foot and leg very high from the ground in kicking him. Now Cranmer, the eldest son of Te Hapuku, (who had often been called upon to come forward and give his testimony, but was not a very long while forthcoming) stated, before you, (though not on oath) that the complainant could not see me kick him; and that I did not lift my foot high from the ground, describing, at the same time, how I had moved it, so as to scarcely allow the toe of the shoe to be seen by a sitter; (and yet between the Complainant and myself was a thick bush of rushes!!)—and that, when he and Ahipene heard me (subsequently) and during our altercation, mention their names as my witnesses—(i.e. to tell the Christian natives the truth of the affair) they immediately walked away.—|In my early days I often attended Courts of Justice; I have seen credible and ignorant, extenuating and prevaricating witnesses, and I know how such have been (and are, at home) dealt with. If this “one sworn witness”, Ahipene Tururu, is entitled to the name of a “credible” one, in such a case, too, then I have yet to learn what a credible witness is.— —I trust, however, that I have stated sufficient to shew, to any impartial person, that “the known condition and quality of the utterer,” both before and at the time of hearing, proves, that he, Ahipene Tururu, was not a “credible witness” in this case; which was what I took upon myself to do.—|I have still a circumstance or two to notice connected with the foregoing:— when the Complainant, after our altercation, went on to Ahuriri, he told several persons there both whites and Natives, a very different story from what he declared before you upon oath; then he made many great additions, which almost went to shew, that he had been maliciously waylaid by me, and set upon with intent to murder, &c.! This he also related on his return inland; and much of this was indignantly contradicted by some of those very persons who were present. Again, on his return from Ahuriri, he went to Te Hapuku’s house to see him, and told him his version of the affair; Cranmer (no friend of mine) was present, and denied the truth of the worst of the Complainant’s statements to his face! Now, Cranmer himself told me that only a few days afterwards. Again, he, the Complainant, publicly told me (when at his Village a few weeks afterwards) what he had previously and constantly told to all present—that it was only through the medicines outwardly applied and inwardly taken, which the whites at Ahuriri had promptly and kindly supplied and applied, that he had recovered from the horrible ill-usage which I had given him!—Not a word, however, of this kind appeared in his deposition before
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SourceFile: doc_0092.txt
Date (precise): 1853 April 12
Addressee: McLean
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi,|April 12, 1853.|My dear Sir,|As I find that the Phœbe is not gone from Ahuriri, I have just time to fulfil a desire—which has rapidly grown up during these last few days—of writing to you; sprung, I believe, from a pleasing remembrance of your kind expressions of interest in my welfare when we last met and parted. Now doubly valuable in the present extreme scarcity of both friends and Counsellors.|I think that I then told you, that I had written fully to the C.M.S. concerning myself—and that I had made up my mind to winter here in my little study—or, rather to remain until I should hear from them: so far, then, has been determined. I have however subsequently seen the Bishop here, and am obliged to think, that I should yet do something more than merely to wait until I hear from England:—that is, if I have the opportunity of doing so. I have often of late revolved in my mind your advice— “to take a run”;127 and, if I am in time and can obtain one suitable, I think I should be quite ready to do so. Allow me then, my dear sir, to request you to let me know at an early convenient opportunity:—1st. whether there are any spare runs still to let out of these your 2 purchased Blocks (excluding Mohaka)?—2nd. whether you have a speedy prospect of purchasing more land in this neighbourhood?—3rd. whether you are of opinion that I might obtain the gift of a small grant of land from the Governor? (I could only afford—at present—to pay for a very small quantity; yet, I think, I could shew certain good reasons why a little might be given; especially if I had yourself or Sinclair or Cole or any good friend to back me).—5th. whether Scrip would be received in payment for Land hereabouts?|I should greatly prefer being on or near the Sea Coast. An inferior run or neighbourhood would suit me very well; as I have but a few head of cattle, and I do not wish to seek great things;—merely a quiet home with bread to eat. I wish also, to be quite out of the way of both Natives and Settlers—unless I may yet be privileged with finding a few of the latter with a similar disposition to yourself. I have had some thoughts of one of those little places—called, Onepoto, and Pohatupapa—both S. of Morena’s village (Tuingara), and, I believe, unoccupied.—Also, of seeking some sheltered nook somewhere upon your S. boundary line (Parimahu), & not far from the sea. And I am thinking of visiting that neighbourhood in about a month or so; although I should prefer first hearing from you.—It might, however, suit me better (at first, at least) to put out my Cattle, at so much pr. cent of profit than to keep a person to look after them; but I need advice on this and, indeed, on all my matters. I have again spoken of Scrip, to which I have been led through hearing that Mr. Tollemache is said to have come hither to purchase land with Scrip. Hapuku (I understand from Cranmer, for we have not yet met,) and Puhara and Hineipaketia still wish me to go inland to Te Rotoakiwa; but I do not, upon any account, wish to be so near Wi Tipuna and his party;—nor the Bishop’s “College Land”—the ground on the Government boundary close to Te Aute having been by him and the Governor selected for this purpose. From the Chief at Tangoio I have also received a handsome offer of a piece of ground if I will move that way. But, whilst I feel their kindness—particularly just now when all are against me—I am determined not to accept it. I have already trusted natives too much: served them too faithfully (don’t doubt it)—without even once caring for myself; and it is now (if not too late) high time for me to believe that charity should begin at home.—I could tell you much if you were here, which I cannot write. I dare to think, that I have been and am greatly ill-used; still it is not for me, who have so foolishly laid myself open, to complain. I did not see the Governor when they were here, although greatly wished to do so; he travelling with (and, I believe, living in the tent of) the Bishop. This was a very untoward circumstance for me; and one which I greatly regretted.—|You, my dear Sir, well know how very changeable the Natives are. You will not then be surprized in hearing that, when the great men were here, the Natives (having repeatedly heard that the Bishop and the Governor were coming to “pana” me,) were all against me!—all loud for “panaing”. But when I say all—I must not forget to tell you, that Te Hapuku and Puhara and Hineipaketia were not only against such an atrocity, but made good orations (I am told) to the Bp. and the Govr. when at Wakatu in my favour.—And these 2 men are Heathen, and, in certain sense, my enemies!!—Neither of them accompanied the Bishop and Governor to Ahuriri—at which, I confess, I felt surprized. I also heard, that Mr. Alexander very kindly and considerately expressed his just indignation at some of my Native “friends’” proceedings—among whom your travelling companion Takamoana, (whom I had but very lately been again instrumental in recovering from a severe illness) was most conspicuous—as before, for evil. But many secret springs have been worked:— and, as you know, a very small spark is sufficient for a whole magazine of powder.—|But I must close or I shall weary you. Mrs. Colenso has not yet left! but we now daily expect the vessel (the Dolphin) by which she is to go; and she will also take the child with her. I shall, consequently, soon be very lonely; and that, too, in a place where every object necessarily recalls a 1000 unpleasing ideas. Need I say, that a letter, or paper, or anything from a friend will sure to be both acceptable and of service. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall with 2 children (one being Alexander’s) left us this morning on their way to Guthrie’s, where they intend to reside. We have lately suffered severely from a flood, occasioned by a fortnight’s heavy rain, which caused us to take refuge in the study—all the premises & garden being greatly under water. The natives too have lost much of their crops. You will have heard, I suppose, of one of Hapuku’s wives (Tarewa) having strangled herself very shortly after you left.|I should like, if possible, to have the matter of a future dwelling and run so far settled, as that on your next coming this way we could go thither together and take possession. Though my present house is small, yet it will be more than large enough for us two, if you can on your next visit make it convenient both to call and stay—which I hope you will do.| Ever my dear Sir, Very truly yours, | Willm. Colenso.|P.S. Allow me to add, as I know you are intimate with some of the Mission, that I do not wish them, just now, to know of my intentions.|
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SourceFile: doc_0093.txt
Date (precise): 1853 December 12
Addressee: McLean
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Eparima|Decr. 21, 1853|D. McLean, Esq.,|My dear Sir,|You will almost be surprised to receive a note from me from this place, and in pencil too! But, the fact is―I came here yesterday with only one Native by way of the Coast, (by which route I intend returning to Waitangi on Monday next,) looking out for a piece of ground as a residence. ―|I have at length concluded to purchase 3 or 4 spots―if all such are still open. Some, I should suppose, must be so―as the Land is not yet purchased by you. ―|The places I have selected are as follows: |100 acres at Ouepoto, commencing from S. Headland:|60 acres at Pohatupapa (where, however, there are not 25 a. of level ground):|240 (say) at Porangahau; from above the pa (N. Bank) to Pipitawai (the old village). The River, the S. & SW boundaries, the hills on W. & N. sides; &, on reaching the E. termination of S. spur of hills, thence, in a straight line, across the swamp to Pipitawai. (see enclosed sketch)|60 acres of forest Land at Eparima|___|460 acres|The last is conditional―i.e. at present. But I have no doubt whatever that I shall succeed in getting the Natives to sell you some forest land, upon the promise of my coming into their neighbourhood.|Ouepoto I like best of all for a residence; but there is no wood, & disagreeable neighbours.|Pohatupapa, I secure chiefly for the little wood, which is also so easy of access from Ouepoto.|Porangahau―I take nearly all the flat (marshy though it be in winter and spring, as I have often proved). The River is said to be the boundary, but I shall endeavor to get the natives to sell you the two dotted peninsulas, which will soon be islets, and which (if I get them) I shall make to be such; as, in so doing, it will wonderfully ease their village, & all the neighbouring banks, in time of waipukes.|You will therefore see that I have selected 460 acres! = £230. ―which money I shall be ready to pay in Cash, either at Wellington, or here: but (I suppose) that the two last mentioned spots (300 acres) would not have to be paid for until you have purchased. ―|Now if you can aid me in any way towards acquiring immediate legal right to those spots you will confer an obligation. I need some one to act promptly for me in the matter. You may….129
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SourceFile: doc_0094.txt
Date (precise): 1854 March 27
Addressee: Elizabeth Colenso
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: (No. 6) WAITAIGI, Monday, March 27th.|1854.|Mrs. Elizabeth Colenso,| Otahuhu, near Auckland.|My dear Elizabeth,|Your note, dated Feby. 19th., last, per Mr. Alexander, I received a few days ago; and now that the little Auckland vessel, in which he came to Ahuriri, is about returning, I must endeavour to answer it. The other note (of which you speak, as having been sent by Mr. Hamlin) dated December 21st., I only received a day or two before the arrival of this––its counterpart. So that more than 5 long months had passed from your leaving Wairoa before I even heard from you at all, and than your two notes (especially your last) are written in such a way as even to make unpalatable the long anticipated feast.|I own that I am quite at a loss to account for your new mode of acting: that is, when I remember how often you spoke about writing fully to me concerning the 2 dear children; (you yourself having tasted a little of the miserable state of uncertainty when here;) and, also, how often you declared what a good child you would train Wi to be &c. &c. &c. I cannot, Elizabeth, bring myself to believe that all this was said by you as mere patipatu; for all your notes from Te Wairoa bear testimony to your correct feeling in this matter. In your last note (Feby. 19) written 2 full months after the former one, you do not ever once allude to Fanny or Latty; so that, had not Mr. Hamlin kindly informed me concerning them, I should not have known of their being alive! And then, as to Wi: Oh! how you have been drawn aside to falsify your solemnly pledged word—and that pledge too, often made by you a matter of prayer to God, as well as repeatedly given. I knew (alas! too well) how lightly you considered certain oaths and promises; and I have seen, (to my grief) that you were confirmed in that opinion from what you had heard here from our superiors. Still, I did believe, that you really loved Wi, and believing this, I knew that it would enable you to overcome all opposition––even supposing that your belief in the religious part of your promises concerning the child might be shaken through the plausibleness or number of your friends, especially if dressed in the garb of religion.|Yes, Elizabeth, I did believe this, and this was my only earthly stay during the first few months of my melancholy life. It is true, that my belief in your affection for the child received a shock when I was so suddenly summoned to go immediately to Te Wairoa to bring him back; but even then I did not fully give way—as I had not received any letter from you to do so; and when I found at Moeangiangi your letter per Ihaka (assuring me of your being confirmed in your love &c. towards the child, and desiring me to return) I rejoiced and gave God thanks that He had again enabled you to do what was right for the poor orphan; and again believed you, aye, more than ever. And here, perhaps, you will allow me to refresh your memory with a few sentences from your last letter from Te Wairoa: in yours of Sept. 24th., (after mentioning all about Mr. Grace and others who had endeavoured to prevail upon you to abandon the child) you say, “Do not make yourself uneasy about Wi: I shall not alter my conduct towards him, let people say what they will. Dear little Wi is now asleep in his crib. I did not know how much I loved him till after I had written that letter for you to come to fetch him and then the thought of parting with him often made the tears start into my eyes. I did not feel comfortable not being sure that I had done right in so writing; and when the messenger acted as he did with the letters, I felt as though it were a sign, a “tohu” that Wi was to go on with me. I prayed often to be directed aright in the matter. If the vessel comes in, the “Eliza” or “Antelope” I shall, please God, go by the first, taking Wi with me, of course.” In yours of 27th. Septr. you say— “My dearest William––Do not come on for Wi, or send for him. I cannot part with him. If you are on your way, return.... I feared the child being taken from me and sent back by a native, but on considering it afterwards I thought it could not be done unless I consented, and that I never could do.” (The underlinings are all your own). Here, then, Elizabeth, are two things painfully apparent; (that is on the face of your last 2 notes) your wonderful alteration for the worse towards the child and myself. I am sure the conduct of the child could not have been a means of your so altering towards him; and I am equally at a loss to know in what way I have subsequently offended you. God is my witness––and there are living human witnesses hereto, (Roka, Matisha, and others)––and I cannot but suppose that my long letters to you by every opportunity, and my little diligent works for you all (both those sent, and these here, now some time ready to go) would all testify––that it has long been my chief delight to be doing something for you and the children. Had you, Elizabeth, left this place in a hurry 2 years ago,––or, had you not known all (and a vast deal more than all, which I have never cared to deny) concerning me before you left. I then could see a reason for your so sadly and so soon altering towards us; but such is not the case. I warned you, Elizabeth, to beware of your counsellors––more especially of that of the men of the world,––most so of that of the pseudo-religious world of the day. I earnestly besought you to be guided by the word of God alone. That you have not done so, your note is sufficient proof. You tell me, in your note, what some say respecting the likeness of Wi to Hamuera. Is this new? Did we not often say as much? It would be vastly more wonderful if there were no resemblance. The cause is as old as the days of Jacob, at least, who artfully contrived and succeeded; and if you take the two children born nearest to us—Maora’s and Riria’s last, you will again see it strongly exemplified: Maora’s resembling Mr. Keir, fair and light-haired: (whereas Maora and her husband have jet-black hair and dark complexions, as you well know), and Riria’s quite a little mulatto, growing more and more so––the very image of Pompey the black––both parents being fair natives. And then, again, look at Rebecca’s second child; was it not the very miniature of the old chief Wi Tipuna? Even Hamuera saw the striking resemblance in the new-born and sickly infant, and the mother also acknowledged it. Dr. English (who has a tolerable share of practice and who often calls) told me, a few months ago, of the great difference between the skin of a native and that of a European or half-caste; a difference which exists even in their infants: the skin of the natives, old and young, quite turning the edge of his lancet, and sometimes being quite impenetrable. Now this, we too, have seen; and Wi’s skin is, I believe, thinner than that of any child I have seen here. But I have a more sure proof, and I, for my own part am satisfied. But, beyond all this, supposing (for argument’s sake) Wi to be Hamuera’s real child––should this make any difference now? You stood as his godmother when you knew not but that he was Hamuera’s child; and, afterwards, you not only helped, but mainly assisted in retaining him (for so doing you shall ever have my hearty thanks) when, if he had been carried off, he perhaps would have died. And, again, when the Bishop was last here, had you not consented to bring him up, he would not (I suppose) have gone to the North. You alone knew what a fearful struggle took place that night, and mainly about the child. And you know what I said to you, and what you answered in the last bitter hour of parting. Here is a soul born for eternity as the child is brought up so will he (humanly speaking) live and die. It is in our power (or rather it was in mine––it is still, in some degree, in yours) to do much for the child, and I, by God’s grace, will to the last do all I can. Do not, Elizabeth, do not act cruelly towards Wi––I mean, do not (after all your promises and prayers) leave him to be brought up a little Sabbath-breaker, as a little Heathen, never taught to pray. Doubtless you are (as you always were) very kind to your little nephews and nieces; but there cannot be any shadow of doubt that, before God, the Church, and your own conscience little Wi has a higher and prior claim. You took him from us––from his mother—and you should (spite of all that your relations and friends can say) act a Mother’s part. If you do not, then I shall fear greatly for Latty and Fanny; for I have always seen through life the evil harsh measure meted back.|You tell me, moreover, that your father and your brothers would not allow the infant to enter their doors. This subject, you must recollect, we had more than once talked over here. I knew, too well, the unkind ways of the world to suppose any other, unless the Grace of God. should have changed the hearts of those whom you were (then) soon to see: and this, I confess, I did not hope: and that, firstly, because your father had been considered to be a more strictly Bible Christian than many Church of England men are, hence he had spoken of himself as a Dissenter: and, secondly, because your brother John, to whom I had spoken as a brother (when here) had shown a kind feeling towards the infant, and had even told me that “I should never want a home while he had one”, and then I believed in their affection for you, and I strengthened myself in yours for the child; and all combined, I dared to hope for the best––but have again been bitterly disappointed.|However, viewing the whole matter as I do, I cannot see any way of excuse for you (before God) in casting-off the child. You were not so utterly dependent upon either your father or brothers as to cause you to do so. It has, however, proved your often-written and declared love for Wi. Suppose, for a moment (and do not be offended with me) suppose Wi was your own son (like the case of M.D... at the North) and you gone to your family and had been so treated––how would you have acted?––even it you had not had a shilling in your pocket––would you have consented to the separation? I utterly renounce the idea: I feel assured you would never have done so.|—A fire was once within my brain;| And in my hand a dull, dull pain; | But then there came a sight of joy, | It came at once to do me good; | I waked and saw my little boy,| My little boy of flesh and blood;| Oh joy for me that sight to see!| For he was here, and only he.—|I greatly wish you had told me more concerning this Henry Smith. Is he a religious man? Does he go with his family to any place of worship on the Sabbath-day? and, if so, to what denomination of Christians? Are his own little ones taught to pray &c.—these are the principal things I am anxious to learn. I went purposely last week to Ahuriri (for the first time since you left) to enquire of Mr. Alexander, but he could not satisfy me; and I have lately written to Mr. Hamlin to enquire of him. I have diligently considered the matter, according to what little information I have, and I cannot see that after all it will be for the child’s good to take him back just now. I am sure he is better away from these parts that he may learn the English tongue, which will ever be a taonga to him; and could I but know of his being with a pious and kind person, I should be comparatively happy. I gladly consent to pay the £12 per ann. to you for him (although I hardly know at present how I am to do so) which I hope to make, at least, £16 yearly, and which sum £16 or more) I intend to send to you by next vessel—if soon—or by way of Wellington. Mr. Alexander tells me that he hopes to have a vessel regularly trading to and from Auckland; and he has promised me a draft on his agent there. I did think of writing a note to this Henry Smith, but on second thoughts I considered it better to wait until I should hear from you again, which I hope soon to do. You have desired me not to send you anything more; and you may soon add—not to write you anything more; which, however, I hope you will not do. If Henry Smith is a man of no religion, and you could remove Wi to a better place (in this respect) do so. What is the Wesleyan Institution, where I hear there are children? Could you not enquire through your friend, Mrs White?|As you do not say a word about the 2 children in your note, so you say not a word about yourself. And I cannot gather from the few lines you have written that you are comfortable. You went, Elizabeth, seeking happiness; and I sincerely hope you have found it; but, somehow, I question it, as such is only found in the path of duty; which, I fear, you are scarcely now in.|I wrote you a note last month by Powhatu, which I suppose you have received. For very shame I dare not tell the natives here of your having written, and not a word about Fanny and Latty, and Wi cast away! We (Roka, Wiki and myself) worked hard in picking and preserving raspberries and gooseberries, and in drying Inangas, for you all:—but now, alas!—|I hoped that the C.M.S. would allow the 2 children’s schooling, and they may yet do so: if not, I shall not be able to pay for it, unless I sell off the few head of cattle. I am now doing nothing in the way of getting a livelihood; and through your putting Wi out to board &c. the following sums must be yearly forthcoming:—Wi, say, £16, Matiaha £12, self, say £20 = £48. I shall live as low as possible; and if C.M.S. will pay the children’s schooling, I hope to be able to do something for you, but I see no present prospect of funds sufficient to enable us to live separately. The butter here, this spring and autumn, would have been worth more than £30 had there been anyone to look after it. If I remain here another year, I intend (D.V.) to sell the apples, instead of giving them away as I have done this year. Perhaps some suitable situation may yet turn up for me in these parts, or elsewhere. I think that I told you of my having scraped up all the money I could and sent it to my London agent for goods, which may sell well here if he forwards them speedily. My times are, however, wholly in God’s hand. As for myself, I often wish for a friend at hand, or a little suitable society. I have not yet purchased any land; 3 small spots which I have selected (on the Coast) and wrote to Wellington to obtain, on my going to Mr. Domett the Land Commissioner I found that they were all gone! But even in this, I think I see an over-ruling Providence; it may be that I shall never possess any land in New Zealand—and I am sure, except for a quiet residence, or for the children, I do not covet to do so.|You tyell me, in your first note, of my cousin being made a Bishop. The news was strange to my ears, and stranger still it appeared to me that such information should have been written from Otahuhu,—whence the letter to me before this one contained so much abuse of my family— who certainly never did the writer of that letter any injury—but so God brings things to pass.|I have since heard that my cousin’s appointment is Port Natal on the African Coast and he may write to me to go thither to him. God may have more work for me to do yet in His Great Vineyard; and, if so, He will again open the way for me, and again fit me for it.|We have just had another taste of our old trouble, te Waipuke; and a heavier one than any, save the first great one. The water was 4 inches over the floor of school-room and store, and remained at its height a whole day and night. The Pokonao natives worked hard (for their own sakes) in cutting through the bank, but did not succeed; it however burst and the waters drained off. This was on Thursday last, and it is still raining, it having commenced to rain on Wednesday the 15th! We never saw the sea so greatly in upon us before; it came over the beach without breaking and not only into Waitangi River, bit right across! so that I almost feared our houses would be washed away! The whole beach, I am sorry to say, is now flat, so that all Hawke’s Bay is open to view. I caught a very severe cold going about in the flood; the whole next day I could scarcely move, but am now a little better. An earthquake occurred on Friday night, a pretty strong one; and another last night, not quite so strong, both about midnight. A settler’s son, a boy about 10 years, was drowned at Waimarama last week, washed quite out of his neighbour’s hand in crossing the usually shallow river there! body not found. Henry Tomoana’s second wife is dead; ditto Te Wai: ditto Paora Torotoro’s child and some others. A native from Waipukurau stole my enamelled rice saucepan and a new pair of woollen trowsers (20/- value) from the store. I suspected someone from inland, and wrote a note to Hamuera, and through his searching it was found out. I have since been to the Magistrate about it, and also about Matiu Meke who seems to be really bursting with hatred & malevolence against me; watching for, obtaining and opening all letters I may write to any native, no matter to whom, and having made their conents public (with his own additions) retains them! Matiu’s conduct is most insolent and unbearable; the respectable white settlers say: “If it was their case they would break his head with a stick”. The Magistrate told me I could proceed against him for felony, if I wished; I, however, have no wish to injure the poor creature, far from it; and the Magistrate has promised to write to him. Nearly all the whites blame me greatly for my lenity, saying that such conduct being not only mean, oft repeated, and felonious, but also unprovoked and ungrateful, ought not to be thus passed over, especially seeing that his own man (Kopakau’s brother-in-law) stole some things from this place; to which, no doubt, Matiu’s oft denouncing and abusing of me had in a measure prepared the way. I cannot, however, consent to harsh measures; (although I am aware that half-measures will never do any good with these natives) knowing, as I do, that Matiu has been led away through the teaching of his superiors; who too plainly taught these natives uncharitableness; and not only so, but what our Saviour prophesied— “They shall put you out of the synagogue; yea, the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth God’s service.” (John XVI.2.) and the reason (verse 3)— “These things will they do unto you because they have not known the Father nor me,” applies to both. Both parties being alike wilfufly ignorant of this truth,—that “God is love” and “Love is the fulfilling of the Law.” I do not mean to say that a Matiu’s superiors taught him and others in words to act as he is now acting; but this is a necessary consequence therefrom. The New Zealanders are still children in many things, and like most children are great imitators, so that to give them an inch, is the very sure way for them to take an ell—or, what is more likely, a fathom. One native has been publicly censured for sending here for a sheet of paper to write a letter; another (the chief Heta Tiki staying here) for coming with my man Matiaha to prayers of a Sunday night; and another for buying articles here: but were I to give you all Matiaha’s freaks, I should fill a sheet. Let it suffice to say that Noah has (of himself) written against him.|(Tuesday 28th.) The rain still continues. Mr. S. Williams has been here, in this neighbourhood, about 10 days; but I only saw him casually when I was at Ahuriri, he then on his way to Tangoio. The state of the weather, and, above all, the mud and water everywhere about, may have prevented his calling. I have, however, no wish to see him, unless he alters in his opinions concerning many matters. He has held service 2 Sundays following in the large Church here; the congregation, I believe, very small. Th. natives are getting into a sad state; all hands becoming eager drunkards! Rum is now their daily delight!! which they get with impunity and will work for when nothing else will tempt them. Nor is it confined to the men––nor even the adults of both sexes. Mr. Fitzgerald told me the other day that there were not six sober natives in all the villages around Pakowhai! Two more licensed public housee are now set on at Ahuriri on this side while “grog-shops” are everywhere. The natives ascribe their predilection for drink to Mr. McLean and the chief Wi Take (Mr. McLean’s companion from Wellington); and perhaps truly so. I did not know till lately that Mr. McLean gave Villers the orders to supply them with drink,—and again, lately, at Wellington: now I hear that the Ordinance has been rescinded by the Council at Wellington. Several settlers (of the older ones) have called to see me, and lamented the present state of things among the natives. Mr. Fitzgerald said that it was perfectly useless now to attempt to do anything in a religious or moral way for these natives; that he never saw such a sudden alteration for the worse; and that he and others (who were ever interested in their welfare) now “looked upon them as a doomed race”! Reignier is gone to Whanganui, and it is said he intends leaving altogether. There are now a great number of whites in this neighbourhood, most of whom call and express themselves very kindly towards me, and also to the natives concerning me. Some ¼ acre allotments at Ahuriri town are laid out, and will be soon offered for sale—beginning at Pukemokimoki on to Newton’s at Onepoto, and some on the other side near Alexander’s in larger lots. Mr Domett has had his house at Ahuriri broken into, and an iron chest stolen and smashed open with an axe but the thieves got no money, still the robbery was a daring one: and a wheat mill is said to have been stolen from Ahuriri, for which Hamuera got suspected, but wrongfully, I fully believe. Still (as I told him) his conduct towards me––his living with that perjured man, Wi Tipuna, and “the well-known thief” Taare Hauaitu, will ever operate against him, I hear nothing of Rebecca, I believe she is quiet among her own people inland. Several of the natives are now absent at Te Wairoa, a tangihanga for Te Apatu. I am told it was a sad sight to see them at Ahuriri (they spent a night there on their way to Te Wairoa) all hands beastly drunk; women and girls, among whom was our Agnes!—insomuch that the whites who could do so all crossed over to the other side and there sat in the moonlight looking on! You will be glad to hear of my having made peace with Eruwini; he came, accompanied by Noah, in a very go frame to do so. I fear greatly that many natives have been lately partaking of the Lord’s Supper at Tangoio, Petane and here, who had far better been away, and that, too, with no previous notice! I had hard that Petane (ever very lax) had cast off all karakia. Letters have come up from Hirini Tarahawaiki at Wairarapa to Noah and myself lamenting the sad alteration there; he says,–– “This new minister comes often enough, and the Sacrament is given, but, alas! the words, the teaching, the love is all tangi kee,”—and much more of this nature. I feel more than ever strengthened in my belief that the settlers and the teachers will both see and bitterly regret their great error concerning me. “None but a Philistine will ever insult over a fallen Israelite” as Matthew Henry says;––he asks, “When were the Philistines of Gaza destroyed? It was when they were making sport with an Israelite & insulting over him––persecuting him whom God hath smitten. Nothing fills the measure of the iniquity of any person or people faster than mocking or misusing the servants of God––yea, though it is by their own folly that they are brought low.” If you have his Commentary at hand, read his remarks on Samson, one of God’s worthies (Heb.XI). Every word that I have spoken God will assuredly bring to pass.|(Thursday, 30th.) Yesterday Mr. S. Williams called; talk general: he told me of sad drunkenness at Wairarapa, (where, according to the favourers of Dr. Pusey’s doctrines–– “The due administration of the Sacrament was to fence in the Church, and fence out evil”!!!) Be well assured, Elizabeth, that nothing but the simple preaching of Scripture Truths––Justification by Faith alone––will ever be honoured by God the Holy Ghost. “The due administration of the Sacraments” (as it is called) by Mjnisters of man’s sending are not of so much value to this people as Mr. Ready-to-halt’s crutches! Time will show the truth of my assertion.|The Victerines &c., of which you speak (in your note of December) I sent long ago with many things of my own (clothes, books, guns &c.) to Wellington, and daily expect to receive an account of their sale. Provokingly enough, about a month back, Mere Hineitaka came with £10 to buy my fur cloak! I fear it will not have brought that price at Wellington. You speak also (in your last note) that “the 2 boxes had arrived at Auckland”. I fear that their contents will (through long keeping) prove both spoiled and of little use. No goods ever gave me (or us) greater labour and trouble than these two unfortunate packages. But, alas! we little thought that our labour of love would prove so unwelcome, so undesired. If you would like to have the preserves, &c, &c. sent, only say so, and I will be sure to send them. In doing so from this place to Auckland, I can pay the freight. The first lessons yesterday (Genesis 43–45) made me weep much: Jacob and Joseph and Benjamin––W.C., Latty & W. Yet I, too, may have an unexpected and happy termination of my sad bereavements. My apples are now embittered with the drought, that the little darling gets none! The big box wheat-mill I have just sold to Villers. Teretia has been here to me, to be paid for the little native clothing mat dear Fanny had on leaving; I supposed you had paid Ruanaganga for it; let me know when you write.|I fully hoped to have letters from Fanny and Latty in answer to those I have written them. Do not bring them up in undutifulness to their Father; unless you (also) say, they have none. But such vain thoughts will have no effect by-and-by after the mischief is done. You will know the very many threats in God’s word against this sin. I cannot write to them now, as you have tied my hands but I shall write to them again (if I live) and they will ere long be able to judge for themselves, especially if God is pleased to grant them his Grace, to know their own hearts and His blessed truth.|During my writing this long letter I have prayed thrice specially not to write in bitterness, but in all truth; therefore be not needlessly offended if any portion should seem to be harsh.|I daily pray for you all by name, and shall never cease to do so. May God Almighty bless and counsel you, Elizabeth; may He also bless the 3 dear children now and evermore. Amen.| So prays from his heart,| Yours truly,| William.|
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Date (precise): 1854 June 20
Addressee: Elizabeth Colenso
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: (No. 7) WAITANGI, June 20th., 1854.|Mrs. E. Colenso,|Otahuhu, near Auckland.|My dear Elizabeth,|I wrote you a long letter on the 27th. of March last, which I hope has long ago reached you. I have no letters from you to acknowledge; but as I promised in my last to send you some money on little Wi’s account, and as I have very lately obtained through Mr. Alexander’s kindness (and without immediately paying him) a Bill on his Auckland agent for £20, and a vessel being about to sail immediately for Wellington, I hasten to send it. You will perceive that it is drawn in duplicate, this I got done fearing any casualty; and I intend to send you the duplicate by some more direct opportunity, as I hear (from Mr. Alexander) of a vessel being daily expected from Auckland. I had the Bill drawn in your brother’s favour, as by so doing it cannot be of any service until he endorses it; so that if stolen & presented it would not be honoured.|At the date of my last, I think, we were suffering from a heavy waipuke, and we are now just rallying from another and a heavier one; or, rather, it would have been heavier had not Ngaruroro forced a mouth long before the flood was at its height, but not until the Boys’ House was under water. Such a mouth, wider than the entrance at Ahuriri, and directly opposite to Te Ikapakakahawai––or, where that spot was, for all that land is gone, with the pathways, the grassy knolls, & your and the children’s Toetoe bush––all is washed away!! There are now but 3 toetoe bushes remaining between the head of the swamp water and Ngaruroro; and the river has made a new creek (where the children’s toetoe bush was) directly this way, which is now 40 feet long by measurement; so that, in a little while, it will be running in its old channel again. This flood (i.e. the rain) began on the 31st. of May, and lasted a fortnight!! It is now fine but cold, with much snow on the hills. The little cutter “Kawai” was out in all that severe weather, 20 days from Wellington, 6 of which they had no fire, through midwinter!! escaped by miracle.|Heretaunga has been in great commotion since my last; such as you never witnessed. I think I must have told you of the death of the principal chief Ngatiupokoiri, Hori te Kaharoa at Omahu. Well, all hands went there to tangi; and Hori Niania & Arapera te Ngira were detected together! (you know they had long been suspected). This made a greet stir which was increased by Arapera’s confessing that such had always been the case between them, and that Reko, the chief Te Moananui’s wife, was in a similar position! Te Moananui & others endeavoured in vain to get Reko to confess:—at last she confessed to Hapuku, implicating also the great lady Te Hei, as being alike with them!––and all with Hori! Now the fire raged––all the principal chiefs being more or 1ess concerned (and the Popish priest, Jesuit-like, at the back encouraging Puhara) a grand Committee was held at Te Aute, and again at Te Waipukurau; and a £1000 for the first offence was demanded, but for the third, if true, (Te Hei and Hori both denying it) Hori should lose all his lands and be banished forever! Taare Hauaitu set on Wi Tipuna, and Wi Tipuna, Hori, to give nothing. On this the chiefs returned raging: went again & again to Mr. Domett, the R.M. at Ahuriri, and at last it was arranged to be fully heard at Ahuriri. It was also privately determined that if no damages were given, Hor should be set on and killed! Hapuku called on me and said that he the principal promoter would not attend the meeting. Things wore a most ugly appearance. Mr. Domett wrote to all the Magistrates and all the respectable settlers to attend; (I well remembering the sad affair at Waitangi, Bay of Islands, nearly 20 years ago, gave Mr. Domett all the information I could to put him on his guard) and the Magistrates wrote to me, requesting my attendance to assist them &c. Well, Thursday, June 1st. was to be the day of hearing and on Wednesday, 31st. May, all Heretaunga went to Ahuriri––all, lords and commons, “rag, tag & bobtail” such a turn-out! Throughout May the weather had been delightfully fine, and I knew that when rain should come it would be sufficient. Sure enough, on the very 31st. it began, gradually. I suppose 200 horses crossed the Waitangi Creek on that day. Early on June 1st. I walked to Ahuriri, and got there pretty dry. The whole of that day, till 6 or 7 p.m. we were hard at work; then we all dined together, that is as many as could stow, 25 or so about half being chiefs; all very orderly even over their wine. About 10 p.m. we 1eft, i.e. Mr. Curling, a Magistrate from inland, & myself, in rain & wind & darkness––to walk right over the hill or island to Mr. Domett’s house where we 2 slept. We got there partly crawling on our hands and knees! the worst was the descending the zig-zag narrow track down the face of the high & steep cliff! What a wretched time those natives must have had! Next day we recommenced work and after another hard day & night, too, we decided as follows: Damages in Arapera’s case £100: in Reko’s £40: in Te Hei’s nothing (for the time) save a moat severe lecture from the Bench to Reko, which I had to translate, and did give (& no mistake) also, a word of warning to Hori. The payment was immediately made: i.e. ₤90 in gold and a horse £50 = ₤140, which was paid over to Karaitiana (who personated Te Moananui who we had advised to stay away) and to Urupene, Ahapera’s husband. Late at night Mr. Curling and myself returned as before, in the howling, drenching storm to Mr. Domett’s. The next day the weather was worse! I sat on thorns (in the midst of great kindness) till 3 p.m., when, greatly against their wishes, I started on foot on my return to Waitangi in dreadful weather, It was dark before I got half-ways, and before I came to the Church I found the flood up on the bank! I waded to the river’s edge and spent nearly an hour in endeavouring to make old Matiaha hear, but in vain. At last I returned, headed the flood water, & came on over the sea beach, intending to swim across with the key of the study in my mouth; but I found a white man sheltering in Pao Torotoro’s deserted hut, who agreed to put me across in a little dinghey he had there, which he partly did, in the pitchy darkness, and I, leaping out, waded to the study; soon after the whole garden was flooded.|There is little good now among this people. There has been no Service in the big Church here since Mr. S. Williams returned in April! From Noah I learn that one of Mr. S. Williams’ teachers at Otaki had been stealing from him and forging! so that Mr. Williams put him into prison at Wellington; and, on his late return from this place, one of his own baggage bearers stole the “Sacrament money” collected here, on their way back to Otaki; this has made a great talk.. These things speak volumes to those who have ears to hear.|The Magistrate wrote a severe letter to Matiu Meke for his conduct towards me; upon which Matiu attempted to justify it by saying––such was the nature of my letter! at the same time refusing to show it. By-and-bye this very letter was dropped by him in the road, and the chief Nopara and others got hold of it, and sent it to the Magistrate for him to see, saying— “ki a matou nei, kaore tahi ne hue a roto” (i.e. to us who have seen it, there is nothing whatever in it (to find fault with). As a matter of course, it was now seen by all––native and white, and I too wished to see it (having quite forgotten it); and a return letter has also been written by the Magistrate to Te Waipukurau, saying (I quote the concluding sentence, as I have subsequently seen it and copied it)|“kahore he hoe o taua tuhi a Neho, ki taku titiro, ki ta nga tangata katoa hoki, ahakoa pakeha, ahakoa Maorj” (i.e. There is nothing wrong in that writing by Colenso, in my estimation, also in that of all other men, whether whites or natives). Matiu had the impudence to attend the big enquiry at Ahuriri. He, however, with Micah, his friend, (and Wi Tipuna’s brother) had to leave the room. Noah, on the contrary, was spoken well of.|I fear (I may rather say, I know) that Mr. S. Williams has been encouraging Matiu Meke, not, I would still believe, maliciously, but through his receiving and believing all Matiu says, as well as all that Wi Tipuna and that party say. But it will all come out one day. Of Hamuera and Ripeka I know nothing. Perhaps I should tell you that the Bench of Magistrates gave me their public thanks at Ahuriri, in which all the settlers present joined &c. &c.|I have suffered a good deal lately from ear and toothache, and rheumatism, owing to my getting so very wet and cold, but am better now. A fortnight ago Roka accidentally burnt my bag of clothes which she had to wash, which I could badly spare; some too, I had but lately mended. I fear one or two of my best and new shirts were in the lot––their first washing.|The goods which I sent to Wellington were sacrificed! I almost wished they had been burnt in the fire. The great floor-cloth cost £9, sold for £3. Black dress coats cost £5 each, sold for £1.10.0. Books sold for 1/- per vol. which cost 10/-. The sable Victorine sold for a guinea less than it cost in London. But enough of this.|I think continually upon you all––all 4. Tb. 3 dear children are ever present. I hope soon to hear from you, & Fanny and Latty. I often dream of you all. My best love to them all in the most loving way. I hope soon to write to them; I should Long ago have done so, but have tied my hands. Tell Latty I have a little bat here, living with me in the study and at liberty. All day he hangs by his hind legs, but is pretty brisk every night, flying & crawling about. I hope you either see (at times) or keep a motherly look-out after Wi. Poor little dear! who now takes care of him? in the wet, and mud, and cold. I hope God’s holy angels will, if no human being cares for the dear child.|Our town’s name is Port Napier. I must conclude and hasten this off. The leaves of the trees which, when you left were scarcely budding forth, are now fallen and falling, making the garden and me melancholy. But I have often a ray shed down, especially on Sundays, when reading God’s Holy Word. May God bless you, Elizabetb, and counsel you, and soften your heart to receive His counsel. This is my constant prayer,| From yours truly,| William.|
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SourceFile: doc_0096.txt
Date (precise): 1854 October 4
Addressee: Elizabeth Colenso
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: No. 8)|WAITANGI, October 4th., 1854.|Mrs. Colenso,|Otahuhu, near Auckland.|My dear Elizabeth,|Ten days ago (Septr. 22) I received your painful and extraordinary letter of the 27th. May last! And, although I have now again read it carefully through (and that with almost more surprise & keen feeling than when I first went over it) I cannot bring myself to follow your example, and so address you differently from what I have ever hitherto done. Neither shall I stoop to notice the many new and ill things you have therein written,––rather, willingly, would I forget them all: for, used as I have long been to harsh language and treatment, I would that the mother of 2 of my children had not so far forgotten herself as to write to me in such a sad, sad way, I fear, however, that anything I could now say, would have little if any influence with you, but I feel assured that you will by-and-bye bitterly resent the course you have taken. May God, in mercy, give you to see your error! May he not visit upon our 2 dear children the sins of their parents! This shall be my constant prayer.|The “Dolphin” is now at Ahuriri, whither I have been this day. Through Mr. Alexander’s kindness, I have arranged with him to have my dear little boy, Wi, brought down per next vessel to this place, which Mr. Alexander will be able to effect through his Auckland agent, Mr. Graham. As all circumstances connected with the dear child are now well known here, I would venture to hint to you (for your own good name) to do what you may have in your power for the child’s well and safe coning away from your neighbourhood. Any outlay you may have to make I will most faithfully repay through Mr. Alexander’s Auckland agent. I have given Mr. Alexander full authority to act for me in this matter which authority he will transmit to, or act upon through his agent; and as I believe Mr. Fairburn (your father) spoke to Mr. Alexander when at Auckland about bringing away my child, and as I also believe Mr. Graham to be well-known to Mrs. Fairburn, I cannot see any prospective difficulty.|I had intended to send forthwith a special (European) messenger by this vessel to fetch my child, but as Mr. Alexander hopes that some European men and women will be shortly coming to him from Auckland, and as wages are so high and my purse so low, I have abandoned my original intention. With this I shall also send a letter to “Matiu Porou and his wife Maraea” respecting the child, and so have done all in my power towards fulfilling my parental duty towards him.|It is true that I said in my letter to Mr. Hamlin (alluded to by you) that–– “I always said I knew (I told the Bishop so before Mrs. Colenso) that it would not be advisable for the child to be taken to Mr. Fairburn’s. And now I would rather that the child should still go on with Mrs. Colenso and. be put out somewhere in the neighbourhood of Auckland, than come back here to be torn from me again, and that too by natives & brought up by them. If he can not go on to Auckland could he not be put with some quiet settler at Turanga for his good?” (These are the very words.) But from your own showing he has for some considerable time been with natives! Were he even now with some religious or steady European, however poor, I would continue to fight with my feelings (as I have hitherto done for all 3) and not send for him. You also tell me that “my thus writing to Mr. Hamlin was the great inducement to you to take him on with you;”—which, however, is far from being correct, as your own long letter from Te Wairoa,, dated September 24th., clearly shows; which letter of yours was written 3 days before Ihaka returned to you with my letter; and in which you again expressed yourself in those kind words quoted in mine to you of 27th. March last, But of this enough.|I have this day heard from Mr. Alexander that a Bill or Draft on Mr. Graham for £20 (which I had sent you in Jun. last) has been paid; whence I infer that you have also received the letter which enclosed it.|In your sad letter of May 27th. you do not tell me a word concerning our 2 dear children, which, while in keeping with the tenor of that epistle, must be wholly at variance with their affectionate hearts, as well as with all religion natural or revealed. You wish (you say) “to have no farther communication with me;” Well, I will not trouble you; not, at least, until you are brought to a better frame of mind, but I shall henceforth resume writing to my (our) 2 children, whom I shall ever sincerely love, and whose welfare I shall both continually pray for and seek. I fear I shall not have sufficiently mastered my feelings to write to them by this vessel “the Dolphin” which sails directly, but I may yet have an early opportunity by “the Antelope” (the vessel in which you embarked) and which, curiously enough, is now at Ahuriri. As an almost last request—May I earnestly ask you to give them their Father’s love?|And now, Elizabeth in conclusion believe me, I wish you well. I would that you had not chosen the rash course you have; one, however, in which you have deliberately turned aside from the plain path of duty, and therefore you can never be truly happy. I cannot say (with you) that I wish to have no further communication with you; although, through my unfelicitous situation, I am necessitated to succumb to circumstances which I can neither avoid nor control. Would to God, Elizabeth, that you had listened to me––(that you had “submitted” yourself as a Christian wife should do) when we were at Te Waimate together; when I so often besought you for the sake of our future comfort and usefulness (which I then too truly saw imperilled) to give way; for, as sure as the majestic kauri tree in the forests around you was once contained in an insignificant seed, so surely may all that has since happened be traced up to that apparently insignificant source.—But freely forgive me all the uneasiness I have ever (unwillingly) given you; even as I do you: and, when you are restored to a happier frame of mind, think upon the Father of your children whom you and all (including our old domestic Matiaha) have deserted.| Your unfortunate husband,| William Colenso.133|
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SourceFile: doc_0097.txt
Date (precise): 1854 November 28
Addressee: Vidal
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Copy135|Waitangi Hawke’s Bay|Nov 28 1854|Robert Vidal Esq|Dear Sir|On Saturday last the 26 Inst I recd. yr letter of the 24 umo & altho I have not yet received the original letter from Major Straith to which you refer yet as I have had a copy thereof sent me from Archdn Williams & as the messenger who brought it returns immediately I hasten to reply to yr letter.|The CMS has been pleased (most expectedly to me) to dissolve their connection with me. I consequently cannot consent to return to England. Neither do I purpose (for the present at least) to remove from this District; had they simply recalled me (altho even such a separation from my people would be painful) I should have considered it to be my duty to obey their order.|If it be indeed (as you say) absolutely necessary for the cause of Christ that I should quit N. Zealand & that without delay” then he who sent me to this Land, who has all power in heaven & earth & to whom all judgement hath been committed will assuredly remove me from it.|I have also to acknowledge a letter which I received from you a short time ago as a Layman dated March 12/53 & enclosing an extract from the Minutes of Central Com, held at Auckland on the 2 of that month.|I am not aware of this letter now requiring any specific answer.|& thanking you for your very sincere sympathies” so kindly expressed (the first I have had from any of the CM body in N Zealand.|I am, Dear Sir|very faithfully yours|signed W. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0098.txt
Date (precise): 1855 April 12
Addressee: McLean
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi,|April 12, 1855|Donald McLean Esqr,|Commissioner of Lands|&c &c &c|My dear Sir|When at Napier yesterday, I heard, that you were then about sailing for Wellington. This information, and the rains, and also believing you to be very busy from your having only returned from Mohaka the evening before, quite prevented my calling. ―|I have since heard, that you may not go by the vessel now about to sail: and, therefore, write, to ask, whether you could find time to spare me a quarter of an hour at any day which may be convenient. In your fixing the same, and letting me know, I will ride to Napier, or, should you be coming this way you might perhaps call. ―|I am,| My dear Sir,| Yours truly,| William Colenso|
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SourceFile: doc_0099.txt
Date (precise): 1856 November 10
Addressee: Smith
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi, Ahuriri|Novr. 10/56.|J. Alexander Smith Esq.,| &c &c| Auckland Museum.|Sir,|Your note of the 14th. ulto. expressing youir wish to obtain for the Auckland Museum any Native Mats carvings Weapons &c. is just to hand, and I lose no time in replying thereto.––|Unfortunately for your Institution you could not have made an application in a worse quarter than the Ahuriri District. For, during a close residence of 12 years, I have never obtained a single article of the kinds you mention––simply because they are not manufactured here. I should think that Rotorua or the E. Cape Districts are the only likely ones in the present day:138 I speak, however, under correction, being guided by what I know of them 18–20 years ago.––|Wishing your Institution every success.| I am| Sir| Yours very truly| W. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0100.txt
Date (precise): 1857 May 5
Addressee: Featherston
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi, Ahuriri,|May 5, 1857.|To His Honor,| The Superintendent| of Wellington.|Sir,|I have the honor to address you on the subject of the route through the “Forty mile Bush” (the forest bounded by the Ruamahanga and Manawatu Rivers), in compliance with your Honor’s request, made to me at Napier on the 22nd. ult.|I confess, Sir, that I feel not a little diffident in writing what I know about it; seeing that the Chief Surveyor has already not only both gone over the present Maori track and chained it, but has also drawn up a professional Report of the same, which he has further illustrated by |***(page 2 missing)***|I. Geographical:—|Commencing then at Te Kotukutuku, on the Ruamahanga river, the course immediately from that stream is up a long hill, which ascent, at first, is very precipitous and also wet (from water oozing from its cliffy side), so that it is a difficult matter for a Native carrying a load to get up; having gained the summit, the descent is much more gradual, but over broken ground for several miles, until you near the Mangatainoka River; occasionally intersected by several small streams and watercourses, and many deep muddy patches, (caused by the loose springy nature of the soil, the immense quantity of decaying vegetable matter, and the constant humidity of the range). From the River Mangatainoka to Te Hawera139 (a little open space of fern land, the only one in the whole forest, and where was formerly a village,) distant about four miles, the course is tolerably level; which is also the case, with but little interruption, until you reach a very swampy spot, about six miles further on, and where you have to ascend some way on a steep hill’s side, named, Pahiatua. Thence the country is again tolerably level (for a N.Z. forest), with occasional watercourses, deep swampy spots, and dark lagoon-like holes, until you again cross the River Mangatainoka. Whence, to the River Manawatu, a distance of about four miles, the ground is very much more broken and difficult, with several steep terraces and swampy hollows.|The surface soil is (as might be expected) universally composed of decaying vegetable matter, intermixed, in the low levels, with alluvial deposits, and which is of unequal depths, varying from 3–4 inches to a foot and upwards.—The sub soil appears to be in a few places of loam, but generally of clay with small broken pebbles intermixed. I have never noticed any stone on the whole route, save the pebbles and shingle in the beds of some of the streams.—And, from the indurated clay slightly schistose in the cliffs of the Ruamahanga appearing again in a ford of the Mangatainoka River near Te Hawera, and again in the cliffy sides of the River Manawatu, I have little doubt but that the same stratum underlies the whole forest at no great depth.—|I have already mentioned the numerous small streams and watercourses which intersect the track in the forest; besides which there are two principal ones, the Rivers Makakahi and Mangatainoka; the latter being, at one of its fords, the widest mountain stream between Napier and Wellington. (This River the Chief Surveyor states in his Report to be 100 yards wide.) These two Rivers have to be crossed five times during the route; and at no present fording-place do they possess high banks, except at two of the fords, where they have a tolerably high bank on one side only; but which, from the inclination of the stream and the nature of the soil, falls away with every fresh. I believe, also, that, on close examination, those high banks (3–4 feet) on the one side will be found to be of a saucer-like formation, viz.—higher on the immediate edge of the stream.—|—This saucer-like form is easily accounted for: in time of floods, the bushes on the immediate bank (always very dense until torn away) collect a vast quantity of vegetable matter, which, while forced inwards by the strength of the waters, cannot proceed far into the forest. On the slow subsiding of the muddy water, the mud and smaller light forest residuum (i.e. leaves and twigs) are there detained, and, in the course of a few years, a very considerable deposit is there accumulated. (This has actually been the case—though on a much smaller scale—here, at Waitangi, where I reside—the soil near the face of the lower side of the field in front of my house has been raised more than a foot since the erection of the close (paled) fence in 1845, the lower bar of which was originally about ten inches from the ground, and is now, in some places, from 3 to six feet below it, owing to the deposit of fine mud there stopped by the fence in the time of inundations; this has given that part of the field a similar saucer-like form.) And this, where the high and raised bank holds, is the cause of those disagreeable muddy back-water spots, so commonly to be met with a little beyong the higher banks of those and similar Rivers.—|In addition to the above, the two wide Rivers, Ruamahanga and Manawatu, (navigable, at all times for canoes, or even boats,) bound the “Bush” on its N. and S. sides, and must also be crossed.—|The currents in all the Bush streams are slow, owing, chiefly, to their very slight fall.—|In several places in the forest around Te Hawera, particularly in the low lands on its N. side, are many dark lagoons, or deep putrid pools, of irregular shape and size; some of which are destitute of vegetation on their banks, whil others possess the usual dense swamp jungle.—|Those deep pools and holes contain the waters left by the floods when the Rivers overflow their banks, a case of very common occurrence especially in the winter and the spring. It is also very probable that their bottoms are lower than the beds of the adjacent Rivers.— |In the time of great floods the forest is impassable, the waters rising and spreading over the whole low country for several miles, which waters very slowly drain off.—|I have even known the open ground at Te Hawera to be three feet under water, almost choking the Fern and Grass with the thick muddy deposit it left, and which I have had to work my way through.|Such floods are a great cause of the unusually open state of the forest in the low levels—i.e. with regard to its possessing but little underwood; hence the “good travelling” which the fortunate traveller there meets with in dry seasons.—|It is surprising how very rapidly those mountain streams increase, and that, too, from other cause than rain. They often do so after a warm wind has blown strongly for a day or two; such not only melts the snows on the summits in the early spring, but also, (I feel assured,) farther on in the summer, conveys masses of vapour thither from the sea, which is there condensed and quickly precipitated on the lower lands—a fact, I believe, also witnessed by Humboldt on the higher table lands of the Cordillera.—||II. Botanical:—|Under this head I am fortunate in being able to refer your Honor to the Flora N.Z. lately published for corroborative testimony (if needed); the name of Te Hawera forests being often mentioned in its pages as the recorded habitat of many plants; particularly of those species which require either a low watery situation, or constant humidity to develop them.—|Such as, of terrestrial Ferns (only found in very low wet woods), Lomaria fluviatalis, L. nigra, L. procera, L.pumila, Hymenophyllum formosum (its only known N.ZX. habitat); of the genus Hydrocotyle, several species; several genera of large terrestrial Musci and Fungi; and of fresh-water Algæ; together with a very large majority of the Natural Order Hepaticæ; many specimens of which have been declared by Dr. Hooker to be even finer than those obtained by him in the ever-dripping forests of Fuegia and Cape Horn.—|In travelling through those low levels around Te Hawera (especially on its N. side), I have often noticed the self-recorded high-water mark of the preceding winter’s inundations remaining distinctly traced on the pendant Mosses which draperied the trunks of the larger trees;—and which sometimnes had risen to the height of three and four feet, or even more.—|Of the larger trees, which are numerous on the lower grounds, Nesodaphne (Tawa), Podocarpus (Kahikatea, or “Swamp Pine”), and Plagianthus, are by far the most common. The Tawa has been spoken of as being “an indication of good soil”; of this, however, I am not quite so sure, as I am of both it and its neighbours indicating a wet one.—|On the S. side of Te Hawera (especially between the Rivers Makakahi and Mangatainoka), there are some very fine specimens of Podocarpus (Totara), Dacrydium (Rimu), and Metrosideros (Rata), to be met with; but they are generally isolated.—|Those forests abound in Fungi, many of which are of monstrous size and are rapidly developed after rains or floods; to this circumstance may in great measure be attributed the unhealthiness of those parts: [Vide, Statistics.] as, unlike other plants, Fungi, instead of purifying the air by drawing-off its carbonic acid and restoring oxygen, vitiate it, by exhaling carbonic acid and absorbing oxygen.|I have little doubt but that the present track, in a great degree, owes its firmness to the interlacing roots of the living trees through which it winds: now only let the trees be felled on both sides of the same, and the roots consequently decay (which, from their chiefly belonging to the most quickly perishable of all our N.Z. woods, would very soon be the case,) and the path on the lower grounds would soon become a muddy drain instead of a travellable track.—|I have often noticed the very peculiar effect caused by the falling of some tree in low dense forests, and by the consequent admission of a little more light and air; namely, that vegetation invariably perishes all around. Now this, I apprehend, will be sure to follow upon the opening of an avenue-like road in such a forest as this, which may be almost deemed primæval; and which, for some considerable time, will both obstruct and endanger the road from falling and fallen timber; the sooner, perhaps, from the fact of its trees being only lateral rooted.—||III. Statistical:—|The Ngatitutaiaroa tribe of Natives, who, for several years (i.e. from 1846,) dwelt at Te Hawera, lived, before that time, at a village called Ihuraua—a place about 14 miles distant in a N.E. direction through the forests from Te Hawera, but situate on very much higher ground.—|This truly isolated little party (many of whom had never before seen a white man,) proposed to me, on our second meeting, in 1846, to remove their dwelling to Te Hawera, if I would regularly visit them (in common with the other Native villages of the District), as, by their so doing, they would save me several additional miles of heavy forest travelling up and down on the same line. So that, instead of returning to Hawke’s Bay from the village near the head of the Wairarapa calley (Te Kaikokirikiri) via Whareama and the Coast, as hitherto, I should henceforth travel towards Te Hawera and Ngaawapurua over pretty nearly the present track; which, at first, was particularly heavy owing to the (then) trackless state of the forest, as well as the open Fern Lands at the head of the Wairarapa valley; a journey which (from Te Hawera to Te Kaikokirikiri) invariably took, at first, in fine weather and no floods, three long and toilsome days.|On their removal to Te Hawera, in 1846, I noted down the names and number of the tribe; which amounted to,|men 25: wom. 20: childn. 6 = 51.|The whole party settled quietly down; built their huts, and also a little rustic chapel; cultivated different spots of the forests around; and, in the course of two or three years, had all professed the Christian Faith. They rarely visited, and when they did only went to the nearest villages—Mataikona (E. Coast), Te Kaikokirikiri (Wairarapa), and Ngaawapurua (Manawatu).|This little simple and wholly isolated party had a large share of my attention; as, at first, I had sanguine hopes, of their becoming an increasingly pleasing community.—|From several of the Native Xn. teachers of this District (whom I often sent to visit them), they had also much attention: Te Hawera village was altogether No. 1, in our estimation.—|At that early time (1846) I knew nothing of the truly deadly nature of the site they had chosen. The Lands thereabouts were their own, and I could not but suppose that they were the best judges in such matters.—|Finding, however, that several deaths had invariably occurred between every interval of my visiting: that their disorders were constantly of one, or two, types,—Fever, both intermittent and Rheumatic, and Pulmonary Consumption: that the living were greatly altered in appearance, although largely possessed of good food, both animal and vegetable: and, that the floors of their huts were always more or less damp; and, also, having, by this time, both noticed and experienced what I have already written, I began to suspect the true cause of their ailments, and earnestly urged their speedy removal to some better (higher and more open) Site; this, however, I could not now effect. They would not (or, rather, could not,) believe their daily lessening numbers was caused by the unhealthiness of the spot; but (wholly in accordance with N.Z. ideas) by the malediction and enchantments of their old enemies because they had received the Xn. Faith: which Faith, however, they would never abandon, and consequently (reasoning as New Zealanders) the first little Chapel of their Tribe, and their dead relations who lay buried around it.—The end is soon told: up to May, 1851, the number of deaths of this small party (including their principal man then lately deceased), amounted to|men, 14: wom. 14: childn. 4 = 32|and the sorrowing remnant were then, at length, yielding to my advice, (or, more properly speaking, commands,) and were about to depart for the open country in the lower Manawatu. In March, 1852, (when I last went that way,) one of the tribe had come from their new place of abode to meet me at Te Hawera; who informed me, that, before that they had left the place, another male had died, making a gross total of 33 (thirty three) out of 51 (fifty one) in the space of 5 (five years)! several of whom were young, both of males and females.|The number of births during the same period was only six, of which, four had also subsequently died.—|The resting-place of a number of these dead, is strikingly indicated in the Chief Surveyor’s Sketch Survey, as “Graves”—in the little Fern oasis of Te Hawera.—|The rude little chapel of this people, being the last house built, had been erected on much higher grounds, at some little distance from their huts (and close to the present “graves”). There, although at least three feet higher, the ground had also been flooded.—|In time of floods the inhabitants used to escape to a high terrace on the edges of the forest a little beyond their chapel; where, indeed, they were safe, but quite cut off from all human aid.—|With hopes of alleviating their sad situation some of the party made a cultivation and erected houses on the river’s bank at Pahiatua; from this, however, they were also driven by the floods, when they made another attempt upon a steep hill not far off.|At this last mentioned place my (then) principal N. Teacher from Ahuriri found a few of them with their chief, on a visit he made to Te Hawera, when, and only with great difficulty, he got so far as this place, but could not go any further; and, although they had all previously known the day of his coming, and he also, on his arrival, induced a young man to go from Pahiatua as a messenger to them, yet those at Te Hawera could not come to him, neither did the messenger come back, owing to the great depth and extent of the inundation in the forest: after waiting several days the N. Teacher returned to Ahuriri.—|All Natives whom I, at different times, sent to visit Te Hawera, always travelled thither with some fear as to their being shut in by floods. I have known some of the Natives of the place, who had been out visiting, to make ineffectual attempts to return to their home, and to come back to their entertainers and there uneasily remain more than a month through the untravellable state of the low forest.|The Natives of Te Hawera could never succeed in raising Pumpkins and Melons, nor even Maize. On one occasion I did however obtain a small unripe Pumpkin from the old Chief, which had been grown there, and which he had saved for me.—|I learned, from the Natives, that in none of the many streams of this forest are any of those justly-prized edible fishes, (called by them, Inanga, Kokopu, and Paneroro,) so common in the other waters, to be found. Although such abound both in the Manawatu and Ruamahanga rivers.||In this writing for your Honor’s information, I have, on the one hand, nothing hypothetical to advance, nor, on the other, any favorite scheme of my own, to seek to influence your Honor in its favor. I had simply a few facts to relate, and which I trust, I have unassumingly done. As a Landowner (to some little extent) here at Napier, I can only wish to see a good Road of Communication between it and Wellington quickly opened up; but I have no hesitation in stating (as my opinion), that such cannot be by the present route through the “Forty mile Bush.” At the same time I am far from denying the possibility of such being yet found between Wairarapa and Manawatu;—perhaps, by keeping upon a higher level, a mile or two W. of, and parallel with the present track, and so reaching the Manawatu river a little lower down; but, from the dense nature of those almost impenetrable forests, as well as their extent, such a road must ever prove to be a serious undertaking.—|I have the honor to be,|Sir,|Your very obedient servant,|William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0101.txt
Date (precise): 1857 August 22
Addressee: Featherston
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi, Napier,|Augt. 22 1857|I.E. Featherston|Esq, &c &c|Superintendent.|My dear Sir|Your kind note of June 2nd. I received in the Land Office on the day of the Land sale. I fear you will scarcely credit me when I tell you, that, with the sole exception of the “Esther,” which sailed almost immediately afterwards, no Mail since has been sent from this place to Wellington! As however we are now hourly looking-out for the “W.Wonga,” on her return from Auckland, I willingly avail myself of the opportunity to thank you for your note: and (while I much regret the circumstance of my Report being somewhat adverse to your Honor’s views respecting the road through the 40m. Bush,) I wish to assure you, that the Government may always depend upon my ever-present hearty wish to be of service. As to your publishing my Report—pray do so, if you approve of it. Allow me however, in the event of its being Printed, to request a couple of copies. In fact, I should greatly like to receive regularly a copy of the Govt. Gazette (seeing they often contain highly useful information): I have more than once written to Wellington to purchase Copies, but have rarely ever been successful.—|On Mr. Stafford’s arrival (shortly after your Honor had left us), I, of course, waited on him; and, among other things talked of by us, during our short conversation, was the Botany & Exploration of N. Zealand.—He said, there were no funds for the purpose: I even offered to accept so small a sum as £50. a year, in aid: but he spoke slightly of Botany & of its kindred Natural Sciences.—I almost fear, that the dulce stands a chance of being clean forgotten in the constant caring for the utile: Goethe (I think) has it— “we should take care of the Beautiful for the Useful will take care of itself”:—and perhaps future years may reveal, (to the shame of the first Colonists of N.Z.,) that the British & Continental Museums will necessarily have to be visited by the N.Z. student of the Natural Sciences of his own Country!|Doubtless you will have heard of the increasing jars of the Natives of this neighbourhood—(those Natives who, a short time back, were spoken of as the first in N.Z. for quietness & discipline!)—well: on Tuesday last, the 18th. inst., they fought inb a skirmishing kind of way, (on the fern plain at the W. end of the large wood near this place, where they have been about,) and the result was, 7 killed on the spot, 1 mortally, 2 dangerously, & several slightly wounded.—This, I fear, will prove to be only the beginning of things. It is a very great pity that such a mere handful of Natives should have been allowed to proceed thus far. I am not aware of a single Magistrate, nor the R.M., ever having once visited them. And I regret to have to add, that the party disaffected to British Rule had the best of it (although they lost 3 on the field); consequently they are now more arrogant than ever. I have spent 2 days among them all (Wedy. & Friday), during which time a kind of truce has been observed to allow of their burying the dead: and, as I have never lowered my tone, I have had, as a matter of course, a deal of insolence &c, &c, to bear. Hapuku and his party, (ever the friends of the Settler & of Govt.,) although the chief losers, have sought for peace, but the others, flushed as they now are, won’t hear of it; unless Hapuku will consent to leave his village immediately—in which he has dwelt 13 years!!|Mr. McLean (who went to Auckland in the steamer and who is expected by her,) may, it is to be hoped, yet be of service—but no N. Zealander (no Polynesian?) is ever to be won by gifts, or kindness, (especially when once they begin to be suspicious or discontented): more of the suaviter is needed in dealing with them.|Believe me|My dear Sir,|Very sincerely yours,|William Colenso.|
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Date (precise): 1858 January 2
Addressee: McLean
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi, Jany. 2 1858|4 pm|D. McLean Esqr.|&c &c|My dear Sir|I am just returned from Te Hapuku, and I lose no time in giving you (in a few words) the result of my Mission.—|He says—that he cannot comply with the demand to leave on Monday next:—that he has no faith in their (Te Moana & Tareka) promises; and even if kept by them, would not be binding on others; as, according to the Nat. Custom, the promise of any Chief, when respected, only binds his own immediate followers; and that in the case of the firewood, &c. at Wakawiti, after the first skirmish, which was to be allowed to be taken away, on Te Ŵatuiapiti vacating that place, before it could be all removed it was thrown into the river, &c; & that, 2 days ago, on a canoe drifting, when Peehi, Puhara’s native was sent after it, & Moana said it should be given up, while he & the Chief were tangiing over Puhara’s death, Tareha & party took away the canoe up into the pa—so that their words are devoid of mana &c:—that, the only way he can remove, is, by degrees first, his Ploughs &c &c second, women & children lastly, himself—& this has been re-echoed (to day) by all: that he never will forsake his people, women, &c: that the other side has boasted their soon getting women slaves, &c:—that you have no force, nor means of controlling them: and that they know well, that, though in following him up & killing him, you could not afford to be very vici, as they know you want their Lands, &c &c: and as to returning to take away any thing, or after leaving to think of having the Crops, are unheard of things in Native Warfare; that his enemies would grab all, & in all likelihood kill not a few of those, who (following out the novice given) might be left.—|He thinks he is safe against their attacks where he is, for some time at least: & speaks of moving at his own time—Ngahuru.|Cows, &c., were driven inland yesterday, & Horses this day. —|I cannot help thinking there is a deal of truth in what he says: and, that the other party should either listen to reason—or, must do their worst.|I write this in great hurry to go to Grindell: pray excuse it. And believe me| Yours very sincerely| W. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0103.txt
Date (precise): 1858 January 27
Addressee: McLean
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi,|Wednesday night, Jany. 27/58.|My dear Sir,|I have been thinking a little today on what you mentioned to me—viz.—The adoption of some plan by which the Nat. Chiefs would be satisfied & allow the Settlers’ Stock to graze on their lands;—and, as it may be several days ere I may see you, and as I wish you to know early my thoughts on the subject (if of any service), lest you should, in talking with the Chiefs, hold out to them any prospect of gain, &c.,—I now write to give you a few of them for your consideration.—|Of course, I know very well that they wish some arrangement to be made by which they may gain by the grass, &c. on their waste lands;—I, however, would (for the benefit of all) strenuously oppose it.—For,|1. Such would keep back (perhaps altogether) the Sale to Govt. of these Plains:—|2. Enhance their price considerably when sold.—|3. Open a wide door to their taking-in Cattle (from Settlers) to graze.—|4. Retard their Civilization.|5. Perhaps cause difficulties elsewhere—as precedents of such a nature (gain!) fly among the Natives:—such as|—Their making reserves of grassy (Baiting) places.—|—Their making reserves of grassy belts around proposed site of townships.—|—Their making demands for grass eaten by Travellers’ Horses, Stock in driving, &c. &c.|6. All “Runs” adjoining Natives’ Ground and all Natives Waste Land adjoining Runs should be on the “give-&-take” system: as all Natives now have stock, which is largely increasing: such has been, all along, done by Mr. Alexander.—|7. No impounding should be allowed for trespass on open waste unimproved ground—for, from the fact of half of them being idle, they would give settlers terrible annoyance.|8. They themselves in travelling (often in large parties) over Govt. grounds, or even Private property—would never pay for their Horses, &c. grazing.—|9. Impounding (of course) proper, in case of trespass on enclosed Lands, & Cultivations—but here proper fences should be imperatively required:—For such would|—Cause them to fence well:—|—Cause them to cease wandering from spot to spot.|—Cause them to sell their surplus land—|—Cause them to abandon some of their rapacious desires:–|10. Besides, a small sum (not even ten times the amount per head, or per acre, now paid to the Govt.) would not satisfy them:—and, if a large sum were paid, it would in all probability, be seized by the Principal Chief;—which would (I fear) go to encourage his idleness & rapacity—cause him to encourage such stock coming about his Land; which would serve to annoy the tribe (they not gaining any of the profits) and they would, perhaps, privately injure the stock, &c.|11. Further—there would be no manner of justice in so acting; such being the common custom with Govt. Lands—which moreover have been paid for—while theirs cost them nothing.—|12. I verily believe that the sooner they are dealt with, as if they were really and truly British subjects, the better for them, and for their children, and for us.—One Law, one Rule, one manner of acting for all: at least for all in this District—seeing how few they are, how well provided they are (or may be), and how far they are advanced—some, even beyond some of our own countrymen.—|Pray excuse, my dear Sir, the freedom of these few remarks—written, too, roughly.—| And believe me | to be| Every very truly Yours | William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0104.txt
Date (precise): 1858 April 15
Addressee: McLean
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi|15th. April 1858|Dear Mr. McLean,|A rainy day with wind from the S. keeping me indoors, enables me to put in practice what, during the last week, I have several times thought of—viz, writing you; just to let you know (in the absence of your aid Mr. Cooper) how it is with us—Natives. The more so as only last Thursday I returned from Poukawa.—|Well then, to begin at the beginning. I left you and Hapuku at Awanui; returning—facing the rain—I got back drenched, having had two somersets by the way; & so much bruised from the last (here too on Waitangi flats!) as to be glad enough to keep my bed for 2 days—thinking how ever you managed to get on in the rain—to say nothing of the heke! Early in the following week I got a visit from old Waka, from whom I got a good deal of news—among other things—that they were dreadfully incensed at the other party’s daring to sell Puhara’s House, &, that they had determined Mr. C. should never dwell there. (This I have heard repeated 2ce since, but, as he will have to pay them money, they may not be really serious.) That Renata will not remove to Omahu, but will stick hard & fast to Te Pakiaka; &, by and bye, when the Mill shall be finished, will put up a permanent pa for himself, at Wakaparata.—|Just at this time came 2 ope’s; one, a kind of taua from Taupo to fight agt. Hapuku on account of Matiu—bringing plenty of arms & ammunition, which, I believe, has been handed over to Tareha—this party, was angry enough at H. having removed inland:— and one, a deputatn. from Werowero to get these disaffected ones to attend his levee or Coronation!—Twice I combatted their arguments—here at Waitangi—assuring them, that this new mode of proceeding they had pitched upon was the very rail road to their ruin: they, modestly & good-tempered enough, acknowledged, that all I had said they had already heard from nearly every respectable pakeha—but that inasmuch as Kawana had called (or, rather, treated) Potatau as a taurekareka, & had said, he should not know him as a King; & all who should, would be considered enemies, (which was all the same as a challenge), he, Potatau, would shew the Native mana & would fight!! saying,—“Kaua koe e mahara e, Kaore o matou hoa; he hoa ano kei to matou tuara, Ko te iwi o Paranehe” (France)—we have had letters thence, telling us to sell no more land; and the “Pikopo’s” here are our friends, &c., &c., &c.——That this was at the bottom of their thoughts, hence the making of Powder & retaining Gold fields, (in order to work them), was now their main object. I sent word to Ngatikahungungu—not to go to the hui; but they said (to the deputatn.) that had peace been really and firmly made here, they would go, but as it was, Te Moananui alone should go, who left a fortnight ago.—I sent strong & plain verbal messages to Potatau; which, they said, they would “tell him, as I was a friend to the Maori”—speaking very distrustfully, & much worse, of nearly all high authorities,—which I was very sorry to hear.——|Last week another ope,—abt. 20, came, headed by Te Paerata, to get his people to the hui, he met Noa at Petani on his way N., no more however have gone. Tareha is busy, making his Pa Wakaairo smaller, more compact, and more easily defended. There is a sad split between them & Rangihiroa on account of the money he got from you: they did say, the road from Tarawera to Mohaka should not be made by him, & I was charged to inform Mr. A. of it; &, from the road to the land being such an easy transition, they now claim afresh all Lands right on to Tarawera at least! but I should tell you that their design is, to advocate the right of Ngatimatapu, (Petane), to the Land of the Roadmaking, & the other Rangatiratanga.|We have had no news nor returns yet from Porangahau, where they are still dividing their profits:—fame says that Purvis, who is still there among them, has received £500 at least: his brother, Hy., told me, last week, that P. was going to England almost directly.—Hapuku I found busy, having got up all the take’s, &, in a day or so would proceed to put up the smaller fencing (Wana’s), which, with aka, were all ready. Some of the posts are very large—drawn from the Mill by 10 bullocks. I was surprised to find no one of the inland Natives helping him, save Pao. Nikahere, and Pao. Kopakau: the site is intermediate between Tauatepopo and the small Kahika bush which stands in the raupo swamp—in fact, it is on the line of road as laid out by Roy; & Gill and Hap. had been having words about it; Hap. telling Gill, that if he (G.) could not make a road over the lower ground, he himself would do that part. I found them all in pretty good spirits—with a certainty of soon wanting food; which want, of potatoes especially, was common everywhere inland. One very great evil I had painful proof of—the selling of spirits by the Draymen (wholesale! and legally enough, perhaps, in 2 gall.) not only to the Natives, but to the Road Parties: this will turn the line of road, which should be a benefit, into a curse.—Hap. shewed me a block of Land, between Tauatepopo & the little Lake, which he intended to sell immediately to Mr. Cooper, on his return. One incident occurred while I was there, Ho. Pura, (a Pakowhai native) had his collar-bone broken by the felling of a tree.—|Strangely enough—especially when considered in connexion with what Karait. had said, &, subsequently, Ropiha’s Son and Tribe—they wished me to reside among them as their Minister—a straw thrown up shews wh. way the wind blows.—|Perhaps you will hear from Mr. Curling that I have contracted w. Gebley & Thomas to build me a Ho. at Napier; for which Kauri, &c., has been ordered. I have also offered nearly all my Lands (Town and Suburbn.) for sale, ditto the Trees of this place—as the “Herald” will shew. And a surveyor is now laying-out the whole of that Basin (Nos. 39–44, surburban) Town of Napier, where I have projected a Street, or Place, in the Centre of the hollow, & a Terrace on the hill. I will send you a plan when ready.|None of the natives about me know anything certain of my movements. They have held, however, two “Komitis”; & I have had visits from Te Hira, & from the old Lady Winipere, (Karaitiana’s Mother), & firewood sent by Renata!! Waka, who comes & goes, has pressed me—if I will leave—to take from their Land further up the flat, or on the other side, or by the Church, or anywhere—to all which I am deaf, & dumb, too.!!|A great no. of Taupo & other Natives have returned; and Ngatihori are now busy working timber for their Mill. I had forgotten to say, that one of this Tribe took away the Mailman’s Horse from him, the week after you left; alledging it as retaliation; Moa. however made him give it back.|And now my dear Sir, adieu. Believe me ever, | Very sincerely yours | Wm. Colenso.|P.S. Mackenzie is in gaol. |
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SourceFile: doc_0105.txt
Date (precise): 1858 April 22
Addressee: McLean
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi|April 22, 1858|My dear McLean,|A few days ago I gave you the Nat. news; promising you a tracing of the Land I am getting laid out at Napier, which I now enclose: the tracing is rather rough, but correct; the Land will not be opened for sale for 2 or 3 weeks (depending on the Surveyor), so that if you care to have any of the best sections (all ¼ ac.), you will be in time. I consider the situation the best in the Island, while it is retired & in the heart of Town. And as I (& Dr. H.144 and others) wish it to be respectable, I have planned it so as to have no thoroughfare, & given for a belt of Trees, &c.—“Banks”—after Sir Jos. B. who came with Cook, & published (&, indeed, brought out Draughtsmen with him at his own expense!) & “Hooker”, after our N.Z. Flora Botanist.|—A little stir was among the Natives last week; Hapuku heard (“from soldiers” travelling) that he was about to be attacked, & immediately all collected within their new pa: while K. and Renata, hearing that Hap. was coming to attack them, collected all their forces again at Pakiaka, and were preparing to march to Pakipaki there to lie in ambush, when Wi (Harawira Tatere’s son) came down from Poukawa (accidentally), & stopped them by telling how things really were: when they vented their Piri in a great deal of firing.— — —|Two days ago I addressed the B. of Magistrates (granting Publican’s Licenses)—on the subject of selling to Natives, and, on that of the Evils arising from the 2-gall. whole sale (!!) Ordinance: H. Russell & Col. Wyatt were on the Bench.|Believe me, | Yours truly, W. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0106.txt
Date (precise): 1859 August 27
Addressee: McLean
Place: Waitangi
Letter Body: Waitangi, August|27, 1859.|To Donald McLean, Esq,| Chief N.Z. Ld. Purchase Commissr.| &c, &c, &c,| Napier.|My dear Sir|I have been thinking a good deal of late on the subject of the Native King! and of the “Runanga” which seems to be in pretty active operation in various parts. And from having been present in your Office when Matena Ruta (Potatau’s messenger (or Minister Plenipotentiary) from Waikato and principal man of the “Runanga” here,) delivered his message to you, I am desirous of trespassing on your time and thoughts with a few remarks.—|1. We have evidently two elements now at work—both opposing the British Government; the Native King and the “Runanga”: the former, an idea of foreign growth; the latter purely aboriginal.—|2. Yet, in deeming the idea of a Native King of all the New Zealanders as of foreign growth—we should remember, that originally each Principal N.Z. Chief or head of a Tribe had in every sense Kingly power over his own Tribe: and indeed which has been preserved in the Sandwich Islands (whence some of the ancestors of the New Zealanders came,) to the present day. There is therefore no valid reason why in considering the genius of the people (acting under a belief of imminent danger from without) the N.Z. Tribes should not unite under one common leader. Indeed, before the general reception of Christianity, it was no uncommon thing for several Tribes to join and act as one, under one Leader for the purpose of war, offensive or defensive.|3. A state somewhat parallel obtained among the ancient Britons when invaded by Cæsar and other foreign foes—also the ancient Greeks: when thus banded as one their opposition was not only very formidable but almost invincible.—|4. So, especially in a country of such a peculiar mountainous nature as this, and with British Settlers scattered so very widely apart, would such an opposition be formidable, and if once provoked, not easily subdued. The more so from the very materiel which is every where made use of, (or abused,) viz. the Christian Religion and Native Christian Teachers, to carry out the designs of the Native King and the “Runanga”.—|5. The Native King (in my opinion) has really but small power, especially at a distance from his own Tribe:—this element has most to do with the Principal Native Chiefs.—|6. Every Principal Native Chief might be sedulously told that he is (as far as is, or can be, possible or requisite,) as a King to his own Tribe; his native jealousy and pride should be touched: divide et impera.|7. The “Runanga,” however, has a very great power—mainly owing to its being a purely Native idea—a resuscitated germ which has lain latent in the Native mind—and has extensive and growing influence over all—men women & children—of course, for good or for evil.—|8. It has been commonly used throughout Polynesia—much like the tapu: hence, from the introduction of Christianity the New Zealanders were always inclined to assemble in bodies, whether for friendly visiting parties, prayers, schools, marriages, Baptisms, burials, or selling Lands; often patiently enduring no small amount of inconvenience and expense. All matters done “Runanga”-fashion (“i te aroaro o te tokomaha”) have ever been considered binding.—|9. Now this “Runanga” power and authority should be noted, and its sinews cut.|10. If the beast is too strong or too ferocious or too wily or too impenetrable to be attacked openly, it should be done by stealth. The fierce Elephant is ham-strung: the wild bull noosed with the lasso.—|11. If we can’t do what we would, we must do what we can.|12. The different Christian Ministers in the Country should oppose it. If not as treasonable, certainly as chimerical & impracticable, and also inexpedient and highly against the welfare of the Native race.—|13. A competent person (or persons) should, I think, attend those “Runangas” on the part of the Government; but not, however, as a Gazetted Government Officer. Such a person would effect much in a quiet way. The Natives dearly love “talk”, and are always generally pleased at Whites being present at their Meetings.|14. Through such person the Government would also know their real Native friends; and timely learn the hatching of any secret designs.—|15. If English Law (or a portion of it) could be dispensed “Runanga”-fashion, (i.e. by an itinerant Magistrate, or R.M., acting in concert with the Chief of each Tribe, and openly and at his Native Village hearing cases & giving judgment,) such would tend to remove much existing discontent.—|16. If possible His Excellency should see much more of the Principal Native Chiefs; both at Auckland and among their respective Tribes. Like Privy Councillors at home and other highly privileged persons they think they ought to have a Common Right of Entrance, &c.—This is the universal feeling of all Tribal peoples; whether the Polynesian, or African, or N. American Indian be considered, or the more highly civilised inhabitants of the Chinese & Russian Empires—they all wish to see, and talk with their “Great Father.” (It was the unintentional lack of this which made the serious revolt against David, & raised the cry—“We have no part in David:—to your tents O Israel!”—) Hence, too, it was that many of the old Missionaries had such an amount of influence, even in hard & trying times; and for want of this many of the newer ones fail, notwithstanding their entering on prepared ground.—Soft words welling from the depths of the human soul and the warm hand of man effects as much now as in the days of Jesus Christ. The wild man invariably falls before little acts of kindness oft repeated with firmness, as well as the wild horse before Rarey.—the suaviter in modo should ever be united with the fortiter in re.—|17. If such could not be granted—not a little might be done through a small yet valuable yearly present to each principal Chief—say, a saddle—or a suit of Clothing—a plaid—a gun, or a bag of shot. Such should also be given accompanied with a letter in answer to an application from the Chief—which might easily be effectd through the agency of a well-disposed Minister, or of a Competent Person (par. 13), or of that of a Native Land Purchase District Commissioner.—|18. All Native Christian Teachers should be restrained from assisting publicly at any “Runanga”: at all events (if ever allowed) they should be strictly confined to their own village or Tribe. This is of principal importance. Only keep back the Native Christian Teachers from interfering or helping the “Runanga” movement and the whole scheme will soon fall. There are many ways of doing it:—1st. By the Minister representing it as not being seemly:—2nd. By merely telling him, that while he so acts at the “runanga” he must not conduct Divine Service, as his passions will be too much excited:—or, 3rd. By finding him congenial employ in another direction while the “Runanga” is sitting:—or, 4th. By sending him (“out of harm’s way,”) N. or S. avisiting at such periods.|19. It is a grossly mistaken notion, that the presence of the Native Teachers at modern “Runangas” serves to keep order & promotes good: keep outward order of a certain kind they may, but no real good is promoted by their presence at such assemblies. Unless in cases where they are well-known to be opposed to the Native King & “Runanga” movement, but such Native Teachers would not attend.|20. The Natives should generally and speedily be shewn, that there is no necessary connexion whatever between the Christian Religion and the “Runangas”:—disabuse the Native mind on this point and a great end is gained. Here, however, great caution must be used—unless the Ministers generally oppose the “Runanga”; for, it must be confessed, that it is here where the main difficulty lies. The union between Religion & Justice is natural: the Natives think themselves unjustly treated, with more injustice looming in the distance:–ergo the connexion in their minds between Religion & the Runanga.|21. I cannot conceive of much (if any) difficulty in getting the Episcopal Ministers thus to act in union; for, certainly the Bishops must see some of the many evils which would necessarily follow the encouraging or fostering (however indirect) such a mad scheme. I venture to suggest, that the Government should lose no time in making application in the proper quarter.—|22. Evil minded or thoughtless Whites, using treasonable or highly exciting or false language to the Natives (as to the designs of the British Government), should be hunted up & made examples of. No rank or office or age should be allowed to screen an individual so acting.|23. In carrying out all, or any of the foregoing ideas, I think it should ever be studiously borne in mind, to take no notice whatever of the Native King or of the “Runanga”; not only, not to acknowledge them or their acts or doings, but generally to act as if such were not in being or not of the least importance. Never enquire after them in any direct way: and, when they are spoken of, never betray the least desire to hear or know. Such conduct is sure to be reported & sure to tell. Hence, while ever steadily opposing both Native King and “Runanga” indirectly in the “Maori Messenger,” I would never do so directly. The Native race are very shrewd, and are ever ready to take immense jumps in the opposite direction. They hate to have their own important doings taken little notice of; a continuation of such conduct is sure to make them give them up. But let their suspicions be really once aroused, and one might just as well ask a rat to enter a trap!—|Here, my dear Sir, I must conclude. I have many other duties, and I have already written more than I intended, but the subject is a most important one to us all, and I have not anything like exhausted all of it. Believe, I pray, in my zeal and faithfulness, although, it may be, I am incorrect in some of my conclusions.| I am,| My dear Sir| With every respect| Yours very truly,| William Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0107.txt
Date (precise): 1860 December 21
Addressee: McLean
Place: Napier
Letter Body: Napier|Decr. 21/60|Dear Mr. McLean, |I posted to your address last week a few copies (Maori) of Renata’s speech & of Mr. FitzGerald’s answer.|I now enclose one—that it may not only reach you, but come under your notice. As I think Mr. FitzGerald’s answer to be a really good one & well suited to the times—I would suggest that it be printed in your “Maori Messenger.” Of course I would not recommend the printing in that serial of Renata’s speech.—|I feel sure you will believe that I have been for a long time anxiously noticing all your movements at the N.—and all your sayings to, or concerning, the Natives. And am sorry, very sorry, that you have such a host of Enemies arrayed against you—especially among those who ought to know and do better.—|You, I know, will be quite ready to believe—that I lose no opportunity of aiding and assisting your views & plans as to the Natives—the War—& Maori King. I would that all here were but unanimous—I mean of those who both speak Maori & have some influence among them.|Could you not get me a ½ doz. copies of Karere Maori instead of a single one? For years I had 2—but of late only one—& this one, together with one which comes for Supt.—we give away—and I am often beseiged for more. I have also been told by the Natives that they do not get them as they used to. If I could not get ½ doz. copies regularly, yet that no. or more, sent me whenever there is a defeat of the Natives, or any good article to them, will sure to be of service.|Hoping you are quite well, & with every good wish and respects.|I am, |Yours truly, |Wm. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0108.txt
Date (precise): 1861 December 12
Addressee: McLean
Place: Napier
Letter Body: (Private)|Napier|Decr. 12/61|D. McLean, Esq.,| &c &c &c|My dear Sir|For the last week or more I have been going to write to you—but I am so busy every day that I have not found time—until I have been much too fagged.—|What I wished to say to you is—that, in the event of Sir G. Grey coming hither to see these Natives, (which, I suppose, he will be sure to do,) do you come with him or be here while he is here—for, I have heard enough to convince me, that some of those Natives will make great attempts to get back some portions of Lands bona fide sold by them to you & paid for by you,—to alter boundaries—to represent their not being half-paid, & so on.—And I much fear they are organizing among themselves deep laid schemes of this kind, & mainly against yourself. You know them well enough to know, that they will scarcely dare to do any thing of the kind to your face—but, your being absent, is quite another thing.—“Now or never”—is their belief—& I almost fear they are privately encouraged by some whites.—|I hope you are well.—I have heard nothing (be Letter) from your city since I left. I have suffered a great deal—throughout 10 weeks—from severe Rheumatism. The present warm weather is however doing me much good—more than all the medicine I have taken—though I am not yet free from pain.|Our Natives are very quiet—notwithstanding Bousfield’s outrageous conduct—it is (I think) charitable to conclude him to be a little “cranky.” The Natives are leasing (after their fashion) on all sides. Will they not fall out about division of utu reti? Hapuku & Urupene are now almost at war—no doubt they would if they could.|I should greatly like to know the fate of that letter of mine to W. Tamihana—given into the hands of Wi Maehe of Rotorua.—Did it ever reach Wi Tamihana? or was it delivered to some white not very far from you? When I gave it to W.M. the Bp’s. Native was with him. Try to know whether W.T. recd. it.| Believe me ever| My dear Sir| Yours sincerely| W. Colenso|
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SourceFile: doc_0109.txt
Date (precise): Undated
Addressee: McLean
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Monday morning|Dear Sir|I regret not being able to attend the S. Comee. this mg. The mail did not arrive on Saty. (daylight)—and this day is the first of the year with all the new Maori Contractors; I shall therefore be engaged at P.O. Tomorrow I hope to be with you.|
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SourceFile: doc_0110.txt
Date (precise): 1862 date
Addressee: McLean
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Wednesday|Mg|D. McLean Esq|&c &c &c|My dear Mr. Mclean|For the last few days I have been hoping to see you―to fall in with you, in my usual going to & fro. If you are wholly disengaged this evening I will call on you―say 6 o’clock―when I leave office.|I shall bring the two last numbers of the Herald in my pocket.|Yours truly|Wm. Colenso|P.S. since writing the above I have heard of your leaving Town this day―are you now disengaged?|
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SourceFile: doc_0111.txt
Date (precise): 1862 June 27
Addressee: McLean
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Friday night|June 27, 1862|My dear Mr. McLean, |As the Wh. Swan has not arrived, and as I leave tomorrow per Storm Bird for Wellington, and therefore may not see you—I just write a few lines to inform you that I have received your note of 5th (only yesterday)—and am sorry Dr. Knight has been disappointed. The little packet which has been missed, contained—a long letter from myself—and a French work on Lichens—Stictæ, by De Lise, with Atlas of Plates—which I had promised to lend Dr. Knight, & which he had wished greatly to see—and I had long waited for a good opportunity.—–|Do not however think of it—such things will occur, & do occur with us all.—|Mr. Watt told me to day, he fully expected you by Steamer (Wh. Sw.) You will be a little surprised when you hear of our Civil Commissioner.—The town has been full of no other talk all the….151|I little thought poor old Waitangi would ever have been the means of so much talk among the Settlers.—|—As I find you do not take in the H.B. Times I have addressed one to you to go with this.—It is rather a curious coincidence to see the two Papers—pulling together in a public matter.|—One thing I am very very sure of—that Sir George will find it a step in the wrong direction to allow of any deed—openly & fairly made, with the full sanction of the powers—to be called in question. As sure as ever the Waitangi Deed is so dealt with, so surely will the Natives apply to have other Deeds similarly dealt with. I am about to petition Sir George for Compensation, and I intend to accompany my petition (which will be drawn very temperately) with a Letter, of few words, to be signed by the old Settlers and J.P.’s—say a dozen or so: and I may ask you to sign it.—I shall send up to Wood, from Wellington.|Before you quite leave us, I should like to have a note from you, stating, how you found the Natives of this District on your first coming here—& whether you (then) had reason to believe, that my exertions among them had been of an useful & beneficial nature.|I had arranged to go by Storm Bird, because she was advertised to sail on Tuesday 1st July and now she leaves 3 days earlier!!—I wished to see you.—|The little sums of which I gave you a Memo. perhaps you will kindly place to my Credit at Bank of N.Z.|Hoping to hear from you, | Believe me, | My dear Sir, |Yours sincerely, |Wm. Colenso|
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SourceFile: doc_0113.txt
Date (precise): 1862 November 11
Addressee: McLean
Place: Napier
Letter Body: Napier, November|11th. 1862.|D. McLean, Esq.,| &c &c &c| Napier|Dear Sir|I do not know whether you are aware of the Government of New Zealand having requested me to surrender Waitangi to them, promising me compensation for the Improvements, &c. thereon. I have agreed to do so, (and, in fact, have left never more to return,) and the Arbitrators appointed by the Government and myself, (Messrs. Chambers & Alexander,) have sent in their award.—|I, yesterday, received a letter from the Under Secretary, enclosing a copy of a Letter from Bishop Williams to the Hon. the Col. Secretary, respecting myself and Waitangi.—|This Letter has been sent to me by Mr. Gisborne,—“in order that I may make such remarks thereon, for the information of the Government, as I may consider necessary.”|I am truly sorry to find, that Bishop Williams’ Letter is (to say the least of it) altogether of a highly depreciatory character.|As, however, the concluding paragraph of Bishop Williams’ Letter is wholly concerning information which he states to have been given by you: and as I know nothing whatever of any such circumstance as he relates,—I am necessitated to ask you if you know any thing of it? I enclose a copy of that portion of Bishop Williams’ Letter.|Also:—as Bp. Williams (in his said Letter) further says—“the original raupo house was in some way (!!) burnt down, and Mr. Colenso then lived in a small raupo building:”—which words, without explanation, being of a nature to mislead the Government,)—I will also thank you to state your opinion of “the small raupo building,” abovementioned,—which stood, and still stands, in the garden at Waitangi. I do this, not merely because of your often having been in it, (before the time of the fire above alluded to,) but because (if I mistake not,) you were so much pleased with it, that you employed the Natives of Ahuriri to erect a similar one for the Government in this town; and which was afterwards occupied by the Crown Lands Commissioner (Mr. Domett), and since, to the present time, by the Resident Magistrate (Capn. Carling).| I am| My dear Sir| Yours very truly| Wm Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0114.txt
Date (precise): 1862 December 10
Addressee: The Colonial Secretary
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: 1862 December 10: to Colonial Secretary|Sir, |On the 14th ult. I did myself the honor of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 6th ulto. (with enclosure being a copy of a letter from Bishop Williams to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, dated September 5, 1862):— at the same time informing you, that, in consequence of my then approaching official visit to the Wairoa district as Provincial Inspector of Schools, I could not possibly answer your letter by return on the steamer “Queen” to Auckland ...|2. ((Points out error in Col Sec letter in referring to Te Aute)) |3. Permit me also, Sir, at the outset, to state:— that— while I clearly perceive both the spirit and aim of Bp. Williams, in his letter to the Hon. the Col. Secretary concerning me,—and am sensibly alive to all the charges so Christianly (?) expressed and implied by the writer,—and strongly feel that (if really necessary) I could easily answer and refute them;—that were all Bishop Williams has stated in his letter perfectly correct, such (both in the opinion of several judicious friends to whom I have shewn his letter, as well as in my own) has nothing whatever to do with the real matter at issue:—viz. my receiving equitable compensation for my property and improvements recently abandoned at Waitangi, at the desire of the General Government.—May I be allowed, Sir, to call your attention for a moment to clause E. par 1, of my letter to you of September 20th 1862?— |4. Bp. Williams, in par 3 of his letter, states:—that, about the year 1844 or 1845 I had received from him the sum of £70 ... to cover the expenses of a temporary raupo building and of fencing at Te Awapuni; (also, intimating that I had received no more;) and, further, in par. 4, that in 1853 (December) my connection with the C.M. Society was dissolved.— |5. The said £70 was indeed received by me from Bp. Williams in the Bay of Islands in October 1844 ... not merely, however, “to cover the expenses of a fence and a temporary raupo dwelling,” but as the first instalment towards the expenses of forming a Mission Station in a distant, wild, and (then) little-known part of New Zealand,—including, also, my own expenses incidental on removal ... While in the Bay of Islands ... and with Bp, Williams’ (then Archdeacon of this district,) express sanction , and, indeed, advice, I purchased 2000 feet of timber, 4000 bricks glass, iron, paints, oils, doors, and window sashes, (this last item alone, cost me £9.0.0, being ordered by himself of his brother’s carpenter,) and also took from Rev. W.C. Dudley Mission Station stores, (nails, paint, saws, etc.) amounting to £26-14-10;which stores had also been ordered purposely for him by Bp. Williams for Te Wairoa Station in Hawke’s Bay, (to which Mr Dudley was originally appointed):—all which, and much more is clearly shown in an abridged copy of my first (original) half-yearly station account (Enclosure No.1,) forwarded by myself ... to the Committee of Missionaries held at Poverty Bay in June, 1845; by whom, however, all building and station expenses above £73:10:0. were disallowed!! (original, “because it is the account returned to me by the said Committee!— and, note, that the prices charged by me for goods provided for the Maories, (money being of no use here in those days) were those of the wholesale English manufacturer:—e.g. best 9/4 blankets 5 /9, and 10/4 ditto 7/- each:—whereas, in cases not altogether dissimilar, Bp. Williams and his friends were not only allowed “Sydney prices” for goods so sold, but “3 times that amount”! |6. Further: Bp. Williams, at that very Mission Committee, held in July 1845, at his own house in Poverty Bay, (while disallowing my necessary outlay,) actually paid himself the sum of £15.13.4, being his own demand for additional nails, hinges, gimlets, locks, etc., being a further part of the Mission Station building stores originally ordered by him for the Wairoa station, and which had been landed at Poverty Bay, and having been there drenched with salt water in landing by native canoes, were almost useless; in fact, the locks had to be taken to pieces and cleaned, and the nails bad to be burnt before they could be sundered: a copy of this account I also enclose (Enclosure No.2). |7. ((Details further correspondenced on this subject enclosed) |8. Bp. Williams in par. 5 of his letter, further states, that “The original raupo house was in some way burnt down.” Unfortunately for me I was not in it at the time of its taking fire, but an intimate friend of Bp. Williams was, and therefore he may know more of that calamity than I do. One thing, however, was well-known here,—that I lost nearly everything I had by that fire. Bp. Williams goes on to say (par.5) that, after the fire, “I then lived in a small raupo building,” —as if it were merely some make-shift—such building, however, was a very strong and nice cottage, 26 x 18, wholly floored with kauri on double joists, having two rooms, a brick chimney, 2 doors and 4 windows,—being, in fact, a beautiful specimen of strong and ornamental Maori work, in tracery, colouring, and carving:—a building, known to yourself, Sir, and also to your predecessor Mr Fox. The “small weather-boarded store”… measures 30 x 22, is high, divided into two rooms by a planed wooden partition; has 5 windows and 2 doors,—one room being laid with a mud floor, and the other floored with kauri timber.—|9. In par. 7 of his letter, Bp. Williams further states,— “For the buildings therefore which had been erected” Mr Colenso had received a stipulated sum, etc. etc.—This I utterly deny; and believe, the documents now enclosed are fully sufficient to disprove all such “stipulation.” No doubt, (as he states in the same par.,) “I incurred expenses on my own responsibility, and laid out my money upon land over which I could have no (legal) claim.”—This I have proved to my cost and extreme dissatisfaction.— |10. Bp. Williams’ statement in par. 8 has been fully answered by me when before the Civil Commissioner. I had invariably replied to that demand, (vide my published letters to the Bp. of N. Zealand’s attorney, Mr Brandon,)—“If I must leave all I require is suitable compensation”—I should also add, to prevent misconception, that I was never once requested to remove from the said spot by the C.M. Society; although I had early made them acquainted with my determination (they being willing) to end my days on it.—|11. As to par. 9 of Bishop Williams’ letter, all I can say is, that I am totally ignorant of every portion of it ..((enclose note with reply to McLean)).|12. Bp. Williams, in par.3 of his letter, after mentioning “the temporary raupo building,” says,— “that a weather board house was not erected, nor was it indeed required for the reason which is given below” (viz. the dissolving of my connexion with the C.M. Society, in 1853)—But, surely, there must have been some other reason. For this “temporary raupo building,” (mark, not merely “raupo”, but “temporary raupo,”) was ordered by Bp. Williams and myself when in Hawke’s Bay in 1843,—and yet, by his own voluntary admission, no weather-board house had even been commenced 10 years after! Why was this? Because the said “temporary raupo building”,—or, the Mission house,—(which Bp. Williams well knew, having several times been hospitably entertained under its roof) was a strong, well-built, commodious house; the main part of the building being 50 x 36,—neatly reeded in imitation of cane-work, and highly ornamented with native carving;—(some of the posts were nearly two feet across,—all of them were of hard-wood, and dubbed down smooth with the adze;)—containing 12 rooms and two large corridor-like passages, floored, (including its large verandah 46 x 8) with kauri and totara timbers; having 16 windows all glazed, three of which were 6 6 folding french sashes,) and 17 doors, and two excellently well-built brick chimnies, (which, spite of earthquakes, are still standing and good). A house, which all who saw it admired, and which the Bishop of New Zealand more than once said, he very much and greatly preferred to a weather boarded one .... ((Encloses copy of ground—plan)) |13. Moreover, I should state, that, in addition to the one “temporary raupo building” of Bp. Williams, there were also, (besides the weather-boarded store, and snug study, already mentioned,) | 1. A totara framed raupo house, 27 x 14, having 3 rooms, 4 glazed windows, and 3 doors, and a good chimney; used for Maori male domestics—(this building was twice erected). | 2. A school-house, for women and children, 40 x 20, having 4 glazed windows, a door, and a pair of gates, and neatly enclosed within a paled totara fence. | 3. A roomy store-house, (or “rua”,) for potatoes, pumpkins, etc., raised on four strong posts, native fashion. | 4. A boat-house, also twice erected. | 5. A privy properly finished. | 6. A stock-yard, all totara, brought from the interior. | 7. A goat-house and yard.| 8. A fowl-house and fence. | 9. A well, dug, enclosed, and arched over with totara slabs. | 10. A house for bees and for garden tools. | 11. 4½ acres of fields, garden and orchard ground, and court and farm yards, well fenced in 8 compartments, having also 8 gates.—| Together with many choice fruit trees and perennial roots of various kinds, purchased at Auckland and the Bay of Islands, and grass and clover seed from England.|14. ((Comments on Bp. Williams having reopened subject of suspension for immorality)) Sir, I will not ask the necessity of this “voluntary” statement on the part of this Christian Bishop in writing to the Government about Waitangi, concerning a matter which occurred 12 years ago—concerning a person with whom he had been on terms of intimacy throughout a period of nearly 20 years!— but, I think Sir, I may justly complain ...((fact that Colenso himself confessed)) of my conduct—(Whether “grossly immoral”, or not,)—and secondly that Bp. Williams, in addition to his sad want of charity, (in thus voluntarily opening old sores) shews his utter forgetfulness of that memorable classification by his Great Master,—viz. that “out of the heart proceedeth”—not only “fornication”,—but, “Evil thoughts, and false witness, which” (He said, equally with that,) “defileth a man.” —It would appear, however, as if this Bishop only knew of one kind of “immorality.”— |15. And, I cannot but deem it proper (in my own defence) to inform you, Sir,—that the real cause, or causes, of dislike (so correctly and plausibly concealed,) on the part of Bp. Williams against myself, arise from other sources than that alluded to in par. 4 of his letter; but of which (although I may justly enough do so) I will not now say anything. |16. ((Encloses notes from Alexander and Lowry)) they being the only settlers in the district who saw the Mission premises previous to the fire ... |I have the honor to be |Sir, |Your most obedient servant |Wm. Colenso.153|
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SourceFile: doc_0115.txt
Date (precise): 1863 June 17
Addressee: Unknown
Place: Napier
Letter Body: Napier 17 June 1863|Sir|I have received intelligence from various sources to the effect that the Waikato’s are using every endeavour to instigate the different tribes in the country to a general rising and the Town of Napier is included in their plan of attack. A flag named Maui has been brought from the Waikato and is now in the possession of the Petane Natives, the rising of this flag is to be the signal for an attack on the town of Napier. |The Waikato propose to send 100 or 200 men to aid the resident Natives and those of the Wairoa and East Cape in this undertaking.|The Petane Natives have pleaded for delay until they have more food and they are busy preparing cultivations at Maungaharuru to supply the different tribes. The Waikato urge immediate action.|I should observe that Maungaharuru is a broken range of mountains on the NE side of Hawkes bay extending inland towards the Mohaka river. And it appears to be chosen as a central place of rendezvous for the different tribes concerned in the proposed attack.|The Waikato urge speedy action in the matter. This movement has been in contemplation for a considerable time but the Native have observed the utmost secrecy respecting it.|I enclose herewith copies of letters that have come to hand from the Waikato and Taranaki indicating to some extent the spirit of disaffection which exists among those tribes, as will be seen from the symbolical language and waiatas made use of. I have to request that care should be taken not to make the contents of those documents known to other Natives as such a course if known would prevent my obtaining further information from the Natives who have confided the contents of those to me on the understanding that they should only be used by myself as a means of putting the Europeans on their guard.|I have every confidence that the Settlers in this Province will act with proper spirit in any emergency that may arise, but considering the large force of Natives that could readily concentrate on this place I feel reluctantly bound to represent to His Excellency’s Govt. that the force now stationed here will not be sufficient to protect. At the same time I regret to say that they have not been trained to the use of arms; neither has any organization taken place by which their services could be effective in the event of any sudden raid or incursion by the northern tribes. I need scarcely allude to the fact that a great mass of the Native populkation in the Island are situated in the N. Eastern frontier of this Province, that the resident Natives here are connected with all the tribes from here to the East Cape, that in the event of any outbreak they would unite their forces to attack the place and by having 100 of the troops at Napier removed inland to the Waipukurau as recommended in my letter of the the remaining strength of the detachment here including volunteers and militia would not be sufficient to hold the place against the numbers that could be suddenly collected against it. I am therefore reluctantly compelled to apply for an additional 100 troops for defence, a request which I would not think of making in the present state of the colony did I not conceive that circumstances which are almost daily developing themselves fully justify my doing so.|Major Whitmore will no doubt communicate with you as to the steps he proposes to take with reference to the militia and I should that it is most gratifying to have the aid and cooperation of such an able and efficient officer in the present crisis.|
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SourceFile: doc_0116.txt
Date (precise): 1863 August 29
Addressee: Gore
Place: Napier
Letter Body: Napier|Augt. 29, 1863|Sir G. Grey, KCB|&c &c &c|Auckland.|Dear Sir George|At length I essay to fulfil my promise made to you at Wellington,––and send you now, by post, a few of the earlier & scarce publications in the N.Z. language––which I believe you had not in your Library of N.Z. literature at the Cape.––|I should have done so before, only I have been delaying in hopes of some more turning up or out of my various old packages of Books, &c. And still I think I may obtain others, and if so will also forward them.––|I enclose a memorandum of the various publications, one or two of which, may, I think, interest you. You will see that I have added a Copy of that 8vo. N.Z. New Testament printed at Paihia. I have done this (although I believe you have a Copy in your Cape Library,) because this (a picked) copy was also bound at Paihia by myself with the intention of presenting it to our first Governor, who, however, died before it was finished.––I have also added Copies of the first two publications in English, printed in N.Z.––merely because of their being the first.|I am,|Dear Sir George,|with every respect,|Yours faithfully|Wm. Colenso.||Memorandum of N.Z. Publications, sent to Sir | George Grey, in August 1863.|Date when Printed||No||Title & Remarks.|1832| ″|1|″|Letter from Viscount Goderich to N.Z.Chiefs.|Ditto from British Resident to Ditto.|1835|2|Epistle to Ephesians & Philippians: 1st. Book|printed in N.Z. (Feby. 1835.)| ″|3|Gospel of St. Luke––containing, also, a copy of preceding.| ″|4|2 Copies N. Chiefs’ Declaration of Independence.|1837|5|Tract (first original) in N.Z. lang. by W.C.|1839|6|Address from Bp. of Sydney.| ″|7|Tract (ditto) Consecration of Burial Ground at Paihia| ″|8|Small Prayer Book with Hymns.|1840|9|Part 1, of a work on errors of Ch. of Rome, by W.C., printed at Sydney.| ″|10|Part 2, of ditto––printed at Hobarton.| ″|11|Jonah & part of Daniel, 1st. Edition, transld. by W.C.| ″|12|Writing Copies Lithographed at Sydney for W.C.|1842|13|Tract: reception of 3 Priests of Ch. of Rome into the Ch. of England by Bp. of London: by W.C.|1844|14|Ch. of England Easter Hymn: printed at Waimate at the Bp’s. Press: transld. by W.C.|1848|15|Rules for Ahuriri Schools––by W.C.| ″|16|A Sermon (one of many)––Ditto.|1849|17|A Tract shewing errors of Creed of Pius IV., printed at Ahuriri by W.C.|1850|18|A Curious statement by the Chief Te Hapuku, shewing his title to certain Lands (originally given by one person). Printed at Ahuriri.|1852|19|A Catechetical Introduction previous to Confirmation: by W.C. also, printed at Ahuriri.|1837||New Testament, 8vo.||| In English.|1836||A Copy of the 1st. Book in the English language printed in N. Zealand.|1839||A Copy of the 1st. Placard in the English Language printed in N.Z.| W. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0117.txt
Date (precise): 1863 November 6
Addressee: Catchpool
Place: Auckland
Letter Body: Auckland,|Novr. 6. 1863.|E. Catchpool, Esq.|&c. &c.|Dear Catchpool|For the last week my conscience has been saying––to write to you––and now, within 2 hours of the Mail closing I essay to do so.|The news by this Mail to H. Bay will astonish you:––|1. Domett My. out, Fox My. in.|2. Increase is ours!|3. Parliament is to close about 24th.|4. Destructive whirlwind.­­––|1. The D. My. although they were very strong in the House, & had summoned us & we were waiting for work––chose to squabble among themselves & resign!! And lo! the Govr. accepted their signatures and immy. sent for Fox who had only a few hours landed here! At first nothing was more clear than if F. made a My. of his own party such would only last a day––he knew that, & and made a Coalition Ministry (what I had foughyt for here 2 yrs. ago)––in which Whitaker is Premier, Fox leader in Ho. of Reps., Col. Secy. & Nat. Minister, Wood Treasr., Russel, War Minister, & Gillies Post. Mr. Genl., & to reside in N. Island.––& now, all opposition is merged in support, or at least quiescence. I think Domett has been trapped,––poor fellow! he has now no office & not a penny! But there will be plenty of suitable offices under the new Laws & policy which indeed D. sketched out & inaugurated.––Last night we sat till X, & passed 2nd. readg. of Confiscation Act, & of a Yg. Court Martial or speedy prosecution Act for all treasonous matters––which was (of course) opposed by Dr. F., Mantell & Fitzgerald––Division 26 to 10.|2. Meremere is ours in the old nest but no egg nor birds! The scamps there were outflanked by the general on Saturday mg. last––who took in the dark 600 men in “Pioneer” beyond, & placed them w. guns in position––intending on Sunday to show them his teeth––they in less than 24 hours paddled away very quietly, leaving however their 3 big guns (which they had brought from Ld. Worsley, & from Raglan! fancy their toil!! the bitter regret!!!) also their horses (lots) and acres of potatoes nearly ripe. They took advantage also of the river being desperately flooded; & so went in their canoes over low lands & marshes where they could not be then be followed.––But they will be followed, & made to give in, & give up their arms (their land being already gone) before peace can be made.––They are carrying on their murdering of boys & poor peaceable settlers as before. (see Papers). But now too their town supplies (food) will be stopped––their boats & canoes seized, &c, &c––the marvel is, such was not done earlier.––|3. It is said, we are to be dismissed by 24th––I, howr., dont believe it.––possibly by “Ld. Ashley” next mo.|4. A whirlwind, tornado, or what you will occurred 2 days ago, within a few yards of where I am now writing this (on edge of water close to Wynyard place), which did much damage at Parnell––the W. end of Auckland, (as far off as your office from Fitzgerald’s old residence) smashing houses, & breaking limbs of children & carrying away wholly some buildings. All in 5 minutes, damage estimated at some thousands.|I send you a Paper containing Fox’s speech, &c. All our Militia are now away in the country, save the Reserves––and yet––this busy town is (or seems) full!! but in the House––the Royal Hotel for instance the want of servants is felt––waiters, Cook, &c., goes on My. duty, & yesterday evening the landlord himself was ordered off! He refused to obey, saying 2 nights in the week must suffice, or he must shut shop.––|And now about your matters, in which in which I have not yet moved, waitng for your promised Letter from Tiffen but as he is now here, & Fox moreover in, I shall hope to do all I can for you:––if I don’t get that Letter from you by return of Rangatira, I shall immy. speak to Fitzherbert, & go to work.|Between ourselves ––I may tell you from what I have privately & confidentially heard, P. B–––ke will surely lose his office, unless he immediately reforms. I am really sorry for him, but I fear he could not come up to what is required. In the event of the Govt. being determined to remove him––would you like to be again at the head of that Depart.––or would you like for M–––ll to have it?––One of the Ministry complimented me for not having signed the address to the P.M.General in favour of P.& O.––this may tell you how the matter has been canvassed among them.|Shand is here (who was at C. Islands) what doing I don’t know, but of all frights! I suppose his hair has never been cut since he left Wellington for the Islands.|Almost every day rain, with sunshine––glorious weather for gardens, & plenty of vegetables, Brocoli & new potatoes & Cabbages, and all good things. |I hope you are well and all things pretty comfortable about you. Whitmore returns today––ordered off (at which I think he is vexed)! Dr. F. brought Letters from Renata & Karaitiana, & made a speech as to their goodness loyalty & truthfulness!! the Letters are against the present, as before against the last, Governor. Now had Dr. F. merely tabled them, seeing no other in the Ho. could speak to them, not knowing their contents, which he alone knew, the matter would end there: but I gave notice last evg., that I would take up the subject on Thursday next, meanwhile they are to be printed––so we shall have a fight.––Fitzgerald, yesterday said some foolish things, so did Mantell (he always does), & Dr. F. about the poor ill-used Maori!!|Wasn’t I astonished to hear of Lyndon’s move!!| A Dieu: Believe me| very truly yours| W. Colenso|
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SourceFile: doc_0118.txt
Date (precise): 1863 November 25
Addressee: Catchpool
Place: Auckland
Letter Body: Auckland,|Novr. 25/63.|Dear Catchpool|Your most welcome letter of the 12th. I duly recd. I thank you much for it, for all news, and for all kind words & feelings—of which one sees little nowadays. I did hope to write you fully, but I must refer you to the Papers. I have not done any thing for you yet—but I have been supporting the Ministry strongly & openly, & I see that will be of service when the time comes. Since your letter reached me, we have been doubly busy (I mean particularly the My.) so that to seek to do any thing with the My. now—or, until Mail leaves for Engld.—wod. be injurious. The war—the House crying give, give,—answers to queries, Papers, &c &c &c,—the despatches in & out: wait a bit—I’m here, & have made up my mind, even if house is prorogued by sailing of Ashley, not to leave by her but by Ranga.—if requisite—so as to finish if poss. your case.|I beat Ormond openly & fairly on his Ld. Req. Bill-division, which he demanded, 24 x 12: O. is very savage, & ungenerously in reply, told the Ho., I opposed the Bill, because I had lost my sit. He is going to try again! under another title but he won’t find me asleep or absent from my post.|I “shewed up” Dr. F. & Fitzd. & Mnatell in Renata’s matter, having got copies of R’s. letters in Mail affair on table; and house went w. me.—On the Estimates—sent down by Govr. in n. of Queen in due form—is £350. Compens. for me. Ormond kindly wrote to me that he must oppose it conscientiously!! & demand papers, &c—He may do so, & he may be unpleasant, (he can) but he won’t succeed in stopping it.—|The My. did not speak of you, in the matter of the P.M. but it was offered to me—I refused it. More anon.|I shall never take any Provincial Office: if I cod. get an easy & suitable one at say £100. per ann. in Napier, (or higher out) I would close.—I may.|The Papers teem with news: the victory at Rangiriri, saddened by our severe loss, will be productive of good. Our soldiers are more plucky than ever. The Maories may give trouble, but are now nowhere, & ’tis only a matter of time: several of the Head Waikato Chiefs are either killed (2) or prisoners—but I refer you to the Papers. The Govr. told me, the Genl. had in his reconnaissance mistaken the height of the parapet &c (21 feet high!!) hence the loss of Officers & men—4 times did they advance to the Charge—only to be shot down, had they not surrend. they would have been taken by storm in the morng., the forlorn hope was told off, & they thirsted now to avenge their comrades. In the S. Cross you will see the Estimates pubd. Note yr. P.O. & Customs (Private) O. told me he should seek to lessen your Cust. Expend.—as he knew some of yr men had nothing to do! But I shall be there. In 2 nos. of the N.Zealander, you will find reports of 2 of my sayings, tolerably faithful.—|I have had no Eng. Letters by last mos. Mail: just see if there are any for me & forward.|I had a kind Invit. fm. Govr. to go to Kawau in steamer w. him, but, poor devil! I could not face the sea before “100 ladies.” I dined there (Govt. Ho.) on Saty. last.|A Dieu!|Believe me ever|Yours|Wm. Colenso|Hand better today: yesterday dreadful.|Yesterday I went to the funeral of 3 Officers—3 bands (abt. 60) concourse prodigious dust dreadful.||Memorandum by Wm. Colenso. M.H.R. to accompany Mr. Catchpool’s papers—|_____|“The two copies of Letters which I have taken, are those addressed by Mr. Catchpool to The Hon. the Secy. of Cr. Lands Auckland; (1.) Augt. 27 1861, and (2) Decr. 16 1861.|“I have taken these, 1st., because Mr. C. had no copies of them by him, and I was under engagement to return them; and, 2nd. because Mr. Fox can very easily see the Originals. I would earnestly recommend the speedy settlement of this long outstanding matter to the early consideration of Mr. Fox.|“Mr. Catchpool is now advanced in years, is, and has been for many years, a most zealous & deserving Govt. Offr.—has evidently shewn a good deal of patience in the matter, (owingh, no doubt, to his being a general Govt. Officer,) and his original land-order is now only worth half of its first value in the market (apart from what it might have been worth to him—as he truly states in his private letter to me (left for Mr. Fox’s consideration,)—if laid out by him on his arrival at Napier, or, indeed, in Wellington Province.”|(signed)|W. Colenso, M.H.R.|Auckland| Decr. 18, 1863.|(true copy:|W.C.)|
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SourceFile: doc_0119.txt
Date (precise): 1864 June 3
Addressee: Haast
Place: Napier
Letter Body: Napier, June 3rd., 1864.|Dr. Julius Haast,|&c, &c, &c,|Geologl. Survg. Office,|Christchurch,|Canterbury,|N.Z.|Sir,|I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your printed Circular, dated “Geological Survey Office, Christchurch, May 5, 1864,”––in which you ask me “to support a motion which will be brought forward at the next Meeting of the House of Representatives, that some assistance be given to the publisher via England who will undertake to issue a translation of Dr. von Hochstetter’s popular work on New Zealand.”––|In answer, Sir, I have to state,––|1. That, as a Rule, I never pledge myself to support any motion until I am pretty well acquainted with its details, merits, & advantages. |2. That, from having had in New Zealand the honor of the personal acquaintance of, and after correspondence with, several eminent foreign & British Naturalists, (of whom I may mention, D’Urville, A. Cunningham, Ross, Franklin, Hooker, Dieffenbach, Eilkes and Sinclair,) whose researches and publications I have willingly aided to the utmost,––I shall consider myself enlisted to aid the the republication of Dr. von Hochstetter’s work (in an English dress,) as far as such may be really beneficial to the Colony.––|3. That it will, however, have to be well-considered, (seeing our young Colony is already so far involved with heavy Loans, Provincial and General, and an unfinished and costly war, whether at the present time our Public Money could be well spared for such a purpose as this (however commendable) referred to by you.|4. And whether the future (not, by any menas, a distant future,) would not be altogether preferable for such a Publication: when the many newly acquired Geological facts relative to the Middle Island recently collected by Dr. Hector & by yourself,—to be, as I hope, ably supplemented by much more,—as well as certain valuable information relative to the natural productions, &c. of the Colony, to be shortly hoped for, (from the series of essays called for by the Dunedin International Exhibition,) could be put together and made both generally and beneficially available. Seeing, too, that Dr. von Hochstetter’s actual knowledge of New Zealand as a whole was necessarily very limited.—|I may, also, be allowed to add, that I saw at Wellington, in 1862, (in the Provl. Council Library,) an English translation of all that had been then published by Dr. V. Hochstetter relative to New Zealand: in which I noticed some things which were erroneous, and which were, of course, obtained by Dr. von Hochstetter, during his short stay, from information only.—|With every respect,|I have the honor to be,|Sir,|Your most obd. Servt.|William Colenso, M.G.A.|
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SourceFile: doc_0120.txt
Date (precise): 1864 November 23
Addressee: Catchpool
Place: Auckland
Letter Body: Auckland,|Wednesday|Novr. 23/64.|My dear Catchpool|I don’t like for the steamer to leave without a word—though I am not in a writing humopur, (yet,) and my thumb is not by any means in a better frame than my inner man.—|We got alongside wharf here, on Saturday at 2 p.m. a fine passage, but I as usual;—no clothing off, & no eating, and a sm. bot. of “champ.,” which I got on Friday evg., made me worse, being cyder, & that bad. On that day we were prorogued until Wednesday, and again yesterday until tomorrow. They are now hatching—or Cabinet Making.—Weld is the Premier: Fitzherbert (as P.Master Genl.) Sewell (!)—Atty. Genl.—and they are trying hard now with Ward (as Col. Tr.) & Major Richardson as War Minister: though Whitmore is spoken of (!!) Col. Russell too is just come—looking very hungry with a beard to his waist!—I have read upwards of 150 pages (in print) of the passages at arms between the Governor & Ministry: surely the world will be astonished! Months ago they were irreconcilably estranged:—sad very sad is this kind of work—I cannot write more.|Fox & Co. will have to be thanked—by & bye it may be.—Doers of good & prophets of all kinds are seldom honored in their brief day.—|Of course, if Fitz. remains in My., he will do you service. It is said—we are to be here but a few days, or 3 weeks or so:—and that in March, the yearly session is to come off at Wellington.|It is also said, that my quond. friend O—d, is still moving in the matter of ejecting me, & hopes to do so! (Private this.) Some one must be encouraging him: all will be out by & bye.—|Weather fine, dry,—lots of vegetables & all good things—such as we don’t see at H. Bay Hotels &c all crowded:—|Tomorrow is the shew day of Horticultl. Socy. & of Articles for the N.Z. Exhibn. Otago, I shall go & see.—|His Excy. says he is much cut up, at “unhandsome & ungenerous treatment” from Fox & Co., but qu?—Fox, I hear, has not spoken w. him for 3 months!! Look at tomorrow’s papers for Ministry: excuse this, & Believe me, ever,|Yours|W. Colenso.|Fox is well & jolly—but there is no speaking about any priv. matters just now. W.C.|A good deal of seeming indign. here at Ormond’s conduct towards me about the seat.|I have written to no one else in H.B. save to the Boy.|
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SourceFile: doc_0121.txt
Date (precise): 1864 December 2
Addressee: Catchpool
Place: Auckland
Letter Body: Auckland,|Friday night|Decr. 2/64.|Dear Catchpool|Many thanks for your kind note of Novr. 26th. The mere sight of your well-known writing did me good.|Yesterday—just at close—I was somewhat roused by Weld’s placing your Papers on the Table “by command.”—To day I purposely went over to see what they were. I enclose you a List; I was surprised to find among them your private letter to me of last year (which I had—at Fox’s request,—left with him for his information,) and also my memo. to him concerning the same! fortunately there is nothing in either of any material conseq. other than concerning our matter. I suppose I shall have to follow this up in a few days:—I shall take counsel w. Fox, Fitzherbert & Weld, before I do any thing—I enclose a copy of my memo. to Fox, for your information. I send you a Paper of today—containing also an “order paper” of tomorrow’s work! Most are for having a short Sess.—but at this rate such cannot be—a few days will decide. You will see there a notice of Motion from G. Graham respecting Members recg. P. money.—I saw the great goose this day and he will let it drop (at least he says so). Two things agitate Auckld. the removal of seat of Govt. to Wellington—and Weld’s strange resolutions—to request home Govt. to withdraw Troops—but this he cannot carry—& is in a fix. He has unwisely called it a Ministl. quest.—and no one knows whether his My. will remain in Off. or not. Fitzh. financial statement comes off tomorrow,—what they intend—where the money is to come from—we shall hear. I must refer you to the papers for Pol. news—do not trust the New Zealander—rather the Herald—or the Cross. D.Bell is seeking to do something for himself. I hope he will not get in—any how! When Ormond came into the Ho. I went over & shook hands w. him. I am getting to dislike this kind of Pol. life very much: no sincere desire to do good—so much intriguing—scheming—party-champagne-drinking &c &c. I see but few who care to work.—I have seen the Govr. 3 times out, & he has talked w. me; he wishes me to go to the Chatham Islands & other N.Z. islets—botanizing—but I doubt his sincerity towards me. I was invited to his evening party—(dancing, &c.) last night but I did not go:—about 150 were present—many yg. officers. 5 or 6 men o’ war now here, & troops such a lot. Auckland is going in for separation, & may get it. The immediate removal to Wellington, & no Aucklander in the My., has greatly soured them. Dr.F. is always at Weld’s back; but there is no strength in the My. You must not believe all the speeches you see were spoken as they are; the gilding of the reported palm does much, and the taking 30–40, or more copies be each Member of a daily does more,—Many of the Southern Members are rich—I am not.|A short Bill has been introduced to place Civil Officers on same footing as militia officers—by the M. Off. Amendment Act of 1862—so that any civil offr. losing his life, or receiving hurt in service, gets a pension, &c. [I have had a letter from Dr. Hector, speaking very highly of my essay (“as a work of wh. N.Z. may justly be proud,”) private.] Turton has got a good apt.—as you will see—£600. a yr. & expenses, &c. I shall try & make some better arrangement w. Weld, if he remains in My., before I return—that is, if we do not fall out: which I shall try not to do. It is said we are only to be here a fortnight or 3 weeks—I hope so. I have not been well: the great diff. in living, & irregular hours, tell upon me. I was 36 hours very ill—but by fasting, &c—I got over it. I hope Mrs Catchpool & yourself are well, and that you have visited the garden on the hill. Weather fine—showery &c.—Rely on my doing all I can: & Believe me|Yours truly W. Colenso.|P.S. there will be no Appropn. Act this session. We are not working today as Weld & Fitzherbert were fagged: we work tomorrow instead. And on Monday. The Taranaki murder & mutilation is causing some excitement. A Dieu.|
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SourceFile: doc_0122.txt
Date (precise): 1865 February 1
Addressee: McLean
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: His Honour the Superintendent|Govt. Offices|Monday Mg.|Dear Mr. McLean|I just write you this line to tell you, that I am right glad to hear of your being better—and, that the sole reason why I have not called to see you—is, my belief that (for your health & speedy convalescence) you have already too many visitors:—|If I can be of any service to you, in any way—or if I have any thing handy (just over the fence)—don’t fail in making it known. I would I had known of your returning so early, as I had some fine peaches—which I gave away.—|Don’t think of answering this.—| Believe me| Dear Sir| Yours truly| W. Colenso|
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SourceFile: doc_0123.txt
Date (precise): 1865 March 6
Addressee: Mantell
Place: Napier
Letter Body: Napier March 6|1865|The Hon. Mr Mantell,|Wellington.|Dear Mr. Mantell|By this day’s Mail I send you an Offl. Letter of enquiry after two young Ngapuhi Natives. I much fear they may never again be heard of, and that there are several others in the same predicament: pray do all you can in the matter.––|I suppose I am indebted to you for the offl. letter of Jany. 11th. (now only replied to by me) desiring me to proceed with the Maori Lex. I am sure I thank you heartily, and the Govt. also, and I hope to receive every efficient & needful help to enable me to do it properly––to carry out my plans long ago told to Sir George & to Mr. Fox. I have also written to you, by this mail, for further information. I should have written before, but I have been working hard at the “Essay” (2nd), which is now, I hope, in the hands of the Commissioners––but will they print it?|Do not believe all––or a tithe––of what you may hear respecting our Natives and their Pai Maraire visitors. It is a great pity the venal local papers should go so far as they do—acting so unthinkingly. |I believe Hapuku to be very very far from joining them.|I should like to write to you officially (if required) respecting a most severe sentence inflicted by Mr. Justice Johnstone on 2 young Natives here, (4 years imprisont.), and which however legal, is, under all the circumstances, most harsh, and at this crisis highly injudicious. It was a very common Maori case of purlieu (not adultery), & the Natives know of the Settler at Taranaki having lately recd. a less severe sentence for what they would call murder! I sincerely hope the Governor will reduce this severe sentence to 6 months (or 12).––| I write in haste| And am,| My dear Sir,| Yours faithfully| Wm. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0124.txt
Date (precise): 1865 July 21
Addressee: The CMS Secretaries
Place: Napier
Letter Body: Napier, New Zealand,|July 21st., 1865.|Secretaries,|C.M. Society,|London.|Rev. & Dear Sirs|Enclosed is the Original of a Memorandum respecting a large Church Bell the property of the C.M.S.––which for a long time has been in my possession.|When obliged, in 1862, (sorely against my will;) to leave Waitangi, I wrote a note to the Rev.S. Williams, informing him of my being about to do so, and requesting him to take charge of this Bell, and of some Maori Books belonging both to the C.M.S. and to the B.&N.B. Society, but, as I did not receive any reply from him, I brought away the Bell and Books to Napier in my last cartload of goods.––|Subsequently I have been often asked––both by the former as well as by the present Minister of our Church in this small town, as well as by some of the Congregation, to lend this Bell––which I have at length consented to do on the conditions expressed in the Memorandum.|I may add, that I have this day written to Rev. S. Williams enclosing the Duplicate of the within Memorandum (keepoing the triplicate): and, that I have from time to time, as disposed of, accounted to the B.&N. Bible Society for their Books abovementioned removed hither by me. Some of the Books of the C.M.S. (Maori Pentateuchs, &c.,) are still in my charge.––|And, further, that if the C.M.S. could conveniently give the said Bell to the Church of St. John’s, Napier, it would be most thankfully received. As a Congregation we have had to purchase a site for our Church and Parsonage, to build enlarge & endow, and to maintain our Minister, which altogether falls rather heavily o our small number.| I am,| Rev. & Dear Sirs,| Very truly yours,| Wm. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0125.txt
Date (precise): 1865 August 2
Addressee: Catchpool
Place: Wellington
Letter Body: G. Ass. Library|Wellgn. August|2 1865.|My dear catchpool|As I believe you would like to get a line from me, I single you out of all my Napier friends on this occasion.|To begin: we had an ugly embarkation (as you may have heard)—twice attempted ere we got out & on board: 39 hours doing the passage, to me it was a time of little else but perfect misery, almost causing me to vow, that if I ever set foot on land again, catch me going &c &c. Our Capt. made Wellington lightho. at one a.m. on Thursday, but, not liking to enter (!) boxed about in the straits until daylight (to the disarrangement of his stewards’ pantry)—at x. a.m. we anchored. An ugly Wellgn. morning rain & wind—& severe hail storms: it cost me 10/- cab hire alone that day. Lyon very kindly came on the wharf to meet me—at first I went to an Hotel away beyond Rhodes’—in the evening to my lodgings (taken for me by L.) in Wingfield St.—not far from the Ho.—& arranged for 15/- extra (i.e. £2.15.0) per week to get Breakfast & firing &c. My rooms are small, but the only 2 in the little cot (save the skillion & garret, into which the man & his w. & child stow themselves!) the front door, open to the S.,—opens bang into the sitting room, ditto the back-door, ditto their ladder & trapdoor to the upper, & the fire place (such as I never saw) just large eno. to roast a lark, & chimney smoky! The Bedroom, on the ground floor, is very damp—from which I have a good share of Rheumatism.—And I fear, I cannot well leave it (the lodgings)—although I may. I spend most of my time in “the House”—or its Library, and Dine at Bellamy’s at 6.—|I should tell you—that as we were leaving (shoving off the Boat)—I bawled to Routledge—for your watch—he ran, & pitched it into the Boat, as a Cricket Ball; I secured it—& on Saturday last I took it to Shaw: I then discovd. your notes—& lost no time in dispatching yours to F., covering it with a note that I should like to see him whenever, &c.,—but he has not yet responded: in fact F., & Weld, have both been ill, through “over work”—no wonder for F., as the Provl. Council is still sitting. At last Friday’s sitting I found out that Mantell had resigned!!—& as yet no N. Mr. has been appd. D.Bell (just arrd.) has been offd. the sitn., but he (wisely) refuses: Fitzgerald is now talked of,—as the coming man.—In fact, the whole of the Ministry wrote a memo., (since printed) that they should resign on the meeting of the G.A.,—but the last dispatch from Cardwell (2 days before opening) saved them.—The old game has been again played,—lots of letters—priv. & off.—between the Govr. & the Genl.,—(as betn. G. & Fox,)—which will do G—y no good at home—& irk the Colony still lower: the old general has plainly spoken,—concerning the removal of the seat of Govt.—the job of the Waitotara purchase, “a second Waitara,”—the want of common-sense, & “trash” of Mantell—so you may guess the love of the whole lot for him!!—of course, much “secret dispatch”-writing on both sides, wh. seems to have engrossed their time & attention, while the Colony was (financially) going to the D—l.—|The Govr’s. speech, (given the day before I arrived,) and our (precious) reply, you will see in the Papers. Yesterday we commenced in good earnest at noon, & sat till 1 this morning, mostly on the reply: sharp & bitter things were said on both sides:—by Stafford, agt. Weld (!) & Sewell—by Weld in reply—by Williamson agt. the Ministry, & by sarcastic Richardson.—Though opposed to much of the reply, we had promised not to divide on it: at 1 this mg., Weld, unwisely, called for a Division (amid loud cries of “no, no,”) & persisted in having it: on which, we left the Ho. joined by several Otago & Southland Members: even Featherstone & Harrison, did so: Ormond also: so that there were only about half left—when the Division was not taken. I spoke, against some parts of the reply—i.e.—the Natives into Parliament—their love of “law & order”—their loyalty—peace being partially established—& the absurdity of thanking (!!) the Governor for taxation. Such may appear in the Wellington papers: if so, you will see it. We go at it again this day: the Native franchise Bill, against wh. I shall speak—& lots of other work. There will be lots of sparring this Session—Stafford seems to be regularly primed: & now that Weld has come out, too, so bitterly & tauntingly (which Stafford cannot stand)—mischief will be brewing.—There is a strong feeling, however, to support the Weld Ministry—especially from the South. But it is weak: Fitz. (one of their best) is very weak in health.—The increase of duties is from stamps (but this perhaps includes more than we know—perhaps Papers! among others.)* All say we are in for 3 months certain. Bunny has been returned to the disgust of many Wellingtonians: It made us laugh to see Fitz. & Waring Taylor march him up to be sworn!|Wellington is wonderfully improved outwardly. The Asphalte foot pavement all along Lambton Quay makes it dry & nice walking. The day I left you, “Tract” published in the “Herald” a letter against me—I wrote a reply, wh. Wood may have pubd.—I hear Ormond was the writer—but I believe Carr (as before) was.—Good bye|Ever yours truly|Wm. Colenso. |*The Ministry—on being pressed—said, that, at present, all of the Provinces share of Customs they purposed taking would be the surplus: it was curious to hear Fitzherbert defending it!||No.2.— Friday morng.|My dear Catchpool|In haste I write this P.S.—Yesterday I sent to Mundle a Book for my Boy (a Rob. CVrusoe) directing it to you—will you kindly ask M. for it? Lear will call on you for the Book.—|Last evg. I was disgusted at seeing how I was misrepresented in the “Advertiser”—and intended to bring it today before the Ho., but this mg. I have seen the “Independent” which is tolerably correct: I said what the I. states, & much more.——|The 57 Maories, prisoners, are safe on board of a schooner, under guard. The fire-bell rang this mg., an hour before cock-crowg.—but it was a vesssel on fire (I hear). The weather is again very fine: I am daily getting stronger.|Believe me|My dear friend|Yours faithy|W. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0126.txt
Date (precise): 1865 August 12
Addressee: Catchpool
Place: Wellington
Letter Body: Wellington,|Saturday night|August 12/65|7 p.m.|My dear Catchpool|I am here alone in this fine library (Gen. Assy.)—nearly as large as a young Church.—At this hour I ought to have been dining with the Govr.—3 hours ago I sent an apology—as I do not feel well—a tom-cat could knock me down!—I have been very unwell since I wrote to you—& had begun to enquire after a Medical Man—but did without him.—I recd. your kind note for which I thank you much—it was refreshing to see your handwriting. This day has been one of sad news,—mnurders at Opotiki, of several whites—& of Fulloon, a Govt. Interpreter & half-caste, (a useful officer)—ditto at Whanganui of Lieut. Waring, 50th. regt.—loss of the screw “Alexandra”—at White Cliffs Taranaki,—and, last night, a fire here in Wellington, Victoria Hotel burnt down, horses, &c.—|Yesterday, after a long & adjourned debate, a sad sad “petition” (or rather, saucy letter,) from Wm. Thompson the Maori Chief, was received by the Ho. We foughgt against it (Ormond & self—Major Richardson, & some others)—but to no effect;—he says, he will have his Maori King—all our doings (fightings) are murders—we must give up all the conquered country, &c, &c,—& then he will make peace!!!|This precious document was written in April to Fitzgerald,—& what makes it the worse, is, that a much later, & better one, written in June, by G. Graham, had been received by us the day before.—Verily what are we coming to!|It is reported today, as an on dit parly.—that Fitzgerald is to be Nat. Minister: if so, there will be a jolly row!|Last Sunday the weather was most doleful wretched wet & miserable! for four days since—Monday to Thursday—delightful—yesterday & today strong W. wind, with dust & sand. It is rumoured the Weld My. is but so-so—& are likely to go down by the run—onm the matter of the 3/8ths. which, it is sd., they intend to divide w. the Provs. If so, there will be a fight; we shall know shortly. They are scheming for money in every way—and are (I hear) hard up.—|I reminded Ormond to take up your case in the Private Grievance Commee. (of which he is a member) & he assured me he would:—we are a little better “friends” than we were—but I am not to be deceived. We have scarcely begun work yet.—|Nearly all the Members are now here, and the bif room looks well, when it is lit up with its 25 fine large Kerosine Lamps:—often crowded of an evening. It was a painful sight (to me, at least,) to see MacAndrew sworn in—he had just arrived from the S., and was sitting at the farther end, when the Speaker rose, & sd., “If any Member is present who has not been sword, &c.” Poor McA.! not one of his Otago brethren escorted him, (the rule is, for 2 Mrs. to do so,) and he had to walk up alone—& be sworn, repeating every word in sol. silence—& then to sign the roll, and then go back alone: it was truly an ordeal! He is, however, of the unblushing cheeky assuranced type:—& since has spoken several times, & we have since crossed swords!—he is going in for a repeal of the N. Provinces Act—and sd. “he never knew of Provl. Councils not doing Justice to outlying Districts”!!! which caused W.C. to rise & speak.—Strange—Cracroft Wilson has been questioning the Govt.— “as to 3–4 R.M’s. at Napier!” and Burns (Otago) as to the statement in H. Bay “Times”—concerning ammunition to marines from Auckland;—which led to much talk.—|I am now trying the giving up Dinners )”6 p.m.”)—and taking a Lunch as Dinner, at 2 or 3, instead—of course I lose all the good things— “4 Courses and a Dessert,”—but I cannot wait till 6, and if I take ever so small a lunch, I cannot eat Dinner.|Last Tuesday mg. early, I was surprised by a visit from Capt. Bulkely, A.D.C., to Govr., at my lodgings—to tell me Grey wished me to visit all the Southern outlying islets—Auckland, Campbell, Emerald,—Ballemy, & other—Islands,—as a Scientific Explorer &c!—to think over it, & to see G.—I saw him on Thursday, &, again, yesterday. Had a long talk—but could not consent to it. Then he wished me to explore, all the islets off the E. Coast N.Z:—making Kawau head quarters—his life boat & 6 good Maori crew, &c—this is not yet settled. I spoke about the Lexicon, &c., and I think G. was a little put out; he took notes of what I said for ministers—but I expect nothing from them:—I shewed Grey some of the Offl. letters.—Yesterday I saw Richmond (now acting Nat. Minr.) about Lexn. but got little from him: he sd. it was wanted very much; but the time—I sd.— “3 years,”—and, “I wod. undertake, on an order of Ho., without pay, until finished”;—this he is to consider. [If I would follow Faustus, & sell myself, I cod. get that—or any thing else—in their gift.] Grey wishes much to see my essay on Maories—& Dr. Hector (who is now here) has brought proof sheets, 108—pps.—notes, yet to come.—|Hope this will find you well, and Mrs Catchpool better.|Believe me|ever & always|Yours truly W. Colenso.|McL. has written, to say, he is coming here on 15th.—|P.S. Sunday August 13th. Fitzgerald is Nat. Minister!! This will please but few; and will make Weld’s My. weak, now. I don’t believe they can last out the Sess sion.—|Sunday 13th. Weather truly glorious! a dead calm. |Monday 14. an awful day—wind & dust: Man of War struck her topmasts.|Monday 14th. I have written today to the Editor of “Advertiser” concerning his constant misstatements: the Cornerstone of new Cathol. ch. is to be laid next Monday 21st.—Farewell————W.C.—|P.S. Lyon will pack a small parcel for my Boy, to your address or care, in a case which he is sending to Stuart & Co. for Howick:—please receive it and send it on to Sutton’s by one of the Traps for Lear.|
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SourceFile: doc_0127.txt
Date (precise): 1865 September 1
Addressee: McLean
Place: Wellington
Letter Body: Private | &|Confidential. |Wellington|September 1/65.|His Honor D. Maclean, Esq.|My dear Sir,|I find the “Rangatira” is to leave this port for Napier on Monday next, and I hasten to give you some information which I have lately (by “Queen”) received from Napier. |I have had 2 letters of warning, written by a friendly pair of Natives living between Havelock and Waipawa, (whose names and village I must not divulge,)—from which I quote verbatim:—(the first is written to the boy, Willie,)—|. . . “ka nui te pouri o toku ngakau ki a korua ko tou papa, nui noa atu te aroha, na, he korero tenei, naku ki a korua, he whakaaro roa, kia tupato ki nga mahi o te ao, ara a te hauhau, ka tata tonu nga mahi a te arero kai taewa o te maori te kino ki te ao koia ahau ka tuhi atu ai kia rongo korua, kia noho tupato kei wareware te ngakau ki te mahara.” (the second, to me, is much the same, he adds,)—“E hoa, e Neho, ko tena korero i tuhia atu na, he mea tuhi tahae na mana, kia rongo korua, E hoa, ko ta mana nei mahara, me i kona (Napier) ano koe, kua tae atu mana ki kona, &c.—kei korerotia e korua taua kino ti te tangata, &c. &c.—|These letters were written on the 24th August, and fortunately forwarded on by Bourke to me.—|Curiously enough, a Native Chief (at present here from the North,) shewed me the other day—on finding I had known his relatives and friends at the Bay of Islands—a long and good letter he had written to the Govt. here, warning them not to be careless, and not to trust too much to their best Maori friends. I have not told any one here of my letters from Napier, save Ormond,—and I only hope, I may not only be in time, but that you (we) may not have any disturbance from that quarter.—|I hope you are quite well. Ormond will give you all pol. news.| Believe me, | Yours faithfully, | Wm. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0128.txt
Date (precise): Undated
Addressee: McLean
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Monday morng.|His Honor|the Superintendent|of H. Bay|My dear Sir|Many thanks for your kind note and invitation of this morning,––I was quite glad to see your well known hand writing again, and that you could write as usual after the long shaking you have had.––|I should very much like to attend any Meeting of Natives in Town called by you––also to be at your Dinner today, (as I think some of the old pakehas should be there;) but I am far from well; I have for some time past been obliged to be extra careful––never showing out after dark, nor in rain––and I would not be out today only business called me forth. I did not move out yesterday; and I feel anything but well now––partly owing to damp feet.|I am therefore obliged (believe me unwillingly) to beg you to accept my apology for not attending the dinner.––which I am glad to see got up & given to the Chiefs.|If you should not be over pressed for time or with company––I will try to see you in a few days––Believe me, yours very truly|W. Colenso|
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SourceFile: doc_0129.txt
Date (precise): 1865 September 29
Addressee: Hector
Place: Wellington
Letter Body: Wellington, Septr.29th, 1865.|Jas. Hector, Esq., M.D.|&c &c &c|Wellington.|Dear Sir|I have just received your note of this morning, covering an official note (no. 3024,) from the Hony. Secretary to the Dunedin Exhibition to you of the 25th inst., and also Ms. notes, 21, 22, & 29, to my Essay on “the Maori Races of N.Z.”—which notes are considered by the Commissioners to be “objectionable,” and such as “ought not to be printed.”|I have again closely perused them, and, failing to discover any thing objectionable in them, I confess I scarcely know how to reply.|It must be clear, that in my writing on the New Zealanders, (who have been, and are, so heavily charged with immodesty,) I wished to shew what they were – what the first navigators & visitors found them to be: of course, if those notes (collected from rare and authentic works,) are to be struck out, my own opinion & early knowledge of them (being contrary to the general modern estimation,) will appear still more peculiar; while by such suppression of the truth not only myself but also the N. Zealanders will not have justice done us.|—Pardon me, if I say, I had thought the day of ultra-fastidiousness in scientific enquiry had well-nigh passed away.—|In order, however, if possible to please all parties, I have no objection to the striking-out of the middle part of note 21,—(beginning “the writer recollects,” and ending at “comforted,”)—also, the first part (or the whole) of note 22 (at the same time I feel such would be a suppression of the truth)—and, the term “making water,” in note 29, could perhaps be modified by some more delicate word, or euphemism,—or given in Latin!—or, if still objected to, let this note (29) be struck out altogether.|Once more, and in conclusion, may I be permitted to observe—1. That, viewing the Ms. Essay and Notes as being the property of the Commissioners, they should deal with them as they please: but, if they should choose to print them with much alteration or suppression of parts, or of (necessary) notes, that I should be allowed to reprint them in full (say, at least 2 (two) years hence,) if by me desired.—2. That, if the Commissioners should on the whole prefer to decline the printing of them, I am quite willing to receive them back, leaving it entirely to them to make any allowance to me for trouble expense and loss.—|Should I live to complete my large projected work on N.Z.,169—statements and notes of a much more “objectionable” character than any to be found in the present Essay & Notes, will, of necessity, be found in it.—|Believe me| Dear Sir| Yours truly| Wm. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0130.txt
Date (precise): 1865
Addressee: TB Harding
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Friday morng.|My dear Sir|I thank you much (as a subsr.) for English news, & for your article of yesterday.|Please send me, next Monday, by your son, 10 copies of the Times of Novr.24th.|I sent you a letter which I should like for you to insert. Please let me have the printed one back again.|If you look into the Advertiser of 22nd.––you will see a letter from Wakelin which is one of the best I have seen from a Wellington man: do read it––his 1–14 reasons do him honour, & would bear republishing. They express my thoughts––if not my words.––|Also, see Otago Daily Times of Novr. 16170––which contain MacAndrew’s Resolutions for their Provl. Council––if these are carried there, then the Colony may begin to look-out.|You might write an excellent article on the Govr. withholding his assent from the H. Bay Represent. Act. I believe every session (since McL.) our (their) Acts have been thus treated.| Yours &c| (in haste)| Wm. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0131.txt
Date (precise): 1865
Addressee: Hector
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Friday night|My dear Sir|I send you all the Papers: I have written in a hurry, & in the Ho.!|In the conclusion of my letter I have said—“trouble, expense, & loss.”|“Expense,” caused by being a fortnight in Auckland at my own cost, collecting information, &c.|“Loss”—by setting aside for 2–3 months the work I was engaged on for the Govt. (for which I could draw—regular—advance—₤12. 10. pr. mo.,)—but which I fear (& mainly through the Essays) I shall never finish, & consequently have to refund what I drew.—–|Ever yours|W. Colenso.|
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Topic 3: paper vol papers new also read one sent may members meeting moa trans zealand hector inst send last copy volumes copies published lately society institute: 0.06
Topic 4: like ago reply england true bed ever just one reading word your christ better hearing reason wholly short first port unknown within able miss highly: 0.03
Topic 5: natives upon native among that made the also chiefs chief sir district service letter road government man wellington waitangi ahuriri land station wairarapa archdeacon governor: 0.03
Topic 6: dear kind colenso napier well january hope december february believe yours late regards christmas mrs march sincerely note your thank year write better with keeping: 0.03
Topic 7: will see shall know say hope little you get may find now glad write much must like can look way hear think well just sure: 0.03
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Topic 12: new zealand specimens sir hooker specimen ferns plants species time little november several found however flora among much mentioned seen plant many work kew years: 0.02
Topic 13: one now time much last day long said work since think heard told must yet sent good back thought see another well seen way done: 0.02
Topic 14: letter received last now long sent write wrote time ago send just however writing know letters written still answer reply since october suppose post hope: 0.06
Topic 15: sir wellington dear maori colenso hector note time notes government please essay will napier return much printed grey may send wish manuscript ask work written: 0.14
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Topic 17: new copy copies book zealand also first maori printed work sent early the published government press small errors printer books one name england day page: 0.03
Topic 18: send evening said give morning present make left very still thus going lad schools service take usual save words nga after might asked mind read: 0.03
Topic 19: old well may many town colenso dear much good hand william poor ever better father august and years knowing family remember also pleased best health: 0.03
Topic 20: will bishop may new committee zealand dear society bay the books lord press station printing his god natives england small williams letter arrived however sirs: 0.02
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SourceFile: doc_0132.txt
Date (precise): Undated
Addressee: McLean
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Sunday Eveg.|31st|My dear Mr McLean,|I wrote to you on the 25th. Per “Whanganui” Str., which letter I suppose you have received,—I think I wrote to you feelingly.|I have now, with some difficulty, concluded the enclosed on the same subject. I hope you may not be displeased at my taking your question in the official way, and so writing to you now officially. Please let Mr. Ormond see the letter, and, if agreeable to you, could you not well lay it on the table of the House,—or get it printed as a Paper for the Members? If you should agree to my Proposal—I shall have to write to you again shortly.|I am my dear Mr McLean|Yours truly|W. Colenso.|
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Topic 4: like ago reply england true bed ever just one reading word your christ better hearing reason wholly short first port unknown within able miss highly: 0.03
Topic 5: natives upon native among that made the also chiefs chief sir district service letter road government man wellington waitangi ahuriri land station wairarapa archdeacon governor: 0.02
Topic 6: dear kind colenso napier well january hope december february believe yours late regards christmas mrs march sincerely note your thank year write better with keeping: 0.02
Topic 7: will see shall know say hope little you get may find now glad write much must like can look way hear think well just sure: 0.11
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Topic 15: sir wellington dear maori colenso hector note time notes government please essay will napier return much printed grey may send wish manuscript ask work written: 0.09
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Topic 19: old well may many town colenso dear much good hand william poor ever better father august and years knowing family remember also pleased best health: 0.03
Topic 20: will bishop may new committee zealand dear society bay the books lord press station printing his god natives england small williams letter arrived however sirs: 0.03
Topic 21: god will love word may shall colenso thee thou heart man child life from words come things now thy good men sir father the even: 0.02
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SourceFile: doc_0133.txt
Date (precise): Undated
Addressee: McLean
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Saturday morning|His Honour|D.McLean Esq.|My dear Sir|I return your Papers, so very kindly lent me, with many thanks. I have read Fox’s long speech (which so reminds me of him, and of some of his sarcastic speeches in “the House”!)—and think he is right in some parts of it, as to Natives’ Rights, &c.—|Have you seen T. Williams’ speech? If not I can lend you the “Evening Post,” which contains it. I think the whole trial should be printed in a pamphlet—I have not seen the evidence.|I am glad to find you liked the “Starling.” Did you ever read “Dean Ramsay’s Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character”? If you have not­—you will (I think) like it much. I have it & should be happy to send it to you.—|I am|My dear Sir|Yours truly|Wm Colenso.|Read Sewell’s letter on the Consolidated Loans, &c,—it is in the “Canterbury Times” of April 25—now returned. W.C.|
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Topic 4: like ago reply england true bed ever just one reading word your christ better hearing reason wholly short first port unknown within able miss highly: 0.02
Topic 5: natives upon native among that made the also chiefs chief sir district service letter road government man wellington waitangi ahuriri land station wairarapa archdeacon governor: 0.08
Topic 6: dear kind colenso napier well january hope december february believe yours late regards christmas mrs march sincerely note your thank year write better with keeping: 0.02
Topic 7: will see shall know say hope little you get may find now glad write much must like can look way hear think well just sure: 0.06
Topic 8: harding hill last letter sunday good bishop see also evening old long dannevirke herald one night day came late copy read paper return much mrs: 0.1
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Topic 11: the also great water far however high little two known several this place form side around common course forest one ground small trees low country: 0.02
Topic 12: new zealand specimens sir hooker specimen ferns plants species time little november several found however flora among much mentioned seen plant many work kew years: 0.02
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Topic 14: letter received last now long sent write wrote time ago send just however writing know letters written still answer reply since october suppose post hope: 0.05
Topic 15: sir wellington dear maori colenso hector note time notes government please essay will napier return much printed grey may send wish manuscript ask work written: 0.06
Topic 16: one balfour also well little specimens week found mail sent lot small may kind bush put last the two box think pleased next hope good: 0.06
Topic 17: new copy copies book zealand also first maori printed work sent early the published government press small errors printer books one name england day page: 0.02
Topic 18: send evening said give morning present make left very still thus going lad schools service take usual save words nga after might asked mind read: 0.02
Topic 19: old well may many town colenso dear much good hand william poor ever better father august and years knowing family remember also pleased best health: 0.06
Topic 20: will bishop may new committee zealand dear society bay the books lord press station printing his god natives england small williams letter arrived however sirs: 0.03
Topic 21: god will love word may shall colenso thee thou heart man child life from words come things now thy good men sir father the even: 0.03
Topic 22: night last weather day may well napier week rain fine days cold bush next yesterday kind today friday hope return meeting saturday sunday wet woodville: 0.04

SourceFile: doc_0134.txt
Date (precise): Undated
Addressee: McLean
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Monday morng.|His Honor| D. McLean, Esq| &c &c &c|My dear Sir|I called & waited a while on Friday, but Wm. Morris was so outrageous that I left.—I again looked in on Saturday, but you were busy (as usual). I think I have now called about 8 times—6, before you went S.—|I wish to see you as early as convenient on one matter—and now this week will be holiday. If you could fix any hour I would suit your leisure—whether at office or at your private residence.|I have said, I wish to see you early on one matter—I have also others to talk about, but these can stand over.| I am| My dear Sir| Yours truly| Wm Colenso.|
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Topic 3: paper vol papers new also read one sent may members meeting moa trans zealand hector inst send last copy volumes copies published lately society institute: 0.04
Topic 4: like ago reply england true bed ever just one reading word your christ better hearing reason wholly short first port unknown within able miss highly: 0.02
Topic 5: natives upon native among that made the also chiefs chief sir district service letter road government man wellington waitangi ahuriri land station wairarapa archdeacon governor: 0.07
Topic 6: dear kind colenso napier well january hope december february believe yours late regards christmas mrs march sincerely note your thank year write better with keeping: 0.03
Topic 7: will see shall know say hope little you get may find now glad write much must like can look way hear think well just sure: 0.06
Topic 8: harding hill last letter sunday good bishop see also evening old long dannevirke herald one night day came late copy read paper return much mrs: 0.05
Topic 9: auckland will the yet yesterday good doz times governor private got march general article lose fox red believe hours ordered speech just order agent bill: 0.03
Topic 10: will now may one and time can say however years believe even ever never much think wish present matter must also know great many case: 0.09
Topic 11: the also great water far however high little two known several this place form side around common course forest one ground small trees low country: 0.02
Topic 12: new zealand specimens sir hooker specimen ferns plants species time little november several found however flora among much mentioned seen plant many work kew years: 0.03
Topic 13: one now time much last day long said work since think heard told must yet sent good back thought see another well seen way done: 0.05
Topic 14: letter received last now long sent write wrote time ago send just however writing know letters written still answer reply since october suppose post hope: 0.04
Topic 15: sir wellington dear maori colenso hector note time notes government please essay will napier return much printed grey may send wish manuscript ask work written: 0.02
Topic 16: one balfour also well little specimens week found mail sent lot small may kind bush put last the two box think pleased next hope good: 0.02
Topic 17: new copy copies book zealand also first maori printed work sent early the published government press small errors printer books one name england day page: 0.03
Topic 18: send evening said give morning present make left very still thus going lad schools service take usual save words nga after might asked mind read: 0.02
Topic 19: old well may many town colenso dear much good hand william poor ever better father august and years knowing family remember also pleased best health: 0.06
Topic 20: will bishop may new committee zealand dear society bay the books lord press station printing his god natives england small williams letter arrived however sirs: 0.02
Topic 21: god will love word may shall colenso thee thou heart man child life from words come things now thy good men sir father the even: 0.02
Topic 22: night last weather day may well napier week rain fine days cold bush next yesterday kind today friday hope return meeting saturday sunday wet woodville: 0.04

SourceFile: doc_0135.txt
Date (precise): Undated
Addressee: McLean
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Tuesday |30th|His Honor| the Superintendent| &c &c|Dear Sir|I regret to have to inform you, that Pat. Flanagan yesterday, I being absent, brought a load of coal to my house across your field. I feel particularly annoyed at it, as I had not only (yesterday morning) agreed to pay him extra for coming up by Dr. Hitchings—but had sent my own man to repair the ruts where worn by the water from the late rains.—|I trust such shall not happen again.—| I am Dear Sir| Yours truly| Wm Colenso.|
Topic 1: sir dear colenso truly yours mclean napier line send note harding monday july call morning see tuesday evening date enclosed hoping kindly tomorrow quite town: 0.14
Topic 2: will well see now papers old new the house land week town luff england one told may money got also man sold just send others: 0.06
Topic 3: paper vol papers new also read one sent may members meeting moa trans zealand hector inst send last copy volumes copies published lately society institute: 0.02
Topic 4: like ago reply england true bed ever just one reading word your christ better hearing reason wholly short first port unknown within able miss highly: 0.02
Topic 5: natives upon native among that made the also chiefs chief sir district service letter road government man wellington waitangi ahuriri land station wairarapa archdeacon governor: 0.07
Topic 6: dear kind colenso napier well january hope december february believe yours late regards christmas mrs march sincerely note your thank year write better with keeping: 0.04
Topic 7: will see shall know say hope little you get may find now glad write much must like can look way hear think well just sure: 0.04
Topic 8: harding hill last letter sunday good bishop see also evening old long dannevirke herald one night day came late copy read paper return much mrs: 0.02
Topic 9: auckland will the yet yesterday good doz times governor private got march general article lose fox red believe hours ordered speech just order agent bill: 0.02
Topic 10: will now may one and time can say however years believe even ever never much think wish present matter must also know great many case: 0.04
Topic 11: the also great water far however high little two known several this place form side around common course forest one ground small trees low country: 0.09
Topic 12: new zealand specimens sir hooker specimen ferns plants species time little november several found however flora among much mentioned seen plant many work kew years: 0.03
Topic 13: one now time much last day long said work since think heard told must yet sent good back thought see another well seen way done: 0.03
Topic 14: letter received last now long sent write wrote time ago send just however writing know letters written still answer reply since october suppose post hope: 0.04
Topic 15: sir wellington dear maori colenso hector note time notes government please essay will napier return much printed grey may send wish manuscript ask work written: 0.02
Topic 16: one balfour also well little specimens week found mail sent lot small may kind bush put last the two box think pleased next hope good: 0.02
Topic 17: new copy copies book zealand also first maori printed work sent early the published government press small errors printer books one name england day page: 0.02
Topic 18: send evening said give morning present make left very still thus going lad schools service take usual save words nga after might asked mind read: 0.05
Topic 19: old well may many town colenso dear much good hand william poor ever better father august and years knowing family remember also pleased best health: 0.05
Topic 20: will bishop may new committee zealand dear society bay the books lord press station printing his god natives england small williams letter arrived however sirs: 0.02
Topic 21: god will love word may shall colenso thee thou heart man child life from words come things now thy good men sir father the even: 0.03
Topic 22: night last weather day may well napier week rain fine days cold bush next yesterday kind today friday hope return meeting saturday sunday wet woodville: 0.06

SourceFile: doc_0136.txt
Date (precise): 1866 October 9
Addressee: McLean
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Tuesday mg. Oct. 9th. 1866|His Honor, D. McLean Esq.|&c. &c. &c. |My dear Sir,|Thinking over the present state of affairs (Hauhaus and settlers) it has occurred to me—to offer you my personal services to go and see these unhappy people—this morning, if you approve of it. To try to bring them to a better state of mind—or, at all events, to know their wants, and (if possible) their intentions—before proceeding to the last resource.|I suppose you know well the old Native Custom (which these half-wild peoples no doubt still hold) or in such matters to treat with “Chiefs”—or those whom they consider to be such. I will call on you at your office at x a.m.| I am, | My dr Sir, | Yours truly, | W. Colenso|
Topic 1: sir dear colenso truly yours mclean napier line send note harding monday july call morning see tuesday evening date enclosed hoping kindly tomorrow quite town: 0.15
Topic 2: will well see now papers old new the house land week town luff england one told may money got also man sold just send others: 0.04
Topic 3: paper vol papers new also read one sent may members meeting moa trans zealand hector inst send last copy volumes copies published lately society institute: 0.03
Topic 4: like ago reply england true bed ever just one reading word your christ better hearing reason wholly short first port unknown within able miss highly: 0.02
Topic 5: natives upon native among that made the also chiefs chief sir district service letter road government man wellington waitangi ahuriri land station wairarapa archdeacon governor: 0.09
Topic 6: dear kind colenso napier well january hope december february believe yours late regards christmas mrs march sincerely note your thank year write better with keeping: 0.02
Topic 7: will see shall know say hope little you get may find now glad write much must like can look way hear think well just sure: 0.09
Topic 8: harding hill last letter sunday good bishop see also evening old long dannevirke herald one night day came late copy read paper return much mrs: 0.02
Topic 9: auckland will the yet yesterday good doz times governor private got march general article lose fox red believe hours ordered speech just order agent bill: 0.03
Topic 10: will now may one and time can say however years believe even ever never much think wish present matter must also know great many case: 0.08
Topic 11: the also great water far however high little two known several this place form side around common course forest one ground small trees low country: 0.02
Topic 12: new zealand specimens sir hooker specimen ferns plants species time little november several found however flora among much mentioned seen plant many work kew years: 0.03
Topic 13: one now time much last day long said work since think heard told must yet sent good back thought see another well seen way done: 0.02
Topic 14: letter received last now long sent write wrote time ago send just however writing know letters written still answer reply since october suppose post hope: 0.09
Topic 15: sir wellington dear maori colenso hector note time notes government please essay will napier return much printed grey may send wish manuscript ask work written: 0.02
Topic 16: one balfour also well little specimens week found mail sent lot small may kind bush put last the two box think pleased next hope good: 0.03
Topic 17: new copy copies book zealand also first maori printed work sent early the published government press small errors printer books one name england day page: 0.02
Topic 18: send evening said give morning present make left very still thus going lad schools service take usual save words nga after might asked mind read: 0.02
Topic 19: old well may many town colenso dear much good hand william poor ever better father august and years knowing family remember also pleased best health: 0.03
Topic 20: will bishop may new committee zealand dear society bay the books lord press station printing his god natives england small williams letter arrived however sirs: 0.05
Topic 21: god will love word may shall colenso thee thou heart man child life from words come things now thy good men sir father the even: 0.06
Topic 22: night last weather day may well napier week rain fine days cold bush next yesterday kind today friday hope return meeting saturday sunday wet woodville: 0.03

SourceFile: doc_0137.txt
Date (precise): 1867177 March 18
Addressee: Gore
Place: Napier
Letter Body: Napier, March 18th|Dear Sir George Grey|The letter accompanying this has been delayed here––nearly a month! For, on my going to the P. Off. in Feby., I casually heard from Mr. Henry Russell & others that you were daily expected here, & at that very time were supposed to be on your way: this is the reason.|Two steamers arriving yesterday from Auckland without you (and two others leaving for Auckland to day)––I now forward it.|Sincerely hoping that your delay in visiting Napier has not been caused by illness|I am (in haste)|Yours truly|W. Colenso.|
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Topic 3: paper vol papers new also read one sent may members meeting moa trans zealand hector inst send last copy volumes copies published lately society institute: 0.02
Topic 4: like ago reply england true bed ever just one reading word your christ better hearing reason wholly short first port unknown within able miss highly: 0.04
Topic 5: natives upon native among that made the also chiefs chief sir district service letter road government man wellington waitangi ahuriri land station wairarapa archdeacon governor: 0.1
Topic 6: dear kind colenso napier well january hope december february believe yours late regards christmas mrs march sincerely note your thank year write better with keeping: 0.12
Topic 7: will see shall know say hope little you get may find now glad write much must like can look way hear think well just sure: 0.03
Topic 8: harding hill last letter sunday good bishop see also evening old long dannevirke herald one night day came late copy read paper return much mrs: 0.03
Topic 9: auckland will the yet yesterday good doz times governor private got march general article lose fox red believe hours ordered speech just order agent bill: 0.05
Topic 10: will now may one and time can say however years believe even ever never much think wish present matter must also know great many case: 0.04
Topic 11: the also great water far however high little two known several this place form side around common course forest one ground small trees low country: 0.02
Topic 12: new zealand specimens sir hooker specimen ferns plants species time little november several found however flora among much mentioned seen plant many work kew years: 0.02
Topic 13: one now time much last day long said work since think heard told must yet sent good back thought see another well seen way done: 0.06
Topic 14: letter received last now long sent write wrote time ago send just however writing know letters written still answer reply since october suppose post hope: 0.03
Topic 15: sir wellington dear maori colenso hector note time notes government please essay will napier return much printed grey may send wish manuscript ask work written: 0.07
Topic 16: one balfour also well little specimens week found mail sent lot small may kind bush put last the two box think pleased next hope good: 0.05
Topic 17: new copy copies book zealand also first maori printed work sent early the published government press small errors printer books one name england day page: 0.03
Topic 18: send evening said give morning present make left very still thus going lad schools service take usual save words nga after might asked mind read: 0.02
Topic 19: old well may many town colenso dear much good hand william poor ever better father august and years knowing family remember also pleased best health: 0.02
Topic 20: will bishop may new committee zealand dear society bay the books lord press station printing his god natives england small williams letter arrived however sirs: 0.03
Topic 21: god will love word may shall colenso thee thou heart man child life from words come things now thy good men sir father the even: 0.02
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SourceFile: doc_0138.txt
Date (precise): 1867 March 19
Addressee: McLean
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Tuesday|March 19/87|My Dear Sir|I called at your office this morning, hoping to see you—I wished just to tell you (in confidence) what I heard from Tareha on Saturday last.—|I fell in with him at the Spit—on my way to Petane to vote for Parsons.—I asked him when the hui was to take place at the Wairoa, & if he & other Heretaunga Chiefs were going? He said, He supposed they should go with you—but that they would rather be specially invited by the Wairoa folks—adding, “Kei te mohio ano koe ki a matau tikanga.”—|Of course I don’t know when you may be going thither, but it does seem to me (if time would now permit) that it might be advisable to bring this so-called special invitation about.—|There appears to be some amount of dissatisfaction about Tareha; & I don’t think he would have spoken so very freely had he not just had a glass somewhere.|Pray excuse this: it may be wholly unimportant.| I am| my dear Sir| Yours truly| Wm Colenso.|
Topic 1: sir dear colenso truly yours mclean napier line send note harding monday july call morning see tuesday evening date enclosed hoping kindly tomorrow quite town: 0.13
Topic 2: will well see now papers old new the house land week town luff england one told may money got also man sold just send others: 0.12
Topic 3: paper vol papers new also read one sent may members meeting moa trans zealand hector inst send last copy volumes copies published lately society institute: 0.03
Topic 4: like ago reply england true bed ever just one reading word your christ better hearing reason wholly short first port unknown within able miss highly: 0.02
Topic 5: natives upon native among that made the also chiefs chief sir district service letter road government man wellington waitangi ahuriri land station wairarapa archdeacon governor: 0.07
Topic 6: dear kind colenso napier well january hope december february believe yours late regards christmas mrs march sincerely note your thank year write better with keeping: 0.04
Topic 7: will see shall know say hope little you get may find now glad write much must like can look way hear think well just sure: 0.02
Topic 8: harding hill last letter sunday good bishop see also evening old long dannevirke herald one night day came late copy read paper return much mrs: 0.05
Topic 9: auckland will the yet yesterday good doz times governor private got march general article lose fox red believe hours ordered speech just order agent bill: 0.02
Topic 10: will now may one and time can say however years believe even ever never much think wish present matter must also know great many case: 0.05
Topic 11: the also great water far however high little two known several this place form side around common course forest one ground small trees low country: 0.03
Topic 12: new zealand specimens sir hooker specimen ferns plants species time little november several found however flora among much mentioned seen plant many work kew years: 0.02
Topic 13: one now time much last day long said work since think heard told must yet sent good back thought see another well seen way done: 0.05
Topic 14: letter received last now long sent write wrote time ago send just however writing know letters written still answer reply since october suppose post hope: 0.04
Topic 15: sir wellington dear maori colenso hector note time notes government please essay will napier return much printed grey may send wish manuscript ask work written: 0.04
Topic 16: one balfour also well little specimens week found mail sent lot small may kind bush put last the two box think pleased next hope good: 0.03
Topic 17: new copy copies book zealand also first maori printed work sent early the published government press small errors printer books one name england day page: 0.02
Topic 18: send evening said give morning present make left very still thus going lad schools service take usual save words nga after might asked mind read: 0.1
Topic 19: old well may many town colenso dear much good hand william poor ever better father august and years knowing family remember also pleased best health: 0.02
Topic 20: will bishop may new committee zealand dear society bay the books lord press station printing his god natives england small williams letter arrived however sirs: 0.04
Topic 21: god will love word may shall colenso thee thou heart man child life from words come things now thy good men sir father the even: 0.04
Topic 22: night last weather day may well napier week rain fine days cold bush next yesterday kind today friday hope return meeting saturday sunday wet woodville: 0.03

SourceFile: doc_0139.txt
Date (precise): 1867 June 21
Addressee: Haast
Place: Napier
Letter Body: Napier,|June 21, 1867.|Dr. Julius Haast,|&c &c &c|Canterbury.|Dear Dr. Haast,|Your friendly & frank note of 10th. May I had the pleasure of receiving about the end of that month, and should have answered by the last Mail S., had I not been very unwell—scarcely able to read a line, or to do any thing,—and now that I am a little better I cannot delay any longer, although I feel shaky—unequal to the task.|1. With reference to Dr. Hochstetter’s work on N.Z.—I hope your own many interesting discoveries and also Dr. Hector’s will either be added, or will quickly follow as a fitting sequel. Please secure me a copy for which I shall immediately send a Draft when I know the amount.|2. Darwin’s Ms. (enclosed in yours). I greatly wish I had this earlier, but I will do my best to answer it, though not immediately. You speak of a Botanl. essay of mine which you had read in Ms., (that, I know, has been printed,)––but what I valued more was my brochure on the Maories, (also written for the N.Z. Exhibn. Commissioners,) but which I find, from a note just to hand from Dr. Eccles, has not yet been printed!! This, although much too hastily written, in Jany. ’65, (I having only been allowed 6 weeks for its completion,) contains what would interest Darwin,––and indeed contains answers to a few of his queries. If you are writing to Darwin, you can tell him,––that I will do my best (con amore), and write to him some time this year 1867.181 He will, I think, recollect me, as I saw him in 1835, when he was in N.Z. with Fitzroy: besides he knows of me from my good old friend Dr. Hooker.|I should tell you, that by this Mail I intend writing to Dr. Hector (with whom, I find from Dr. Eccles, the printing of this essay, &c, &c, now rests,––and from whom I have also Just heard,) once more to urge on him the speedy printing of that essay.––If you have any great influence with him,––or with any of those Gentlemen of your large Province about leaving you for the Genl. Assembly,––do use it: (entre nous, I have had my thoughts, that my essay on the Maories has been delayed from its possibly having been declared heterodox!)–––At all events, whether in Ms. or in Print, I should greatly like for you, & Dr. Hochstetter and Darwin to see it, small & hastli written though it be.|3. Yiour request for N.Id. N.Z. plants I would most gladly comply with––but I have so often been applied to that I have now but a scanty Herbarium left, still I will bear your request in mind, and will hope (and really wish) to help you by-and-bye; as I intend traveling again in the interior this approaching summer. But I find time very precious, particularly since I undertook this heavy (unassisted) task of the Maori & English Lexicon.––|I thank you much dear Dr. Haast for your very kind expressions and Invitations. I may next year visit your part of N.Z. I must some time see the Maories of your neighbourhood, and also those farther S. And with every good wish for your success in all your scientific undertakings––in all which I feel deeply interested––| I am, dear Dr. Haast,|Yours very truly|Wm. Colenso.|P.S. I have just received the 2nd. part of Hooker’s N.Z. Flora, and am disappointed––Large collections of the smaller Cryptos. I had sent him during the last 3 years are unnoticed. W.C.||21st. June|evening|Dr. Julius von Haast,|F.G.S., F.L.S.,|&c &c &c|Dear Dr. Haast|Allow me to request your acceptance of two little scientific works of mine (herewith sent) long ago published. Not that they are now of any value, but merely to shew some of our A. B. C,––rude & early attempts.|I regret to say that mine on the “Moa” (published earlier) is wholly out of print, or I should have much pleasure in sending you a copy.|Believe me|Ever your truly|Wm. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0140.txt
Date (precise): 1867 July 27
Addressee: Haast
Place: Napier
Letter Body: Napier, July 27 1867.|Dr. Julius Haast,|etc, etc, etc.,|ChristChurch.|My dear Sir|Yours of the 13th. is to hand, and I lose no time in replying, and in sending you with much pleasure by this Mail, an English republication of my monograph on the Moa (originally published in the Tasmanian Journal). I would prefer your seeing the Tasmanian printed one, as that is a little fuller––but as my only copy is bound up in a thick vol. I cannot well send it. However, in this republication (what I may call) the popular part only has been left out, (in order to compress it,) and also the plates (2), which were very poorly done, as, in those days, there was no Lithog. printer in Tasmania!! nothing has been added.––It was republished in England by Sir W.J. Hooker (old “Lond. Journal of Botany.” vol. 3. p. 3, &c.,) and by Profr. Owen, in the “Annals of Natl. History,” (now sent,)––& repeatedly and most honorably quoted & mentioned by Dr. Mantell (V.President of Geological Socy. London)––our Mantell’s Father,––in the Journals of the Geological Society vols. 4 & 6, for 1848, & 1850, (which Journals I both suppose & hope you have, as they also contain a great deal about Mantell’s Fossil & Geological discoveries in your Island & neighbourhood, as well as much about the Moa, with many diagrams & plates;)––and also in his subsequent Work––on the “Fossils of the British Museum” (Bohn’s edition, 1851,) pp. 93, 94, &c. I mention these works, as, if you have not got them, you should certainly see them before you conclude your Paper on the Moa & its geological age, &c, &c.––Of course you have a copy of Owen’s Work on the Moa: mine is still with Dr. Hector.|En passant––I would beg to call your attention to what Dr. Mantell says of my little early attempt, (in “Quarterly Journal Geological Society,” vol. 4. p235,)––He says: “I would remark that Mr. Colenso who was the first observer that investigated the nature of the fossil remains with due care & the requisite scientific knowledge, (having determined the Struthious affinities of the birds to which the bones belonged, & pointed out their remarkable characters, ere any intelligence could have reached him of the result of Prof. Owen’s examination of the specimens transmitted to this country,) has given, in his masterly paper before quoted, very cogent reasons for the belief that none of the tru Moas exist, though it is probable the last of the race were exterminated by the early inhabitants of these islands.”–––|I do this, because I have thought I have had but scant justice done me here (in N.Z.) in not a few scientific matters,––while at home (England) and on the Continent (Paris, Cherbourg, Gottingen, &c,) I have been most honorably dealt with.––|I shall look forward to your forthcoming work on the Dinornis with much pleasure, and shall receive a copy from you of that, or of any other of your scientific works, with very many thanks. I am rejoiced to hear of your great good fortune in securing such valuable specimens of the Dinornis (sp.) which you are now engaged in articulating. Such must prove a great acquisition to your Canterbury Museum,––& some day I hope to see them & you.|I fully sympathize with you in the non-publication of your Geological essay by the Commissioners. I have lately received printed copies (6) of my Botanical one from Dr. Hector; and I also find from him that mine on the Maories is at last in printing! While I regret it did not come out when written, (Feb./65) I regret much more that I was obliged to write it so hurriedly; still I may go in for a 2nd. edition with additions, if permitted by Messieurs the Commissioners. I thank you much for your very kind interest––as shewn in your writing to Dr. Hector about it.|Dr. Hector tells me, he is going to distribute copies of the Printed essays so, of course, you will get one of mine from him, otherwise I would send you one of the few I have: I am now writing for more copies.|I am glad to hear Dr. Hochstetter’s Work is far advanced. I may tell you that on the arrival of the Novara Expedition in the Auckland waters, I commenced and partly wrote, a rather long letter to Dr. Hochstetter (as I had personally known so many of our early scientific visitors, Continental & English,)––but when I found he had remained behind in N.Z. I did not go on with it, thinking he might visit Hawke’s Bay.|I see from Dr. Hooker’s Hand Book, he is a Member of the “Philosophical Institute of Canterbury,”––I, here, was not aware of such a Society: what are the Members doing? Is any thing being published by them?|Allow me to ask,––Did you ever hear any thing of a Countryman of yours named Schmidt,––who was here (with me) in Jany. 1854, & who was shortly afterwards in Canterbury & Otago? I heard, he perished miserably in exploring––but? I lent him 12 of my most valued (& curious) pencil sketches––which he was to have returned from Wellington.––I would give £1. each, to recover them, if existing––|Believe me,|My dear Dr Haast|Yours truly|Wm. Colenso.|P.S. You can return the Ms. now sent at your convenience when you have quite done with it. W.C.|Could you send me a specimen of Hymenophyllum unilaterale, and of Hymenophyllum ciliatus (lately found by Travers) W.C.|
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SourceFile: doc_0141.txt
Date (precise): 1867 September 2
Addressee: Mantell
Place: Auckland
Letter Body: Auckland|Sept 2/67|Hon. Walter Mantell|&c &c|My dear Sir|I have your note of this mg., wishing me to inform you, of “Mr Donaldson’s efforts at Napier, their utility.”––|Unfortunately, I cannot say much, if anything, in his favor.|1st. from his antecedents: I should infer he would never be stable. |2nd. from what I have heard Karaitiana and other Natives say, I was of opinion, they did not value his exertions too highly.––|3rd I look upon his plan (as far as he has told me of it, & let it be known through the Papers––in which he is a terrible scribbler)––as a highly questionable one––as to its usefulnes, or even being attainable.|4. I know nothing of his peculiar fitness for the office of teaching Maories; am rather inclined to doubt it.|5. He is now thoroughly sober: but you know what the Maories say of a man who was t’other way; and who seeks to get a living by living in their pas to teach them: they cannot (or rarely) appreciate a good motive. D’s. seeking to do them good (in his way) actually operates against him.–– As to, “whether the Provl. Authors. will join the Genl. Govt. in aiding &c.”––|I don’t think they would:––|1. Because D. sent in a petition for aid, 6 months ago, which led to a debate & was refused.– –| α. Bec. did not believe in its practicality| β. Bec. so much set aside for Maori Teaching already in the Prov:––Grey gave 3, or 4000 ac. of the best land of Prov., & the Natives gave same amount––a property worth ₤10,000.––| γ. S. Williams at Te Aute has had, from ₤7000 yearly granted for Schools, ₤1000. or more; & has not a single scholar!! (This I had from his Natives just before I left.)| δ. Bec. Donaldson’s plan runs counter to the Bp’s.––whose aim is & has been to draw away the N. youth from their pas to the quasi College.––|I think I have said enough: you will see I have written confidentially to you.|Ormond is a Mr. of Provl. Council, & of Exec. Cl. also; he could give you (perhaps) more information.| In haste| Yours faithfully| Wm. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0142.txt
Date (precise): 1867 November 8
Addressee: McLean
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: My dear Sir|I have your note of this morning, enquiring if I knew any remedy for the Piripiri.—I am sorry to say that I do not: I only wish I did. I have long been of opinion that this plant was likely to give you (Flock-owners) much more trouble & loss than the thistle,—about which so much has been said.—|One thing is certain—the Piripiri is prodigiously spreading and is a Maori & likes (or lives in) all soils & situations. I was astonished—in 1863, in going to Wairoa—to see so much of it at Petane valley, Tangoio, & Mohaka,—all, I think, owing to the sheep carrying the seeds onto bare, or burnt off, land.—|I had a plant or two in this paddock,—where the hay is now cutting,—and I worked hard to destroy it, for several years: I think I have prevailed,—but, if so, it was only after a hard & long fight.—I know it springs from portions of old roots—something like sorrel, & dock; and if rooted up & thrown down carelessly, and wet weather comes on, it will take root again.—|I think you will have to come to paring it off, with a sharp spade, or good hoe, every season before it seeds, and burning it; an active man could destroy a good deal in a day where the ground is open, as I have known one plant to spread out as large as a dining table, & it is soon turned over. I should think—if turned up in early or midsummer, & then the spots sown with white clover in early autumn, (especially if there is any lime in the soil, as there is here on Scinde Island,) that it could be eradicated.—|I hope your present loss of wool, through shearing early, will not occur again—as I suppose your full quantity would be on their backs by the early season of next year.—|I am sorry my dear Sir that I can not say anything better respecting the extirpation of this enemy.| And am| Yours very truly| Wm Colenso|Novr. 8/67|
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SourceFile: doc_0143.txt
Date (precise): 1867 November 14
Addressee: Haast
Place: Napier
Letter Body: Napier, November, 14th|1867.|Dr. Julius Haast, F.G.S.,|&c &c &c|Provl. Geologist,|Canterbury.|My dear Sir|I cannot tell how sufficiently to thank you for all your kind favours. Yours of the 16th. Octr. I received only a few days ago, (We only get steamers from Wellington thrice a month,) with enclosed synopsis of 6 Lectures. I hope you intend to have them printed, if so, get me put down for ½ dozen copies. I had previously received your letter fo July 27 (which crossed, at sea, mine to you of same date), and your very valuable Repiorts, with maps, Diagrams, and Alpine Views, all which has exceedingly interested me––although I have now but little time to call my own,––as I dig hard daily by sunlight & candle light at my opus magnum––Lexicon: (would that in so doing nI could please! nevertheless, I try to do my best, and am working con amore.)|I am glad to find Dr. Hector remembered you with a copy of my little Botanical brochure: I would the one on the Maories had also been printed, but I hear it is to be. Dr. Hector was here last week and is gone to Taupo and Northwards Gold-hunting, &c. He only spent a short hour with me, his stay in Town being very brief, although he had come overland from Wellington. I hope you will make a complete work of the Moa:—how I shall feast myself when I get that grand dish of your cooking! The Photographs will do much for you. I anticipate great things, as I see you are deservedly fortunate,working hard,—and have many great advantages in your noble province. I hope you have some real lovers of Science among you;—this way I fear they are nearly as scarce as the Moa.—|When you receive your parcel of Hochstetter’s work, remember me with a Copy—and be sure to let me know all expenses—I will remit immediately in one sum for all.—|I note you say— “I see your great Maori Lexicon goes on famously.” Ah! Have you read what is recommended in the “Hansard”? (last number, or next to it). That some of the House tried hard to stop it, by knocking off the vote—although Mr. Stafford nobly took my part.—One said, it was anything but fortunate it had been given to me, who could not do it: that he had seen my writings for Dunedin Exhibition, which were, alas! such things, &c.—And now I am officially informed, that my work is to be inspected and reported on, as to its substantial progress (as if it were a House or a Barn), and that great doubts exist as to any vote being taken for it after this financial year.—Scant courtesy, I think: yet so it is: Heigho! “Geduld überwindet alles”186—as they say in your Father-land.|I have received Copies of Part II of Dr. Hooker’s Hand-Book, and am much disappointed, as I sent him some hundreds of specimens of microscopical Crypts., during the last 3–4 years, and at which I worked very hard, none are inserted. Depend on it we shall find plenty more species novæ yet.|I have more than once thought whether you had not some intelligent Native with whom I might occasionally correspond in re Lexicon. Since you have mentioned Rev. Mr. Stack’s name, perhaps you would not object asking him, If he knows of any one, and could give his name, address, &c. I have several at the N.—|I am writing largely by this Mail to Dr. Hooker & others, so you must please excuse brevity.|Ever my Dear Sir|Yours most sincerely|Wm. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0144.txt
Date (precise): 1867 December 2
Addressee: McLean
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Monday mg. |Decembr 2nd. 1867|His Honor D. McLean Esq |My dear Sir,|As you very kindly said you would shew Mr. Stafford the propriety of re-granting me the privilege of franking and receiving on Service, I have thought it best to send you a copy of my Official about it to Mr. Richmond.—|I have lately had a letter from the N. asking for stamps, in order to forward me papers,—and I have also lately had a letter from Hokianga, which, being insufficiently stamped, I had to pay not only the amount wanting—but also the fine, so that I really am in a fix—for if I send stamps (6d. of course) they may or may not be properly used,—and if too much, then there is a loss—if too little, then I am fined additional—& all out of my pocket.|Besides, I take 5 copies of the “Waka Maori,” to send to those very men who are helping me,—which I have now to put stamps on!—in addition to subscription.|I should think a word from you to Mr. Stafford would be sufficient (I have been thinking often of writing to him myself, and would have done so had I not written to Mr. Richmond)—as Mr. Stafford originally Gazetted it, very early in ’66, before that Mr. Richmond or Mr. Hall took office.—188|I return your Papers with many thanks for your kindness, Now that you about to lose the Judge, and other Visitors, if you would fix some day for an hour’s talk on public matters I will thank you| And am, | My dear Sir, | Yours truly, | W. Colenso.|
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SourceFile: doc_0145.txt
Date (precise): 1867 December 6
Addressee: Gore
Place: Napier
Letter Body: Napier|Decr. 6, 1867.|To|His Excellency|Sir George Grey, KCB.|&c &c &c|Kawau, N.Z.|Dear Sir George Grey|For some time past we––Napier folk––have been daily on the lookout, hoping to see your Steamer coming into our Bay, but on Saturday evening last a Steamer was seen steering N. also under sail, which is believed to be yours. Such being the case I fear we shall not now have the pleasure of seeing you here, if (as we hear) your intention is to leave for England in January via Panama. I should much like to see Your Excellency again in Napier,––and, above all, I regret deeply your having to leave at such a critical period in our history as the arrival of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh among us. I would, dear Sir George Grey, that (at least) you had been requested to remain to receive the coming Prince, & to accompany him to visit some of the principal Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealanders, as from such a course much good might reasonably be expected. I confess I feel some difficulty in attempting to convey to your Excellency a scanty outline of my thoughts on this subject.|I did hope to see you at Wellington in the past spring, and had I gained what I through Dr. Hector sought––permission to visit the Genl. Assembly Library during the Session––I should have done so. (I have since however obtained permission to use it during the recess.) I wished to talk with you about the Maori-Eng. Lexicon on which I am engaged; and could I have supposed you would so very shortly and suddenly leave us, I should ere this have done so. I will not however trouble you now, and by letter too, as your time must be very precious indeed. If, however, you have any Maori Mss. lying together, (which you do not intend to use shortly nor to take with you,) and you would kindly grant me the loan of them during your absence, you would in so doing both confer a favour and help in a great work:––you may rely on my taking the utmost care of them.––And as I remember all your kind expressions respecting it, and believe that you would like to see it finished, I would just ask you dear Sir George Grey, (if I may do so––under all the circumstances,) to intimate such a desire to Mr. Stafford, or to some one of the Ministry,––as I think such would be beneficial both to the Work & to myself.190 For I have recently received an Official letter from Mr. Rolleston––in which I am informed, “that some doubt exists of the continuation of the Vote beyond the present “financial year”. I hope, however, to be able to complete it whether I continue to have Government pecuniary assistance or not:––hitherto, I am sorry to say, I have had no other; even the privilege of franking and receiving on P.S. (which your Excellency had kindly granted to me last year) has been taken from me,––so that many of my Mss., &c., now out among several distant Natives cannot readily be returned.––|I have lately opened a box of Maori Mss.––vocabularies, travelling Journals, and my old Ms. Dictionaries of the N. dialects (Ngapuhi and Rarawa,)––which I had packed up in 1842–3! and am almost stunned with the overpowering world of thoughts––rushing & sweeping over the N.Z. history of the last 30–35 years––which these silent yet powerful witnesses evoke!|I am daily working hard at the Lexn. con amore, and I find it hard work, harder than I anticipated. I hope, however, to accomplish it; and that you, dear Sir George Grey––whether among us or in England,––will, some 4 or 5 years hence, hear of the same.|It has just occurred to me to ask you to say a word to Mr. Williamson, Superintendent, (as I suppose you will be sure to see him again,) in favour of his helping me––I mean, his encouraging Paul Tuhaere, the Chief in his Executive, (to whom I am about to write,)––or any other person, to do so. I trust in mentioning this I am not exceeding.–––|And––as I cannot now reasonably expect to have the privilege or either writing to you again, or seeing you, ere you leave N. Zealand and us,––permit me, dear Sir George Grey, heartily to wish you a safe and prosperous voyage back to the Old Country,––and (if such be your intention) as equally safe & prosperous return to us at no very distant period:––I venture to think and say, N. Zealand ought not to lose you.––|I am,|dear Sir George Grey,|with every respect,|Yours very truly|Wm. Colenso.|P.S. As I believed you would be very sure to receive a copy of my little brochure on the Botany of the N. Island from Dr. Hector, I did not send you one of the very few copies lately to hand. I would that my second, on the Maories, had been printed, as I should have much liked for you to have seen what I have said respecting them. W.C.|
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SourceFile: doc_0146.txt
Date (precise): 1868
Addressee: McLean
Place: Unknown
Letter Body: Wednesdy. mg. (8 o’clock rather cold).|My Dear Sir,|With many thanks I return your N. Papers I feel very much obliged to you for your so kindly remembering me with them.—|Could you conveniently fix some day this week for my seeing you in your office on our Business? (Friday would suit me well—but I will make any day suit.) I purpose going inland again! next week.—|And if you would read the Correspondence with Mr. Domett, concerning T. Sn. 400—also have some talk with Cr. Lds. Commissr., Mr. Weber and Mr. Wilson about the bit of land here on the brow (cut off from the end of the road, in ’66)—it would help on matters, which should be settled.|In haste I am yrs. truly, |Wm. Colenso|
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