on--Visit to
Te Waharoa--Station at Puriri--Visit to Waikato--Station at Mangapouri
--Tauranga--Rotorua--The Rotorua-Thames war--Looting of Ohinemutu
station--Flight from Matamata--Mrs. Chapman's bonnet--Withdrawal of
missionaries--Ngakuku and Tarore--Marsden's last visit--Progress in
the north--Departure of Marsden--Estimate of his work and character.

CHAPTER VI.

YEARS OF THE RIGHT HAND (1838-1840).

Re-occupation of Rotorua and Tauranga--Visit to Opotiki--Station there
--Maunsell at Waikato Heads--Visit of Bishop Broughton--Influenza--
Octavius Hadfield--The east coast--Taumatakura--W. Williams moves to
Poverty Bay--Ripahau at Cook Strait--Rauparaha--Tamihana learns from
Ripahau--Tamihana and Te Whiwhi come to Bay of Islands--Hadfield
offers to return with them--H. Williams and Hadfield visit Port
Nicholson--Kapiti--Work of Ripahau--Peace-making--Williams at
Whanganui--Ascends the river--Village bells--March to Taupo--Tauranga
--Wairarapa--The instructions of Karepa.

CHAPTER VII.

RETROSPECT (1814-1841).

Arrival of Hobson--Treaty of Waitangi--Opposition of New Zealand
Company--The work of the missionaries--Absence of authority--Kendall
the Gnostic--The new workers--Bible translation--Simplicity in worship
--And in life--Buying of land--Motives tested by selection of Auckland
--Darwin's verdict--Missionaries and Methodists--Friendly relations--
Disagreement on West Coast--Arrival of Roman mission--Hardships--
Koinaki's taua--Causes of rapid spread of Christianity among Maoris--
Gifts of civilisation--Religiousness of Maori nature--Letters of
converts--The old heart--Marvellous memory--Hopes for the future.

SECOND PERIOD.

CHAPTER VIII.

THE BEGINNINGS OF THE NEW ORDER (1839-1842).

Arrival of immigrants--Principles of the New Zealand Company--
Opposition of the C.M.S.--Henry Williams and the Wellington settlers--
Arrival of Bishop Selwyn--His ideals--His choice of Waimate--Condition
of the country--Bishop's first tour--Nelson--Wellington--Whanganui--
New Plymouth--Journey across the island--Waiapu--Bay of Plenty--
Waikato--Return to Waimate.

CHAPTER IX.

ADJUSTMENT (1843-1844).

Bishop Selwyn's ecclesiastical position--Religious divisions--
Formation of St. John's College--Death of Whytehead--Communism in
practice--A lesson to the world--Ordinations--Bishop's second tour--
White Terraces--Whanganui River--Wairau tragedy--Hadfiel