Instead of being relieved he was left to be worried slowly to death at his post.

To have met the really great difficulties and the combination of petty annoyances which beset him, the new governor should have had the best of health and spirits.

The complications around him grew daily more entangled.
In the North the excellent settlers, who with their children were to make the province of Auckland what it is, were scarcely even beginning to arrive.

The Whites of his day there were what tradesmen call a job lot.

There were the old Alsatian; the new speculator; genuine colonists, _rari nantes_; a coterie of officials; and the missionaries, regarding all with distrust.