Certainly not by force; for it would have been flattery to apply such a term to the tiny handful of armed men at his back.
Troops were not sent until the war of 1844.

During the five years after that the defence of New Zealand probably cost the Imperial Government a round million, the result of the starving policy of the first five years.
[Illustration: VIEW OF NELSON Photo by HENRY WRIGHT] Moreover, for the reasons already sketched, the English in New Zealand formed a house divided against itself.

The differences in the north between Maoris' officials, Alsatians of the old school, and settlers of the new, were sufficient to supply the Governor with a daily dish of annoyance.

But the main colony of New Zealand was not in the north round Governor Hobson, but in Cook's Straits.

There was to be found the large and daily increasing antagonistic element being brought in by the New Zealand Company.