The new-comers had money, and were good customers.

But as time went on, and the settlers exhausted their funds and hopes, they ceased to be able to buy freely.

And when they found the Maoris refusing to admit them to the farms for which they had paid L1 an acre in London, feeling grew more and more acute.

The Company's settlement at Port Nicholson was perversely planted just on that place in the inner harbour which is exposed to the force of the ocean.

It had to be shifted to a more sheltered spot, and this the natives denied they ever sold.