....but the hanging was considered as the assertion of the power and the expression of the contempt of the superior race. It was seen at Taranaki that where the Whiteman's territory was circumscribed, his numbers did not formidably increase; and a Land League was the result. To keep many settlers at Taranaki, the Thames, and the Waikato; and gold-diggers at Coromandel, was the object of this organisation. The expulsion of the school-teachers and Missionaries was incidental to its accomplishment.