and as for the Slur that an unjust Magistrate may throw upon a person's name - poor must his mind be if he cannot dispise it in the enjoyment of a conscience at peace with his Maker. When Fenton reached any of the places where he used to pass a night - he got surrounded for long hours in the dead of the night by native Assessors and other natives - these native Assessors were acting as Magistrates in their own villages and intentionally and unintentionally committed frequent unfairness by their decisions among themselves and towards their European neighbors - in these nightly palavers the Assessors depicted these cases to Fenton according to their own interests - and next morning when the injured party arrived to appeal against the native Magistrate - Fenton was gone - three times I have been so disappointed - that Fenton was scattering his' decisions on the statements of one party only in private conference, forgetting the golden rule ''Audi alteram partem'' I know by my own experience - late one afternoon Messrs. Fenton and Carleton passed in a canoe my dwelling - that same morning I got a Native Assessor to execute a distress - the first and only one that ever took place on the Waipa (I wished slowly to accustom them to submit to the requirements of the Law - the amount was a trifle - 2/6) I went overland to see Fenton at the village I supposed