Resident Magistrate. The facts of the case can be summed up in a few words. I was quite favourable to the introduction of such institutions if properly and judiciously initiated, not mere spasmodic efforts, which aimed at the breaking up of the influence of the old Chiefs, and disturbing the present social organisation of the tribes however defective, without being prepared to substitute something permanent and reliable to replace those institutions of Chieftainships, and tribal relations recognised by the people. Moreover I did not wish the Maori to be made the subject of untried experiments subservient to the ends of party politics, while unprepared to introduce