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the illegal votes have been given by persons not naturalized, or if naturalized voting in different wards at the same election." The same writer asserts that at least nine-tenths of these illegal voters were Irish emigrants, "generally Catholics," of a most ignorant class.
Two more numbers of the New Zealand Gazette, published at Port Nicholson, on the 9th and 16th of May, have been received. They give successive portions of a journal kept by Mr. Edward J. Wakefield, The son of Mr. Gibbon Wakefield, during a pedestrian tour which he took in an unexplored part of the country. He met with no obstruc- tion from the natives, until some of his " boys," or luggage-porters, excited the marital jealousy of a man in one of the villages at which they stopped; and then some of the luggage which the offenders carried was seized in revenge. A ship appearing in the oiling, however, the natives feared that " Wide-Awake " (Colonel Wakefield) might be coming to look after his " son " ; and so the baggage was surrendered. A quarrel between two tribes afterwards prevented young Wakefield from pursuing the course which he had intended, since he could not induce his porters to trust in the protection of his personal influence as a 'White. At one place he was entertained with roasted pig—at an- other with a long harangue, which being interpreted, " called him over the coals" for being connected with large purchases of land, to the prejudice of the natives. It soon appeared, however, that the Mission- aries had instigated this ill feeling; but it visited the tourist in no worse shape than a coldness in the hospitality extended to hint. Upon the whole, the journal furnishes renewed evidence of the safety with which Europeans may traverse even the wildest parts of the country.
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