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radika, with the positive assurance that his re-appearance in the neighbourhood would entitle him to a repetition of the same process. Resistance to the mandates of this tribunal was useless, for its members could, if necessary, call in the ready and willing assistance of the natives. Mercantile operations, therefore, were carried on to a considerable extent and with implicit confidence, and debts paid with scrupulous regularity. It was correctly assumed, that since every able-bodied member of the community could obtain a good subsistence with very little labour, no indulgence or mercy could be properly extended to those who gave way to criminal propensities. Were we to judge by facts, we might suppose that the summary processes of this species of Lynch law were more efficacious than regular tribunals ; for in a few months after Capt. Hobson had established his police court and petty sessions in the Bay of Islands, it was found that offences were committed, not only more frequently, but of a graver nature, than during the good old times. The European population of the Bay of Islands was composed of traders, with their clerks, storekeepers, and artisans. Their business consisted in purchasing maize, potatoes, and pork, from the natives, chiefly for the supply of the colonial markets, and of the whaling ships which visited the Bay of Islands in great numbers, when in want of refreshments. There were seldom less than eight or ten large ships, French, American, and British, anchored off Kororadika, besides a large number in the inner anchorage ; others resorted to a part of the Bay of Islands called Paroa Bay, or the anchorage off’ the Island of Muturoa. For the accommodation of the captains and officers of these ships there were two or three hotels, and,