I only heard of one case tried by Fenton in favor of a European during his Magistracy of two years - a case of Mr. Armitage - regarding a Stable sold by Armitage to a native before the meeting at Paetae and adjudicated long after - against Fenton's own Law not to adjudicate anything that took place before that date - and when Mr. Oldfield ask a summons to get payment for a horse - Mr. Fenton refused granting it, aducing as the cause of difference in these two cases that Armitage's Stable was a ''valuable consideration''. I never heard a European Settler speak in praise of Fenton's proceedings as Magistrate in the Waikato - never - but general and unmitigated complaints of utter neglect, even the natives were forming songs about Fenton - in Waingaroa the song purported that Fenton was transacting his business ''one foot in the canoe and one on shore'' and in the Waikato that he had ''burning Coals under his heels''. Fenton kept the natives sweetened by promises to supply them with grass-seed and sheep, and when the natives found that these promises were mere smoke they loudly complaint about it - Some come to me to assist them to bring their complaints to the Knowledge of the Govt. or Public but the news having reached just then of Fenton's removal - put a stop to it. I do not know by what Criterion his Ex. is judging of the inefficiency of a Magistrate - Petitions for his removal? in the whole Waipa we were only 5 or 6 europeans, what effect would a Petition have signed by so few? Rangiawhia was continually expecting Fenton's beginning