Par. 107 To 110.

In these paragraphs Mr. Richmond dwells on the difficulty of bringing dishonest or contumacious debtors of the Native race within the reach of our Civil Courts. The existence of such a class of persons furnishes no evidence against the disposition of the large majority to obey law. Few nations would be content to have defendants in actions of debt set up as their "representative men." Amongst the Maories, as elsewhere., the general character of the people may be more fairly estimated from the large majority who fulfil their contract without legal compulsion than from the minority, against whom the process of the Courts is resorted to.