Having struggled financially for some years, the Company was in great difficulty by early 1844 in the wake of the Wairau incident of June 1843, in which 22 settlers had been killed in an ill-advised clash with Ngāti Toa.
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'New Zealand Company ends colonising efforts', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/new-zealand-company-suspends-all-colonising-operations, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 14-Jun-2016
