an editorial in the otago witness expressed similar views about campbell and added that his ""gross ignorance"" and ""hostility to the [canterbury] scheme"" made him ""an object of derision, sorrow and dislike"". the nelson examiner and new zealand chronicle complained about the large area of land that campbell was expected to administer and that his office was in christchurch, while the lyttelton times harshly criticised the language and grammar campbell used in his official notices.