The government also responded Response with legislation to imprison Arrest Māori opponents and confiscate Rewards_and_punishments expansive areas of the North Island for sale to settlers , with the funds used Using to cover war expenses—punitive measures that on the east and west coasts provoked Causation an intensification of Māori resistance and aggression .

On 7 October , hundreds of ethnic Chinese , many of them sugar mill workers , killed Killing 50 Dutch soldiers , leading Causation Dutch troops to confiscate Removing all weapons from the Chinese populace and to place Placing the Chinese under a curfew .