Legislative Council ended on 10 July 1841, which coincides with the end of the first session of the council. There was no contemporary reporting why his term came to an end; he was the first person to retire from this institution. In May 1842, Governor William Hobson appointed Halswell as one of his deputies. As a judge, he appears to have had the trust of Māori, over whom he sometimes had to preside. On 24 April 1845, Halswell attended a farewell function for James Sea, who was to go to New South Wales to become the first manager of the Sydney branch of the Union Bank of Australia. Halswell's own departure for England was toasted at that function, and both Sea and Halswell left two days later on the Comet for Sydney via Nelson. They arrived in Sydney on 17 May. Halswell's return to England was caused by conflicts with the governor; the New Zealand Company had a fraught relationship with all governors as the company's objectives were not supported by the New Zealand government. Later life in England Halswell was one of the founding members of the Canterbury Association; he attended the inaugural meeting on 27 March 1848 and was on the initial committee. In 1848, where were probably just two people in England who would have seen the Canterbury Plains by themselves: Halswell and Captain Joseph Thomas, the surveyor of the Canterbury Association. Family and death Halswell's eldest son, (Edward) Darnley Halswell, was killed aged 19 in January 1842 in Sindh (now part of Pakistan) whilst part of General Charles James Napier's campaign to conquer the area. Halswell died on 1 January 1874 at Kensington and was buried on 7 January at Holy Trinity Brompton in London. His wife had died in 1869. Commemoration Point Halswell is the northernmost location of Miramar Peninsula. The point became a public reserve, under that name, in September 1841. In 1930, the Massey Memorial was unveiled at Point Halswell. Captain Thomas, when he carried out the surveys in 1849 in Canterbury, named many geographic features after members of the Canterbury Association. Halswell's name was used for a river–the Halswell River—that drained into Lake Ellesmere. A rural settlement near the head of this river then adopted the name Halswell; this is today a suburb of Christchurch. It also gave its name to an administrative district—Halswell County—that existed from 1910 to 1968. Edmund Storr