This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...ignorant as Wakefield hoped. Hobson's instructions laid untenant on sPec'a duty of seeing that false claims to land G?Jf rnSr' were not set UP to overreach the natives. Directly he 1839-40 J reached Sydney he consulted Gipps, and a proclamation was dravvn up announcing that no purchases of land in New Zealand would be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...ignorant as Wakefield hoped. Hobson's instructions laid untenant on sPec'a duty of seeing that false claims to land G?Jf rnSr' were not set UP to overreach the natives. Directly he 1839-40 J reached Sydney he consulted Gipps, and a proclamation was dravvn up announcing that no purchases of land in New Zealand would be recognised by the authorities unless and until they had been enquired into and confirmed by The Government Commissioners. Soon after his arrival in the of Bay of Islands he called the chiefs together at Waitangi, Waitangi where Busby lived, and after Feb. 6, 1840 41 fr-full explanation and two days' discussion concluded with them the famous and important Treaty of WaiS TM/-tangi. This contained three OJ clauses, each of which was (2, aI/v interpreted to the chiefs by 3Z their friends the mission 0d-, -n? aries, and well debated among CvJJ y C7p them both in council and-in their villages during the evening. The first clause Ja) "455--yielded to the Queen of Eng2 03"-land "all the rights and w S8l powers of sovereignty" which the chiefs had in their districts. Siunatureb To The Teeaty Of The second clause guaranteed wa, tan01-to the tribes "full and undis turbed possession of their lands," and ordained that, if at any time the tribes wished to sell land, they should offer it first to the British Government. The third clause gave the natives of New Zealand all the rights and privileges of British subjects. Here was an open and honourable transaction; there were no beads and Jews' harps about it; the wording of the treaty was clear and simple--the chiefs understood it, and Hobson understood it. When in after years the friends of the New Zealand Company tried to upset the arrangement, they had to take refuge in ta...
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