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aborigines acres afford agent amount appears arrived Auckland banks Bay of Islands boors British called Cape cattle chief surveyor Church coast Colonel Wakefield colonists colony command commissioner considerable convicts crown cultivation declared despatch Diemen's Island district Dutch east emigrants England English established European extent feet Fitz-Roy Gaika governor Grey Griquas harbour head hills Hobart Town Hokianga Hottentots inhabitants Kafirs labour Lake land Landdrost Launceston Lord Lord Glenelg Macomo Majesty's Majesty's government males Maories ment miles military missionaries mountains named natives Nelson Norfolk Island northern Otago Parl party persons plain Porirua Port Nicholson portion possession prisoners proceeded purchase Rauperaha received resident river rocks sent settlement settlers ships shore soil South Wales southern station Strait stream tain territory tion Total tract treaty of Waitangi trees tribes troops valley vessels Wairau Wanganui Wellington whole wood Zealand Company
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Page 141 - Zealand, and to the respective families and individuals thereof, the full, exclusive, and undisturbed possession of their Lands and Estates, Forests, Fisheries and other properties which they may collectively or individually possess, so long as it is their wish and desire to retain the same in their possession...
Page 89 - Repent and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed: and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye (Ezek., 18: 27-32).
Page 141 - Now therefore We the Chiefs of the Confederation of the United Tribes of New Zealand being assembled in Congress at Victoria in Waitangi and We the Separate and Independent Chiefs of New Zealand claiming authority over the Tribes and Territories which are specified after our respective names, having been made fully to understand the Provisions of the foregoing Treaty, accept and enter into the same in the full spirit and meaning thereof: in witness of which we have attached our signatures or marks...
Page 140 - The Chiefs of the Confederation of the United Tribes of New Zealand and the separate and independent Chiefs who have not become members of the Confederation cede to Her Majesty the Queen of England absolutely and without reservation all the rights and powers of Sovereignty...
Page 132 - Can we suppose otherwise than that it is our office to carry civilization and humanity, peace and good government, and, above all, the knowledge of the true God, to the uttermost ends of the earth...
Page 132 - The British Empire has been signally blessed by Providence, and her eminence, her strength, her wealth, her prosperity, her intellectual, her moral and her religious advantages are so many reasons for peculiar obedience to the laws of Him who guides the destinies of nations. These were given for some higher purpose than commercial prosperity and military renown.
Page 197 - We have always had very serious doubts whether the treaty of Waitangi, made with naked savages by a consul invested with no plenipotentiary powers, without ratification by the Crown, could be treated by lawyers as anything but a praiseworthy device for amusing and pacifying savages for the moment.
Page 130 - 1. WE, the hereditary chiefs and heads of the tribes of the Northern parts of New Zealand, being assembled at Waitangi, in the Bay of Islands, on this 28th day of October 1835, declare the Independence of our country, which is hereby constituted and declared to be an Independent State, under the designation of the United Tribes of New Zealand.
Page 139 - All dealings with the Aborigines for their lands must be conducted on the same principles of sincerity, justice, and good faith, as must govern your transactions with them for the recognition of Her Majesty's Sovereignty in the Islands. Nor is this all: they must not be permitted to enter into any contracts in which they might be the ignorant and unintentional authors of injuries to themselves. You will not, for example, purchase from them any territory, retention of which by them would be essential,...
Page 143 - Governor is, to the utmost of his power, to promote religion and education among the native inhabitants of the Colony ; and he is especially to take care to protect them in their persons and in the free enjoyment of their possessions, and by all lawful means to prevent and restrain all violence and injustice which may in any manner be practised or attempted against them...