 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1845 - 794 pages
...what you now hold. The New Zealand Company state, with respect to these contracts — " We always have very serious doubts whether the Treaty of Waitangi,...praiseworthy device for amusing and pacifying savages." I believe that there are a good many lawyers in the New Zealand Company, and this may be the language... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1845 - 788 pages
...real property in New Zealand. We always have had very serious doubts whether the Treaty of VVaitangi, made with naked savages by a consul invested with...for amusing and pacifying savages for the moment. But •we thought it most probable that, whenever possession of New Zealand should be actually obtained... | |
 | 1849 - 498 pages
...the proposed violation of which called forth the indignant protest of the Bishop of New Zealand — " could be treated by lawyers (!) as anything but a praiseworthy device for amusinq and pacifying savages fur the moment."* Of the Company, then, we shall content ourselves with... | |
 | sir robert peel bart - 1853 - 870 pages
...what you now hold. The New Zealand Company state, with respect to these contracts — " We always have very serious doubts whether the treaty of Waitangi,...ratification by the Crown, could be treated by lawyers as any thing but a praiseworthy device for amusing and pacifying savages." I believe that there are a... | |
 | William Swainson - 1859 - 440 pages
...always had very serious doubts," urged the New Zealand Company, addressing the Queen's Minister, " whether the treaty of Waitangi, made with naked savages...for amusing and pacifying savages for the moment." Seeing that such an argument could be put forward in the name of a body of Englishmen, it may be feared,... | |
 | Arthur Saunders Thomson - 1859 - 408 pages
...Busby, Esq., p. 65. whole business as illegal, and doubted " whether a treaty made with naked savages could be treated by lawyers as anything but a praiseworthy device for their amusement,"* and a committee of the House of Commons, in 1844, characterised the treaty as an... | |
 | 1862 - 490 pages
...Colonial Office. A body of Englishmen addressed the Queen's minister in these terms : — " We have always had very serious doubts whether the Treaty of Waitangi,...and pacifying savages for the moment." The answer of the (now) Earl of Derby deserves to be read by all who feel any interest in the New Zealand question.... | |
 | George William Rusden - 1883 - 680 pages
...the eye of our Courts such a fiction as a native law of real property in New Zealand. We have always had very serious doubts whether the treaty of Waitangi,...a consul invested with no plenipotentiary powers, could be treated by lawyers as anything but a praiseworthy device for amusing and pacifying savages... | |
 | George William Rusden - 1883 - 712 pages
...the treaty of Waitangi, made with naked savages by a consul invested with no plenipotentiary powers, could be treated by lawyers as anything but a praiseworthy...for amusing and pacifying savages for the moment." 1 Lord Stanley " need not say so very positively" that he could not allow the company to plead ignorance... | |
 | George William Rusden - 1883 - 672 pages
...the treaty of Waitangi, made with naked savages by a consul invested with no plenipotentiary powers, could be treated by lawyers as anything but a praiseworthy device for amusing and pacifying savages for the moment."1 Lord Stanley " need not say so very positively " that he could not allow the company to plead... | |
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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... 
