The Treaty of Waitangi; or, how New Zealand became a British ColonyBuick, Thomas Lindsay
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The Treaty of Waitangi; or, how New Zealand became a British Colony
Buick, Thomas Lindsay
New Zealand -- Politics and government; Treaty of Waitangi (1840)
Ko te Kuini o Ingarani ka wakarite ka wakaae ki nga Rangatira, ki nga
Hapu, ki nga tangata katoa o Nu Tirini, te tino Rangatiratanga o o
ratou wenu o ratu kainga me o ratu taonga katoa. Otiia ko nga
Rangatira o te Wakaminenga me nga Rangatira katoa atu, ka tuku ki te
Kuini te hokonga o era wahi wenua e pai ai te tangata nona te wenua,
ki te ritenga o te utu e wakaritea ai e ratou ko te kai hoko e meatia
nei e te Kuini hei kai hoko mona.
_Ko te tuatoru_
Hei wakaritenga mai hoki mo te wakaaetanga ki te Kawanatanga o te
Kuini. Ka tiakina e te Kuini o Ingarani nga tangata Maori katoa o Nu
Tirani. Ka tukua ki a ratou nga tikanga katoa rite tahi ki ana mea ki
nga tangata o Ingarani.
WILLIAM HOBSON,
Consul and Lieutenant-Governor.
Na ko matou, ko nga Rangatira o te Wakaminenga o nga Hapu o Nu
Tirani, ka huihui nei ki Waitangi. Ko matou hoki ko nga Rangatira o
Nu Tirani, ka kite nei i te ritenga o enei kupa, ka tangohia, ka
wakaaetia katoatia e matou. Koia ka tohungia ai o matou ingoa o matou
tohu.
Ka meatia tenei ki Waitangi, i te ono o nga ra o Pepuere, i te tau
kotahi mano, ewaru rau, ewa tekau, o to tatou Ariki.
A TRANSLATION OF THE TREATY OF WAITANGI
INTO ENGLISH FROM THE ORIGINAL MAORI
Here's Victoria, Queen of England, in her gracious remembrance
towards the chiefs and tribes of New Zealand, and in her desire that
the chieftainships and their lands should be secured to them and that
obedience also should be held by them, and the peaceful state also;
has considered it as a just thing, to send here some chief to be a
person to arrange with the native men of New Zealand, that the
Governorship of the Queen may be assented to by the native chiefs in
all places of the land, and of the islands. Because too many together
are the men of her tribe who have sat down in this land and are
coming hither.
Now it is the Queen who desires that the Governorship may be arranged
that evils may not come to the native men, to the white who dwells
lawless. There! Now the Queen has been good that I should be sent,
William Hobson, a Captain of the Royal Navy, a Governor for all the
places in New Zealand that are yielded now or hereafter to the Queen.
She says to the Chiefs of the Assemblage (Confederation) of the
tribes of New Zealand, and other chiefs besides, these laws which
shall be spoken now.
Here's the first: Here's the chief of the Assemblage, and all the
chiefs also who have not joined the Assemblage mentioned, cede to the
utmost to the Queen of England for ever continually to the utmost the
whole Governorship of their lands.
Here's the second: Here's the Queen of England arranges and confirms
to the chiefs, to all the men of New Zealand the entire chieftainship
of their lands, their villages, and all their property.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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