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)
But here's the chiefs of the Assemblage, and all the chiefs besides,
yield to the Queen the buying of those places of land where the man
whose land it is shall be good to the arrangement of the payment
which the buyer shall arrange to them, who is told by the Queen to
buy for her.
Here's the third: This, too, is an arrangement in return for the
assent of the Governorship of the Queen. The Queen of England will
protect all the native men of New Zealand. She yields to them all the
rights, one and the same as her doings to the men of England.
Now here's we: Here's the chiefs of the Assemblage of the tribes of
New Zealand who are congregated at Waitangi. Here's we too. Here's
the chiefs of New Zealand, who see the meaning of these words, we
accept, we entirely agree to all. Truly we do mark our names and
marks.
This is done at Waitangi on the six of the days of February, in the
year one thousand eight hundred and four tens of our Lord.
The whole subject was now before the meeting for discussion, and the
chiefs were invited to express their views upon it, or to make any
enquiries upon points that were still obscure. There being some little
hesitancy displayed Mr. Busby rose and, addressing the natives,
assured them that the Governor had not come to deprive them of their
lands, but rather to secure them in possession of what they had not
already sold. He reminded them that he had frequently given them his
word that land not properly acquired from them would not be recognised
as the property of the person claiming it, but would be returned to
the natives, to whom it rightly belonged. He was proceeding to say
that this promise the Governor would of a certainty be prepared to
carry out, when suddenly he was interrupted by Te Kemara, a chief of
the Ngatikawa tribe, who, springing from his place in front of the
platform exclaimed:
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