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purchases from the Indians, whether made with them individually or collectively as tribes, to be absolutely null and void. The only power that could lawfully acquire the Indian title was the State, and a Government grant was the only lawful source of title admitted iv the courts of justice. The Colonial and State Governments, and the Government of the United States, uniformly dealt upon these principles with the Indian nations dwelling within their territorial limits."—(Jijrf, 385.)

Appendix No. 2. [Parliamentary Paper, 8 April 1840.] " On the other hand, the Ministers of the Crown have been restraiaed by still higher motives from engaging in such an enterprise. They have deferred to the advice of the Committee appointed by the House of Commons in the year 1836, to inquire into the state of the Aborigines residing in the vicinity of our colonial settlements; and have concurred with that Committee in thinking that tlio increase of native wealth and power promised by the acquisition of New Zealand, would be a most inadequate compensation for the injury which must be inflicted on this kingdom itself by embarkine in a measure essentially unjust, and but too certainly fraught with calamity to a numerous and inoffensive people, whose title to the soil and to the sovereignty of New Zealand is indisputable and has been solemnly recognised by the British Government." Again : "To mitigate, and if possible, to avert these disasters, and to rescue the immigrants themselves from the evil of a lawless state of society, it has been resolved to adopt the most effective measures for establishing amongst them a settled form of Civil Government, To accomplish this desism is the principal object of your mission." l iw»{,i* Again : "The Queen, in common with Her Majesty's immediate predecessor, disclaims for herself and for her subjects every pretension to seize on the islands of New Zealand, or to govern them as a part ot the dominion of Great Britain, unless the free and intelligent consent of the natives expressed according to their established usages, shall be first obtained. Believing, however, that their own welfare would, under the circumstances I have mentioned, be best promoted by the surrender to Her Majesty of a right now so precarious, and little more than nominal, and persuaded that the benefits of British protection, and of laws administered by British judges, would far more than compensate for the sacrifice by the natives of a national independence which they are no longer to maintain, Her Majesty's Govern ment have resolved to authorise you to treat with the aborigines of New Zealand for the recognition of Her Majesty s Sovereign authority over the whole or any parts of those, islands which they may be willing to place under Her Majesty's dominion." J Letter from Lord Glenelg to Lord Durham (ibid. p. 148.) "The intelligence which Her Majesty's Government has received from the most recent and authentic sources, justifies the conclusion that it is an indispensable dutv, in reference both to tho native* and to British interests, to interpose, by some effective authority, to put a stop to the evils and dangers to which all those interests arc exposed, in consequence of the manner in which the intercourse of foreigners with those islands is now carried on." «, fe'i: Th. e.? r°P° sS 1 ****& the M. e Parliamentary Committee on Aborigines, appears inadequate to toeet the existing evil and the repression of practices of the most injurious tendency to the natives of New Zealand can, as it would seem, be accomplished only by the establishment of someSettled form of government within that territory, and in the neighbourhood of places resorted to by British settlers "

Appendix No. 3. Eenata to Dr. Featherstone, 23 July, 1861. i i "J!l e T SG °f *ho. Maori s^} ia S "P W" l<i»g, was because of the evils arising from the sale of tho land ofthe Maoris font was sold by single individuals without the consent of the S Hence arose the present di&culties in the eyes of the ltunanga, and not from the setting up of a Maori KW to fight against the Queen. Nothing of that kind was intended g "To return to the men who sell the land by stealth to the Governor; he should have seen the fault and condemned it, so that I might have left it for him alone to redress the wrongs of the Maori instead of which your servants go ami accept the dishonest offers of the Maori, which encouraged lnm 'to „! stealing lands, and then the Maori thought of setting up hi 8 King to investigate my (the £r °s) own wrongs. Th.s meeting has arrived at this conclusion : if this work of making a king £ a Maori device it wi pass away of itself. Friends, leave the Xing of Aotea alone, and he Will disappear ES' ' " But do you initiate something good for us both, in order that evil may be ashamed, and "ood works may destroy the evil deeds of evil-doers; for evil will never be put down by guns?poX,& and " It was the wrongs that we suffered at the hands of you Pakehas, tbat drove the Maori to th« Maori King as a man » driven by rain, or wind, or cold, into a house; it may befa hut of reed a house full of fleas, or ever bo bad a house, .till he will s:ay in it until a fine day Chines forth and then he will come out Man should be led ; if you drive him, it will not do ; look at this was it by bS driven that my Maori forms of worship were abandoned by us? it was by being drawninto the of good works, and that » how I come to be in this beautiful house, the church; thereforf iddSZ

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