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named Barrett, who had been many years in Cook Strait, first sealing and then whaling, 

 and who had " picked up " the usual " pigeon " Maori in use among the whalers, but 

 was quite unable to render complex sentences into the Maori language, which frequently 

 requires the use of words having several meanings. The deeds of sale were written in 

 English, the true meaning of which Barrett could not translate into Maori. 



After dispatching the Tory, however, the Directors in England, presuming on the 

 success of their agent, actually proceeded, as we have seen, to sell land to the value of 

 more than one hundred thousand pounds, and to send out emigrants before they knew 

 that a single acre had been assigned. In October, 1839, a vessel named the Couite dc 

 Paris, having on board emigrants, left France for Akaroa, in the Middle Island, while 

 the French frigate LAube was destined for the same port. 



THE TREATY OF WAITANCI. 



Captain Hobson left Sydney in H.l\f.S. Herald for the Bay of Islands, where he 

 arrived on the 29th of January, 1840. He was accompanied by a Treasurer, a Collector 

 of Customs, a Police Magistrate, two clerks, a sergeant and four men' of the mounted 

 police of New South Wales. As soon as the Herald left Port Jackson, Sir George 

 Gipps issued three proclamations, the first extending his Government to any territory 



which had been or might be acquired in sovereignty by Her 

 Majesty, within the group of Islands in the Pacific Ocean, commonly 

 called New Zealand ; the second, appointing Captain Hobson 

 Lieutenant-Governor of any territory that might be acquired by 

 Her Majesty ; and the third declaring " that Her Majesty would 

 not acknowledge as valid any title to land which 

 either has been, or shall be hereafter acquired in that 

 country, which was not either derived from or con- 

 firmed by a grant to be made in Her Majesty's name 

 and on Her behalf." To the Sydney land claimants 

 the latter proclamation was especially obnoxious, as 

 ^ the traders there had bought large tracts for specula- 



tive purposes. Captain Hobson, on his arrival at the 

 Bay of Islands, issued an invitation to all British 

 subjects to meet him at the Church of Kororareka 

 the next day, where he read two commissions one 

 extending the limits of New South Wales, and the 

 second appointing him Lieutenant-Governor over such 

 portions of New Zealand as might thereafter be 

 added to Her Majesty's dominions. Two proclama- 

 tions were also read, the first announcing that Her 



THE TREATY MOM MK\T. Majesty's authority had been asserted over British 



subjects in New Zealand ; and the second that Her 



Majesty did not deem it expedient to acknowledge as valid any titles to land in New 

 Zealand which were not derived from or confirmed by the Crown. After the proclama- 

 tions had been read, in the " presence of a concourse of persons," forty of the settlers 



