r« ADVENTUHE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. I. 
Parliament by Her Majesty's Ministers, it was strenu- 
ously opposed by them, and accordingly thrown out. 
Among the body of intending colonists which had 
been collected by the Association, were several gen- 
tlemen who had disposed of property and abandoned 
professions with a view to emigrating. These, after 
the defeat of Mr. Baring's Bill, determined to act 
upon Lord Glenelg's proposal of a charter, and exerted 
themselves to form a joint-stock company. By degrees, 
and especially after Lord Durham's return from Ca- 
nada, they were joined by many members of the now 
defunct Association ; whose anxious desire to accom- 
plish the national object which had engaged them so 
long at length overcame their repugnance to the con- 
dition on which Lord Glenelg had insisted. Thus 
was formed the New Zealand Land Company of 1839. 
The Government, however, exhibited even a greater 
hostility to this body than to the Association which it 
succeeded. It only remained, therefore, to ado])t the 
views of the Colonial Office by considering New Zea- 
land as a foreign country, and by proceeding to acquire 
land and form settlements in the manner hitherto 
sanctioned by the Crown. 
The new Company were thus forced into the adop- 
tion of what has been termed land -sharking, as far as 
acquiring lands by assignment from savages : but they 
redeemed their reluctant compliance with this usage, 
because the only one recognized by authority, by adher- 
ing to the same systematic disposal of lands for public 
purposes, and the same ample provisions for the future 
benefit of the natives, which formed the leading fea- 
tures of Mr. Baring's Bill.* In order to establish a 
* In 1837, the Association collected information on New Zealand 
from all quarters, and compiled it in a volume which also contained 
their projects. This book was called ' British Colonization of New 
