410 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. XV. 
but that it would endeavour to procure for the inha- 
bitants a Charter of Incorporation for IMunicipal pur*' 
poses, so as to enable them to raise the necessary funds' 
and support the necessary local institutions from their 
ewri resources. 
The rights of the natives, and those of purchasers 
from them, as against the Company, were reserved for 
the consideration of the Commissioners under the 
Land Claims Bill ; but it was clearly provided that 
bond fide private claimants were to be compensated by 
the Company or the body of the settlers, in the same 
way as though the Government had founded a town 
on the spot, by an award of money, or of land in 
another situation, according to certain proportions. 
In order to prevent the abuse of this guarantee, the 
selection of the Native Reserves, both past and future, 
and that of the Reserves for public purposes, were 
declared subject to the approval of the Lieutenant- 
Governor, if not made by officers appointed by him for 
that purpose. 
The Cuba had put in at the Bay of Islands, in order 
that Captain Hobson might be informed of the result 
of the deputation. His Excellency had appeared to be 
disappointed at the important concession made in 
favour of the Port Nicholson settlers by Sir George 
Gipps, and had remarked ill-humouredly, in the pre- 
sence of the deputies, when they presented him with 
his superior's dispatch informing him of the arrange- 
ment, " What does Sir George Gipps mean by this ? 
" He might as well have given up the government of 
" New Zealand to the Company ! " A similar feeling 
of regret had of course been manifested among the 
subordinate officials. 
The main concessions made by Sir George Gipps in 
this arrangement were, the treating with persons not 
