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evident intention of the agreement to grant them a 
complete title at once, in return for their outlay and 
the cession of the greater part of their purchases to the 
Crown. He refused to acknowledge the great boon of 
the native reserves and civilization as a sufficient ex- 
tinction of the native rights ; and opened the way for a 
tedious and lingering consideration of those repudiations 
of the original bargain, which were daily arising from 
the knowledge which the natives had now acquired, of 
the immense value added to the land by population and 
commerce. 
His ultimatum of concession, after much negotiation, 
was a proclamation that the Crown would forego its 
right of pre-emption in favour of the Company, over 
the districts included in the surveys for the preliminary, 
fF'anganui, and New Plymouth settlements ; and that 
a title would be given to the Company for such of these 
lands as should be proved to have been validly pur- 
chased by any one from the natives, the Company com- 
pensating all former purchasers according to the scale 
fixed by the Ordinance. 
And he especially provided that none of the pas or 
cultivations of the natives should be alienated from 
them, except with their own consent. Colonel Wake- 
field was authorized to treat with the natives for the 
further purchase of such sites. This might doubtless 
have been effected at that time, by some little exertion 
and at a moderate expense. But the Te Aro case had 
been of fatal example ; and although Colonel Wake- 
field, by continued efforts on several subsequent oc- 
casions, nearly overcame the difficulties even in that 
very case, he was constantly met by an unseen in- 
fluence. 
Long after the departure of Captain Hol)son, who had 
suggested that the above-mentioned authority should 
