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HISTORY. 
time Bishop Pompalier, with several priests and lay associates, 
arrived, and commenced a Mission of the Church of Rome at 
Kororareka. 
In 1838, the Rev. Samuel Marsden paid his seventh and 
last visit to New Zealand; he went to see all the churches 
which he had been the honored instrument in founding. The 
natives received him with the greatest respect, and the largest 
number ever assembled together, met to honor the father of 
the Gospel in New Zealand. He was then nearly seventy- 
two, and died the following year. 
In 1839, the New Zealand Land Company was re-established, 
and received a charter. In August of the same year, Captain 
Plobson, R.N., received a commission as Consul, and Lieut.- 
Governor of New Zealand, depending on the submission ot 
the natives to the Queen’s supremacy ; and in February, 1840, 
a grand Council was held at Waitangi, when all the chiefs 
of that part of the island agreed to the Queen’s supremacy. 
A treaty was entered into with them, which they signed; this 
was mainly accomplished by the influence of the Missionary 
body.* It was called the treaty of Waitangi, from the place 
of the meeting. A second Council was held at Hokianga ; the 
Lieut.-Governor then proclaimed the British assumption of 
the sovereignty of the isles of New Zealand. The seat of 
government was fixed at the Bay of Islands, the site being 
named Russell. In the year 1839, the Mission at Kapiti was 
founded, at the entreaty of Tamihana te Rauparaha, who, with 
another chief named Matene te Wiwi, went to the Bay of 
Islands for a Missionary, and would not return without one ; 
also the Cook’s Strait Settlement was founded by the New 
Zealand Company in the end of 1839. 
In the beginning of 1840, the station at Wanganui was 
commenced. 
In 1840, a French expedition arrived at the Bay of Islands. 
Its destination being supposed to be Akaroa, from some remarks 
made by the captain to one of his officers. Captain Stanley 
being then in the Bay, at once proceeded there, and planted 
the British flag. The French expedition almost immediately 
* The treaty is in my handwriting. 
