Transcriber's Note:
In the text a macron, denoting a long vowel, has been placed overthe first "e" of Tamati Waaka Nene, the prominent Maori chief. TamatiWaaka Nene was also the recipient of a letter that was inserted intothe book after it had been printed. This has been shifted to the endof the Appendix. In the letter "mu?u" has been transcribed as "mutu".
The text contains quotations from instructions to Captain Hobson in 1839.After consulting alternative versions of these documents, the followingcorrections have been made to clarify their sense:
- chapter I: "repair. By the nearness" changed to "repair. But the nearness";
- chapter III: "disappeared, or often as" changed to "disappeared, as often as".
Apparent typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies inhyphenation have been removed except where they reflect quotationsfrom other documents.
The Commemorative Monument.
"The symbol on which have been engraved the articles of the treaty, so that eyes may look thereon from year to year."
Frontispiece.
THE TREATY OF
WAITANGI
OR
HOW NEW ZEALAND BECAME
A BRITISH COLONY
T. LINDSAY BUICK
AUTHOR OF
"OLD MARLBOROUGH," "OLD MANAWATU," "AN OLD NEW ZEALANDER"
WELLINGTON N.Z.
S. & W. MACKAY
LAMBTON QUAY
1914
Dedication
ROBERT M'NAB
M.A., LL.B., F.R.G.S.
TO WHOSE ENTERPRISE AND SELF-SACRIFICE
WE OWE THE RECOVERY
OF SO MUCH OF OUR FAST RECEDING HISTORY
I RESPECTFULLY DEDICATE THIS BOOK
PREFACE
Thearrival in New Zealand waters of the battleship given to theEmpire by this Dominion during a grave national crisis, marks a newepoch in the life of our country, and an event so pregnant with thespirit of Imperialism seems to the author to provide an appropriatepoint at which to pause and retrospectively review the causes whichhave made possible such an innovation in our naval policy—such amilestone in our national history. The story of New Zealand's progresssince 1814 has been one of splendid emulation tempered by vicissitude.There have been dark days, days of doubt, of devastation by war, butnever a period when our people lost heart or renounced their nationalfaith. No attempt has been here made to tell the whole of that story.All that I have tried to do is to get back to the beginning of things,to the birth of law and order, to the genesis of the day when we wereable to say to the Mother Land, "We will build you a Dreadnought, andyet another if needs must." The Treaty of Waitangi has been frequentlyderided