Sir George Grey, governor, high commissioner, and premier : an historical biography . f land without a large expendi-ture of British blood and money; hence, the despatchcame to be known as the Blood and TreasureDespatch. It would have to be decided whether (andhe manifestly advised the Colonial Secretary not todecide that) British naval and military forces shouldbe employed in putting these individuals into possessionof the land they claim. The despatch was marked,confidential, but Lord Grey broke the seal of secrecyby promptly communicating the contents of it to theChurch Missionary Society.
Sir George Grey, governor, high commissioner, and premier : an historical biography . f land without a large expendi-ture of British blood and money; hence, the despatchcame to be known as the Blood and TreasureDespatch. It would have to be decided whether (andhe manifestly advised the Colonial Secretary not todecide that) British naval and military forces shouldbe employed in putting these individuals into possessionof the land they claim. The despatch was marked,confidential, but Lord Grey broke the seal of secrecyby promptly communicating the contents of it to theChurch Missionary Society. The act set a questionableexample to his namesake in New Zealand, who, twentyyears after, communicated to his cabinet a confidentialdespatch from the Secretary for War and bitterlyexpiated the offence. The unfortunate Governor wastwice punished—once for a despatch he wrote and againfor a despatch written to him. One set of facts could not be gainsaid. The mission-aries had acquired extensive estates, and they had paidsums that by no rule of proportion could be deemed the ^^jMl \. llKNKV WIMJAMS. GOVEENOK OF ISTEW ZEALAND: FIRST TERM 45 equivalents of tlie so-called purchases. Of a compara-tively small number of missionaries no fewer than eight—six actual and two past missionaries—possessed anamount of land exceeding the maximum fixed by colonialordinance at 2,560 acres, while the others were doubtlessprovided for on a smaller scale. There was nothing initself unjust in such purchases. The Government of themother-colony of New South Wales recognised that menwho had made such heavy sacrifices for love of their kind,and who were so situated that they could not provide fortheir families, should have their families provided forby the State, and such provision was made in the formeasiest to the Government that had fallen heir to thefee-simple of an entire continent by making grants ofland to the children of chaplains. Unlike the early (andsome later) politicians of the Colony,
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