The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . understoodit any more than those who peddled away their land in the vicinity of Wellington forthe trifling considerations which Colonel Wakefield gave them for it, or if they did, it ismore than questionable if they had any commission from their tribesmen to do so. Thenthe seat of government—at least, of such government as there was—was removed fromthe Bay of Islands to the site of the present city of Auckland, where it remained until—as has been duly noted—in 1
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . understoodit any more than those who peddled away their land in the vicinity of Wellington forthe trifling considerations which Colonel Wakefield gave them for it, or if they did, it ismore than questionable if they had any commission from their tribesmen to do so. Thenthe seat of government—at least, of such government as there was—was removed fromthe Bay of Islands to the site of the present city of Auckland, where it remained until—as has been duly noted—in 1804 VNellington attained that distinction. In 1842New Zealand became a bishopric, the first holder of the episcopal ofltice being Dr. Sehvyn— afterwards Bishop of Lichfield — and soon, aided by the missionaries of differentdenominations who had been there before him,* and liy those who succeeded him. NewZealand became, in name at least, almost a Christian land. The Canterbury settlement(p. lll-i), under the high-minded Godley, and the Presbyterian one of Otago, soon » Buller: • Forty Years in New Zealand (1879).. 3 y, D 126 THE couxxraES of the WUKLD. followed. Then came the raiscliief the seeds of which had been l;iid the fataljKilicv of allowing settlers to bribe the natives into alienating their land. The TaranakiNative Land League gave the first expression to this patriotic feeling on the partof the Maoris. The money, they said, which we receive for our laud is soongone, but the land remains with the Europeans for ever! This was the signal for warto the knife. Some of these contests we have briefly noted in passing from province toprovince. They were almost necessary on the part of the whites; but at the same timeno >Tenerous writer cau withhold fmm the ^Maoris that admiration which the sight ofa nation fighting against fearfully unequal odds must obtain from their foes, and evenfrom their enemies. Still immigration, though temporarily checked, never f
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