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Page 176
Early in 1840 W. C. Wentworth and others played for no less than twenty million
acres in the south island of New Zealand in return for two hundred gold
sovereigns , and an undertaking to pay the same sum each year to the Maori
chiefs for ...
Early in 1840 W. C. Wentworth and others played for no less than twenty million
acres in the south island of New Zealand in return for two hundred gold
sovereigns , and an undertaking to pay the same sum each year to the Maori
chiefs for ...
Page 190
Wentworth told them he was now a firm believer in a Legislative Council that was
part nominated , and part elected on a high property qualification . The man who
had written in his youth of an elected assembly as the birthright of the creators ...
Wentworth told them he was now a firm believer in a Legislative Council that was
part nominated , and part elected on a high property qualification . The man who
had written in his youth of an elected assembly as the birthright of the creators ...
Page 291
Just as Wentworth and James Macarthur flowered on the death of their fathers ,
so Thomson , with the Governor no longer looking over his shoulder , began to
display the judgement and tact that were to win him the respect of all shades of ...
Just as Wentworth and James Macarthur flowered on the death of their fathers ,
so Thomson , with the Governor no longer looking over his shoulder , began to
display the judgement and tact that were to win him the respect of all shades of ...
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Contents
ANOTHER PROVINCE FOR BRITAINS GENTRY | 17 |
A BRITISH PROVINCE WITH A LAUDABLE PURPOSE | 42 |
HIGH NOON FOR MORAL IMPROVERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA | 62 |
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