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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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Contents
THE IRONAGE MEN OF NEW HOLLAND I | 1 |
ANOTHER PROVINCE FOR BRITAINS GENTRY | 17 |
A BRITISH PROVINCE WITH A LAUDABLE PURPOSE | 42 |
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