Post by Kiwi Frontline on Aug 17, 2023 5:58:14 GMT 12
Bruce Moon: THE TREATY TALE FOR JANE AND JOHN CITIZEN
During the late 1700s and early 1800s, incessant intertribal wars, led by the various tribal chiefs, were decimating the Maori population, nearing the point of total extermination.[1] A number of Maori chiefs, unable to resolve the matter between themselves, and for fear of the French, appealed to King William IV of Great Britain to protect them and bring an end to this situation.[2] At first, the Crown was reluctant to intervene,[3] but finally it was agreed to establish a government in New Zealand to assume control of the situation and to establish law and order for Maoris and British alike. This was only possible if the Crown was granted superiority by the chiefs, that is, recognized as sovereign.[4] In the event, the British took control by invitation not by conquest nor by stealth.
So, on the morning of Tuesday, 4th February 1840, three men sat down at Okiato in the inner reaches of the Bay of Islands in the spacious home of one of them, James Clendon, British subject, successful businessman and American consul. Besides Clendon himself there were Irish born Royal Navy Captain William Hobson and James Busby who had been British Resident in the Bay of Islands from 1833 until superseded just six days earlier by the arrival of Hobson, Lieutenant- Governor Designate[5] in the event that the Maori chiefs in general ceded such sovereignty as each possessed to Queen Victoria.
They had an important job to do: draft, in English, a document of cession of such sovereignty, to be translated in due course into the Ngapuhi dialect of the Maori language for presentation to chiefs to sign as their individual acts of such cession......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/08/bruce-moon-treaty-tale-for-jane-and.html
During the late 1700s and early 1800s, incessant intertribal wars, led by the various tribal chiefs, were decimating the Maori population, nearing the point of total extermination.[1] A number of Maori chiefs, unable to resolve the matter between themselves, and for fear of the French, appealed to King William IV of Great Britain to protect them and bring an end to this situation.[2] At first, the Crown was reluctant to intervene,[3] but finally it was agreed to establish a government in New Zealand to assume control of the situation and to establish law and order for Maoris and British alike. This was only possible if the Crown was granted superiority by the chiefs, that is, recognized as sovereign.[4] In the event, the British took control by invitation not by conquest nor by stealth.
So, on the morning of Tuesday, 4th February 1840, three men sat down at Okiato in the inner reaches of the Bay of Islands in the spacious home of one of them, James Clendon, British subject, successful businessman and American consul. Besides Clendon himself there were Irish born Royal Navy Captain William Hobson and James Busby who had been British Resident in the Bay of Islands from 1833 until superseded just six days earlier by the arrival of Hobson, Lieutenant- Governor Designate[5] in the event that the Maori chiefs in general ceded such sovereignty as each possessed to Queen Victoria.
They had an important job to do: draft, in English, a document of cession of such sovereignty, to be translated in due course into the Ngapuhi dialect of the Maori language for presentation to chiefs to sign as their individual acts of such cession......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/08/bruce-moon-treaty-tale-for-jane-and.html