Missionaries and Annexation in the PacificOxford University Press, H. Milford, 1924 - 101 pàgines |
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Accounts and Papers Admiralty Australia Basil Thomson Bay of Islands Bismarck Britain British annexation British Consul British Government British subjects Brunsdon Fletcher Captain century Christian Church Missionary Society civilized claim Colonial Office Consul convicts cotton Dandeson Coates Dispatches E. G. Wakefield Enclosure England English establishment European power Evangelical Evidence favour Fiji Islands Fijian Foreign Office French annexation Geography of Australasia German Godefroy Goodenough and Layard Governor Guinea Hebrides High Commissioner Historical Geography Ibid jurisdiction labour traffic land Levuka London Missionary Society Lords Committee Lovett Majesty's Government Marsden mission Modern Pacific native chiefs Pakeha political Polynesian Reminiscences Prime Minister Pritchard Protectorate Protestant Queen Pomaré Queensland R. L. Stevenson Report Rogers Samoa Samuel Marsden settlement ship South Sea South Wales sovereignty Sydney Tahiti Thakombau Thurston tion Tonga trade treated tribes vessel visited Wesleyan missionaries Western Pacific white population wrote xlvii xxxvii Zealand Association Zealand Committee
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Pàgina 31 - Her Majesty the Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand and to the respective families and individuals thereof the full exclusive and undisturbed possession of their Lands and Estates Forests Fisheries and other properties which they may collectively or individually possess so long as it is their wish and desire to retain the same in their possession...
Pàgina 3 - Naked to the waist, an iron chain fastened to a belt of leather runs between their legs clad in canvas trousers, while on hands and feet an English girl, for twelve, sometimes for sixteen hours a day, hauls and hurries tubs of coal up subterranean roads, dark, precipitous and plashy; circumstances that seem to have escaped the notice of the Society for the Abolition of Negro Slavery.
Pàgina 83 - It is really impossible to exaggerate the importance of getting out of the way the bar to the Egyptian settlement. These words, strong as ther are, are in my opinion words of truth and soberness ; as, if we cannot wind up at once these small colonial controversies, we shall before we are many weeks older find it to our cost.
Pàgina 3 - They come forth : the mine delivers its gang and the pit its bondsmen ; the forge is silent and the engine is still. The plain is covered with the swarming multitude : bands of stalwart men, broad-chested and muscular, wet with toil, and black as the children of the tropics ; troops of youth, alas ! of both sexes, though neither their raiment nor their language indicates the difference ; all are clad in male attire ; and oaths that men might shudder at, issue from lips born to breathe words of sweetness.
Pàgina 80 - ... incorporation with the British Empire of so much of New Guinea, and the small islands adjacent thereto, as is not claimed by the Government of the Netherlands.
Pàgina 29 - ... man said his ancestors had killed off the first owners ; another declared his ancestors had driven off the second party ; another man, who seemed to be listened to with more respect than ordinary, declared that his ancestor had been the first possessor of all, and had never been ousted, and that this ancestor was a huge lizard that lived in a cave on the land many years ago, and sure enough there was the cave to prove it.
Pàgina 28 - It is impossible to read, without shame and indignation, the details which these documents disclose. The unfortunate natives of New Zealand, unless some decisive measures of prevention be adopted, will, I fear, be shortly added to the number of those barbarous tribes who, in different parts of the globe, have fallen a sacrifice to their intercourse with civilized men, who bear and disgrace the name of Christians.
Pàgina 22 - Otaheite, or within any other islands, countries, or places not within his Majesty's dominions, nor subject to any European state or power, nor within the territory of the United States of America, by the master or crew of any British ship or vessel, or any of them, or by any person sailing in or belonging thereto, or that shall have sailed in or belonged to and have quitted any British ship or vessel to live in any of the said islands...
Pàgina 25 - Pickwick's silk stockings, which were very good and valuable stockings, "as stockings " — not at all. A loose straggling pakeha — a runaway from a ship for instance, — who had nothing, and was never likely to have anything, a vagrant straggler passing from place to place, — was not of much account even in those times. Two men of this description (runaway sailors) were hospitably entertained one night by a chief, a very particular friend of mine, who, to pay himself for his trouble and outlay,...
Pàgina 76 - Protection Acts, 1872 and 1875, and to provide a civil court for the settlement of disputes between British subjects living in these islands. " The jurisdiction of the High Commissioner extends over all islands in the Western Pacific not being within the limits of the colonies of Fiji, Queensland, or New South Wales, and not being within the jurisdiction of any civilised power...