The Pacific: Its Past and Future and the Policy of the Great Powers from the Eighteenth CenturyMurray, 1919 - 346 pàgines |
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administration affairs agreed American annexation Apia appointed archipelago Article Australia Australian colonies authority Bismarck Britain British Government British subjects cable Caledonia Captain Carolines cession chiefs civilised claims coast Colonial Office Commission Commodore Company conference consul Convention Declaration demanded Derby despatch dominions Dupetit Thouars Empire England English established favour Fiji flag Foreign Office France French German Governor Granville Guinea harbour Hawaii Hawaiian Hebrides High Commissioner hoisted Imperial Government independence influence interests islands Jaluit jurisdiction kanakas King labour land later Levuka Lord Majesty Majesty's Government Malietoa ment mission missionaries natives naval negotiations Pacific Islands Parliament Polynesian Pomare population ports possession Pritchard proposed protection protectorate Queen Queensland Raiatea recognised residents Roman Catholic Rotuma Samoa settlement settlers ships Solomon Solomon Islands South Wales sovereignty station Sydney Tahiti Tahitian territory Thakombau Thurston tion Tonga trade traffic treaty United vessels warship Western Pacific Zealand
Passatges populars
Pàgina 41 - French, taking into consideration the existence in the Sandwich Islands of a Government capable of providing for the regularity of its relations with foreign nations, have thought it right to engage, reciprocally, to consider the Sandwich Islands as an Independent State, and never to take possession, either directly or under the title of Protectorate, or under any other form, of any part of the territory of which they are composed.
Pàgina 321 - The Government of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Government of His Majesty the German Emperor...
Pàgina 314 - The Chiefs of the Confederation of the United Tribes of New Zealand and the separate and independent Chiefs who have not become members of the Confederation cede to Her Majesty the Queen of England absolutely and without reservation...
Pàgina 35 - The whole of these islands having been conquered by my father, I have succeeded to the government of them, and beg leave to place them all under the protection of your most excellent Majesty...
Pàgina 326 - Britain in like manner renounces in favor of the United States of America all her rights and claims over and in respect to the island of Tutuila and all other islands of the Samoan group east of longitude 171° west of Greenwich.
Pàgina 79 - ... achievements, to affect your judgment upon the questions of policy into which you are commissioned to inquire ; these must be treated as wholly distinct. Her Majesty's Government must continue to entrust the propagation of the Gospel in the distant parts of the earth, as their predecessors have entrusted it, to the piety and zeal of individuals. The hope of the conversion of a people to Christianity, however specious, must not be made a reason for increasing the British dominions.
Pàgina 314 - Waitangi and We the Separate and Independent Chiefs of New Zealand claiming authority over the Tribes and Territories which are specified after our respective names, having been made fully to understand the Provisions of the foregoing Treaty, accept and enter...
Pàgina 314 - Her Majesty Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, regarding with Her Royal favour the Native Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand, and anxious to protect their just Rights and Property, and to secure to them the enjoyment of Peace and Good Order, has deemed it necessary, in consequence of the great number of Her Majesty's Subjects who have already settled in New Zealand, and the rapid extension of Emigration both from Europe and Australia...
Pàgina 314 - ... in consequence of the great number of Her Majesty's subjects who have already settled in New Zealand, and the rapid extension of emigration both from Europe and Australia which is still in progress, to constitute and appoint a functionary properly authorised to treat with the aborigines of New Zealand for the recognition of Her Majesty's sovereign authority over the whole or any part of these islands.
Pàgina 314 - 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...