that is a mere formality.” The intending settler would find that he could purchase no land in the King Country, that, if the law allowed him to do so, the owners are very far from being simple savages, and that, under the most favourable circumstances, a Native land transaction is a good deal more than a mere formality. The “ Daily Telegraph ” falls into another huge blunder in supposing the Natives to be ignorant of the arts of reading and writing. If the article from which we have quoted can. be accepted as a measure of the average Englishman’s knowledge of New Zealand and her people, it is evident that he takes but little interest in the Colony.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 690, 22 May 1885, Page 20
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