TREATY OF WAITANGI
This import? nt document contained thro© clauses which were interpreted and fully explained to the chiefs by Mr Busby and the missionaries, and then discussed and considered among them at leisure. According to the first clause the chiefs yielded to the Queen of England "all the rights and powers of sovereignty" which they held over their districts. By the second "full and undisturbed possession of their lands" was granted to them, stipulating that, if at any time they desired to sell, the first offer should be made to the British Government. By the third clause "all the rights
■ il and privileges of British subjects" were conferred on the Maories. The services of the Rev. Henry Williams in influencing the natives to sign the treaty must be ever memorable. The signatures themselves are curious and most interesting, for in the strange hieroglyphics may be traced we are told, the personal tattoo symbols of many a great chief. It was indeed high time that some supreme power stepped in to regulate
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Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 25 (Supplement)
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172TREATY OF WAITANGI Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 25 (Supplement)
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