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Notes on Sir William Martin's Pamphlet Entitled the Taranaki Question

Page 20, 21

Page 20, 21.

"Why was this claim, so long abandoned, set up again?"…………

It does not appear on what authority Sir W. Martin states it was abandoned. It is certain that he is completely misinformed. The Government have never given up the rights they had under the Waikato cession. So far from this, in his manifesto of February 1860, (before hostilities had commenced, and while it was yet believed that William King would not resort to force for the maintenance of the land-league claim), the Governor especially warned the Native people that he claimed under the transfer from Waikato, and that the mana was not with William King.