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It is not clear whether Sir W. Martin means to refer to the proceedings of 1859, or the proceedings of 1860.

He says the proceedings were resorted to "simply because it was desirable to open the Waitara land;" and he gives in italics a quotation from the Governor's. Despatch of 29th March 1859, which refers to the acquisition of the land south of Waitara. But if he had also put in italies the words immediately succeeding, which stated that it was "most important to vindicate our right to purchase from those who have both the right and the desire to sell," every one would have seen that the former object, "simply," was not the one the Governor had in view, but that the real stress was laid on the other object, the vindication of that which, a year before hostilities commenced, had been laid down as a right in the Natives.