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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 10

14. (See Note page 68.)

14. (See Note page 68.)

Selling Half New Zealand to France.—Among the various schemes and crotchets of Mr. Fitzgerald and the Gentlemen of the New Zealand "Peace Party," for the settlement of the Northern Troubles, I almost wonder we have not seen one for the sale of the North Island to France. Looking at the order that would be taken with our Maori friends under the Tricolor, this, probably, would be a scheme somewhat distasteful to Mr. Buxton and Exeter Hall——but it would be one by no means repugnant, I should say, to the advanced views of Professor Gold win Smith, and it might prove to be one very acceptable to France.

page 90

Compared to the North Island of New Zealand, the cherished Settlements of France in the neighbouring Northern Polynesia are mere tropical rocks. France, as has been shown at page 88, originally ran a neck and neck race with us for the whole of New Zealand; and would now, perhaps, count Mr. Gladstone down, say, ten or twenty millions for half New Zealand.

The North Island Colonists might object to being sold to France—but the matter of what particular Cat such small Mice were killed by would be quite beneath "la haute politique" of the Shepherd Princes of the South.

Finis.

Geo Witt, Printer, Earl's Court, Leicester square, London.