Empire
(Golder Project subject term)
Represented in
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A Bushranging in New Zealand Minstrelsy
- Britannia may glory, repeating the story, / Of sons ever hardy, extending her sway;
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Canto Second in The New Zealand Survey
- May Britain ever glory at the call / Of Heav’n upon her, as an instrument / For spreading truth and science through the world! / Of sacred truths a blest repository / She proves—and whence proceed to ev’ry land / Such treasures rich; and an example meet / She sets surrounding nations; while t’ engage / In such like undertakings with good will / She shews that nought she loses! Well she may / Be styled a “Nation of Philanthrophists,” / As shewn through all gradations of her sons; / As prompt to raise the fallen, help the weak,
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Canto First in The New Zealand Survey
- This land would thus tread close / The heels of mother country in the march / Of civilization, and improvements vast / Affecting much the southern world at large
- So may this land take up improvement’s work, / Become the centre, whence may radiate / Much good around, like Britain in her rise; / Yea ev’n surpass her with achievements great,
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England’s Hope in The New Zealand Survey
- Whatever difference might arise, / ’Tween this and other nations; / He’ll see our rights without disguise / Maintain’d’gainst usurpations.
- When on the empire’s stool he’s raised, / Britannia’s sceptre swaying; / The prudence, then, of Sire be praised, / Who trained him to obeying! / Though hard to learn such lessons well, / (And much it needs good schooling) / Yet how the advantages will tell, / When he is set to ruling! / For best he rules, who best has learn’d / Obedience to his Maker; / Whose blessing on each honor earn’d / Rejoices such partaker!
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Canto V in The New Zealand Survey
- It was truly a very remarkable coincidence when, as it is understood, the savans of the British parliament, in the year 1839, had been considering whether or not they should take possession of New Zealand, while about the same time a New Zealand land company had started into existence, and also had just sent a batch of emigrants as a preliminary of what were to follow. About the same time the Government of France had come to a conclusion to do what the British Government were not quite sure of doing; and so also had despatched a man-of-war ship with some emigrants, as a prelude of what were to follow. But before the French expedition had arrived, Governor Gipps, of New South Wales, had got apprized of the arrival of the New Zealand Land Company’s staff of officials, &c., and acting on behalf of his Sovereign, he sent Captain Hobson to take possession of the New Zealand islands in the Queen’s name, which mission he had only fulfilled in time to prevent the messengers of the French Government from establishing their claim and authority there. Had it been otherwise, instead of the Natives being dealt with according to the rules of common justice, by
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Canto I in The New Zealand Survey
- If we look on the map of the Southern Hemisphere one may easily perceive that it requires no great amount of prescience (especially to a mind of thought and enterprize, even although such spirit of enterprize may not have the power or means to put thought in a practical or tangible form) to see and shew to others how New Zealand shall yet become the Great Britain of the South. Take into consideration the genial climate of New Zealand, then its extensive seaboard, its numerous harbours and navigable rivers, such that may be much improved upon, and again its multitude of inland never failing streams, many of them well adapted, with little expense or trouble, for the driving of any kind of machinery for manufacturing purposes, where perhaps steam engines would be of less service through the want of a cheap supply of coal, should such prove to be scarce. Those streams with their waterfalls and rapids, how easily could they be brought into actual service in aiding the enterprize and industry of those who may yet discover their interests lying in that direction; so that instead of sending the wool of the country away to be spun and manufactured elsewhere—only to be brought back again with heavy charges attached,—such could be spun and manufactured here, to be dispersed among markets elsewhere. Standing on this point of view and looking toward the numerous islands and their populations, on the vast Pacific ocean, and taking into consideration the extensive field of wealth there will be to work upon, in the development of their resources, from which every kind of raw material in cotton and other produce may be had to be manufactured in New Zealand for the markets of the southern world. On the one hand, not only see the naked wants of the Pacific islanders, but also see the whole
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An Ode on Manawatu in The New Zealand Survey
- Britannia may boast of the Thames or the Clyde, / What were they once, but like this wild looking stream, / Till science, progressing, had made them her pride / For commerce, and worthy a nation’s esteem; / The time is approaching when enterprise may, / With many improvements thine aspects renew, / When cities around may spring up, and display / Bright glories enchanting to Manawatu!
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Canto First in The New Zealand Survey
- So may this colony, New Zealand, though / The youngest of her progeny, yet prove / In its importance not the least, and shew / Itself full worthy of Britannia’s care! / And when to full maturity ’t has grown / In after-ages, as a nation great, / May the descendants of that gifted line / Of Anglo Saxons found be to retain / That parents best instructions who gave birth; / And by her stand, should sad reverses fall / Her lot amid the changes of the world, / Her honors still sustaining through all time.
- long before / The era Britain was to human ken / Brought forth in savage rudeness, as to claim / A mere existence ’mid the stormy deep, / Disjoined from all the world.
- Britannia may feel glad to look around / Upon her offspring spreading o’er the world,— / As would a matron on her children smile / With innate satisfaction, when she sees / Them blooming round her, all in roseate health, / And holding by th’ instructions they’ve received / Through her maternal guidance,—going on / Improving as in years they grow, until / They shew a disposition to outshine / Their parents knowledge in the useful arts / Of peace and civilization!
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Condolence in The New Zealand Survey
- Britannia weeps!—Ah! well she may / Shed fond affection’s tear o’er loss sustained, / In “ALBERT,” now no more!
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Canto Fifth in The New Zealand Survey
- But otherwise, by a kind Providence, / Has been ordained their welfare to secure; (4) / For as the land, in peace, could not have rest / By those to whom at first it was bestowed, / Another race of gen’rous temp’rament, / And skill sagacious, coming from afar / Must gain possession, not by violence, / But by true purchase: both remun’rative / In price, and in advantages to flow / From civ’lization’s intercourse, the best! / And whose experience, in field culture’s art, / Will shew them how they to account might turn / Those principles of comfort, long inert, / Found richly to exist in such a clime; / And who would shew, “How good to cultivate / The social arts of peace;”—
- So has New Zealand favoured been at length / Of being recognised, a place on which / A dispensation good might be bestow’d!— / While, guided by a Power, that’s oft ignored / By many, who to scepticism are prone, / Have enterprizing Britain sent her sons / Themselves t’ establish here; another germ, / Of some great future nation to implant, / Britannia’s institutions to extend; / As if that Power who rules,—and overrules / The world’s affairs by man himself,—had chosen / This agent, best some purpose to fulfil, / As tending to the happiness of all; / Thus to Britannia’s guardianship is giv’n / New Zealand, where a nation may be reared / To prove “a Britain” of the Southern Seas!
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Other Collections
The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Empire":
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.