Art. 3.

"In consideration thereof Her Majesty the Queen of England extends to the Natives of New Zealand her Royal protection, and imparts to them all the rights and privileges of British subjects."

The following papers will show who were the persons employed by the British Government to explain to the Natives the provisions of the Treaty of Waitangi, to induce them to agree to its conditions, and to attach their signatures to the same:—

Extract from a Despatch from Lieutenant-Governor Hobson to Sir George Gipps.—(Parl. Papers, May 11, 1841, page 8.)

"Her Majesty's ship 'Herald,' "Bay of Islands,

February 5, 1840.

"The business of the meeting then commenced by my announcing to the chiefs the object of my mission, and the reasons that had induced Her Majesty to appoint me. I explained to them in the fullest manner the effect that might be hoped to result from the measure, and I assured them in the most fervent manner that they might rely implicitly on the good faith of Her Majesty's Government in the transaction. I then read the Treaty, a copy of which I have the honour to enclose. In doing so I dwelt on each Article, and offered a few remarks explanatory of such passages as they might be supposed not to understand. Mr. H. Williams, of the Church Missionary Society, did me the favour to interpret, and repeated, in the Native tongue, sentence by sentence, all I said."