Instructions of Lieutenant-Governor Hobson to the Rev. Henry Williams, Rev. A. N. Brown, Rev. R. Maunsell, Rev. W. Williams, and the Rev. R. Taylor.—(Ib. page 17.)

"Availing myself of your kind offer, and fully authorized thereto by Her Majesty's instructions conveyed to me by her Principal Secretary of State, I hereby authorise you to treat with the principal Native chiefs in the southern parts of these Islands for their adherence to the Treaty which was executed at Waitangi on the 6th February, 1840. I have the honour to enclose a copy of the Treaty, which I have signed, and to request you will obtain the signatures thereto of such high chiefs as may be willing to accede to its conditions, first explaining to them its principle and object, which they must clearly understand before you permit them to sign.