The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 63
Rev. H. Williams to the Lieutenant-Governor.—(lb. page 105.)
Rev. H. Williams to the Lieutenant-Governor.—(lb. page 105.)
" Sir,—
I have much pleasure in forwarding to your Excellency the Treaty committed to my care for the signature of the chiefs in Cook's Strait.
On my arrival at Port Nicholson I experienced some opposition from the influence of Europeans at that place, and it was not until after the expiration of ten days that the chiefs were disposed to come forward, when they unanimously signed the Treaty.
The chiefs of Queen Charlotte's Sound and Rangitoto, in the neighbourhood of Port Hardy, on the south side of the Strait, as also those chiefs on the north side of the Strait, with whom I communicated as far as Whanganui, signed the Treaty with much satisfaction. * * *
Henry Williams,
To Captain Hobson, R.N.