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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Rare Volume

Note I. p. 10

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Note I. p. 10.

I. Appointed honorary political agent of Wellington colonists.

I was appointed honorary political agent for the Wellington colonists, at one of the largest public meetings ever held in the colony, on the 15th November, 1850. (See Parliamentary Papers on New Zealand, August, 1851, p. 140.) The appointment was ratified at a subsequent (equally large) public meeting, on the 3rd February, 1851. I was nearly nine years in the colony, am personally acquainted with all the settlements, and with all classes of colonists, having filled the offices of Resident agent under the New Zealand Company, at Nelson, for five years, and that of their Principal agent for all the settlements for three years more. I was also appointed attorney-general of the southern province, by Governor Grey, in 1848; but resigned, on learning that ho intended to withhold self-government from the colony.