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(page 75), whether "the Governor has no more right to seize land upon the decision of his own agent than any other land buyer would have;" but whether he was maintaining the obligations of the treaty in defending the rights of Teira against the interference of Kingi with those rights.
The greatest blessing which could befall New Zealand would be an Act of the Imperial Parliament in respect to aboriginal titles, and the necessity of maintaining the same in New Zealand, in such terms as would put down the mischievous agitation respecting the purchase of native lands, by rendering it hopeless that the law would ever be relaxed; and arming the Governor with power to take from the proceeds of the sale of public lands such sums as might be necessary for the discharge of all obligations created by the Treaty, and for the administration of Native affairs, independently of the interference of the local Assembly, making him responsible only to the Queen and Parliament for the exercise of the powers to be delegated to him by such an Act.
