Mr.Gladstone spoke against it, and expressed the gloomiest apprehensions of the fate which the Maoris must expect if their country were settled.

New Zealand, be it observed, was already a well-known name in Parliament.
The age of committees of inquiry into its affairs began in 1836.

Very interesting to us to-day is the evidence of the witnesses before the committee of that year; nor are the proceedings of those of 1838, 1840, and 1844, less interesting.

In the third of the four Gibbon Wakefield, under examination, tells the story of the New Zealand Association.

In 1839 it became the New Zealand Land Company.