: * ITe may here take occasion to observe that the native interpretation of the pre-emtion clause was supported by Dr. Philliraore and Mr. Shirley Woolmer, to whom the question was referred, for a legal opinion, by the Society for the Protection of Aborigines. t For all their good intentions, the Government, to borrow an illustration from Measure for Measure , “ concluded like the sanctimonious pirate, that went to sea with the ten commandments, but scraped one out of the table.” They jßeant well when they assumed the tutorship, but razed ghe jpauhibition to make a profit out of the ward.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 197, 21 October 1864, Page 3
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98Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 197, 21 October 1864, Page 3
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