Thursday 12 February 2015

Quote of the morning: “The following letter has been addressed to Her Majesty by a New Zealand chief…”

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- published in the Singapore Straits Times on the
ending of George Grey’s first governorship in NZ.

[Hat tip Jonathan Livingston]

3 comments:

Sam P said...

Great find.

twr said...

Is it genuine?

Peter Cresswell said...

Oh aye. A friend came across it in the 'Straits' Times's' archives in the National Library in Singapore in 1989, and kept it on file ever since.
There's a wealth of stuff around from that era that is, as they say, slightly at odds with the current paradigm.
I might even post a lot more of it.