• Title
  James Busby - 'The British Resident at New Zealand, to His Britannic Majesty's subjects, who are residing or trading in New Zealand'
• Creator
  James Busby, 1802-1871
• Call number
  Safe 1/31b
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  10 October 1835
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  455839
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 2608, frames 18-25
  
• Physical Description
  0.01 metres of textual material (1 folded sheet in folder) - printed
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  James Busby (1802-1871) was the British Resident in New Zealand from 1833 to 1840. The printed declaration which he issued in May 1835 was part of his efforts to defeat claims by French adventurer Charles de Thierry that he (Thierry) had bought 40,000 acres of land at Hokianga from Maori chiefs and had been appointed sovereign chief of all the islands.
• Scope and Content
  Printed notice with title: 'The British Resident at New Zealand, to His Britannic Majesty's subjects, who are residing or trading in New Zealand'. Two identical copies on a large folded sheet, printed at Paihia at the Press of the Church Missionary Society. The notice denounces the claims to sovereignty of Baron Charles de Thierry.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  A typescript copy is included in A 1267/19 (CY 811, frames 379-770), Despatches from the Governor of New South Wales, Enclosures, 1839-1840, pp. 2498-2500, which is a copy of an enclosure to Governor Gipps' Despatch, no. 81, 8 July 1840.
• Name
  Thierry, Charles Philip Hippolytus Thierry, baron de, 1793-1864
  
• Subject
  New Zealand--History--To 1840.
  New Zealand--Politics and government--19th century.
  
• Place
  New Zealand
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE19867658

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