In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.
Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.
This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become.
I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.
I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that.
Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.
The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.
An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.