This scheme was largely a product of Busby's imagination; and no attempt was made to carry it out. In June he outlined a somewhat less unrealistic proposal in a letter to the colonial secretary of New South Wales. He suggested that the British Crown should obtain, by treaty with the United Tribes, the powers necessary for it to undertake the administration of the country 'in trust for the inhabitants'.
A Maori congress would nominally enact the laws, but actually it would 'not be intrusted with any discretion whatever'. Real power would be in the hands of the British Resident. Rattlesnake , to visit New Zealand and report on the best means 'of securing … the common interests of the Natives and of the British settled amongst them'.
Hobson's recommendations seemed to the governor and, in due course, to the Colonial Office to contain the elements of a workable solution. Busby's scheme was not seriously considered. In the performance of his more limited duties Busby was little more successful. To some extent this was a consequence of his lack of legal powers; but almost equally it was a result of his personal qualities.
He was a man who sought to build up his own dignity by magnifying that of his office. A year after his arrival in New Zealand a group of settlers at the Bay of Islands ventured to offer him advice on the performance of his duties.
He never forgave their impertinence, and his unofficial contacts with them almost ceased. Similarly his pride prevented him from invoking the assistance of the missionaries.
The appointment by Bourke of Thomas M'Donnell as additional Resident, without emolument, aroused in him both resentment and fear for his own position. M'Donnell, a retired naval officer living at Hokianga, scorned Busby's carefully cultivated dignity and restraint. He was practical and energetic, but also reckless and quick-tempered. His relations with Busby became so bad that he eventually resigned.
Nor was Busby much more successful in his relations with Maori chiefs. They had some respect for him, but none of them became his close friends. John Dunmore Lang who visited the Bay of Islands in , wrote that Busby seemed to have 'no employment … but that of standing sentinel upon the British Ensign'. And this was only a slight exaggeration. How old would James Busby be today? Today, James Busby would be years old. To be more precise, James Busby would be days old or hours.
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As British Resident, he acted as New Zealand's first jurist, and the 'originator of law in Aotearoa', to whom New Zealand owes almost all of its underlying jurisprudence'. The school closed in Busby served out his contract and taught the stipulated two hundred days at the Male Orphans' Farm. Busby then received a Grant of Land from the Governor and after much careful deliberation he chose a block in the Coal River area of the Hunter Region.
In Busby returned to England, before visiting Spain and France to further his study in viticulture. Busby returned to Australia in In March , he was appointed to the position of British Resident of New Zealand and went to the Bay of Islands in May that year, taking with him some of the vine stock he had collected in Europe.
Agnes followed him, arriving in July.
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