Dog’s Best Friend

The Salem Connection: American Contacts with Early Colonial New Zealand

“…65 The American minister (now Edward Everett) was then curtly informed that the rights and privileges that had been assumed with the signing of the Treaty were solely for the benefit of British subjects. 66 The Secretary of State demanded Clendon's resignation in a curt communication dated 26 April 1841. Forewarned, however, Clendon wrote a face-saving letter of resignation dated six days earlier.…”