https://mariststudies.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=185607Seon185607Seon - Revision history2026-05-04T20:56:55ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.1https://mariststudies.org/w/index.php?title=185607Seon&diff=7474&oldid=prevMerv at 20:40, 17 September 20232023-09-17T20:40:46Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>;[16]:At that time, we were forced to leave the house we were living in. It was the one built by Commandants Lavaux and Bérard, the only one that met the intentions of the Minister of the Navy, who had ordered these gentlemen, at the head of the military station in Akaroa and protectors of the new colony, to build at the state's expense the priests' residence responsible for administering religious assistance to the settlers. This house adjoined the chapel's land and was separated from it only by a garden partly cultivated by the sailors from the corvette for the priests of the station. So we thought, and all the settlers thought like us, that we were on our property just as they were on theirs. Unfortunately, Bishop Pompallier had not obtained titles like theirs that circumscribed and secured the Catholic mission's properties in Akaroa. After the dissolution of the New Zealand Company, the Bank Peninsula and a considerable block of adjacent land passed into the hands of a new association, the Canterbury Association, all Protestant and with bases much less liberal than those of the previous company, which only hastened its dissolution. For us, we could therefore not expect any favour. Upon our refusal to purchase an entire lot of 90 acres of land that would have enclosed the land and house we owned, both passed to a member of this association. Thus dispossessed, we returned to Wellington to await the resolution of this matter, which was only concluded in April of this year, 1856.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>;[16]:At that time, we were forced to leave the house we were living in. It was the one built by Commandants Lavaux and Bérard, the only one that met the intentions of the Minister of the Navy, who had ordered these gentlemen, at the head of the military station in Akaroa and protectors of the new colony, to build at the state's expense the priests' residence responsible for administering religious assistance to the settlers. This house adjoined the chapel's land and was separated from it only by a garden partly cultivated by the sailors from the corvette for the priests of the station. So we thought, and all the settlers thought like us, that we were on our property just as they were on theirs. Unfortunately, Bishop Pompallier had not obtained titles like theirs that circumscribed and secured the Catholic mission's properties in Akaroa. After the dissolution of the New Zealand Company, the Bank Peninsula and a considerable block of adjacent land passed into the hands of a new association, the Canterbury Association, all Protestant and with bases much less liberal than those of the previous company, which only hastened its dissolution. For us, we could therefore not expect any favour. Upon our refusal to purchase an entire lot of 90 acres of land that would have enclosed the land and house we owned, both passed to a member of this association. Thus dispossessed, we returned to Wellington to await the resolution of this matter, which was only concluded in April of this year, 1856.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>;[17]:We owe thanks to His Excellency George Grey, the Governor-General of New Zealand, for the zeal with which he took our interests to heart in this matter, as he had done for all French missionaries in general on other no less important occasions. The five acres of land that he recognized should rightfully belong to us were granted to us by his successor, Governor <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">George Grey </del>of New Zealand. His Excellency and the commissioner of lands for the Canterbury province left us one acre of the old land granted by Mr. de Belligny, the one where the location of the chapel, built under the direction of Commander Bérard, stands. Unfortunately, to compensate us for the loss of the house we inhabited, these gentlemen gave us two acres of land, one of which is conveniently situated on the same street, and two more acres on one of the hills within the town's precincts. After 16 years of existence, this station will need to be rebuilt from the ground up.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>;[17]:We owe thanks to His Excellency George Grey, the Governor-General of New Zealand, for the zeal with which he took our interests to heart in this matter, as he had done for all French missionaries in general on other no less important occasions. The five acres of land that he recognized should rightfully belong to us were granted to us by his successor, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">G. Brown, the </ins>Governor<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-General </ins>of New Zealand. His Excellency and the commissioner of lands for the Canterbury province left us one acre of the old land granted by Mr. de Belligny, the one where the location of the chapel, built under the direction of Commander Bérard, stands. Unfortunately, to compensate us for the loss of the house we inhabited, these gentlemen gave us two acres of land, one of which is conveniently situated on the same street, and two more acres on one of the hills within the town's precincts. After 16 years of existence, this station will need to be rebuilt from the ground up.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>;[18]:So, on June 16, 1854, I departed aboard the steamer Nelson for the Bank Peninsula, where Akaroa is located. I arrived in Port Cooper, now Victoria Bay (Lyttelton), north of that peninsula, in 24 hours. On a previous voyage, it had taken me seven days, and another time, fifteen, to make the same journey by sail.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>;[18]:So, on June 16, 1854, I departed aboard the steamer Nelson for the Bank Peninsula, where Akaroa is located. I arrived in Port Cooper, now Victoria Bay (Lyttelton), north of that peninsula, in 24 hours. On a previous voyage, it had taken me seven days, and another time, fifteen, to make the same journey by sail.</div></td></tr>
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