Hobson Sentence Examples

The town was founded as capital of the colony in 1840 by Governor Hobson.

But Hobson had forestalled them, and those who remained in the country became British subjects.

Meanwhile, a week after Hobson's arrival, Wakefield's colonists had sailed into Port Nicholson, and proposed to take possession of immense tracts which the New Zealand Company claimed to have bought from the natives, and for which colonists had in good faith paid the company.

Then followed weary years of ruinous delay and official inquiry, during which Hobson died after founding Auckland.

It is situated on Hobson's Bay, a northern bend of the great harbour of Port Phillip, in Bourke county, about 500 m.

Hobson, in John Ruskin, Social Reformer (2nd ed., 1899), has elaborately discussed his social and economic teaching, and claims him as "the greatest social teacher of his age."

P. Hobson had tried to block Santiago in 1898.

It is a fashionable watering-place on Hobson's Bay, and possesses the longest pier in Australia.

Rough sketch of the medieval market, plus the later fountain or conduit head fed by Hobson's conduit head fed by Hobson's Conduit.

Hobson was renowned for the fact he would only let out his horses in strict rotation - there was no choice at all.

Further obstruction was manifestly futile, and the British authorities reluctantly instructed Captain Hobson, R.N., to make his way to northern New Zealand with a dormant commission of lieutenant-governor in his pocket and authority to annex the country to Australia by peaceful arrangement with the natives.

Has n't Hobson resigned from the board recently because of work?

David Hobson My spirit was lifted and my soul nourished by my time in the garden.

Hobson landed in the Bay of Islands on the 22nd of January 1840, hoisted the Union Jack, and had little difficulty in inducing most of the native chiefs to accept the queen's sovereignty at the price of guaranteeing to the tribes by the treaty of Waitangi possession of their lands, forests and fisheries.