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Updated: June 12, 2025
Most of the scrip was now in the hands of the land-sharks. Thus, at the cost of a few hundred dollars, they often secured lands worth as many thousands. Naturally, the search for "vacancies" was lively.
Plausaby's way of doing business, and he therefore determined to satisfy his conscience by having a row with his step-father. And so he startled his sister and shocked his mother, and made the house generally uncomfortable, by making, in season and out of season, severe remarks on the subject of land speculation, and particularly of land-sharks.
What between the active horde of land-sharks in New Zealand itself what between the menace of French interference, and the pressure at home of the New Zealand Company, the official mind could hold out no longer.
"This, sir, is the first time anyone has had the impertinence to tell me so." "Well, well, no offence, I hope, your worship? there is no accounting for taste, as the monkey said when he saw the cat pitch into the tar barrel;" and then the worthy witness embarked into a very irrelevant digression about land-sharks.
But envy did it all, sir; envy, and the greediness of the land-sharks. Had every woman in the parish as many husbands as Kate, the devil a bit would they have taken up the precious time of judge and jury, in looking into the manner in which a wench like her kept a quiet household." "And, since that unfortunate repulse, you have kept yourself altogether out of the hands of matrimony?"
"In ye go, my beauties," said Swankie, covering them up. "Mony's the time I've buried ye." "Ay, an' mony's the time ye've helped at their resurrection," added Spink, with a laugh. "Noo, we'll away an' have a look at the kegs in the Forbidden Cave," said Swankie, "see that they're a' richt, an' then have our game wi' the land-sharks."
In the first place I shan't go back there till twelve o'clock on the fifth. I'll come up from Plymouth by the night coach, and put up at the 'Golden Cross' like a gentleman. And, in the second place, I flatter myself I'm a match for any set of land-sharks in creation." "No, you're not, captain. No honest man is ever a match for a scoundrel."
Later, in the afternoon, came Hamlin and Avery, big, handsome, genial, sauntering men, clothed in white duck and low-cut shoes. They permeated the whole office with an aura of debonair prosperity. They passed among the clerks and left a wake of abbreviated given names and fat brown cigars. These were the aristocracy of the land-sharks, who went in for big things.
"It's a hard law, I tell you, and if our merchants and business men had a say in it, 'twouldn't last long; ye can't pass him off for a white man nohow, for the thing's 'contrary to law, and pays so well that them contemptible land-sharks of officers make all the fuss about it, and never let one pass. Just take the infernal fees off, and nobody'd trouble themselves about the stewards.
"It was all a matter of discipline. But you can't prove it to land-sharks. If they git me into their clutches I'm a goner." His pistols hung on the wall where Louada Murilla had suspended them, draped with the ribbons of peace. "There's only one thing to do," he whispered, huskily, pointing at the weapons with quivering finger. "I'll shoot 'em in the legs, jest to hold 'em up.
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