MANUSCRIPT
Gordon, Arthur (Sir), 1829-1912 : Pamphlets
- Date
- 1874-1881
- By
- Seed, William, 1827-1890; Stanmore, Arthur Charles Hamilton Gordon, Baron, 1829-1912; Sterndale, Handley Bathurst, 1829-1876
- Reference
- Micro-MS-Coll-08-1214
- Description
Thirty three pamphlets, bound in one volume, compiled by Sir Arthur Gordon when Governor of Fiji and Western Pacific High Commissioner. Includes parliamentary papers and printed correspondence relating to Western Pacific islands other than Fiji, including New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides. Also, reports on the cession of Rotuma, pearl shell fisheries in the Torres Straits, blackbirding, the Intercolonial Conference of 1881; conflicts, kidnappings and murders involving the ships `Borealis', `Sandfly', `Aurora', `Leslie', `Winifred', `Miranda', `Isabelle' and `Cormorant'; reports by Commodore Wilson on murders on the New Guinea coast; reports on conditions and commerce in the islands by William Seed and Sterndale; report by Captain W H Marshall of HMS `Emerald' on the Ellice, Gilbert, Marshall and Caroline Islands, 1881.
Source of title - Supplied by Library
Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 2004
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area
- Format
- 1 microfilm reel(s), Pamphlets, Manuscripts, Microfilms
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