Layard, Edgar Leopold, 1824-1900

Date: 1871-1880

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Stanmore, Arthur Charles Hamilton Gordon, Baron, 1829-1912

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1636

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: [ca 1873-1875]

By: Gaul, John, -1876; Lindt, John William, 1845-1926

Reference: PA1-q-330

Description: Includes views New Zealand, Pacific and Australia, including images of indigenous houses and plantations, and a series of 12 studio tableau portraits of Aboriginal Australians, taken by John William Lindt in 1873-1874. Kai Colo (Fijian people) - name for the people who live in the mountainous interior of Fiji. It's literal meaning is something like "mountaineer". This information was given by Dr Vicki Lukere (Luker), specialist in South Pacific history, Victoria University, 1997. A series of 12 studio tableau portraits of Aboriginal Australians by John Wiiliam Lindt, including three not found in this album, are at Library reference PA1-q-1317 Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album. Provenance: Written comments in the album indicate that it might be associated with Commodore J Goodenough RN, who was appointed as a commissioner by the Crown to investigate the events that led to the annexation of Fiji. This album was compiled by an unidentified member of the Australian Division of the Royal Navy based at Sydney in the mid 1870s. The Australian Naval Station was responsible for policing the Pacific and supporting Britain's interests in the region. The one date associated with the album (1875) as well as some of the images, suggest that it was compiled soon after the cession of Fiji to the British Crown. The two ships associated with the album, HMS Blanche and HMS Pearl, were both stationed at Sydney and both were involved with events in Fiji before and during cession. HMS Pearl was Commodore Goodenough's flagship. He was the officer in charge of the Australian Naval Station at that time. He also played an important political role in the process of cession in Fiji. In the album he and his officers are shown swimming on Ovalau. The compiler of the album on the other hand, seems to have been personally associated with HMS Blanche. There are two pictures of this ship in the album as well as pictures of memorials erected by the captain and crew to one of their members. HMS Blanche had been active against the traffic in cheap labour in the South Pacific. In 1873 her paymaster, Lieutenant Nettleton, had acted as temporary British Consul in Fiji after the recall of E B March.

Date: 1870-1878

From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3618

Description: Consular and diplomatic activities in the Australian and in the Fench Pacific colonies (1877); establishment of Mr Layard as Consul in New Caledonia; protestant islanders in the Loyalty Islands, trade matters, the Franco-Annam Treaty (1875); papers concerning blackbirding and contract labour in New Caledonia; proposed French colony in North West Australia (1878). Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1839-1889

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2278

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1882

From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3626

Description: Consular activities re Britash in New Caledonia, consuls in Australia, French extradition treaty, conduct of Mr Layard, the failed colonization of New Ireland. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1845-1885

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2231

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1840-1883

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2232

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1881-1882

From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3625

Description: Diplomatic and commercial matters; tariffs; the `Aurora' case; colonization scheme of Marquis de Ray for West Polynesia; viticulture and Bordeaux Exhibition; individual cases of French and British citizens, including Edgar Layard; phylloxera. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: ca 1875

From: Fiji, New Caledonia, Australia, New Zealand album

Reference: PA1-q-330-53-2

Description: Edgar Leopold Layard was the British Consul appointed to Fiji to look into the advisability of that country ceding to Britain. In this he was supported by Commodore James Goodenough, officer commanding the Australian squadron of the Royal Navy. The Document of cession was signed in 1874 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1851-1875

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0387

Description: Correspondents: Law, Somner & Co, Dunedin, 1868 (1 letter); Anne Caroline Lawlor, Auckland & Thames, 1870-1875 (includes her `Life History') (4 letters); George Lawrence, Gisborne, 1873 (1 letter) ; James Lawrence, Kaikoura, 1875 (1 letter); Rev H H Lawry, Three Kings Native Institution (Auckland), 1864 (1 letter); George Laws, Taupo & Tarawera, 1863 (3 letters); E L Layard, Government House, 1861 (1 letter) Quantity: 1 folder(s).