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Date: 1887-1891

Reference: PA1-q-610

Description: There are three main themes in this album. 1. The Royal Navy, Australian Squadron, based at Sydney. Pictures of naval cadets and war ships, some of which are in dry dock. The creator of the album, or a relative, seems to have been associated with HMS Orlando. Many photos of this ship appear in the album. The Orlando served as the flagship of the Australian Squadron from July 1888 to December 1897. The Sydney Morning Herald reported on 11th Feb 1889 that HMS Orlando and Dart were docked in Calliope Dock, Auckland, because Sydney facilities could not undertake the work. There are a number of Photographs of HMS Orlando in dock at Auckland in this album. Thus the photos of officers and naval cadets may also have associations with the Orlando. There are also 3 photos of a gun accident which occurred on the HMS Cordelia of the Australian Squadron. This happened on the 26 June 1891 while the Cordelia was on a cruize from Fiji to Noumea. During Gun Practice a gun burst killing 6 ratings and wounding 13 others. The photos show the broken gun casing littering the deck. 2. Of the New Zealand section much of it concentrates on the town of Lawrence. Many of the captions and photographs relate to the Anglican parsonage at Lawrence. This suggests the possibility of the album belonging to the Vicar or a member of his family. If this were the case, and given the period of the late 1880s-early 1890s, it may be associated with the Rev George Pice Beaumont vicar and archdeacon from 1872 to 1900. On the other hand the name of Beaumont does not appear anywhere in the album. 3. Samoan civil wars of the late 1880s and the hurricane of 1889 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1864 - 1866

By: Nairn, Francis Edward, 1819?-1910

Reference: A-236-010

Description: Shows the wooden poles and wire across a stream, with one upright broken, the former supports for a punt. Bush-clad hills in the background. Probably drawn during the West Coast goldrush period Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on tissue paper, 237 x 140 mm (irregular) Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Nairn family collection, MS Papers 326..

Date: 1840

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

Reference: C-103-012-1

Description: A series of 6 cartoons, probably showing the flooding that occurred in the Hutt Valley to the first European settlers in 1840. From the top, the views show a man (probably a self-portrait) afloat on a raft, holding up a bottle, with drowned trees to one side (captioned 'Day'), with below that, the same man (captioned 'Night') in his tent, reading a book by a kerosine lamp, but still seated on a raft. This section is also captioned in Latin 'De memento rebus in arduis servaramente' referring to the memory of great difficulties at the time. The next drawing, titled 'Pleasant. Very!' shows the same man tripping over a snag in the flooded river, with part of a thatched cottage, also flooded, to one side. The fourth sketch 'An interesting chase, Hutt, 1840' shows the man poling himself along on the raft in pursuit of his boots, which are floating away. Another flooded house is in the background. The fifth view shows a man fast asleep and afloat on the water (Where ignorance is bliss...Hutt 1840)l. The sixth shows the man rescuing a young Maori woman from the floodwater. Two pages removed from a sketchbook Other Titles - Set of pencil cartoons. West Mokau. Taken on board Anne and Sara [note along the side above a drawing of a range of hills] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketches, 429 x 126 mm