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Date: 21 Aug 1872-15 May 1873, 22 May 1873-20 Sept 1875

By: Barnes, L A W, active 1872-1875

Reference: MSY-6144

Description: Log book kept by Barnes while he was serving aboard HMS Minotaur, HMS Pearl and HMS Sappho. During the first voyage HMS Minotaur travelled from Portsmouth to Lisbon, Madeira and Gibraltar. During the second voyage HMS Pearl and HMS Sappho travelled from Portsmouth to Lisbon, Cape of Good Hope, Perth, New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania, Adelaide and New Hebrides. During the second voyage Barnes was aboard HMS Sappho for most of the month of August 1875. The log book contains nautical entries, facts, maps and watercolours relating to the voyages. After the October 3rd 1874 entry, there is a longer commentary on the recovery of the ship McGregor off the coast of Fiji. Relationship complexity - See Micro-MS-Coll-20 for items relating to these voyages Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Processing information: Digitisation details - Volume includes inserted maps and sketches. These pages have been digitised in situ.

Date: 1882 - 1886

By: Meek, James McKain, 1815-1899; J T Smith & Company

Reference: Eph-E-HISTORY-Canterbury-1882-01

Description: An ornate arrangement of panels of text, of various typeface, and featuring the clouds of glory of the British Empire. Each Canterbury town is described in a decorative panel of its own. A history and chronology of major events in Canterbury's history is given, and several local businessmen are named: Robert Watson, tailor and habitmaker; John Moore, boot and shoemaker; D Inwood, baker and miller; Drs Donald and Barker, medical profession; W Wilson, nurseryman and seed merchant; C W Bishop, storekeeper and general mertchant; George Gould, storekeeper and general merchant; Golden Fleece Hotel, Ellis and Cartner; A J Alport, auctioneer and commission agent; J Anderson, blacksmith and practical engineer; R Wormald, solicitor and conveyancer; Joyce and Turner, butchers. From the poster itself, the date appears to be around 1882, because of the last date on the chronology. However, biographical notes about Meek mention a date of 1886 or 1887 for his Canterbury poster. Other Titles - Christchurch, situated in Lat. S. 43 [degrees] 31'.34" Long. E.172 [degrees] 38' Cathedral), is the most central city of the Middle Island of New Zealand. "A future Britain for a southern world". The city is, at the present time, the capital of the rich agricultural district of Canterbury ... integral part of our great Empire on which the sun never sets, and o'er which Victoria our Royal Queen sways her royal sceptre. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Lithograph on poster, 1020 x 685 mm.

Date: 1899

By: Hunter, Ashley John Barsby, 1854-1932; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal

Reference: J-040-001

Description: New Zealand is shown as a small boy in sailor costume riding on the tail of a kangaroo bounding across the Tasman sea from New Zealand to Australia. Exhibition and book captions read - New Zealand supporters of federation [with Australia] stressed the shared British stock, language, Queen, God and trade possibilities. New Zealand would progress by 'leaps and bounds' with an assured market for cereals, fruit and some manufactured goods. South Seas isolation was another reason for embracing federation. There was uneasiness about growing German power and French intentions in the Pacific. There was also fear, however, irrational, of the 'yellow peril'. Exhibited in 'The Other Side of the Ditch' exhibition of cartoons on the New Zealand-Australian relationship curated by Ian F. Grant of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited in the National Library Gallery from 28 November 2001 to 24 February 2002 to mark the centenary of Australian Federation. Also exhibited at X Space Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland in mid-March 2002 and at Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australia from 26 March 2003 to 29 June 2003. Published in 'The Other Side of the Ditch' by Ian F. Grant, published by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive in association with Tandem Press, 2001. Extended Title - A contemporary prophesies that should New Zealand join the [Australian] Federation the colony would progress by "leaps and bounds". Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies A3 size. Physical Description: A3 size photocopy.