Siam (Ship)

Date: 1880s - 1960, 1974

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm); Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949; Barnicoat, John Wallis, 1814-1905

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-041

Description: Photographs of places and personalities, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes Maori portraits and groups on marae, including the Duke and Duchess of York meeting Maui Pomare in 1927. Includes a photograph of the crowded deck of the `Waikere' a few minutes before the boat struck land in Dusky Sound in 1910. Also photographs of knighthood being confered upon George Richardson in Samoa; an archaeological site near Rotorua; Kumara, Westland, in 1886; Empire Day celebrations 1905; the first annual apprentice exam held at the Hutt shops, Hutt Valley, in 1930; and sketches of Riccarton House, Canterbury, made by J W Barnicoat in 1844 and R Park circa 1859. Photographers include Burton Bros, Muir & Moodie and Paul Popper. Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 3 Jul 1868-22 Jan 1869

By: Bent, Robert, active 1868-1879

Reference: MS-Papers-10357

Description: The original journal is inscribed in pencil on front cover `For dear Will - a parting gift from Robt Bent Jnr?, Aug 7 1875'. The journal records the voyage to Auckland on the `Siam' (1868) and time spent in Auckland before departing for Coromandel. Bent spent 6 months living at Coromandel working in the store of Mr Frederick Woollams before returning to England on the `Siam' in Jan 1869. Also contains a handwritten transcript of Captain Ashby's account of the voyage out by the `Siam' (`Weekly Herald', 17 Oct 1868). Also includes a birth certificate for Arthur Frederick Bent (son of Robert and Lydia Bent nee Ninnis) (8 Feb 1879) with newspaper cutting attached re marriage of Arthur Frederick Bent and Edith Millom Huddleston at Blenheim (8 May 1917) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres.

Date: 7 Jul 1868-22 Jan 1869

From: Donaldson, Marsha Penelope, 1945-: Collection

By: Bent, Robert, active 1868-1879

Reference: MS-Papers-4733

Description: Comprises transcription by Marsha Donaldson of shipboard diary kept by Bent on board the `Siam' (1868-1869) to Auckland, during his time in Coromandel and return voyage of the Siam. Includes index Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (28 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript

Date: [ca 1868-1874]

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

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1017

Description: These papers relate to Donald McLean and comprise an invitation to dinner in Hobson Street from unknown person; reply to telegram from [?] Oliver; advertisement re search for a Donald McLean (b 1824) by his father Dr Lachlan McLean of Oban, Argyleshire, nd; letter, Union Bank of Australia (1869); invitation, Installation Banquet, at Brother Chavanne's Rutland Hotel; postage stamps; address, Sergeant Jeremiah O'Connor for Thomas Trenton; accounts; proxy paper, NZ Steam Navigation Company; copyright requirements; Auckland Grammar School circular (1871); St Andrew Kilwinning Lodge, Wanganui, summons; Dalgety wool cargo lists by `Warrior Queen' and `Chile' (1868) and `Asterope' (1869); Xmas card from Julie Thomson; expenditure estimate, province of Hawke's Bay (1869); notes toward a speech relating to a deputation about peace on the East Coast and Patea; estimates; appointment of McLean as member of the Executive Council (1873) Also includes The Case of New Zealand [2d ed] submitted by C F Hursthouse to Gladstone about the New Zealand wars (1869); seating diagram for complimentary dinner to F A Weld; sales of NZ wool at current sales, with brands and vessels transporting it; Executive Council meeting directive (1869, 1871); letter re neglect of Auckland's northern districts (1869); clipping re Mr Gillies' opinions on native affairs and remarks on the late murder of Mr Todd, nd Quantity: 1 folder(s).