Blackbirding

Date: [1914?]

By: Giles, Edmund Douglas, 1853?-

Reference: MS-0832

Description: Reminiscence of his early years in Somersetshire including details of the Giles forbears back to 1772; description of the voyage to Nelson on the `John Bunyan' in 1868; time spent in Westport where his uncle Dr Giles was the Resident Magistrate; gold mining on the West Coast; travel to Queensland via Sydney (includes descriptions of Sydney, Brisbane and Rockhampton); working as a bullock driver and later a ration carrier and drover, etc in Queensland; describes station life and his other outback experiences; Kanaka labourers in Queensland; Tasmania; return to Barcoo, Queensland; aborigines in Queensland; time spent on New Hebrides, Fiji and other islands in the Pacific; return to New Zealand; family and travel in the early 1900s. Edmund Giles immigrated to New Zealand with his brother Edgar on the `John Bunyan' in 1868. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (231 pages). Physical Description: Typescript (27 cm; red linen)

Date: 1883-1884

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

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3629

Description: Consular records, concerning subjects such as shipwrecks, attacks on blackbirders, the supply of Australian horses for the French army, cases involving individuals and ships. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: [ca 1930]

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948

Reference: fMS-085

Description: Illustrations of ships taken from newspapers, including "Illustrated London News"; Royal Navy, Antarctic, immigrant vessels (mainly 19th century), shipwrecks and "blackbirding" activities. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 200 pages). Physical Description: Printed matter (41 cm; ½ black rexine, marbled boards)

Date: 1857-1859

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

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3602

Description: Concerned with naval movements and action in the Pacific; the French treaty with Hawaii; the colonization of New Caledonia; `blackbirding' in the Pacific; British and French nationals; assistance in shipwrecks and other matters. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1884-1895, 1913-1915

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1123

Description: The Rev. Gray's manuscripts, pamphlets and press cuttings on the labour traffic; copies of some annual reports of the Queensland Kanaka Mission and the Queensland Department of Pacific Island Immigration; pamphlets by J G Paton, A C Smith and J Inglis attacking the labour trade; the Rev. Dr David Crombie's press cuttings on the New Hebrides 1913-1915; William Watt Erskine's recollections of his childhood in Tanna, lantern slides and photographs of missionary life in the New Hebrides ca 1880. Source of title - Supplied Gray, a New Hebridean missionary, conducted a vigorous publicity campaign against the `Kanaka' labour traffic. Quantity: 2 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB, 1998

Date: 14 Jun 1888-25 Feb 1900

By: Wawn, William Twizell, 1837-1901

Reference: qMS-2126

Description: Day to day entries of Wawn's voyages, recruiting labour, from Queensland ports to the New Hebrides, Solomon, Gilbert and Fiji islands. Events occurring during recruitment are described Quantity: 1 volume(s) (500 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) (36 cm; navy buckram) Profusely illustrated

Date: 1870-1937

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-07

Description: Original typescript of Suwarrow gold, and other stories of the great South sea, by James Cowan, published by Jonathon Cape in 1936. Arrangement: The contents of this folder were in lot 174 of the auction where purchased Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0 Linear Metres.

Date: 1874-1881

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

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

Date: 1874-1875

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

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3614

Description: Consular and diplomatic activities in the Australian and in the Fench Pacific colonies, particularly New Caledonia and the issue of escaped communard prisoners. Includes papers on blackbirding, labour traffic and inter-denominational strife in the Pacific. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1909-1916

By: Hayes, William Henry, -1877

Reference: MS-Papers-0859

Description: Comprises five letters from Robert McNab to Alfred T Saunders about sources of Hayes material, 22 Sep 1914-18 Feb 1916 Letter from Russell Duncan, Port Ahuriri on Hayes, and on Pembroke's introduction to Maning's `Old New Zealand', 5 Oct 1915 Letters, clippings and documents from Heinrich Neffgen about Hayes and Louis Becke's accounts of him, including typescripts: An Enoch Arden of the South Sea, a story about Samoan love, and Death of an old trader, a story about Restieaux and Hayes, published in `Samoanische Zeitung', Jan 1912, and Relic of Bully Hayes, published in `Samoanische Zeitung', Jun 1909 Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (47 leaves). Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies)

Date: 1871-1872, [ca 1936]

By: Lowther, James, active 1871-1880

Reference: qMS-1164

Description: Entries relating to Bully Hayes, from a log or journal kept by A J Lowther, agent for R Towns and Co of Sydney, on one of the Friendly Island groups, the exact locality not being stated Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (13 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon) (27 cm, grey cloth)

Date: 1870-1872

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

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3610

Description: Concerned with consular and diplomatic activities in the Australian colonies, and in the Fench Pacific colonies, especially with regard to the deporting of communards to New Caledonia, following the fall of the Paris Commune. Also includes some matereial on blackbirding. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 14 Apr 1889-31 Jan 1891

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0014

Description: The diary is written in a mixture of Tahitian, Mangarevan and English, the lingua franca of the multi-level community on Flint Island. Details weather conditions, winds, land areas cleared, coconut palms planted, harvested, crushed and cut. Also describes difficult conditions of work, such as fire-ant infections, lack of medical care and food, and relationships with Arundel family. H I N Moouga, of Managarevan descent, was a foreman of a team of coconut plantation workers from French Polynesia and Niue, employed on Flint Island by J T Arundel and Co of London. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Full description in inventory, also in "Complete Annotated Catalogue" (Canberra: PMB, 1991) which has in index.

Date: 1911

By: Becke, George Lewis, 1855-1913

Reference: qMS-0150

Description: Reminiscences of Becke's brief schooldays and of his association with Bully Hayes Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (19 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (32 cm, ½ red morocco, red linen)

Date: 1873-1875

By: Wilson, George, active 1874-1875

Reference: MS-2506

Description: Log kept by Sub-Lt George Wilson serving on HMS Rosario on patrol to control labour traffic from Sydney to Fiji, Solomon Islands and neighbouring groups, returning labourers, investigation of settler complaints; wreck of the Lavinia; also encounter with and investigation of complaints against Bully Hayes and the wreck of his vessel, the Leonora. Fragment in another unidentified hand relating to the ship Hydaspes, Sydney - London, 4-12 Mar 1875. Includes two pages of ink sketches, signed H I E. Source of title - Transcribed Variations in title - On cover: Journal book Other Titles - Journal and remark book for the use of officers in the Royal Navy Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 46 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, printed matter (24cm, brown cloth, grey case) Two pages of ink sketches at the front of the book, initialled H I E

Date: [1911-1940]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-74

Description: Research papers, drafts and correspondence relating to New Zealand history. Includes handwritten notes for 'The adventures of Kimble Bent' book, a letter from W M Fraser from the Whangarei Harbour Board relating to wahi tapu in the Whangarei region (particularly Okoihu Pa and Cowan's research notes on Okoihu Pa near Whatitiri). Also includes waiata relating to the Ngongotaha area 'The fairy chief's lament for Ngongotaha mountain' and typewritten 'Maori love ditties, or ruriruri' from Hare Hongi, and assorted notes about the Kaipara and Bay of Islands area. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1871-1872

By: Lowther, James, active 1871-1880

Reference: MS-Papers-2815

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, typescript

Date: 1865-1904, 1993

By: Johnson family

Reference: MS-Group-1938

Description: Collection comprises Capt Johnson's personal papers including wills, correspondence and legal certificates. Also includes two diaries relating to trade voyages in the Pacific to the Solomon Islands blackbirding, and to New Guinea searching for a tribe of headhunters. Also letter to Mrs Duncan with information on the steamer the `Luna' (1993). Source of title - Supplied by Library George Johnson served with the 48th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War as a youth. Later he worked at sea, rising to the rank of Captain. Much of his nautical career was spent sailing into the Pacific from his base in Australia. Quantity: 2 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs G Duncan, Wellington, Jan 2011 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 4 cabinet cards and two carte de vistes (PAColl-9841).

Date: [ca 1860-1869]

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-1342

Description: Untitled incomplete manuscript written by Martin, relating his Pacific voyages and adventures. Includes transcript of the manuscript made by Dr Peter MacNicoll Source of title - Transcribed from item Alfred William Martin, the son of a convict, was born in Tasmania. He was educated in England, but later returned to Tasmania, where he became a seafarer, working on a wide variey of ships involved in whaling, trade, smuggling and blackbirding during the 1860s Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: See http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu. Provenance: Alfred Martin wrote his reminiscences, probably in the 1890s, and gave the manuscript to his granddaughter, and it eventually came to Dr MacNicoll who top-numbered the pages, transcribed it, and had a conservator repair damaged pages

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.