Letterbook, December 1860-December 1861

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Copies of Newcastle's letters to Sir Henry Barkly, Sir George Bowen, T.G. Browne, Sir George Grey, Sir Richard Macdonnell, A.E. Kennedy, Sir John Young, Sir Henry Young and others. The subjects include the Victorian Land Act, the abolition of the title Governor-General, the validity of Queensland laws, the New Zealand Native Councils Act, the Maori War, the appointment of Sir George Grey as Governor of New Zealand, the role of Bishops in New Zealand public life, the growth of cotton in Queensland, the introduction of Asian labour, constitutional difficulties in N.S.W., and the appointment of T.G. Browne as Governor of Tasmania. (238 pp.)

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