Letterbook, 19 November 1882-24 May 1883

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File 7

Content Summary:

Pressed copies of letters from Bridge (Espiegle, Duke of York Island, Cooktown, Moreton Bay, Sydney, Hobart, Wellington, Sydney, Suva) to Commander in Chief and others reporting the proceedings of the ship.

Subjects include: murder of Mr Lyttelton, trader in New Hebrides; trial of two seamen from Flora; problem with screw; comments of Bishop of Melanesia on Bridge's reports on proceedings in New Hebrides; issuing of extra chocolate; apprehension of deserter; voyage from Hobart to Wellington; letters from Gray and Glisson on abduction of woman of Vate by Queensland vessel Madeline; drunkeness of Lieutenant Oxley; deterioration of biscuit about to be supplied from naval store at Sydney 'full of weevils and quite unfit for human food'; numbers of deserters in Australia, 1881-1882 'the present high price of labour in the Australia colonies is admitted by everyone to be the principal cause of the recent frequency of desertion'; short visit to Norfolk Island; steam trials; registration of titles to land by British Subjects in Melanesian Islands; Sophia Island; Ellice Islands.

(249p., indexed, faint in places, incomplete?)

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