Letterbook, 12 November 1883-18 February 1885

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File 9

Content Summary:

Pressed copies of letters from Bridge (Espiegle, Sydney, Russell, Auckland, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Lyttelton, Wellington, Sydney, Norfolk Island, Suva, Samoa, Sydney, Brisbane, New Guinea, Cooktown, Sydney) to Commander in Chief and others reporting the proceedings of the ship.

Subjects include: suitability of Western Pacific Islands, east of Fiji, as places of imprisonment; steam trials; voyage to New Zealand; defences of New Zealand; suitable islands west of Fiji as prison stations; purchase of Kauri Timber; selling of 'run' men's effects; Norfolk Island - population, agriculture, government, 'there is practically no budget of receipts and expenditure and no taxation', religion, supplies, 'I trust that it will not be thought improper if attention be invited to our responsibitities to these people'; circumstances of Samoa and the King's proposal; explosives; burning of Kapa Kapa by Hula people; Reverend Mr Chalmers; arrangements at Spectacle Islands; men wishing to remain on Australian station.

(400p., indexed, pagination erratic, some very faint pages, concludes in next volume)

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