General Correspondence (263ff.), 1876-1878

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Correspondence concerning military matters, Pacific labour trade, missions, Gordon's relations with Fijians and European settlers, disturbances in highlands, affairs of Seychelles, labour troubles of planters, interest in Fiji of Aborigines Protection Society, possible annexation of Samoa, French ambitions in New Hebrides, Victorian politics, affairs of New Caledonia, appointment of Deputy High Commissioner for Western Pacific, interest of Australian Colonization Committee in New Guinea, Colonial Office regulations on naval visits, appointment of Sir George Bowen as Governor of Mauritius, and return of Gordon to England in 1878.

Correspondents include G. Le Hunte, W. Carew, A. Maudsley, Reverend L. Fison, J.B.M. Stewart, G. Turner, Baron D'Este, Lord Granville, Bishop J.R. Selwyn, E. Thornton (Washington), Lord Derby, Reverend S. Baker (Tonga), Sir George Bowen (Melbourne), E. Layard (Noumea), Lord Carnarvon, R. Swanston, F. Weld (Hobart), Sir Hercules Robinson (Sydney), A. Kingslake, J. Lowther, J. Bryce and F. Langham.

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