General Correspondence (280ff.), 1879-1880

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Correspondence concerning affairs of Samoa and Tonga, Fijian civil service, German interests in Pacific, French ambitions in New Hebrides, paper by Gordon on taxation in Fiji, affairs of Seychelles, possible appointment of Gordon as Governor of N.S.W., proposed Land and Credit Company, inquiry by Wesleyan Mission into affairs at Tonga, Gordon's arrival in New Zealand, and Polynesian labour in Hawaii.

Correspondents include Bishop J.R. Selwyn (Noumea), R. Swanston (Apia), Lord Odo Russell (Berlin), T. Martin, G.A. Turner (Apia), G. Barrow, Reverend G. Smith, R. Bakewell (Sydney), W. Seed, Reverend F. Langham, Reverend F.E. Lawes (Sydney), L. Fison, R. Wilberforce, G.W. Rusden, H. Symonds (Tonga) and J. Wodehouse (Honolulu).

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