General Correspondence (258ff.), 1881-1883

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Correspondence concerning affairs at Tonga, Melanesian Mission, resolutions of 1881 Intercolonial Conference on High Commissionership, native land purchases in New Zealand, activities of Reverend S. Baker and Wesleyan Missionary Society, French interests in Rarotonga, protection of New Guinea natives from European adventurers, Isabella massacre, establishment of Naval Reserve at Suva, labour trade at New Hebrides, Fijian affairs, New Zealand politics, visit of HMS Espiegle to New Hebrides, Gordon's quarantine at Sydney in 1882, jurisdiction of N.S.W. Supreme Court over acts committed on high seas, seizure of British plantation at Samoa, annexation of New Guinea by Queensland, and German land claims in Fiji.

Correspondents include H. Symonds (Tonga), G.W. Rusden (Melbourne); Bishop J.R. Selwyn, L. Fison (Bav), R. Bakewell, F. Murray (Wellington), W. Blunt and Reverend B. Chapman.

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