Papers re Pelorus and Alligator

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File CHR/24(ii) No. 52-93

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Correspondence, bills, receipts, reports of surveys on stores and medical matters. (c. 65p.)Items of interest include:

5 June 1840. Commissariat Office (Sydney) to Sir J.J. Gordon Bremer re payment to Lt. Drury of Alligator.

8 January 1841. List of effects of W. Crawford.

9 July 1841. Sale of Pelorus at Singapore.

14 January 1840. Proclamation by Sir George Gipps of extent of territory of N.S.W.

26 March 1839. Sir J.J. Gordon Bremer (Port Essington) to resident at Coepang re trade.

6-7 April 1840. Captain Moyle (Diana, Port Essington) to Chambers re sale of buffaloes.

18 April 1840. Stores for use of settlement at Port Essington.

17 September 1840. A. Austin Baukier, Acting Surgeon, (Port Essington) to Chambers re health of ship's crew.

31 October 1837. W.J. Acton (Kew) instructions for John Armstrong, gardener of new colony.

15-16 January 1840. Bearings taken by John Armstrong between Port Essington and Van Diemen's Gulf.

31 March 1842. J.Forshall (Secretary British Museum) to Chambers acknowledging gift of fauna from Port Essington.

27 January 1842. P.B.Duncan (Oxford) to Children re gift of bird skins for Ashmolean Museum.

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