John T. Arundel's Diary 1899 - 1900. In 1897, John T. Arundel & Co merged its business with trading and plantation firm Henderson and Macfarlane. They formed the Pacific Islands Company Ltd (PIC), which was based in London with trading activities in the Pacific, particularly Kiribati. In 1902, PIC became the Pacific Phosphate Company and began phosphate mining on Banaba, Kiribati in 1901 and on Nauru in 1906. See also PMB MS 14, 498.
John T. Arundel's Diary 1901 - 1902. In 1897, John T. Arundel & Co merged its business with trading and plantation firm Henderson and Macfarlane. They formed the Pacific Islands Company Ltd (PIC), which was based in London with trading activities in the Pacific, particularly Kiribati. In 1902, PIC became the Pacific Phosphate Company and began phosphate mining on Banaba, Kiribati in 1901 and on Nauru in 1906. See also PMB MS 14, 498.
John T. Arundel's diaries from the Pacific, largely Kiribati and Nauru as follows: Reel 1: Diary, January - October 1905; Reel 2: Diary, October 1905 - 15 June 1909; Reel 3: Diary 17 June 1909 - 31 December 1910. In 1897, John T. Arundel & Co merged its business with trading and plantation firm Henderson and Macfarlane. They formed the Pacific Islands Company Ltd (PIC), which was based in London with trading activities in the Pacific, particularly Kiribati. In 1902, PIC became the Pacific Phosphate Company and began phosphate mining on Banaba, Kiribati in 1901 and on Nauru in 1906. See also PMB MS 14, 498
Papers relating to the reign of King George Tupou II of Tonga. The papers are in files labelled as follows: 1. Customs Audit, 1886-93; 2. Royal Correspondence, 1893-98, including newspaper clippings; 3. Premier's Department Correspondence, 1894-97; 4. Court Proceedings, 1895; 5. Premier's Department Correspondence, 1898; 6. Royal Correspondence, 1900; 7. Premier's Department Correspondence, 1900; 8. Premier's Department Correspondence, 1901; 9. Royal and consular Correspondence, 1901; 10. Correspondence, 1902; 11. Correspondence, 1903; 12. Royal Correspondence, 1904; 13. Premier's Department Correspondence, 1904; 14. Royal Correspondence, 1904-05.
Papers relating to the reign of King George Tupou II of Tonga. The papers are in files labelled as follows: 1. Premier's Department, Correspondence 1905; 2. Royal Correspondence 1906; 3. Premier's Department Correspondence 1907; 4. Consular Correspondence 1907; 5. Royal Correspondence 1907; 6. Correspondence relating to government departments 1907; 7. Royal Correspondence 1908; 8. Consul-Premier Correspondence 1908; 9. Premier's Department - Outward 1908; 10. Premier's Department - Inward 1908-09.
Continued from PMB 750 - Volume 11: correspondence, 1890-99. Volume 12: Correspondence, 1890-99 (letters L-P), from Alice C. Little, Mrs Mary Logan, Charlotte Beulah Logan, Henry Nanpei, Jenny Olin, Annette Palmer, Edmund Pease, Harriet Pease, P.A. Delaporte, L. Poulsen, Francis M. Price, Mrs S.J. Price (continued on PMB 752).
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Full text of letter from Fr Verne describing his visit to Rotuma in 1847 and the establishment of a Catholic mission there;
Correspondence regarding the early Catholic mission in Rotuma and the progress of Catholicism there. NOTE: see PMB MS 428 for information on an index to this material.
The documents and correspondence are in four folders and appear to have been sorted arbitrarily. The contents of the folders relate to the Roman Catholic Mission in Fiji cover the following periods:
1868-1930 (principally land acquisition, Catholic-Wesleyan rivalry and Catholic education).
1871-87 (including the consequences of British annexation for the Catholic Church in Rotuma).
1882-1930 (land matters)
1878-1902. An index to material copied in the Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Office, Suva, was published in the Bureau's newsletter Pambu April-June 1972:27, pp. 17-20 and is available on request from the Bureau.See also PMB MS 159/160 and PMB MS 432-468
