The records begin with a report from a German official in Jaluit to the Duke of Bismarck, dated May 6, 1887, stating that local German firms had suggested that the German Protectorate of the Marshall Islands should be extended to cover Nauru. A report written in Jaluit on October 31, 1888, by Herr Sonnenschein, the German Imperial Commissioner in the Marshall Islands, describes the raising of the German flag on Nauru on October 2, 1888. There are several extensive reports on conditions on Nauru. The remainder of the documents deal with the German administration of Nauru.

Please see PMB 738 for full entry.

Continued from PMB 751 - Volume 12: Correspondence, 1890-99.
Volume 13: Correspondence, 1890-99 (letters R-W), from mission stations on Kusaie, Mokil, Truk and Ponape from Frank Rand, Carrie Rand, Clinton Rife, Sarah Smith, A. and Mrs Snelling, Martin Stimson, Emily Stimson, Susan Sturges, T. Stursberg, H. Taylor, W. Traston, Alfred Walkup, G. Warneck, William Wharton, J.T. Whitney, Louise Wilson and Henry Worth (continued on PMB 753).

Irregular newspaper, in Tuvaluan of the Ellice Islands Christian Church, originally London Missionary Society

Incomplete set: list of issues microfilmed appears at the beginning of each reel.

Reel 1: November 1959 (No. II) - November-December 1974
Reel 2: January-February 1975 - July-September1980
Reel 3: Odd copies: December 1960: October 1965: July 1968

Please refer to the full entry in PMB 200

For indexes see American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1978 and Where the Whalers Went, Robert Langdon, ed., Canberra, 1984. Information is provided in the following format: Name of ship (in upper case); Name of Captain/Logkeeper; Date of voyage; Area or places visited. (VARIOUS SHIPS); ?; 1863-64; Atlantic CITY OF FITCHBURG; ?; 1878-79; Atlantic JASPER; Raymond; 1835-37; South Atlantic, New Zealand JASPER; Adams; 1837- 38; Indian Ocean HELEN; ?; 1810-11; Indian Ocean, Atlantic CHARLESTON; Baldwin; 1844-47; South Atlantic, New Zealand, Society Islands, Marquesas, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, Hawaii GASPE; Blair; 1922; Atlantic PEDRO VARELA; Mrs D.L. Ricketson (Captain's Wife); 1881-83; Atlantic SYLPH; Nye; 1847; Atlantic JOHN HOWLAND; Leary; 1847-51; Atlantic, Marquesas, Galapagos Islands, Pitcairn, Juan Fernandez Islands SAMUEL ROBERTSON; McKenzie; 1837-40; Atlantic, Indian Ocean, New Zealand, Kermadecs, Tonga, Samoa, Austral Islands LOUISA; Shockley; 1874-78; South Atlantic C.W. MORGAN; Shockley; 1878-81; South Atlantic BOUNDING BILLOW; Shockley; 1881-82; North Pacific FLEETWING; Shockley; 1882-83; Marshall Islands TWO BROTHERS; Shockley; 1840-41; Atlantic, Indian Ocean, New Zealand GEORGE WASHINGTON; Murdock; 1844-47; Cook Islands, New Zealand, Hawaii, Pitcairn Island NASSAU; ?; 1853-56; Juan Fernandez Islands, New Zealand Of special interest on this reel (CHARLESTON; 1844-47) Very interesting descriptions of places visited.

Nancy White was educated at Melbourne and Geelong CEGG Schools. She trained as a primary school teacher in Melbourne and taught at Camberwell CEGGS, in Melbourne, from 1938 until June 1948. She then worked as a teacher with the Anglican Mission in the lower Mamba, and in the Sangara-Isivita area of Oro Province, PNG, for nearly twenty years, from 1948 to 1967. In July 1948 Sister White was first stationed at St James School at Sangara, taking care of out-station schools in the Orokaiva district. Situated between Gona and Kokoda, the area had been devastated during the War. A number of missionaries had been killed. After the War, Fr. Dennis Taylor had guided the re-building of the mission station and school and and Mrs Lesley Taylor re-establshed the teaching. When Sr. White arrived, Margaret de Bibra was re-organising the schools, and Rev. David Hand, later Bishop Hand, was the acting priest in charge of Sangara. In January 1951 Mt Lamington erupted while Sr. White was on furlough. Ninety per cent of the people in the Sangara area were killed in the eruption, including all the mission staff at Sangara and the government staff at Higaturu. Sr White returned immediately to Waseta to help re-organise the mission outstations and schools in the Isivita district, from Agenehambo to Saga. Sr White then taught in the Mamba district from 1955 until 1963 when she moved back to the Orokaiva district. Sr White remained in that district until she left PNG in 1967.

NW/1-9 Drafts of Sr White’s autobiography, Sharing the Climb, with correspondence relating to its editing and launch, 1988-1991;
NW/10 Poems and notes, including verse by James Benson;
NW/11 Sr White’s prayer books, 1947 & 1952;
NW/12-17 Sr White’s correspondence, 1948-1978;
NW/18-19 Tapa wallet holding various personal documents;
NW/20-27 Teaching papers and books, 1950-1960;
NW/28 Bishop Hand – consecrations, 1950-1963;
NW/29-32 Various documents, including Out-Station reports, syllabi, teaching materials, Orokaiva word list, poems and drawings, 1951-1973;
NW33 Press cuttings, 1951-1953;
NW/34 Photographs, 1948-1994.
See Finding aids for details.

The author was second officer in the London Missionary Society steamship John Williams

A diary of voyages in the John Williams.

1. From London towards Sydney via the Cape of Good Hope (18 May - 30 June 1894)
2. From Sydney towards New Guinea via Niue, Rarotonga, Mangaia, Rarotonga, Aitutaki and Samoa (5 October - 22 November 1894)
3. From Sydney to the Pacific Islands and return. Calls were made at New Guinea, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Ellice, Gilbert and Cook Islands (15 March - 1 October 1895)

Mason was born in New York City on May 8, 1848. He entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1864 and passed the examination for lieutenant on April 2, 1872. On September 1, 1872, he sailed from Philadelphia in the U.S.S. Omaha on a cruise to the Pacific. In Valparaiso, Chile, on February 14, 1873, he transferred to the U.S.S. Pensacola, a surveying vessel. In that ship, he visited other South American ports and arrived in Hawaii on February 13, 1875. After seven months in Hawaiian waters, he returned to the United States.

The journal gives a day-by-day account of Mason's cruise onboard the Omaha and Pensacola, prefaced by an outline of his previous career.