'The number of Kanakas employed in Queensland' and other notes
- AU PMB MS 1123-08
- Stuk
- n.d.
Part of Manuscripts, pamphlets and press cuttings relating to Rev. William Gray
'The number of Kanakas employed in Queensland' and other notes
Part of Manuscripts, pamphlets and press cuttings relating to Rev. William Gray
Reel 3, Part II, Extracts from journal of Rev O. Michelsen
Reel 2, Part I, Diary of Rev William Gray, 1 August 1893 - 11 March 1898
Reel 3, Part II, Notes from minutes of New Hebrides Synod
Press cuttings: 'The Kanaka Trade'
Part of Manuscripts, pamphlets and press cuttings relating to Rev. William Gray
Annie Macmillan to Elizabeth Gray (1 letter)
Part of Journal and correspondence
Early issues published under the title New Hebrides South Sea Island Quarterly Jottings of the John G. Paton Mission Fund, edited by Rev. James Paton, a member of the Paton family which was very active for many years in the New Hebrides Presbyterian Mission. Place of publications and publishing body vary. For further details and contents see R. Langdon (ed) An index to Quarterly Jottings from the New Hebrides ... (Canberra: PMB, 1988)
Nos. 1-27, July 1893-Jan 1900
Quarterly Jottings from the New Hebrides - John G. Paton Mission Fund
Captain Hamilton (1852-1937) was born in Scotland and came to Australia at the age of 10. In 1882 - 1883 he made voyages from Brisbane to Vanuatu (at that time the New Hebrides), New Britain and New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) in labour recruiting vessels. For a dozen or so years from the late 1890s, he ran the Hamilton Pearling Co. with luggers operating out of Komuli in the Admiralty Islands and Gizo in Solomon Islands. This company also traded in copra, tortoise shell, black lip and green snail shell. Later, Captain Hamilton had big planting interests in the Solomons, mainly on Choiseul. He died in Sydney in November, 1937.
The papers copied on this microfilm are the most interesting and valuable historically of a large collection (in the Oxley Memorial Library) relating to Captain Hamilton's career. They comprise:
For further details of Captain Hamilton's career and of his other papers in the Oxley Memorial Library, see the Bureau's newsletter 'Pambu' October 1968:3, pp.3-6.
Hamilton, William
Journals of Reverend Peter Milne
This collection includes a significant sequence of journals covering Peter Milne's early years and ministry training, before giving an extended account of the mission in the New Hebrides at Nguna (Hocken Collections MS-0432/16 to MS-0432/23). They differ from the diaries in that they are written later as a more considered narrative, rather than daily notes. There are several numbered volumes, with consecutive pagination.
Milne, Peter
Reel 3, Part III, Correspondence to William Gray, M-P