'Account of the murder of Lieutenant Bower and five men of H.M.S. “Sandfly”, 17 December 1880'
- AU PMB MS 1214-14
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- 17 December 1880
Part of High Commission, Fiji, pamphlets
'Account of the murder of Lieutenant Bower and five men of H.M.S. “Sandfly”, 17 December 1880'
Part of High Commission, Fiji, pamphlets
Papers relating to 'Punishment of Natives'
Part of High Commission, Fiji, pamphlets
'Reporting proceedings in the Solomons, New Britain, New Guinea, etc'
Part of High Commission, Fiji, pamphlets
'Papers relating to murder of part of the crew of the “Borealis” at Malayta [Malaita]'
Part of High Commission, Fiji, pamphlets
'Papers relating to claims to land in the Solomon Islands'
Part of High Commission, Fiji, pamphlets
'Proceedings of H.M.S. “Miranda” in the Solomon Islands'
Part of High Commission, Fiji, pamphlets
Part of High Commission, Fiji, pamphlets
Two reports on voyages in search of pearl shell in New Guinea and the Solomons
Part of Diaries and pearling logs
Hamilton, William
Logs and diaries kept by William Hamilton in the vessels Canomie, Ysabel, Gazelle and Kambin
Part of Diaries and pearling logs
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