Enclosures in despatches from Secretary of State to the High Commissioner:- (a) report on condition of Gilbert & Ellice Islanders working in Queensland, 1895 (see Secretary of State's despatch No.1 of the 3rd January, 1896); (b) (i) copy of letter, dated 21st March, 1905, addressed by King Tupou II of Tonga to the Secretary of State; (ii) copy of Notes of Interview between the High Commissioner and the King of Tonga, 10th December, 1904; (iii) report relating to the investigation into and the assumption of control of the Treasury at Nukualofa by the High Commissioner, December, 1904; (iv) Address of the High Commissioner to the King and Chiefs of Tonga, 28th December, 1904 and, (v) Address of the High Commissioner to the King and Chiefs of Tonga, 1st January, 1905. (Note - (i) - (v) were enclosures to the Secretary of State's confidential despatch to the High Commissioner of the 6th June, 1905 - see bound volume of despatches). (c) copies of letters exchanged between the Colonial Office and the Admiralty, 18th March and 15th December, 1893, regarding the boundaries of the Australian Naval Station. , 1893 - 1905

File — Box: R306912327

Identifier: MSS. Archives. 2003/1. WPHC 22. Series WPCH 22/II. File 2

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

I. Outward despatches & letters. 1879–1943. II. Inward despatches & letters. 1880–1941. III. Printed documents & other papers relating to the defence of British territories in the Pacific. 1914–19, 1925–28, 1939 & 1941–42. IV. Miscellaneous records. 1912–1969.