Box 5003026366
Container
Contains 11 Results:
Correspondence and other papers relating mainly to British Consular business in Samoa. The correspondence includes despatches from the Acting Consul and Deputy Commissioner, Apia, Samoa, to Acting Consul-General; drafts of despatches from the Acting Consul-General to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; despatches from the Acting High Commissioner to the Acting Consul-General and drafts of despatches from the Acting Consul-General to the Acting High Commissioner. (Sept., 1876 – May, 1879)., 1876-1879
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS Archives. 2003/01. BCT 1. Series Set 43. File 43/11
Scope and Contents
Of particular interest among these papers is a file of documents relating to the case of John Morton, a British subject, who was sent from Tonga to Samoa in November, 1876, to be tried for an offence alleged to have been committed by him in Tonga. The file was forwarded by R.S. Swanston, Acting British Consul, for Samoa, to A.P. Maudslay, Acting Consul-General, under cover of a despatch dated 6 November, 1878, together with the original of a Foreign Office Consular despatch, No. 7 of the 27...
Dates:
1876-1879