I'm including a few items on Raine Island that I wrote down in the Mitchell one day because I don't see them listed in any of the reports. It will be one of the cornerstones of our history of the island if we. Alas, today's post brings the news of the death of Dohn Aris jun., the son of first Sydney Aris and grandson of 3.T.
They are going to Adelaide to celebrate our Diamond Jubilee with the rest of the family. It was decided to start by mining the guano known to exist on Raine Island, using the European personnel, and then load the last of the shipments from Howland. Like other users, Arundel is fascinated by the lonely lighthouse and transcribed some of the graffiti in his diary.
Then in 1900, when albert ellis, the youngest of the ellis team (uho uas knighted in 1938), discovered huge phosphate deposits on nauru and ocean island, all. We are pleased to announce that the lighthouse built at the direction of your Admiralty in 1844 at the northern end of the Great Barrier Reef has now been restored as an official Australian bicentenary project. Of course, we are interested in the origin of the building's design. It's clearly not what was originally intended, and that's all the more reason that the essential end result was copied from a well-established one.
Following my letter of 22 August 1988, we are keen to hold you to the suggestion that you reproduce some of the more interesting parts of. At the time, with the presence of the turtle research team, we took the opportunity to invite National Geographic's top wildlife cameraman (Mitsuaki Iwago) to a. Ken Butler called me in great excitement when he received their copy of the map; we should definitely use it in our next Raine Island Corporation Annual Report.
I am so happy that her grave site is now fully restored, in the shadow of the romantic Raine Island Lighthouse. During the beacon restoration we were able to take the authority on the Great Barrier Reef (Isobel Bennett) to Raine Island for the first time and she has written a beautiful piece on its value. Ue also saw the original picture of the convicts who erected the building; it is much brighter than the representation on the map, so I took the opportunity to pick up some information about obtaining a copy, which I am attaching.
I am looking at putting it in the annual report of the Raine Island Corporation in due course, especially if there are some details about her own life (rather than that of Captain Ellis) that Mrs Milne may. We also wrote to the Naval Archives in Britain to trace the architectural style of the beacon; there must be some interesting connections through. However, you can ask the former archivist of the Hydrographic Department to locate these and any.
I enclose a copy of a despatch from Sir George Gipps to Lord Stanley, dated April 30, 1844, relating to.
HISTOEICAL EECORDS OF AUSTEALIA^H
I have heard that the correspondence of the British Embassy in Guatemala is also located in Taunton and if this rumor proves to be correct. Your name was given to me by Graeme Pouell, Nanuscript Librarian of the National Library, when I inquired in 1844 for material relating to the establishment of a lighthouse at Raine's Islet on the Great Barrier Reef. In the hope that you wish to continue this partial task, I am attaching a list of relevant items known to Pouell, which are probably not exhaustive.
London Bank (the Flidland, Poultry and Princes Street); and I attach a copy of the text from a recent book, 'Slavers in Paradise: the Peruvian labor traffic in Polynesia, to establish my bona fides. The lonely beacon on the edge of the Barrier Reef fascinates me and I am pleased to read in the latest annual report that it has been carefully restored. When this miserable pilot's strike is over, we hope to spend a few days in Sydney searching the New South Uales archives, in case they have any material on the beacon that could serve to supplement your H.O.
I will also follow the other leads you mention in your letter by visiting the nitchell library which now occupies the entire former public library building and is next. Ply's wife's cousin Betty Butler of Cairns, North Queensland, inherited a pile of money from her uncle Ben Pleaker, who owned over a hundred men's clothing stores in England, so she gave $1 million to set up the Pleaker^ Trust for the permanent preservation of Raina Bird Island , the turtles and the lika that lives on it or uses it: hence our interest in the place. IMo must send extracts from Denham's Journal, as I look forward to reading your book on the Herald's voyage: I get the nUP Pacific publications to forward to my Pacific Islands Library, now housed in a spacious room of mine at the University of Adelaide.
It is a collection of the previously unpublished field notes and papers of Arthur Francis Grimble in the Gilbert Islands. Grimble was my boss and guru when we first came to live in the central Pacific atolls in 1929 and would no doubt have prepared them for publication himself; but he sidetracked broadcasting for the BBC and writing A Pattern of Islands and its sequel. The latter was quite unnecessary as I know you well from your writing and we have also corresponded in the past when I worked in the Hydrographic Department.
To return to your request, I am of course happy to carry out the research you desire in the Hydrographic Department, and since I had to go in there yesterday, I have done just that. This may refer to a letter sent to the Secretary of the Admiralty which, if it survives, will be in the public record. The corresponding minutes/letters referred to in the minutes books can be found in the Admiralty or Colonial Office papers in the Public Record Office.
Another source I have copied is the original entry in Directory of Australia, Volume II and one in a pamphlet originally published privately by P.P. In this regard, I would imagine that something was also published in the New South Wales Government Gazette.
