Documents and Correspondence on New Guinea’s Boundaries

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Van Delden Proclamation of 1828....Pages 2-3
Description of Tidore’s territories in New Guinea, 1865....Pages 4-5
Description of Tidore’s territories in New Guinea, 1875....Pages 6-9
The Erskine Proclamation of 1884....Pages 10-10
The amended Erskine Proclamation....Pages 11-12
The Schutzbrief of 1885....Pages 14-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
The Queensland Coast Islands Act of 1879....Pages 21-22
John Douglas to the Colonial Secretary....Pages 23-25
Sir Samuel Griffith to Sir Henry Norman....Pages 26-28
Sir William MacGregor to Sir Henry Norman....Pages 29-32
Sir William MacGregor to the Secretary of State for the Colonies....Pages 33-34
Queensland. Boundaries. Order in Council directing that certain islands now attached to the colony of Queensland shall become part of the possession of British New Guinea....Pages 35-35
Sir William MacGregor to Lord Lamington....Pages 36-38
Hugh M. Nelson to Lord Lamington....Pages 39-40
Queensland. Boundaries. Order in Council directing that certain islands and reefs to the northward of Queensland shall become part of the possession of British New Guinea....Pages 41-42
A. H. Jiear to the Government Secretary, Port Moresby....Pages 43-44
Memorandum of Acting Administrator C. S. Robinson to the Governor-General....Pages 45-46
Governor-General’s Office to the Secretary, Department of External Affairs....Pages 47-47
Governor-General’s Office to the Secretary, Department of External Affairs....Pages 48-48
Alfred Deakin to William Kidston....Pages 49-50
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
William Kidston to Alfred Deakin....Pages 51-51
A. P. Lyons to the Government Secretary, Port Moresby....Pages 52-53
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Arrangement between Great Britain and Germany relative to their respective spheres of action in portions of New Guinea....Pages 57-58
Declaration between the governments of Great Britain and the German Empire relating to the demarcation of the British and German spheres of influence in the Western Pacific....Pages 60-63
Sir William MacGregor to Lord Lamington. Despatch recommending that the Gira River be made the boundary between German and British New Guinea....Pages 64-65
Convention and Declaration between Great Britain and Germany for the settlement of the Samoan and other questions....Pages 66-67
Proclamation by the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, declaring a British protectorate over Choiseul, Ysabel, Shortland Island, Fauro, Tasman Group, Lord Howe’s Group, and Gower Island....Pages 68-68
Exchange of Notes between Great Britain and Germany relating to the re-delimitation of the British and German spheres of influence in the Western Pacific....Pages 69-70
British New Guinea: Negotiations for making Gira River free for navigation....Pages 71-73
George Le Hunte to Atlee Hunt....Pages 74-75
Gustavus Sabine, British Border Commissioner, to the Australian Minister for External Affairs....Pages 76-77
Staniforth Smith to Lieutenant-Governor of Papua....Pages 78-79
An Act to approve the placing of the Territory of New Guinea under the International Trusteeship System.......Pages 80-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Dr G. van Tienhoven to Sir Horace Rumbold....Pages 86-89
Sir William MacGregor to Sir Henry Norman. Despatch respecting expedition undertaken to repel Tugeri invasion....Pages 90-93
Dr G. van Tienhoven to Sir Horace Rumbold....Pages 94-95
The ‘Koloniaal Verslag’ of 1893 (extract)....Pages 96-103
Sir William MacGregor to Sir Henry Norman. Despatch reporting the proceedings in connection with the delimitation of the boundary between British and Dutch New Guinea....Pages 104-106
Convention between Great Britain and the Netherlands defining the boundaries between the British and Netherland possessions in the island of New Guinea....Pages 108-111
Presentation of the Convention of 1895 in the Second and First Chambers of the States General, The Hague, June-July 1895....Pages 112-127
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
New Guinea. British Order in Council applying the laws of Her Majesty’s possessions in New Guinea to the territories acquired under the Convention with the Netherlands of May 16, 1895....Pages 128-128
Sir Henry Howard to W. H. de Beaufort....Pages 129-130
W. H. de Beaufort to Sir Henry Howard....Pages 132-133
Sir Henry Howard to the Marquess of Lansdowne....Pages 134-135
W. Rooseboom to G. R. Le Hunte....Pages 136-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Memorandum of the German Foreign Office to the Netherlands Legation....Pages 140-143
H. L. von Tschirschky to W. J. M. van Eysinga....Pages 144-147
W. A. F. Baron Gevers to H. L. von Tschirschky....Pages 148-149
W. A. F. Baron Gevers to W. von Schön....Pages 150-151
W. von Schön to W. A. F. Baron Gevers....Pages 152-153
The recommendations of the Netherlands Commission of the German-Netherlands Boundary Commission (extract)....Pages 154-163
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Memorandum of J. I. Merrylees to the Government Secretary, Rabaul, concerning the border between the Mandated Territory and Netherlands New Guinea....Pages 167-172
R. de Marees van Swinderen to S. M. Bruce....Pages 173-174
R. de Marees van Swinderen to S. M. Bruce....Pages 175-175
Exchange of Notes between His Majesty’s government in the Commonwealth of Australia and the Netherlands government constituting an agreement regarding the boundary between Netherlands New Guinea and the territory of New Guinea administered under mandate by His Majesty’s government in the Commonwealth of Australia....Pages 176-181
J. P. Count van Limburg Stirum to S. M. Bruce....Pages 182-183
Border Conference. Ingembit Village....Pages 184-184
Discussions between Sydney Elliott Smith and Sj. van der Goot concerning the Waris border area....Pages 185-186
Brief report of the visit of the District Commissioner of Daru to Merauke from 2 to 6 June 1956....Pages 188-191
Australian-Dutch Conference on Survey and Mapping....Pages 192-194
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Report and Recommendations of the Australian-Dutch Technical Commission....Pages 195-199
Questions in the Netherlands Parliament about the Waris and Jaffi Enclaves, 1962....Pages 200-203
Roggeveen-Dent Declaration (Angamarut)....Pages 204-204
Roggeveen-Dent Declaration (Domongi)....Pages 205-205
Roggeveen Declaration (Bensbach River)....Pages 206-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
West Irian/Papua and New Guinea border....Pages 209-209
Parliamentary Question and Reply concerning the Irian boundary....Pages 210-210
Parliamentary Questions and Replies concerning the free navigation on the Fly River....Pages 211-212