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Trout and salmon ova for New Zealand 1873

STEPHEN BUDDEN New Zealand
ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETIES salmon trout ova
BUDDEN PHOTO COLLECTIONS

Here is a stereograph attributed to Tasmanian photographer Samuel Clifford ca. 1868 which was cleanly mounted in a binocular frame. The examples below, in relation to Stephen Budden's visit to Tasmania in 1873, were not so fortunate to survive in such original condition. They were printed first as slides from the glass plate negative, using black circular or rectangular masks, and were subsequently printed from the slide onto a stereographic mount, leaving the blackened edges of the mask visible.



Salmon Ponds, nr. New Norfolk
Author: Clifford, Samuel, 1827-1890.
Publication Information: 1868.
Physical description: 1 stereoscopic pair of photographs : sepia toned ; each 7 cm. in diam.
Notes:Circular imagess
Archives Office Tasmania
https://stors.tas.gov.au/AUTAS001136194172

Stephen Budden, commercial agent from Lyttleton, New Zealand for the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society arrived at New Wharf, Hobart, Tasmania, on 4th August 1873, the sole passenger aboard the brig Chanticleer under command of Capt. G. A. Phillips. His mission was to superintend a shipment of salmon and salmon trout ova back to New Zealand. With assistance from the Tasmanian Acclimatisation Society and naturalist and amateur photographer, Morton Allport, who was instrumental in the introduction of salmon ova and European fish to Tasmania in the 1860s, two shipments were sent: the first of salmon trout ova was accompanied by Stephen Budden on the Clematis, departing 29th August; and the second of 500 brown trout ova destined for the Auckland Climatisation Society left on the Bella Mary on the 23rd August 1873. As a result of Stephen Budden's successful mission, Morton Allport was made an honorary life member of the Otago Acclimatisation Society.

NEWSPAPER NOTICES
The first Mercury report of Stephen Budden's arrival in Hobart assumed he was an official of the New Zealand Government. On reading it, he penned a letter to the editor, requesting correction.



Stephen Budden arrives in Hobart, mistakenly reported as a NZ Gov't official
Source: The Mercury, 4th August 1873

TRANSCRIPT
The brig Chanticleer, Captain G. A. Phillips, from Lyttleton, New Zealand, in ballast, came into port on Saturday afternoon.... She has one passenger, a Mr Budden, who has come up on the part of the New Zealand Government to superintend the shipment of trout and salmon trout ova to New Zealand.
Stephen Budden may have taken this photograph of rocks, perhaps because the rocks were being unloaded as ballast from the brig Chanticleer at New Wharf, or because those rocks were destined for  Dr. Julius Haarst, NZ Government Geologist and Naturalist. The original photograph might have been taken by Stephen Budden's counterpart, Morton Allport. Although attributed to Samuel Clifford (at Douglas Stewart Fine Books), the reprint from the lantern slide showing the black circular mask in a square mount is unlikely to be the final commercial product offered to tourists by Samuel Clifford, or indeed his partner Thomas Nevin in the 1870s:







Douglas Stewart Fine Books
Hobart Town from the Wharf
CLIFFORD, Samuel (1827-1890) (attributed) # 12743
[Title from contemporary inscription verso]. 1861-1865. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 80 x 80 mm, on pale yellow card mount; a 15 mm tear at upper edge, otherwise the albumen prints are in good condition.



Round and square black border masks used for producing magic lantern slides
Source: eBay and The Magic Lantern Society (UK)

Quite a few of these rather unappealing amateur reprints have appeared in the market place in recent times. Most were transcribed in a contemporary hand with general information about the place of capture, eg. a building or scenic view, but with the word "Tasmania" included, simply because the collector was an intercolonial visitor who needed a reminder of the photograph's subject. Some have a note written verso stating what the building or streetscape looked like "30 years ago", eg. St. David's Church in Macquarie Street, dating the print from its original photograph ca. 1870 to ca. 1890. Who was responsible for reprinting these stereographs from the slides with black masks onto a yellow square card, or why they were reprinted in this manner, is not known, but Stephen Budden's brother Frank Budden, was resident of London in the 1880s, and his son's name - T. F. Budden - stamped on the versos of some of these reprints, suggests that the Budden family may be the source of the reprints. Dr Tice Frank Budden became a renowned photographer of trains in Britain in the 1890s.



Nephew of Stephen Budden, T. F. Budden blue stamp and 
Budden also pencilled along right-hand side
Verso of a stereograph taken at Fern Tree Gully Tasmania (eBay item 2016)
Several of these stamped verso taken at the Chudleigh Caves, Tasmania were also on eBay2010



Stephen Budden's letter to the editor requesting correction
Source: The Mercury 5th August 1873

TRANSCRIPT
AN EXPLANATION
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERCURY
SIR, - I shall feel obliged if you will correct an inaccuracy which occurs in the shipping report of this morning's issue of your paper, with reference to my name It is stated that I have come on behalf of the New Zealand Government, for the salmon trout ova. This is not the case. It is on behalf of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society that I have come. Your insertion of the above will
Oblige yours, &c.,
STEPHEN BUDDEN.
Hobart Town
4th August, 1873
Two shipments were sent: one of salmon trout ova was accompanied by Stephen Budden on the Clematis, departing 29th August; and the second of 500 brown trout ova destined for the Auckland Climatisation Society left on the Bella Mary the 23rd August 1873.



Stephen Budden returns to NZ with salmon trout ova
Source: The Mercury 29th August 1873

TRANSCRIPT
The brig Clematis, Capt. Johnson, entered and cleared out yesterday for Lyttleton with a full cargo of timber, hops, and bark. She also takes down some Salmon Trout Ova under the charge of S. Budden Esq., for the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society. The Clematis will sail early this morning.
Trout Hatching at the Museum
Stephen Budden spent 25 days in Tasmania. He travelled around and across the island with a group attached to public institutions, whom he thanked in this article. published in the Mercury, 6th September 1873. His collection of photographs, probably sourced from Morton Allport, included scenes taken at Port Arthur, at Grass Tree Hill, Richmond, at Cascades, South Hobart, at Cora Linn in Launceston, on the summit of Mount Wellington, and at Government House, Hobart.



TRANSCRIPT  Sat 6 Sep 1873 Page 1
ACCLIMATISATION.
By the barque Bella Mary, for Auckland, on the 23rd ult., a further shipment of brown trout ova was made by the Salmon Commissioners to the Acclimatisation Society of Auckland, Now Zealand. The ova was packed, under the superintendence of Mr. Buckland, in ice and snow, and it is to be hoped that it will arrive all safe. The shipment now made is 500 brown trout ova.
For some weeks, Mr. Stephen Budden was in Hobart Town, engaged in obtaining salmon trout ova for the Canterbury (New Zealand) Acclimatisation Society. Mr. Budden left a few days ago, and the following, which he sent to us just before leaving, will show the result of his mission :
" Before leaving Tasmania, after a brief sojourn in Hobart Town, I think it is my duty to acknowledge the courtesy and willingness of gentlemen connected with some of the public institutions of this place, who have forwarded my views and assisted me in my endeavour on behalf of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society of New Zealand. I have adopted this means of acknowledgment and thanks, because the object of my mission possesses a public interest. I do not think the gentlemen alluded to would thank me for inserting their names, neither would I presume to do so without their leave ; but 1 hope they will attribute to me a proper motive, and accept the acknowledgment and thanks on behalf of the above named Society. To these gentlemen who are entrusting to my care specimens for Dr. Julius Haarst (Government Geologist and Naturalist) I have only to say that I will not presume to take upon myself to rob that gentleman of the right and pleasure of acknowledging and returning thanks for himself, which I am very well assured he will do. I have only in conclusion to say, that I came here expecting to find all sorts of difficulties and obstacles in the way of my salmon trout ova mission, but I have found them all removed, and my path cleared before me, by the kindness of the gentlemen referred to,"
On the 19th October, 1870, a resident of Oatlands received from Mr. Morton Allport of Hobart Town, a small bottle of perch ova, with which he, Mr. R. Robinson, at once rowed out into the Lake and deposited in about eighteen inches of water in a sedgy secluded spot. The lake is about 800 acres in extent, or considerably larger than the Government Domain at Hobart Town, and a remarkably fine sheet of water of the average depth of about 10 foot, and swarms with fish food. Nothing was heard of the little jumping things in the eggs, in the bottle, till last January, when a small shoal of fish were seen floating to and fro in the waters on the shores of the lake, and one being caught was forwarded to Mr. Allport in an envelope, for his decision as to its genus, and pronounced a perch by that gentleman. The recent heavy rains, and those of last year, raised the waters of the lake till they flowed out of the outlet at the northern extremity, forming a tributary to the Jordan, and, as a result, a dozen or more perch of various sizes have been washed through the outlet, thus proving satisfactorily that one of Tasmania's lakes, with the thoroughly English name of " Dulverton " has been well stocked with that fine fish. One may fairly predicate, that not the least attractive portion, in days to come, of the enticements, held out by Tasmania to visitors, will be a day's perch fishing, with no licence to pay, in this water, with a summer temperature perhaps the breeziest and most pleasant in Australia, and not bad shooting thrown in.

Many persons have during the past few days had an opportunity of witnessing what, in this colony, is the interesting process of trout-hatching, at the Museum. A hundred ova of the brown trout or salmo fario were obtained from the River Plenty, and placed in a box, containing a large number of pebbles at the bottom, and fresh water. The water is continually being changed, and is kept at a great temperature, The ova were put in on the 11th August, and the first fish was hatched on the 27th of that month. There are now a number of them hatched, and very curious little things they look. The fish are kept in the box till they are about an inch and a half in length, and then they are placed in a fresh water stream to provide their own living. In the box they are fed with insects, and, judging by the ravenous manner in which they seize them, they show their partiality for that description of food.
Source: The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Sat 6 Sep 1873 Page 1 SUMMARY FOR EUROPE

Thomas Nevin at the Salmon Ponds and River Plenty
Samuel Clifford and Thomas Nevin were close friends and colleagues who travelled around Tasmania on photographic excursions in the 1870s and supported each other's business and family interests.

See these related articles:



At the Salmon Ponds, Tasmania
Stereograph by T. Nevin ca. 1873
Blindstamp impress on side of left image
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection 
Ref: Q1994.56.7



Verso: At the Salmon Ponds, Tasmania
Stereograph by T. Nevin ca. 1873
Blindstamp impress on side of left image
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection 
Ref: Q1994.56.7



River Derwent in Flood
Stereograph by T. Nevin ca. 1873
Blindstamp impress on side of left image
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection 
TMAG Ref: Q1994.56.21



Above: Photographs of the River Derwent near the Salmon Ponds taken and printed conjointly by Thomas J. Nevin and Samuel Clifford, published in an album titled "Tasmanian Views" 1873. Photos copyright © KLW NFC Imprint 2012. State Library of Tasmania Collections.

The Budden Photograph Collections
These are some of the reprints of stereographs which have surfaced in the market place (fine arts dealers, eBay etc), taken in Tasmania. They were mounted originally on binocular cardboard mounts, then reprinted on yellow square mounts, transcribed on versos with the words "Hobart Town" or "Tasmania" in every instance. The handwriting is uniformly similar on all the versos of these examples.





Verso: Two men and a third who took the photograph
Grass Tree Hill Richmond, Tasmania 1873





Government House Drawing Room, Hobart 1873





Mount Wellington from Mr James Milne Wilson's verandah 1873.

The inscription reads:
Mount Wellington from the "Cascades". Residence of the Hon'ble J. M. Wilson (on the verandah). Member of the Legislative Council Hobart Town. Major of Tasmanian Volunteers. Tasmania



Detail: Mr. J. M. Wilson on his verandah, Cascades..
See notes above on verso of the yellow card

The connection to railways, between this photograph of James Milne Wilson (1812–1880) and its passing down to Stephen Budden's nephew, T. F. Budden whose passion was photographing trains, is Wilson's successful legislation of the Hobart-Launceston main line Railway Act and the 1871 contract for its construction with a 3 ft 6 ins (107 cm) gauge. Read more about (Sir) James Milne Wilson here at Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Dr Tice F Budden Train Collection
Brief biographical notes, example, and references.
Dr Tice F Budden was educated in Bath and at Cambridge University, where he took up photography in 1889. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of railway photography alongside P W Pilcher, E J Bedford, and R H Bleasdale who are also represented in the NRM collections. He initially concentrated on stationary locomotives but soon experimented, taking some of the first photographs of engines in motion. His career as a railway photographer lasted over fifty years - he captured the final years of the GWR broad gauge lines at Ealing in 1892 and took his last pictures near his home in Dorking just after the Second World War.
The 'Budden collection' is composed of twenty-three 4¼ x 3¼ ins glass negatives featuring static views of Southern, Southern Eastern & Chatham, Great Eastern and North British Railway locomotives. There is also an album of prints showing locomotives in Britain, Belgium, Austria and Ireland. The bulk of Budden's work, however, appears in the LGRP collection (qv) which contains about 1,145 of his original negatives and about 200 copies.  Number: 23 negatives with reference contact prints240 prints in an album Date: c 1890 – 1923 Finding aids: The 23 negatives are listed and there are simple captions in the albums. LGRP negatives are listed and can be identified by reference to the registers in sequences 21100 to 22247. Bibliography R Bucknall & Dr T F Budden, Railway Memories (Published by the authors, 1947) John Minnis, 'Dr T F Budden in Cambridge, 1889', British Railway Journal 32, Summer 1990



From the Colonel Stephens Railway Museum
http://www.hfstephens-museum.org.uk/locomotives/gazelle
On her arrival back at Lynn, Gazelle was again photographed, this time in the yard of the GER locomotive shed. The cameraman was Dr Tice F. Budden, who had taken up railway photography as an undergraduate at Cambridge in 1889, and had evidently been tipped off that there would be a chance to record an unusual event. In one of the photographs "Gazelle" is posed alongside No. 0706 of the Great Eastern, a rebuild of a Sinclair compound 4-4-0 and a regular performer on the Cambridge main line at that period.



Family notes on Stephen and Frank Budden
Source: Canterbury Museum, New Zealand

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Captain Edward Goldsmith, the diarist Annie Baxter and a burial at sea 1848

DEATH at SEA on board the RATTLER
CAPTAIN EDWARD GOLDSMITH imports 1848
ANNIE BAXTER diarist



Screenshot from Master and Commander (video clip below)

A Death at Sea
Teenager Thomas Landale jnr, b. 1830, died at sea on 19th September 1848 on board the barque Rattler six weeks out from London on the voyage back to Hobart, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Captain Edward Goldsmith in command. He was returning from studies in England, the son of medical practitioner Thomas Landale snr (1795-1851) and Harriett Dry, sister of politician Richard Dry.

Captain Edward Goldsmith performed the burial rites at sea in the presence of the only other family member on board, younger brother Richard Landale, b. 1831, barely seventeen years old. Presumably the body was disposed of soon after death rather than kept on board until first landfall, which might have been the Falkland Islands where Captain Goldsmith routinely berthed to resupply his crew. On arrival in the Derwent at Hobart ten weeks later, Port Officer Lawrence recorded the names of all passengers at the time he boarded the vessel, but recorded nothing about the death at sea. Although death notices had appeared in the press by the 9th December 1848, the death itself was not listed in official death and burial registers, making it difficult to ascertain both the cause of the teenager's demise and location of a cemetery memorial.





TRANSCRIPTS
On the 19th September last, on board the Rattler, while on his return to this country, Thomas Landale, junior, Esq., aged 19, eldest son of Thomas Landale, Esq,. of Elphin.
DEATH AT SEA. - We regret to observe that the eldest son of Dr. Landale who went some time since to England, to complete his education, died during his passage out on board the Rattler.
Source: Launceston Examiner (Tas. : 1842 - 1899) Sat 9 Dec 1848 Page 5 No Title



Arrival of the Rattler at Hobart, VDL, 5th December 1848
Port Officer's Log
Archives Office Tasmania MB2-39-1-10, image 196
Source: http://stors.tas.gov.au/MB2-39-1-10



Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List Saturday 16 December 1848
https://www.nla.gov.au/ferguson/14403897/18481216/00050248/1-4.pdf

The Sydney Shipping Gazette listed the names of passengers arriving at Hobart Town, 5th December 1848, on board the Rattler, barque, Goldsmith, from London [departed 4th August 1848], but no mention of the death at sea of Thomas Landale jnr. Apart from younger brother of the deceased, Richard Landale, whose name was misspelt in the Sydney Shipping Gazette notice as Lansdale, the other passengers were Mr. G. Smith, Mr and Mrs Levy, Miss Blyth, Dr. Underwood, Mr. M. Kennel. Mr. C. Gurnsey, Mr and Mrs Cook and daughter, Mrs Esdmond, Margaret Macdonald, Mrs Quinn, Serjeant Sullivan, wife, two daughters, and one son, Mrs Bailey and two daughters.



At YouTube: Burial at Sea, Master and Commander (2003)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu6znbnWZow

Diarist Annie Baxter 1847-49
How the family grieved for the death of Thomas Landale jnr was recorded by Melbourne-based diarist Annie Baxter (1816-1905), who maintained a close relationship with politician Richard Dry (1815-1869), uncle of the deceased boy, from a previous time when they first met in Hobart. Her liaison with Richard Dry intensified when her marriage to Lieutenant Andrew Baxter (1813-1855) had ceased in all but name only. Her visits to Tasmania exactly coincided with the arrival of Captain Edward Goldsmith and the Rattler between the years 1847 to 1849. She stayed with her brother Captain William Hadden of the Royal Engineers at Davey St. Hobart, near the corner of Harrington St,, close to photographer Douglas Kilburn's house at Number 22, a few doors along from Stewart's Brewery and Captain Goldsmith's house at Number 19. St David's Burial Ground was opposite, and across from the burial ground was the new St Mary’s Hospital, erected in 1847 which Annie Baxter frequented for the hot baths and the young male clientele. On one occasion she heard "a young man in the next Bath and he was busy using a - which made such a noise, I could scarcely prevent laughing." What was he using?



Source: Toni-Anne Sherwood (2010) p. 282, August 2[7th].

This sketched portrait ca. 1850 by Thomas Bock (below) is an almost contemporary representation of Richard Dry, Annie Baxter's lover who behaved to her "in the most friendly manner ... How dearly I love him!" she confided ecstatically to her diary. Quite obviously, the word "friendly" could not express enough how deeply satisfying she found his love, so she underscored it. According to Sherwood (2010, p. 44), no portrait, painting or photograph was found among the diaries or seems to have survived of Annie Baxter herself from these years, although in the diaries Annie Baxter mentions a "likeness" taken of her by cartographer and cartoonist George Frankland (Sherwood p.91), and a gift of a cameo brooch from Dr Hadley (Sherwood p.261).



Annie Baxter's lover Richard Dry ca. 1840s
Artist: Thomas Bock (ca. 1830-1855)
Ref: a3171002
Mitchell Library, SLNSW

Annie Baxter led the giddy life of a flirtatious socialite while fitfully despising herself for confiding so much of the prattle to her diary. During the summer of 1848-49 when Captain Edward Goldsmith was in town, she went riding with him, dined with him, requested he import plate for her, spent the night under the same roof as him at Sharlands, New Norfolk, on 17th December 1848, and probably dallied with him as was her custom with men of her class regardless of their respective matrimonial status or prospects. In late 1849, she met Mrs Elizabeth Goldsmith who arrived at Hobart with her husband and two sons on the Rattler, after which no further mention was made of Captain Goldsmith. Another man by the name of Goldsmith - Adolphus Goldsmith who held large leases on land at Trawallo, Victoria (40,000 acres) and at St. Helens, Victoria (25,000 acres) - is mentioned two or three times in her diary as Mr. Goldsmith while visiting Victoria, not to be confused with Captain Goldsmith and presumably no relation. By March 1850 Annie Baxter had met and formed a relationship with a new paramour, Josiah Thompson of HMS Maeander.She departed Hobart for England in 1851, married again in 1857 to Robert Dawbin on 1st September at St Paul's, Melbourne, and concluded her diaries n 1868.

In November 1848, with the Rattler still a month out from arrival at Hobart, Annie Baxter's thoughts were already about Captain Goldsmith and her box, an import containing "plate". If the news of Thomas Landale's death at sea had been received in Hobart before the arrival of the Rattler, she was not aware of it until Richard Dry visited her on Tuesday 12th December 1848 when she records:
Tuesday morning Mr Dry came to sit with me, and told me of poor Tom Landale‘s death on board the Rattler, about six weeks after sailing; This vessel came in the night before, and that is the reason why he did not come to see me. Poor fellow! he was sadly cast down, as Tom was his favorite; and he was very fond of him...
Source: Sherwood, T-A. (2010)
Annie Baxter in Van Diemen’s Land : an abridged and annotated version of her journal, 1834 –1851.
PhD thesis, University of Tasmania. June 2010.
Digital thesis ePrints University of Tasmania



Source: Archives Office Tasmania
Richard Dry on left, his wife Clara Meredith, whom he married in 1853 on right, posing with a terrier.
Later, Sir Richard Dry, Tasmania's first locally-born Premier, and Lady Dry.
Unattributed photographs of people associated with St David's Cathedral
The photograph of Richard Dry was taken in an untidy studio, possibly Alfred Bock's or Thomas Nevin's, ca. 1860, and that of Clara Dry may have been taken by the Frith brothers, Murray St.
Biography at ADB: click here.

The extracts cited here are from Toni-Anne Sherwood (2010), Annie Baxter in Van Diemen’s Land : an abridged and annotated version of her journal, 1834 –1851. PhD thesis, University of Tasmania. June 2010 digital version. The original manuscripts of Annie Baxter's diaries are held at the State Library of NSW under her last married surname: Annie Maria Dawbin diaries, 12 September 1834-3 May 1869[Contents]
Dawbin, Anna Maria
DLMSQ 181
DLMSQ 182
DLMSQ 183
3 boxes of textual material (32 volumes)



Annie Baxter's diaries, State Library of NSW held under her last married surname:
Annie Maria Dawbindiaries, 12 September 1834-3 May 1869 [Contents]
Photo copyright © KLW NFC 2017 ARR

Diary extracts: Captain Goldsmith 1847-1849
Annie Baxter met Captain Edward Goldsmith for the first time one year earlier, in January 1847: "a Captain Goldsmith of the Rattler" she recorded, pouty and piqued with interest: "a certain [insert name here] ..." is the usual full expression to denote someone special. Such was her desire to impress him, she took the reins of the horses and carriage they rode in to visit William Sharland's hop plantation at New Norfolk in the Derwent Valley, much to the amusement of Captain Goldsmith seated behind, chaperone on this trip to Elizabeth Oke Buckland, daughter of Hutchins School headmaster John Buckland, married to chief justice Sir Valentine Fleming in 1852. William Sharland had received "new kinds of hops" imported on the Rattler, 50, 000 hop pockets on one shipment alone(Courier 17th November 1847), sourced from the Goldsmith plantations and nurseries at Chalk in Kent. Captain Goldsmith's excursion to Sharland's extensive plantation was to see how his plants were prospering. Annie Baxter made the same journey again through the Derwent Valley one year later with Captain Goldsmith (1848), this time chaperoned by another of her paramours, hotelier Dr. Hadley.



William Stanley Sharland (1801-1877)
ADRI: NS407-1-21 Unattributed ca. 1870s
Elizabeth Oke Buckland, later Lady Fleming, wife of Sir Valentine Fleming
ADRI: NS407-1-35 Unattributed ca.1870s
Series: Photograph Album Mainly of People Associated with St Davids Cathedral, 1901 - 1753 (NS407)
Source: Archives Office of Tasmania

1847
January 19th Tuesday. [1847] Only a fortnight elapsed without my writing in this book = since when, I‘ve been to New Norfolk (this day week by the bye,) in company with Miss Buckland and a Captain Goldsmith of the Rattler; [167] I drove all the way there to the amusement of the persons driven.
We breakfasted at Mrs Sharland‘s: she is a pretty little wayward thing, and looks so young to have seven children! Three of the Misses Shaw are staying with their sister, and are ladylike, nice girls. The eldest will in all probability become Mrs Robertson, and in such case – I pity her.
After luncheon, we rode to see Mr Sharland‘s hop-garden; it is very pretty, to see the hops in the stage they are now in, and there appears to be a good crop this season.[168]

Footnotes:
[167] The newly built 522-ton barque Rattler, commanded by Edward Goldsmith, made its maiden voyage to VDL in 1846. It arrived 11 Nov. 1846 after a voyage of 110 days and sailed for London on 21 Jan. 1847. Goldsmith had previously visited Hobart Town as commander of the Wave and was described fondly in local newspapers as ―our old friend‖ (Courier 28 Oct. 1846)
[168] Hops were cultivated in the Derwent Valley from the late 1820s and by the 1840s it had become the "premier hop growing region" in the colony (Evans 181). Sharland had been among the pioneer growers. Hops are harvested in late Feb. and early Mar.; by mid-Jan. they would be reaching maturity. [see page 183 digital]



Women picking hops, Derwent Valley Tasmania
Postcard ca. 1900
Archives Office Tasmania Ref: AUTAS0016125499962

1848
November 9th Thursday [1848] – It is between 3 and 4 o‘clock, now, and I‘m sitting in the silence of "sleep", writing by the fire! I‘ve been in downright agony for some time, but am now almost free from pain in my unfortunate face.
Laudanum! my old comforter, has been had recourse to, and I hope to get some sleep soon.
I‘ve finished the book Miss Buckland very kindly lent me, called, "Rose, Blanche & Violet"; it is prettily written – and the second character is so womanly & faulty, that I consider it beautiful! Violet, is more my own stamp, and I can therefore perceive [224] her faults easily....
The Rattler is expected every day; I hope she may come before I leave, as I anticipate a box by Captain Goldsmith, containing the Plate I sent for ... [see page 591 digital]
December 7th Thursday [1848] On Monday Mrs Roberts gave a dance, and I believe it went off very well, William went to it, but I remained at home, & had the pleasure of Dr Hadley‘s company. He improves vastly on acquaintance, and is very agreeable.
Tuesday morning Mr Dry came to sit with me, and told me of poor Tom Landale‘s death on board the Rattler, about six weeks after sailing; This vessel came in the night before, and that is the reason why he did not come to see me. Poor fellow! he was sadly cast down, as Tom was his favorite; and he was very fond of him.[148]
Footnote
[148] Tom (b. 1830) was Dry‘s nephew and the eldest son of Harriet and Thomas Landale (see entry 14 Mar. 1837) [see page 237 digital]
December 16th Saturday. [1848] At 10 o‘clock,Captain Goldsmith and Dr Hadley came, and soon after we all started for New Norfolk; I drove after the first 9 miles; and we reached our destination about 1 o‘clock. We drove to the Archdeacon‘ as arranged before, and at 3 had dinner. Mrs Marriott looks very pretty, and as well as ever I saw her looking, altho‘ in such deep distress about her servants, whom she cannot manage to keep for any time. She amused me very much in saying that she could not attend to her birds, and asking the Archdeacon to get one of the men to feed them!
In the afternoon all went out but me, and I made myself useful in copying a song for Mrs Marriott whilst they were out; Mrs Sharland, Mrs Schaw, Miss L. Schaw and the 4 Misses Sharland came up to see me. The former being en famille [179] looks so ill and weak! Poor little creature, it is really too bad for her to be always either nursing, or having children.[180] How fond men should be of their wives, when they see them suffer so much for their sakes! I asked her if she felt nervous at the approach of another accouchement? She said ―Oh! no; I would far sooner have children, than suffer as you do = with a child, it is over, & there is an end of it; but you are always ill! She is a good mother & wife – …
Footnotes
[178]Sarah Anne, eldest daughter of Deptuy Commissary General George MacLean and his wife.
[179] Pregnant/ In the family way (French).
[180] Frances Sharland was pregnant with her ninth child, a daughter Catherine was born 31 Mar. 1849. [see page 244 digital]



Page 16, visit to the Archdeacon's, 18th December 1848: transcript extract below:-
Annie Baxter' diaries (as Annie Dawbin) State Library NSW
Photo copyright © KLW NFC 2017 ARR

December 18th Monday [1848] We breakfasted, and called at the Archdeacon‘s by 9 o‘clock; Capt Goldsmith, Louis & William sat in the front, and Mrs Marriott & I behind. Oh! I was so shaken! it is pitiable how I feel for a time, any over-fatigue, and positively I could scarcely move during the whole evening – not to mention other disagreeables. Miss Buckland & Miss Burnett were here; and Tom too, as mischievous as ever; he sat the whole evening by me, occasionally tickling my feet, or rather, trying to do so. Miss Buckland talks of accompanying him over to Longford on Friday next; so he will not make much stay with us. [see page 614 digital]

1849
January 28th Sunday [1848-1849] Friday and Saturday were both such warm days! On Thursday we went on board the "Rattler" and took both the children with us. Friday we rode out, and were accompanied by Mr & Mrs Drake; William commenced the ride, but vanished upon seeing Messrs Roberts & Vickery on horseback: we found him at home, talking with Miss Burnett. [see page 632 digital]
November 27th Tuesday [1849] All the afternoon was passed at my Frame, and my work progresses rapidly. The Rattler came in last night; and W. C. went on board today to see Mrs Goldsmith; They have brought me a box from Harriet [Annie's sister]. I don‘t know whether I am very curious to see the contents, but I would like to know what they are..
Dr Hadley paid me a short visit after Mess; I‘m always so glad to see him, because he is to see me, I suppose ...[see page 697 digital]
November 30th Friday. [1849] Everybody appeared on the qui vive [143] today; at an early hour might be seen groups of gaily-dressed individuals, bending their steps towards the anticipated "scene of action", the Regatta ground. Mrs E. Bedford, Miss M. Scott, Vizzy, Nelly,[144] Louis & Annie, accompanied me at 9 o‘clock to the Flag Staff, to see the boats start. Dr Hadley met us at the Barrack Gate, altho‘ it was rather early in the day; and Messrs Johnston and Montgomerie came up to the look-out, whilst we were there. William [Annie's brother] drove Captain & Mrs Goldsmith [145] to the Domain at ½ past 11= and the carriage then returned for me; After the children‘s dinner, I drove them and Mrs Stonor to the Regatta. We went on to the ground quite alone; but I espied Dr Hadley in advance,...
Footnote:
[145] Captain Goldsmith‘s vessel, the Rattler arrived in Hobart Town on 27 Nov. [1849] from London. His wife and son were among those on board [see page 698 digital] Correction: both sons were on board - Richard Sydney and Edward jnr

December 11th Tuesday [1849] – Yesterday was such a broiling day; but in the afternoon, we had a gallop on the sands, and regularly warmed the horses. We were home by 4 o‘clock, and I then worked at my worsted. I am now reading "the Emigrant" by Sir F. Head. It is quite a political work.
Messrs Dry & Hollings, and Captn Goldsmith paid me a visit yesterday morning; the former brought me a note from Mrs Chiene, who is just moving to Perth – where [she] is going to reside. Dr Landale, who had a stroke of par[ ], is getting well again. This morning Mr Tillett called to say Adieu to me, as he sails this afternoon in the Endora, for California; so I gave him my note to Mr Dyson Aplin.
Just as Louis‘ lessons were finished, Mrs Cox paid me a visit of an hour. She told me some very amusing anecdotes of Mrs Harvey; and another one, of Mr E. Meredith – who is going to marry Miss Bostock. It appears that he wrote to ask Mr Connolly if he could not have his Intended‘s £1000!! He positively has no place to take her to, and wants to borrow her trifling sum of money! Such is Matrimony in this Colony, oftentimes. [see page 701 digital]
Source of Extracts: Sherwood, T. A. (2010)
Annie Baxter in Van Diemen’s Land : an abridged and annotated version of her journal, 1834 –1851.
PhD thesis, University of Tasmania. June 2010.
Digital version click here.

The barque Rattler was an attraction to visitors at the Hobart wharves. Open days were scheduled when tours on board were invited (28th Jan. 1848-1849). The Regatta was the other great attraction. Captain Goldsmith had been a committee member, umpire and judge of the annual Regatta races from his first engagement by Governor Sir John Franklin in 1842. In 1849, it was Annie Baxter's brother William Hadden who drove Captain and Mrs Goldsmith to the Regatta grounds (Nov. 30th 1849).

Annie Baxter was fond of riding and could manage horses whether hitched to a carriage or mounted. She recorded in this entry of December 11th, 1849, that "we had a gallop on the sands" and although not stated, she presumably rode side-saddle. This photograph (below) taken of Mrs Hutchinson (ca. 1870s?) riding side-saddle shows how much strain the position placed on the upper torso and hips.



Title: HUTCHINSON, Reverend A. & Mrs, with third unknown figure, riding in the bush at Middlesex Plains Station
Ref: ADRI:PH30-1-3833 [n.s., n.d.]
Source:Archives Office of Tasmania





Chronology of Annie Baxter's life (1816-1913)
Source: The journal of Annie Baxter Dawbin : July 1858 - May 1868 / edited by Lucy Frost
St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, in association with the State Library of New South Wales, 1998
Photo copyright © KLW NFC 2017 ARR

Imports per "Rattler" 20th December 1848
The goods arriving on this voyage of the barque Rattler from London to Hobart, Van Diemen's Land could not have differed more from the huge quantities of alcohol which arrived on the Rattler's voyage in 1850. On this voyage, Captain Edward Goldsmith had sought out from London's merchants every household item a settler and small business trader would need, from slops (simple clothing) for their servants to tools, japanned ware, clocks, muslins, china figures, blinds, bedding and bibles, and even a freezing machine.

One item - a case of daguerreotype plates - suggests at least one photographer's studio was operating in Hobart, barely a year after the introduction of the medium to the Australian colonies. Two practitioners in the canon of early Tasmanian photographers in 1848 were Thomas Bock, working at 22 Campbell St. Hobart between 1848-1855, and Thomas Browne. at 52 Liverpool St. in 1846, moving to 31 Macquarie St. by 1848 until 1853. Browne is notable for his 1847 daguerreotype of three Tasmanian Aborigines dressed in furs and photographed in his studio (Gough, J. “The First Photographs of Tasmanian Aboriginal People” in Lydon, 2014). In addition to the photographic supplies were paints and artists' supplies:
2 casks white and red lead, 4 casks linseed oil, 17 cases paint oil and turps, 2 hampers varnish, 2 barrels colours, Stevens and Harcourts;

These two cased and hand-coloured daguerreotypes, both attributed to Thomas Bock, each depict young brothers whose lives would have been very similar to the Landale brothers' experiences in the 1840s.



Thomas Bock (1790 – 1855) (attributed)
James and Henry Barnard c. 1850
Cased, hand-coloured daguerreotype
TMAG Collection



Thomas Bock (England 1790 – Australia 1855, Australia from 1824)
No title (Portrait of two boys)
1848-50, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Daguerreotype,case closed 7.0 h x 6.0 w cm case open 7.5 h x 13.0 w cm
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Purchased 2009
Photo: © Dr Marcus Bunyan and the National Gallery of Victoria

In amongst all these cases, boxes, casks, crates and barrels was Annie Baxter's box of plate, possibly this shipment of silver plate exported by Dugard (London), documented on the Rattler's Cocket no.222; thirty eight ounces of British silver plate, value £23 ....



Silver plate outwards 6 June 1847
Source: Archives Office of Tasmania
Cargo, Passenger and Crew Lists
Customs Dept: CUS36/1/442, image 397



Source: The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840 - 1859) Wed 20 Dec 1848 Page 2 SHIPPING NEWS.

TRANSCRIPT

"Per Rattler, from London - 3 bales canvas, 6 cases lucifers, 9 cases hats, 20 bundles spades, 10 kegs white lead, 12 cases trunks drapery, 2 trunks shoes 37 pockets hops, 12 packages ship chandlery, 1 crate sickles, I case brooms, I case woollens, 1 bale cottons, 100 cases French wine, 14 quarter casks 19 cases port wine, 30 quarter casks sherry, 20 cases do, 10 cases port wine, Nathan, Moses, & Co.; 12 crates crockery, H. Marks; 1 case blinds, J. Milward; 2 cases leather, 3 cases cottons, 1 case Cologne water, L. C. Stevenson; 7 cases 2 casks hardware, 1 cask glass, 1 cask white lead, 16 barrels tar, 2 casks white and red lead, 4 casks linseed oil, 17 cases paint oil and turps, 2 hampers varnish, 2 barrels colours, Stevens and Harcourts; 2 cases muslins, J. Guthrie 1 case books, R. S. Waterhouse Brothers; 1 case millinery E.P Bedford; 6 casks grindery, I. G. Reeves; 8 hhds hollow-ware, 14 casks ironmongery, 2 cases fenders, 1 case blinds, 1 case silver plate, 20 kegs 6 casks nails, 1 case ? lines, 1 case daguerreotype plates, 11 casks hardware, 1 case maps and charts, 1 bundle sash tools, 138 pieces plough metal, 30 barrels cement, 1 case German silver, ? cases japanned ware, 5 bales paper, 1 cask planes, G & T Dugard; 1 bale cottons, 1 case drapery, 4 casks glass, 3 casks plaster of Paris figures, 1 case turned wood, 2 crates ornamental flower pots, A. Spurling; 1 cask saddlery, 30 hhds 134 barrels beer, 30 casks nails, 1 cask hardware, 34 barrels Burton ale, 30 pockets hops, Kerr & Bogle & Co.; 6 cases cutlery, 12 barrels toys, 11 cases lucifers, 8 cases plated ware and cards, 3 casks brushware, 19 cases 25 casks glassware, 2 bales carpets, 3 crates ironmongery, 8 cases plated goods and whips, 1 keg tacks, 1 case fringe, 2 kegs pickled cucumbers, 1 keg herrings, 1 box cruet frame, 1 case books, 2 cases cottons, 1 case pewter ware, 2 cases prints, 1 case metal ware, 5 trunks boots and shoes, 1 case slops, 2 cases soap, 1 case dowlings, 1 case cabinet work, S. Levy; 11 cases 8 casks drugs, J. H. De La Hunt; 2 cases drapery, G. W. Walker; 4 cases saddlery, R. Webb; 8 cases linen goods, 2 cases colours, beads &c, 1 case musical boxes, 1 case clocks and watches, F Haller and Co.l; 22 crates 1 cask bottles, 3 cases corks, candles &c, 6 cases freezing mixture and machine, 2 cases furniture, 1 bale carpets, C. Swanston; 1 box apparel, Miss Dowbiggin; 1 case apparel, Myer; 10 trunks boots and shoes, 1 case combs and brushes, W. Robertson; 8 cases hats, 2 cases bale slops, 1 case paint, 2 cases ironmongery, 2 baskets scythe stones, 15 bundles shovels and forks, 1 case passage cloth, 1 cask brooms, G. Hutton; 4 packages brushes, 10 casks vinegar, 3 tons cordage, 1 case iron 6 anchors, 9 tons chain cable, 2 iron tanks, E. Goldsmith; 13 cases pipes, 12 cases pickles, 1 bale carpet, 1 case books, 1 cask china figures, 4 cases toys, 6 cases matches, 3 cases fancy goods, 1 case clocks, 1 case matches, 1 case Cologne water, Isaac Solomon; 12 cases congreves, 10 cases starch, 10 cases blue, T. D. Chapman & Co,; 1 box apparel, Meek; 1 case books, W Elliott; 1 bale rugs, 7 cases oilcloth, 1 bale ticks, 5 hhds hair, 2 cases looking glasses, W. Hamilton; 1 case stationery, W. Carter; 5 tons hoop iron, 2 kegs rivets, Burns, White and Co.; 1 case bibles, J. Dunn; 4 quarter casks wine, 50 hhds beer, 9 rams Brown & Co.; 3 cases 1 cask coach springs &c A. Morrison; 100 casks bottled beer, 5 hhds rum, 1 case patent medicine, L. Roope; 2 cases British goods, W. Fletcher; 1 case to Priaulx, Barlow, Moore, Lord Bishop of Tasmania,; 629 bales bedding, oakum, and 22 cases tin fire-irons, 3 casks tin meat dishes, 9 crates fenders, 1 parcel printed forms, 2 bundles broom handles, 9 bundles mop handles, 8 bundles chairs, 1 bundle coal baskets, 1 bundle handle scrubbing brushes, 5 bundles water pails, 50 bundles furnace bars, 10 bundles bearing bars, 5 bundles boiler ribs, 3 do hearth brooms, 50 iron boilers, 50 plates, 50 flues. 50 steam pipes, 50 furnace fronts, 50 boiler lids, 30 fire dogs, 1 chair, H. M. Government.
Within days of arrival, merchants placed advertisements in the local press for sale of goods ex "Rattler" etc...



Source: Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas. : 1828 - 1857) Fri 22 Dec 1848 Page 1 Advertising



New Wharf and stores, Hobart ca, 1870.
Tasmanian Scenes, Ref: 17AUTAS001124075102
Archives Office of Tasmania
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The abbatoir and cattle yard stereograph ca.1870

ABBATOIR and CATTLE YARDS on DOMAIN
STEREOGRAPHS by Thomas J. NEVIN and SAMUEL CLIFFORD
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS BUSINESS SIGNS



Stereograph on arched buff mount of the Abbatoir, Queen's Domain, Hobart
Photographer; Thomas J. Nevin ca. 1870 for the HCC, Lands and Survey Dept
Unstamped, and hand-coloured possibly by family members of a commercial client.
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection
TMAG Ref: Q1994.56.25



Verso:Stereograph on arched buff mount of the Abbatoir, Queen's Domain, Hobart
Photographer; Thomas J. Nevin ca. 1870 for the HCC, Lands and Survey Dept
Unstamped, and hand-coloured possibly by family members of a commercial client.
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection
TMAG Ref: Q1994.56.25

The stereograph (coloured) of the cattle yards produced by Thomas J. Nevin for the Hobart Municipal Council was taken at the same time he photographed these two men who were most likely the Inspector of Stock, G. Propsting and assistant to the Inspector of stock, Joseph Turner.



Inspector of Stock G. Prospsting and his assistant Joseph Turner
At the Municipal Cattle yards, Queens Domain, Hobart
Photographer Thomas J. Nevin, 1870
Archives Office of Tasmania Ref: PH30-1-117



Office-keeper, Thomas Nevin
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Tue 1 Jan 1878 Page 1 MUNICIPALITY OF HOBART TOWN.

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MUNICIPALITY OF HOBART TOWN.
Mayor, W. P. Green. Aldermen: W. H. Burgess, jun., F. J. Pike, E. Maher, E. Espie, J. Harcourt, John Watchorn. J. E. Addison, M. F. Daly. Auditors, A. T. Stuart and W. F. Brownell. Town Clerk and Treasurer, H. Wilkinson. Accountant, W. H.  Smith. Municipal Clerk,W. T. Birch. City Surveyor, J. Rait. Director of Water Works,W. C. Christopherson. Health Officer, E. S. Hall Collectors, F. H. Piesse and W. Brundle. City Inspector and Inspector of Weights and Measures, W. Mason. Lessee of Old Market, J. G. Turner ; New Market, T. H. Turner. Inspector of Stock, G. Propsting ; assistant to Inspector of Stock, Joseph Turner. Office-keeper, Thomas Nevin ; messenger, L. Marks.
Police.-Superintendent, Richard Propsting ; clerk, S. W. Rheuben. Sub-Inspectors, W. M'Connell, C. Pitman ; Detectives, W. Simpson, J. Connors. Summoning Officer. John Dorsett.



This stereograph of the same location was printed in a square mount. Titled simply "The Domain", it bears Samuel Clifford's label (blue) on verso. Sourced from eBay March 2016

Cattle slaughtered at the Domain abbatoir found their way to the shipping butchery in Morrison Street, behind the Hobart Wharves, where government contractor J. Callaghan proudly displayed the Royal Arms insignia as his business credentials above his shop entrance.



Photograph - J Callaghan's Butcher's shop, Morrison Street, Hobart
Description: 1 photographic print
ADRI: NS1013-1-1075
Source: Archives Office of Tasmania



[Above]: Just as the butcher J. Callaghan displayed his government contract credentials above his shop entrance, Thomas J. Nevin would have displayed a similar sign at his studio in Elizabeth Street. This is one of many extant examples of T. J. Nevin's government contractor stamp with the Royal Arms insignia which he was required to display on the versos of at least one photograph per batch supplied on commission to the Lands and Survey Department and the Municipal Police Office, Hobart City Council, between 1865 and 1876.

The twin cattle jetties were first built on the Domain shortly after Thomas Nevin's uncle-in-law, Captain Edward Goldsmith, began the erection of a patent slip in 1854. The McGregor brothers acquired the government lease in 1856, and the jetties were constructed next to the slipyards soon after for unloading cattle into the abattoirs and stock yard on site.
"A vessel with cattle on board lies alongside both (jetty) Ts, and discharges cattle into the water between the jetties, and they swim ashore and walk along a railed enclosure straight into the slaughter yards. This arrangement is made so that if a beast suffering from any disease it is in practically quarantine..."
The Marine Board assumed responsibility for the jetties in 1886,
"resulting in the jetties being restored with stone approaches and were about 120 feet with T ends, measuring 40 feet by 12 feet".
Source:  Hudspeth A.and Scripps L (2000). Capital Ports, A History of the Marine Board of Hobart 1858-1997. Hobart Ports Corporation.



State Library of Tasmania Collections
Cattle Jetty Abbatoirs [i.e. Abattoirs] c1872
Publication Information: [Hobart : s.n., c1872].
Physical description: 1 photographic print mounted on card : b&w ; 104 x 181 mm. ; on mount 115 x 190 mm.

The black and white print (above) from another negative taken ca. 1872 of the same location from the same viewpoint with a telegraph pole (?) now evident in the centre of the image is correctly identified as the abbatoirs at Cattle Jetty, Queens Domain, owned and managed by the Hobart City Council. Thomas Nevin would have taken the original photograph a few years earlier under commission as government contractor for the Lands and Survey Dept. of the HCC, and supplied the Council with prints in various formats including a stereograph and unmounted cdv, with at least one photograph printed verso with the Royal Arms insignia of his official government contract stamp. The hand-coloured stereograph to survive bears no stamp verso, which suggests it was randomly saved from the HCC archives, or even studio rejects, and subsequently coloured by family members of a commercial client. The same image mounted with squared corners was sold as a commercial item by Samuel Clifford's when reprinted from Nevin's original sometime before Clifford's retirement in 1878.

A print from the same negative is held at the State Library of Tasmania which ostensibly bears verso Samuel Clifford's label, and the generic title "Sandy Bay ... from the Domain". Without an online digital image of the verso, key information about the label and accession date cannot be verified. Samuel Clifford and Thomas J. Nevin collaborated on the production and reproduction of stereographs and studio portraits from the mid 1860s until Clifford retired, but whether this negative and stereograph format was produced as early as 1865, is open to question, as is the poor reproduction by the State Library of Tasmania, which leads the viewer to assume that lilac fixer was the dominant or preferred print tone of the photographer's studio.



State Library of Tasmania Collections
Sandy Bay ... from the Domain
Publication Information: ca. 1865.
Physical description: 1 stereoscopic pair of photographs : sepia toned ; 8 x 7 cm. each, on mount 9 x 18 cm.
Series: Views in Tasmania
Format: photograph image (online)
Notes: On verso: title printed on centre of label ; printed above title: Views in Tasmania ; printed below title: S. Clifford, photographer, Hobart Town.
Date and accession number in pencil upper right corner of verso.
Exact size 76 x 62 mm. each, on mount 83 x 175 mm.

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