collection of this rare newspaper than any held in public libraries or other institutional collections). Published monthly by Charles Frederick Somerton, between 1862 and 1868 (117 editions). $1,500–2,000 251 LOCHHEAD, J. McK. [MANUSCRIPT] Book with an account of the voige [sic] from Sydney, NSW to London, England. in Bord of the Ship Bruckley [sic] Castle, 1868. A fascinating well-travelled journal which contains the lengthy shipboard diary of a Scottish passenger on a voyage from Australia to England in 1868, and a short record of this person’s arrival as a pioneer settler in Kansas Territory, USA in 1869. $800–1,000 ❖ 252 Post Office Circular. Monday, August 23, 1875 1875 folio broadsheet, includes an announcement regarding Homeward Australian Mails: “The Australian Mails via Brindisi, due in London on Monday the 30th August, having missed the junction with the proper Packet at Point de Galle, will be a fortnight late. They may be expected in London on Monday, 13th September”; original horizontal fold; in fine condition. A good illustration of the vagaries of the Colonial postal service in the nineteenth century. $100–150 ❖ 253 Government Appointment of the Honorable Graham Berry to become Premier & Treasurer of the Colony of Victoria in 1875, signed by Graham Berry & Sir William Foster Stawell, Chief Justice of the Colony of Victoria. Blind embossed seal, mounted & framed. 35 x 45cm $700–1,400 ❖ 254 AN ORIGINAL DIRECTOR & EARLY CHAIRMAN OF B.H.P . - Duncan E. McBryde Illuminated presentation manuscript to McBryde dated March 1878 from his “numerous friends in Bulla and the surrounding District... ” expressing their “extreme regret” on the occasion of his departing the district. Lovely artwork and calligraphy by F . Whitehead & Co., Melbourne. Red leather binding, with gilt lettering and decoration, satin interior. 44.5 x 35cm. McBryde (1854 - 1920) was born in Scotland and migrated to New South Wales in 1872. He was a farmer, and married Ellen Menzies in 1883. Around 1884 he relocated to Victoria, where he became a director of BHP; he was chairman of the company from 1895 to 1897 . In 1891 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for North Western Province; he did not re-contest his seat in 1896, but returned to the Council in 1901, representing South Eastern Province. From 1908 to 1909 he was Minister for Public Health. McBryde retired in 1919, and died in Toorak in 1920. $200–300 ❖ 255 An archive of documents, scrapbooks (dating from 1880 - 1896), engravings,etc., from the estate of CHARLES STEPHEN SIMMONDS of Hobart, Tasmania. Includes his appointment as a Lieutenant of the Citizen Forces of the Defence of the Commonwealth (1900, signed by Lord Denman), as Superintendent, H.M.Gaol, Hobart (1913), a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Tasmania (1920), Judge’s Associate of the Supreme Court of Victoria (1924), Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (1924), South Australia (1924), Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand (1924), etc. Mixed condition. $300–500 ❖ 247 250 43