Batavia and Australia Steam Navigation Company. Letter ... relative to a project for establishing postal communication by means of steam vessels between Batavia and Australia

Adelaide, Government Printer, 1866.

Folio, 8 pages.

Drop-title; small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound (now disbound); an excellent copy.

South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 18 of 1866. Full details of the project: primarily a monthly service between Java, Brisbane and Sydney, via Torres Straits, but including proposals from "Colonel Finniss, Resident of the northern part of South Australia ... for establishing a steam service between Adam Bay and the Dutch possessions on the Isle of Timor"

Item #32936

Price (AUD): $165.00