Former Quarantine Barracks and Setting
Diamond Harbour
What is known
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Leads, unread
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- THE Daily Southern Cross. (Daily Southern Cross, 18 February 1873)
…ths on the passage and eleven passengers are now ill on board the ship has been placed in quarantine but has since been admitted to pratique the most prevalent disease ia stated to have been typhoid f…
, - LOCAL & GENERAL. (Otago Witness, 08 September 1883)
…eceived by tho steamer hoihow from new zealand were placed aboard tho hulk faraway at the quarantine ground the objectionable nature of the cargo is strongly commented on the health authorities refuse…
, - News of the Week. (Otago Witness, 05 December 1874)
…ynolds of the survey department has been for some days engaged in taking levels about the quarantine islands where the wire will cross the harbour and on the 26th ulb a surveyor and his stafi proceede…
, - News of the Week. (Otago Witness, 09 January 1875)
…ion last week exclusive of the nelson passengers there were on rations in the immigration barracks ctverahain five males nine females and fourteen children equal in all to twenty-one statute adults ou…
, - News of the Week. (Otago Witness, 16 January 1875)
…ution was carried that the whole of the passengers of the margaret galbraith be landed on quarantine island their bedding and clothing to be washed and thoroughly fumigated thereafter to be admitted t…
, - FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1893. (Evening Post, 29 December 1893)
…r famine the columbus was moored between admiral di mello flagship and tho rebel soldiers barracks and fort and sho tt as subjected to the hourly risk of being hit by shots from tho opposing forces fo…
, - MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS. (Auckland Star, 08 December 1883)
…ce of mr brophy lie will doubtless provoan energetic ollicer extensive alterations to the quarantine building at motuihi aro contemplated by the government the barque ganymede which arrived from londo…
, - News of the Week. (Otago Witness, 07 August 1875)
…fore the executive the male portion of the aldergrove immigrants after their release from quarantine were not long in making themselveß conspicuous by their riotous conduct after being conveyed to dun…
, - Biographical Sketches OF THE COLONISTS OF THE FIRST DECADE, (Otago Witness, 17 March 1898),
Nearby on the register
Questions, answered briefly
A place on the record in Diamond Harbour, Heritage New Zealand list no. 7408.
Diamond Harbour, on the map →