"Carannya" East St Kilda
14th June 96
My Dear Baron
You may be interested in reading the enclosed notice of the arrival in W.A of the South Australian Exploring Expedition.1 Mr Hubbe appears to have traversed the beaten track up to Alexander Spring near Mts Allott & Worsnop then to have taken a southerly westerly course passing near Lake Way (Wells’ Exploration) — and to the north of the Newbury Range to the Mt Margaret water holes.
As he is now somewhere on the eastern gold fields awaiting orders from the S.A. Govt a suggestion from you might get him sent north by the West shore of Lake MacDonald to the Emily Spring of Warburton & thence east to the telegraph line which might open up a good northern stock track into W. A.2
Yours Sincerely
Jo. Panton
Baron Sir Ferdd Von Mueller KCMG
&c &c
Enclosure not found. For a report of the party's arrival on 3 June 1896 at Menzies, WA (c. 130 km north of Kalgoorlie) and notes on the route taken, see 'The Hubbe exploring party. Arrival at Menzies', Inquirer and commercial news (Perth), 5 June 1896, p. 16.
See also, from the same file, M to F. Krichauff, 17 June 1896. A minute on the file dated 15 August with an illegible signature records: 'Returned to Cn Lands Office. As the Route suggested is northerly & north Easterly through Western Australia and into the Northern Territory it would of course have been quite out of the question and so it has been decided that Mr Hübbe will return by the coast to Fowlers Bay, he cannot collect the plants mentioned’.
MS annotation by M: 'Answ 17/6/96'. Letter not found.
Please cite as “FVM-96-06-14b,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on