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graphic pictures of the Islanders ; for I had all 
my apparatus on shore. I turned Mr. Nobbs's 
study into an impromptu dark room, and then 
took some pictures. Of course, in taking groups 
with children, some of them moved." 
A narrative of the Governor's visit, and the 
substance of his instruction and advice to the 
Islanders, were communicated by him in a 
lecture, which he delivered in the Hall of the 
School of Arts, at Sydney, New South Wales, 
on the 24th of November, 1857. 
The following particulars will afford a just 
view of the present state of Norfolk Island: — 
The whole of the island has been surveyed, 
and divided into allotments, averaging about 
fifty acres to each allotment ; and it has been 
decided by Sir William Denison, that one 
allotment shall be assigned to each of the 
families now resident on the Island. The 
island being the property of the Crown, the 
right of ownership, in every instance, will be 
held on a grant from the Crown. A document 
will be issued to each head of a family, con- 
veying to him in fee the absolute property in 
one of the portions or allotments. The deeds of 
conveyance have been sent to the island, but are 
not to be handed over to those concerned until 
1861. The Governor, after the symptoms of in- 
decision manifested by some members of the com- 
munity, deemed it undesirable to place property 
in the hands of persons who might be disposed 
to part with it for the purpose of procuring 
means of returning to Pitcairn's Island. 
Should a deed of grant be lost, the defect 
