Correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and...

Correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters relating to the Leeward Islands. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (Commander Manthorp's qualifications to command Leeward Islands yacht, grounding of the Union off St John's Antigua);
• Crown Agents (boiler furnaces and excess expenditure for colonial steamers, delay in steamer building contract, insurance of the Union's London to Antigua voyage, scale of establishment for the Union with pay and allowances, proposed steamer crew, pay for Captain and crew of the Union, Union's sea-going qualities);
• Council Office (orders disallowing the Whipping Act and the Nevis Church Council Act, Act to simplify the Law relating to real property);
• Board of Trade (International Code of Signals, claim for crew and passengers of the Perseverance of Antigua, claim for seamen of the Chicken Hazard and of the Emerald of Antigua);
• Law Officers (Council's powers to fix salaries of magistrates appointed under Act 12 of 1873);
• Treasury (President of Nevis Captain Campbell desired as witness at the trial of Castro, B Dupigny's pension, St Kitts' Act 1 of 1873, Bill of Expenditure for £804 on account of the Hurricane Loan, bills and bank certificates due to the Montserrat Earthquake Loan, Copyright Returns for 1872, St Kitts Act 4 of 1873, bill drawn for the maintenance of liberated Africans, Sombrero Phosphate Company Limited's rent, Mrs Wigley's request for a refund of her late husband's travelling expenses);
• Foreign Office (expenditure due to the extradition of the Montezuma crew, jury formation in Martinique, Guadeloupe and Reunion);
• War Office (claims against the Piccadilly Estate at Antigua, bill for £50 on account of the Estate of the late Mr Godschall Johnson, Captain Halay's appointment as Private Secretary, facilities for recruiting to the Second West India Regiment);
• Emigration Board (rent due from the Sombrero Phosphate Company Limited);
• General Post Office (balances due by Postmasters in the Leeward Islands);
• The Northern Assurance Company (proposed Public Works loan for Dominica, inspection of Dominica receipts and expenditure return);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (seeds of Eucalyptus Globulus);
• Colonial Office (instructions to Mr Campbell to proceed to Nevis);
• Equerry to the Duke of Edinburgh (address to the Queen from St Kitts Assembly on the approaching marriage of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh).

Individuals:

• Sir Robert Buscoe (recommends Sir R Pickering for appointment as Surveyor of Roads);
• Commander C E Burlton (appointment to the Command of the Colonial Steamer);
• T B Berkeley (his father's conduct concerning the Leeward Islands);
• Patrick Burns (leave extension request);
• Henry Berkeley (desire to leave Antigua and remain in England);
• Lieutenant J H Berkeley (application for the appointment of Superintendent of Police);
• C Bunell (maladministration of affairs in the Virgin Islands);
• Coockson and Company (death of the late Governor of St Kitts Thomas Probyn);
• James Crooner (application for the appointment of Chief Justice of Antigua);
• Edward B Dyett (further application for compensation for the loss of his office);
• G Etridge (recommends Paul Hersford for the joint offices of Registrar General and Administrator);
• Frederick Gibbon (applies for the appointment of Chief Justice of Antigua);
• Mary Jane Hamilton (solicits financial assistance due to her late father's services);
• Captain Richard M Hickson (departure for the Virgin Islands);
• Dr Stewart H Harris (appointment as Superintendent Medical Officer or Poor Law Medical Inspector);
• Henry T Irving (desire to obtain the services of Captain Hales of the 27th Regiment on his personal staff, appointment of Captain Cecil T Holden as Private Secretary);
• Henry S King and Company (outstanding claim against the Chief Justice J R Semper);
• Philip Kent (vacant post of Chief Justiceship);
• Mrs Eliza Lans (claim to certain escheated property at Nevis);
• Mrs Laidlaw (desire for financial aid);
• Dr Munro (leave extension request);
• Harry Moody (Mrs Lans' claim to escheated property at Nevis);
• William Mackenzie (enquires whether Captain James George Mackenzie is the Governor of St Kitts);
• Commander Charles Willan Manthorp (testimonials showing his fitness to command the Colonial Steamer, requests pay advance);
• Mrs Annie Mann (solicits financial assistance due to her late husband's services);
• Henry Morgan Marshal (applies for promotion);
• Dr Nicholson (arrival in England on leave);
• Mrs Jane Palmer (expresses thanks for her grant from the Royal Bounty Fund);
• Richard Pickering (solicits appointment as Surveyor General of St Kitts);
• Sir Benjamin Pine (applies for half salary of the Leeward Islands and Natal Governments together with passage allowances, opinion on the appointment of Chief Engineer for the Virgin Islands, dispute between Messrs Semper, Baynes and Berkeley with reference to the Magistrates Bill);
• S Pemberton (resignation of his Office of Chief Justice of Dominica in exchange for the appointment of Second Puisne Judge of the Leeward Islands);
• James P Peackey (requests Chief Justiceship of Antigua);
• Frank Richardson and Sadler Solicitors (claim of Messrs Wace and Company against the Chief Justice Semper);
• E Sturge (J P Sturge's resignation of his General Council seat at request of the Governor, course pursued by himself in the Federal Council with reference to the Magistrates Bill);
• Charles H Sturgeon (remarks on the newspaper New Era, influence of Messrs Reid Gordon and Berkley on the public mind with reference to federation, his trial and conviction for forgery and gross perversion of justice, Governor of Antigua's refusal to employ him due to his felony conviction);
• R Sheriff (application for Colonial employment);
• John J H Saint (asks for help in acquiring a probate of the will of the late Andrew Lynch French);
• Charles Dickinson Sturge (action brought against him by William Henry Field of Montserrat, present state of the Leeward Islands legislation);
• J H Stewart (applies for Chief Justiceship of Antigua);
• Gladstone Scott (appointment as First Officer of the Union, passage to Antigua);
• George Tayler (applies for Chief Justiceship of Antigua);
• John F Wylde (appointment as Treasurer of Dominica);
• J Wilkins (transmission of letters to and from Benjamin Pine in a Colonial Office bag);
• Charles G Wilson (enquires whether the post of Surveyor of Roads of St Kitts has been filled).

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