Correspondence received from Miscellaneous Offices and Individuals on subjects concerning...

Correspondence received from Miscellaneous Offices and Individuals on subjects concerning the Leeward Islands. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Miscellaneous Offices:

• Colonial Office (Antigua: report on the Botanical Station, preventive service and irregular payment;
• Colonial Office (Dominica: land transactions of Mr Dupigny);
• Dominica Plantations Company (Dominica: Bath and Emsall Estates);
• Registrar of Friendly Societies (Antigua: proposed establishment of Friendly Societies, supervision and control);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (St Kitts: Botanical Station; Antigua: Botanical Station; sugar cane fungus Trichosphaeria, artificial production of citric, services to West Indies);
• Customs (Montserrat: Tariff Collection Ordnance);
• Board of Agriculture (Antigua: breeding farm);
• Stationery Office (printing of Yaws Report);
• Local Government Board (Quarantine Regulations and Yaws Report);
• Montserrat Company (Montserrat: need for medical officers, loan expenditure and omission from Annual Report, ability of Engineer Mr Walsh);
• General Post Office (counterfeit postage stamps);
• Spratt's Patent Limited (Antigua: thesis on histology of Yaws Tubercle);
• Royal Humane Society (St Kitts: bronze medal and certificate for Mr Charles Broadbelt).

Individuals:

• Sir H Burford Hancock (Barbuda: arbitration, appointment of Umpire, Mr Dougall's statement of claims);
• Sir G Buchanan (Dr Nicholls' report on Yaws);
• Burford, Hancock and Jackson (Barbuda: award, assistance for Miss Emma Anderson);
• C H Beard (application for promotion to the post of Attorney General of Grenada);
• Dr C G Brown (appointment of Mr J B Davson as Medical Officer);
• R Dougall (Barbuda: application for meeting of arbitrators, completion of agreement, statement of claim, absence of magistrate, deletion of parts of claim, statement of claim, statements for referees, documents to support claim, protection of woods etc, fibre industries, arbitration, land for cemetery, certain horses, building on site of fibre works, arrangements for the SS Tyne to call at Barbuda, payment of award, recognition of Mr R Dougall);
• H W Estridge (cane moth-borer);
• Field and Palmer (Antigua: payment of Life Insurance Premium);
• J Freeland (Antigua: application for medical appointment, medical appointment for his son Dr F J Freeland);
• S Gumbs (Anguilla: application for re employment);
• Sir R G C Hamilton (Dominica: expenses of Commission of Enquiry, Report of Commission of Enquiry, proposed Water Police, explanation of points in report);
• G Horner (application for re-employment);
• J S Hollings (Montserrat: resignation of seal on Legislative Council);
• W Miller (Dominica: appointment as Acting Colonial Engineer and Surveyor);
• Mrs Leonore Skinner (application for passage to Gibraltar);
• J Sturge (Montserrat: expenditure on roads, second medical officer, medical service);
• Sir W F H Smith (St Kitts: preventive service and Quartermaster Vincent; Barbuda: stock owned by Mr Hopkins, burial ground, various points; Antigua: stock for Government Farm; General: extension of leave);
• Sir H T Wrenfordsley (constitution, application for appointment as Chief Justice of Jamaica, application for promotion).

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International

Labour

Taxation

Medals

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Food and drink

Friendly societies

Official publications

Communications

Farming

Medicine

Local Government