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

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

Offices:

• House of Commons (Dominica: grant in aid; St Kitts: riots and disturbances, finances and money received on account of Crown lands);
• House of Lords (report on finances and administration);
• Admiralty (St Kitts: riots and disturbances, state of affairs);
• Crown Agents (money order accounts, Barbuda lease, Barbuda Island Company, Master of the dredger Pholas John E Clark, sale of the SS Victoria, insurance of the Pholas, pension of Mr C A Barber, financial instructions, title to the Land Assurance Fund; St Kitts: funds, post of Prison Officer and offer to W H Hoar, accoutrements and saddlery, purchase of the estate 'La Guerite', passage for wife of Sergeant Major Bell, uniform for Sergeant Major Bell, overdrawn account, stamps and postcards; Dominica: jetty plant at Roseau, purchase of Crown Lands by the British Guiana Exploration Company, post of midwife; Montserrat: account of the colony, local issue of 4% debentures; Antigua: account of the colony, harbour works at St John's, sinking fund and loan, salary of J Hobbs and passage for his wife);
• Treasury (copyright returns and duties; Dominica: proposed grant in aid, development and imperial loan; St Kitts: Sergeant Major of Police, Superannuation Act 1892);
• Foreign Office (illicit spirit trade between St Martins and Anguilla);
• War Office (rifles for the Protective Force; St Kitts: arms and Martini-Henry Rifles for the Volunteers).

Miscellaneous:

• Colonial Office (memorandum by Mr Olivier in regards to Mr T Ivor Moore's claims, authentication of ordinances; St Kitts: disturbances; Dominica: arrears interest on ordinances);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Anguilla: Government fibre plantations);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (inter-insular steam service Tyne);
• British Guiana Exploration Company (Dominica: purchase of Crown lands);
• West India Committee (St Kitts: disturbances and volunteers);
• British and West Indian Alliance and West Indian Union (Dominica: deputation);
• Royal Irish Constabulary (St Kitts: post of Sergeant Major of Police and Drill Instructor and recommendation for Sergeant Edward Bell);
• Legislative Assembly (Dominica: suspension of the Postmaster Mr Fadelle);
• London School of Medicine for Women (enquiry as to the standing of Dr J Freeland);
• Barbuda Island Company (removal of 'natives' from their present holdings, stud farm at Antigua, squatters at Barbuda);
• United States Embassy (St Kitts: the late L Moore);
• Montserrat Company (Montserrat: floods).

Topics

Clothing

Government finances

International

Public disorder

Army

Trade and commerce

Nursing

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Race relations

Ireland

Crown lands and estates

Navy

Americas

Farming

Medicine

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns

Prisons

Sex and gender