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

CO 152/226

1897

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

• Admiralty (St Kitts: riots and claim for naval stores, loss of ammunition during riots);
• Crown Agents (Dominica: proposed roads, Crown lands, appointment of nurse, erection of jetty; Antigua: Barbuda, accounts, raising of loans, Police ammunition, disposal of dredger Pholas, post of Chief Keeper of Lunatic Asylum, Barbuda Island Company, ammunition for Martini Enfield Rifles, issue of debentures; Montserrat: 4% debentures, account of presidency, draft of £750, raising of loan; St Kitts: treasury debentures, advance to Mr T Riseley Griffith; Leewards: land titles assurance funds, draft of £750);
• Council Office (Act 9 of 1897);
• Foreign Office (St Kitts: quarantine of the Arrow at St Martin; Virgin Islands: smuggling between Virgin Islands and St Thomas, appointment of Mr J R Creques as Consular Agent at Haiti; Dominica: post of Curator of Botanic Station in Niger Coast Protectorate and offer of appointment to Mr J Jones; warehousing system for the Island of Saba);
• Home Office (Antigua: post of Chief Warden of Central Prison);
• Law Officers (St Kitts: salaried officer as unofficial member of the Legislative Council, Mr Greaves; note issue);
• Board of Trade (Montserrat: distressed seamen and wreck of the Grecian; Virgin Islands: expenses incurred by seamen of the Lark and the Arabia);
• Treasury (St Kitts: rifles for Volunteers; Dominica: Crown lands and agreement with British Guiana Exploration Company, worn silver coin; Virgin Islands: arms for rural constables; Antigua: arms for Volunteer Defence Force; Crown lands and sale of Company);
• War Office (St Kitts: Martini Henry Rifles for Volunteers; Virgin Islands: rifles for rural constables; Antigua: Defence Force Act, pistols for Volunteer Defence Force, loan of Webley Pistols; Dominica: purchase of lands by Mr P F Cox; rifles for Dominica and Montserrat Defence Force, case of Lieutenant Colonel A C Alexander);
• Lord Major of London (Montserrat: floods and relief fund);
• Halifax and Bermuda Cable Company (Montserrat: floods and relief fund);
• West India Committee (floods in Montserrat and St Vincent);
• Montserrat Company (Montserrat: floods and relief fund);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Dominica: ramie fibre and botanical enterprise, quarters of Curator of Botanic Station; Antigua: Botanic Station; botanic gardens library and herbarium);
• British Guiana Exploration Company (Dominica: Crown Lands Company and agreement, proposed company);
• Nottingham Manufacturing Company (St Kitts: bankruptcy);
• Barbuda Island Company (Barbuda: correspondence with Colonial Government, allotment ground; Antigua: Barbuda lease and registration, regulations as to correspondence in Barbuda, illegal occupation of land at Barbuda);
• British Vice-Consulate at Providence, United States (St Kitts: exhumation of Mr A M Williams);
• Inhabitants of Anguilla (St Kitts: memorial to the Queen);
• The Woman's Signal Paper (Sydney Olivier's report on finances of Antigua);
• Wesleyan Methodist Conference (Dominica: grants to denominational schools);
• Bishop of Antigua (St Kitts: Archdeacon G M Gibbs);
• Medical Practitioners of St Kitts (St Kitts: vaccination and registration fees, memorial against removal of Analytical Chemist);
• Deputation of Mr Marshall and others (Antigua: Central Factories);
• Bishop of Roseau (Dominica: sale of Crown lands);
• West India Royal Commission (its report);
• Leeward Island Produce Company (sugar industry);
• Scottish Office (Antigua: Chief Warden of Central Prison);
• Wesleyan Missionary Society (Dominica: Wesleyan day school);
• Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society (St Kitts: destitute 'natives' from US whaler);
• Meteorological Office (Montserrat: rainfall of November 1896);
• Lloyds (Antigua: salvage claim by Colonial Government in respect of the Stratheyre);
• Royal Statistical Society (trade with United States).

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