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

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

Offices:

• Admiralty (Antigua: dredger Pholas; Montserrat: disturbances, hurricane, assistance rendered by HM ships, hurricane relief);
• Crown Agents (Dominica: oil motor launch, cement; Antigua: central sugar factory with map, bill for £400, dredger Pholas, requisition of corrugated iron for public works, water supply with key plan, sum due by Mr P A Templer; Virgin Islands: misprinted stamps; St Kitts: M H rifles);
• Foreign Office (Antigua: jurisdiction of Bishop, emigration to Cuba and Porto Rico, dredger Pholas);
• Board of Trade (Montserrat: Passenger Ordinance 1898 and regulations);
• Treasury (Leewards: Federal Estimates 1899; Dominica: votes of Legislative Council; Antigua: financial position 1898, Estimates 1899, excess votes; St Kitts: Estimates 1899, taxation, commission to enquire into charges against Administrator, supplementary votes, administratorships, votes of the Legislative Council; Montserrat: Estimates 1899, financial returns, jetty repair and reconstruction, hurricane, salary of First Treasury Officer, votes of Legislative Council, Imperial grant, tram rails vote of £15; Dominica - Royal Bounty Fund and the application of Mrs P A Templer);
• War Office (Montserrat: retention of M E Rifles; Dominica: plan of Morne Desmoulins).

Miscellaneous:

• West India Committee (Antigua: taxations, central sugar factory; Dominica: steamer service around the island, reported cyclone, hurricane; Antigua and St Kitts: hurricane);
• Inhabitants of Anguilla (memorial against taxation);
• Colonial Office (taxation, reported hurricane);
• Barbuda Island Company (Antigua: Barbuda);
• Lancashire Finance Association (Virgin Islands concessions in the Virgin Gorda);
• Montserrat Company (Montserrat: probable disturbances, state of affairs, steamer service, employment of 'negroes' in cane cultivation, lime industry and the Hurricane Relief Fund, hurricane and damage done, land tax and wireless telegraphy, assistance in house rebuilding);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Antigua: Botanical Report, Curator of Botanic Station);
• City of London Police (H Griesselich);
• West India and Panama Telegraph Company (hurricane, cable between Antigua and Montserrat);
• Lord Mayor of London (Hurricane Relief Fund, Mansion House fund);
• Lloyds (Virgin Islands: wreck of the Spanish steamer Ida);
• Mico Charity Trustees (education of students in Jamaica);
• Paymaster General (dredger Pholas);
• Wireless Telegraph Company (wireless telegraphy establishment).

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