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:

Government Departments:

• Admiralty (Montserrat: visit of HMS Tribune to Montserrat and Redonda, enlistment of inhabitants of HM Navy, claim of £27 16s 6d);
• Crown Agents (Antigua: water supply, grant for Mico Training College Jamaica, Wallings Reservoir, rent Redonda Island; Montserrat: redemption of the outstanding bonds of 5% loan; Virgin Islands: postcards and envelopes; Mansion House Hurricane Relief Fund, Central Sugar Factory);
• Council Office (Reserved Bill to amend the Leeward Islands Act; St Kitts: reconstitution of the Legislative Council);
• Foreign Office (extradition from the United States of the fugitive offender Charles Roberts; St Kitts: case of Edward Morris; Antigua: reciprocity convention with the United States of America, wreck of the Spanish Brigantine Nicolas and of the Italian Barque Marcella);
• Home Office (Imperial pension of Thomas Fisher; Antigua: Dr Forward's pension);
• India Office (St Kitts: grasshopper pest);
• Law Officers (retirement case of Sir H Wrenfordsley);
• Treasury (St Kitts: supplementary votes of the Legislative Council, estimates for January-March 1901; Antigua: supplementary votes of the Legislative Council, compassionate allowance to Mrs E Baynes, estimates for 1900 and for January-March 1901; Montserrat: supplementary votes of the Legislative Council, compassionate allowance to Mrs E Baynes, estimates of 1900 and for January-March 1901, federal estimates for 1900 and for January-March 1901, proposed appointment of a Second Audit Clerk, copyright duties);
• War Office (inspection of Local Forces; St Kitts: claim of Lieutenant Colonel Berridge to the Colonial Auxiliary Forces; Montserrat: hurricane relief, recruits for the West India Regiment).

Miscellaneous Offices:

• Mansion House (hurricane fund);
• General Post Office (St Kitts: wireless telegraphy from Basseterre to Charleston; postal insurance system);
• Land Major of London (Transvaal War Fund);
• Colonial Bank (branches of Bank; Dominica: Dominica branch);
• Montserrat Company Limited (Montserrat: grant to planters, reforestation and damage by fire; wireless telegraphy between Antigua and Montserrat);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (St Kitts: Agricultural School and appointment of an Officer in Charge);
• West India Committee (St Kitts: sugar crop failure, damage caused by grasshoppers);
• Barbuda Island Company (Antigua: Barbuda);
• Board of Agriculture (Antigua: Contagious Diseases [Animals] Ordinance 1900);
• Marconi's Wireless Company (Marconi wireless telegraphy);
• Zoological Society (St Kitts: grasshopper pest);
• Inhabitants of Town and Districts of Portsmouth in Dominica (Dominica: petition for the removal of Dr Sydney Senhouse from the Portsmouth District).

Individuals:

• Dr A P Aitken (post of Assistant to Government Analyst);
• T F Buxton (General Act 7 of 1899 entitled The Mico Act 1899);
• Blackwell Sons and Company (Virgin Islands: Virgin Gorda Mining land grant to Leonard Read);
• E St J Branch (Antigua: Antigua circuit court cases; Dominica: Antigua circuit court cases);
• Dr C M Branch (St Kitts: abolition of his office);
• H Heshett Bell (Dominica: Crown lands, advantages offered to capitalists, development of the Island; abolition of Mr Hodge's office);
• George Carew (Dominica: fruit trade between Bristol and Dominica and St Vincent);
• Mrs Mary Magdalene Colword and Mrs Elisabeth George (petition for the release of their husbands from prison);
• Elliott George M Dupigny (appointment as Assistant Collector of Customs at Sierra Leone);
• H W Estridge (St Kitts: damage caused by grasshoppers);
• Sir T H G Esmonde (Dominica: memorial of W Davies);
• Dr Francis E Forward (Antigua: application of Dr W Maclachlan McDonald, resignation);
• C W French (promotion);
• J Foreman (St Kitts: position of Medical Officer under the new Ordinance);
• Sir F Fleming (Antigua: Central Sugar Factory);
• H Goodwin (Antigua: fauna of Antigua);
• S Gumbs (re-appointment);
• Charles Heneage (St Kitts: case of Edward Morris);
• L P Hodge (roads, application for re-employment);
• J Jackson (Antigua: pension increase and re-employment);
• Edward B Jarvis (Antigua: Magistracy at Barbados);
• Sir Thomas Lipton (Antigua: Central Sugar Factory);
• J Lowles (Dominica: scheme for the development of Dominica, purchase of Crown lands);
• Arthur M Lee (Antigua: Central Factory);
• Mrs H Lacy-Hulbert (St Kitts: case of Mr Piguenit);
• G W Melville (promotion);
• W P Manson (Antigua: dysentery epidemic);
• F Morris (application for promotion);
• George Edmond Pierez (Antigua: application for the appointment of Surgeon General at Trinidad);
• P Pemberton (Dominica: application for re-employment);
• R B Roden (Nevis: terms preliminary to the call to the Bar);
• Leonard Read (Virgin Islands: Virgin Gorda land grant);
• Reverend C A Shepherd (St Kitts: petition against the reduction of medical districts);
• Dr Stewart (Antigua: Central Sugar Factory);
• Charles H G Sprankling (position of Assistant to Government Analyst);
• John Thompson (Antigua: Redonda);
• J S Udal (Acting Chief Justice);
• Walsh Wrightson (Dominica: visit to Dominica, roads and qualifications of a Colonial Engineer);
• David Wilson (Antigua: position of Assistant to Government Analyst).

Includes 8 photographs depicting: Construction of 'Imperial Road' in Dominica, West Indies (pasted to pages of letter 29 August, 1900, under 'Individuals F-N'). Dated 1900.

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