Correspondence received from miscellaneous offices (organisations) and individuals...

Correspondence received from miscellaneous offices (organisations) and individuals on subjects concerning the Leeward Islands. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Miscellaneous Offices:

• Lady Mico Charity (Leewards students at Mico Training College);
• Royal Irish Constabulary (Montserrat: nomination of W E Wilders as Sergeant Major of the Police Force);
• Society of Planters (Antigua: sugar industry);
• West India committee (St Kitts: Boer prisoners; Nevis: medical service, manufacture of brewing sugar);
• Agricultural Society (St Kitts: Sir H M Jackson's appointment as Governor of Fiji);
• Colonial Office (St Kitts: Boer prisoners, travelling allowance to Governor);
• Montserrat Company Limited (Montserrat and Antigua: wireless telegraphy, assistance to Montserrat);
• The Lodge Muirhead Wireless and General Telegraph Syndicate Limited (Antigua and Montserrat: wireless telegraphy);
• General Post Office (Antigua and Montserrat: wireless telegraphy);
• Kew Gardens (St Kitts: imperial customs duty on tobacco samples);
• The Barbuda Island Company Limited (Barbuda lease);
• Customs Office (customs duty on tobacco samples).

Individuals:

• J Adamson (St Kitts: sugar industry);
• H Bath and Son (Virgin Islands: Virgin Gorda land grant and conference at the Colonial Office, agreement with Mr Read);
• H H Bell (Virgin Islands: coastal steamer service; Dominica: concession to J Lowles, Government House furniture, W A Miller, Colonial Engineer, timber industry);
• Captain P A Clive (Dominica: death of W M Clive);
• C T Cox (St Kitts: Basseterre improvement loan, Molyneux estate, water supply; Nevis: damage to roads and bridges by rains; St Kitts: assistance to the sugar industry);
• H A Creque (Virgin Islands: poems to the King and Queen);
• Louis Marius Contois (Virgin Islands: medical requirements of Tortola);
• R Dougall (Barbuda award);
• J P d'Albuquerque (Antigua: Agricultural and Science Master, Assistant Government Analyst);
• J V Drake and Company (English market for brewing sugar);
• J Ewing and Son (St Kitts: cultivation of estates; Nevis: cultivation of the Pinney's Estate);
• F Harrison (Dominica: vanilla planting);
• H F Holme (promotion in colonial service);
• Sir H M Jackson (Montserrat: F H Watkins);
• L M Kortright (St Kitts: promotion, South African appointment);
• A M Lee and Company (Antigua: assistance to the sugar industry, central sugar factory scheme);
• J Lowles (concession);
• W B Mew Langton and Company Limited (Antigua: beer for imperial troops);
• J Maginley (Antigua: assistance);
• W H Palmer (Montserrat: Lilliput Estate);
• Peace and Ellis (Antigua: Redonda licence);
• R B Roden (call to the Bar);
• C A Smith (St Kitts: water supply);
• Sir G Strickland (Antigua: Government House accommodation with plans enclosed, electric light plant for Boer encampment, central sugar factory, office of Colonial Secretary and Sir G Melville, administration and reduction of cost, inter-colonial steamer Barbados-Antigua);
• C H G Sprankling (resignation as Assistant Analytical and Agricultural Chemist on grounds of his own and his wife's ill health, refund of passages and medical examination);
• W H Stoker (grant to the widow of Dr Freeland, C A Shand);
• J Steele (Virgin Islands: excise system and rum industry);
• J C Taylor (Nevis: distress in Nevis);
• J Thompson (Redonda lease and extension);
• F H Watkins (Montserrat: promotion);
• P A Wade (St Kitts and Montserrat: sugar and cotton cultivation).

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