Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations...

Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals relating to Barbados. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• House of Commons (physical attack on the speaker of the House of Assembly);
• Admiralty (report from HMS Intrepid concerning the hurricane);
• Crown Agents (water boats renewal sinking fund, arms and ammunition for police, Mr F W Reeves' scholarship);
• Privy Council (Bridgetown Electric Lighting Act);
• Board of Trade (marking of deck lines on vessels, observations on Merchant Shipping Amendment Act);
• Law Officers (opinion on censorship of telegrams in the event of war between the United States of America and Spain);
• Treasury (claim for civil pensions from Lady Griffith and her daughters, approval for governor of Barbados to draw £10,000 for hurricane relief if necessary, doubts as to free grant of small arms ammunition, action by Mr Charles Heneage against Sir James Shaw Hay);
• Foreign Office (alleged ill treatment of Mr Valdemar Jensen on board the barque La Plata, war between United States of America and Spain, French naval and military movements at Martinique, appointment of Mr O R Grannum as acting consul for Denmark [subsequently corrected to appointment of Mr A R Raven]);
• War Office (supply of arms, maintenance of armaments, Rickett's Battery, supply of ammunition, disposal of armaments that the colony does not wish to take over);
• Education Department (agricultural and technical colleges or institutions);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (cultivation of ramie or rhea);
• Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust Company (proposal for Government guarantee in aid of the railway extension and establishment of central factories [with map showing proposed new railways and positions of factories]);
• Direct West India Cable Company (censorship of telegrams in connection with war between United States of America and Spain);
• Colonial Office (war between United States of America and Spain, hurricane, action against Sir James Shaw Hay);
• West Indian Oil Company (admission of United States refined oil free of duty, tariff and reciprocity with United States, offers 100 guineas for hurricane relief);
• General Post Office (government telegrams);
• Lord Mayor of London (West Indies Relief Fund);
• West India & Panama Telegraph Company (hurricane relief);
• West India Committee (hurricane relief) [with copy of a pamphlet The Bitter Cry of the West Indies being a report of the proceedings of a conference on foreign state sugar bounties]);
• Salvation Army (imprisonment of their Staff Captain Edward C Widgery).

Individuals:

• Bishop of Barbados (additional leave);
• Mrs Maria Alleyne Crichlow (claim to Jackson Plantation Estate [with cutting from the Barbados Advocate of 2 November 1897]);
• Sir W Brandford Griffith (pecuniary assistance for Lady Griffith);
• Mr Edward T Grannum (application for promotion, sugar factory);
• Mr Alexander Green (damage to his house and small amount of relief allowed);
• Mr Charles Heneage (his claim against the governor [several letters], Mr James P Massiah [with newspaper cuttings]);
• Captain C R Harris (sugar industry [with diagram illustrating the effect of bounties on British refining]);
• Sir James Shaw Hay (reports his arrival in England on leave, loan to factory on Carrington Estate, extension of leave, hurricane, defence [with printed memorandum by the Colonial Defence Committee], grant for Lady Griffith);
• Sir Hubert Jerningham, governor of Trinidad (immigration of Barbados reformatory boys to Trinidad);
• Major A B R Kaye (appointment as inspector of Police);
• Mr G Lingwood (his position as regards leave, contribution to pension);
• Messrs Lee & Pembertons (Colonial Attorneys Relief Act 1857);
• Sir Thomas Lipton (central sugar factories);
• Mr G B Mason (central sugar factories);
• Mr Llewellyn Reece (Barbados Branch Union Co-operative Bank);
• Mr Herbert K McD Sisnett (application for colonial appointment);
• Mr Duncan Stewart (central sugar factory);
• Mr Wallwyn Poyer B Shepheard (scheme for government loan);
• Sir Walter J Sendall, former governor of Barbados (Mr H K M Sisnett's application for re-employment);
• Mr T J Wilkinson (distress in colony caused by drought, increased price of foodstuffs and slack season for labour);
• Messrs Wilkinson & Gaviller (report of rain in Barbados, death of Mr A J Pile);
• Ward, Bowie & Company (case of Heneage v Hay).

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