Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments) and...

Offices and Individuals. Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 321/234, CO 321/235, CO 321/236, and CO 321/237. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (riots - HMS Indefatigable, St Lucia; situation, St Lucia; maintenance of order - visit of HMS Indefatigable, Windward Islands; situation in Grenada);
• Crown Agents (employment of RMS Solent, St Lucia; Castries harbour improvement, St Lucia);
• Foreign Office (claim against Venezuelan government, Grenada; case of sloop Lyric, Grenada);
• Board of Trade (merchant shipping legislation, Grenada);
• Treasury (draft estimates and estimates, 1907-1908, St Vincent);
• War Office (military properties, St Lucia);
• Colonial Office (governors travelling allowances, clerks, etc, St Lucia, Windward Islands, Leeward Islands; appointment of Walter Sidney Shaw as Chief Justice, St Vincent; Sea Island cotton industry, St Lucia);
• St Lucia Usines & Estates Company (riots - defence, St Lucia; compensation claim, St Lucia; property tax, St Lucia);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (employment and services of RMS Solent during riots, St Lucia);
• Inland Revenue (supervisor of excise, Grenada);
• Berkshire Asylum (forwards letter from patient, Edward William Begrie);
• Colonial Nursing Association (nurse matron at Kingston Hospital, St Vincent);
• West India Committee (land property tax bill, St Lucia);

Individuals:

• Fred E Bundy (re-employment or certificate of service, St Lucia);
• W Burr (D F Porter's estates in Carib Country, St Vincent);
• Edward J Cameron (St Vincent: medical service; transfer; Chief Justice and Mr Anton; personal allowance; marriage law; administration of Windward Islands);
• J C Curtis (medical appointment, St Vincent);
• J Donoghue (St Vincent: surveyor; re-employment in West Indies);
• F C W Durrant (re-employment, St Lucia);
• J V Drake & Co (St Lucia: police protection in Dennery District; compensation);
• Gedge & Feeny (Grenadine Islands, Grenada);
• M Kerr (resignation, St Lucia);
• Sir P Manson (medical service, Grenada);
• Percy A Ongley (transfer, Grenada);
• C A O'Brien (appointment as magistrate or registrar, Grenada);
• P W Wilson (marriage law, St Vincent).

Topics

Shipping

International

Labour

Mental illness

Public disorder

Army

Taxation

Marriage and divorce

Nursing

Caribbean

Policing

Navy

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns