Correspondence from the Foreign Office on matters relating to British Guiana. Subjects...

Correspondence from the Foreign Office on matters relating to British Guiana. Subjects covered are as follows:

• Brazilian boundary;
• Brazilian boundary: proposed joint commission;
• Concurs in proposed reply to petition for the inclusion of Yuruari District within British Guiana;
• Manoa Company's claim against the Venezuelan Government;
• Claims of Venezuela Panama Gold Mining Company;
• Brazilian boundary: enquiry about nature of Mr im Thurn's mission to Pirara;
• Customs duty on stationery imported for the use of the US Consulate;
• Venezuelan boundary: forwards copies of papers received from Mr Reddan, vice-consul at Bolivar;
• Position of Mr M L R Andrade as Venezuelan consul;
• Treatment of Mr McTurk by Venezuelan authorities in Yuruari District;
• Legal case of New Chili Gold Mining Company against General Guzman Blanco and J Watkin Davies;
• Correspondence respecting boundaries between Brazil and British Guiana and between Brazil and French Guiana;
• Mr McTurk's mission to Yuruari District;
• Venezuelan boundary: forwards letter from Mr W Toms and article from the Washington Post;
• Venezuelan Austin Gold Mining Company: concurs in reply to company's letter;
• Venezuelan boundary: forwards translation of extract from the Opinion Nacional of Caracas and copy of a private letter from Mr F R St John;
• Venezuelan boundary: Lord Salisbury considers it undesirable that governor should enter into correspondence with the Venezuelan Government;
• Yuruari District: agrees that circumstances detailed by Mr McTurk do not furnish grounds for a formal complaint against Venezuela;
• Disputed boundary with Venezuela: copy of memorandum by Mr Reddan [with map];
• Venezuelan boundary: extract from the Congressional Record;
• Venezuelan Land Grant to Mr Price;
• Brazilian boundary: report that the president of the Amazonas is in the disputed territory;
• Brazilian boundary: preferable that proposal for joint enquiry should come from the Brazilian Government;
• Venezuelan questions: forwards despatch from Washington concerning implication of United States of America;
• Venezuelan boundary: states opinion that 'a slight display of naval activity might be useful';
• Venezuela: forwards extract from the New York Sun;
• Venezuelan boundary: forwards correspondence from chargé d'affaires at The Hague relating to documents respecting Dutch and Spanish possessions;
• Venezuelan boundary: agrees that governor should be instructed not to send police into those parts of the disputed territory actually in the possession of Venezuelans;
• Forwards letter describing maps and plans from the library of Baron Fagel at The Hague;
• Claims of United States against Venezuela;
• Brazilian boundary: agrees to appointment of special magistrate to reside near disputed territory;
• Incorrect statement in Guiana Central Railway Company's memorandum of association;
• Insurrection in Guarico State;
• Venezuelan boundary: sends copies of correspondence with Hugh Watt MP;
• Reports appointment of Dr Royas Paul as constitutional president of Venezuela;
• Relations between the British Government and General Guzman Blanco;
• Venezuelan boundary: forwards copy of a letter from the British minister at Stuttgart with translation of an article from the Frankfurter Zeitung;
• Proposed Republic of Counani;
• Venezuelan boundary: Venezuelan efforts to induce the United States to intervene;
• Venezuelan boundary: Mr Redden's researches;
• Venezuelan concession for railway between Guacipati and the Orinoco;
• Railway to north-west frontier of British Guiana;
• Mr Reddan's expenses;
• Venezuelan protest about action of colonial authorities in Barima District;
• Forwards note from Portuguese diplomat seeking commutation of sentence of death should Manoel Gonçalvez be found guilty of a murder at Demerara.

Topics

International

Public disorder

Railways

Conflict

Maps and plans

Treason and rebellion

Navy

Crime

Americas

Mining and quarrying