Correspondence from miscellaneous 'offices' (government departments and other organisations)...

Correspondence from miscellaneous 'offices' (government departments and other organisations) and from individuals on matters relating to British Guiana. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Miscellaneous Offices:

• Plantation Leonora Limited (Sea Defences Ordinance);
• West India Association, Liverpool (pilotage charges, Sea Defences Ordinance, sugar industry);
• General Post Office (parcel post with Dutch colonies, parcel post with Dutch Guiana, money order exchange with India);
• Chamber of Commerce, Liverpool (insolvency law and pilotage fees);
• West India Association, Glasgow (advances to sugar estates);
• West India Committee (sugar industry, magistrates and work of immigrants, Sea Defences Ordinance);
• Meeting of British Guiana Proprietors and Merchants (postponement of railway extension);
• Colonial Committee of Church of Scotland (minister for St Saviours Berbice, death of the Reverend A H Anderson);
• The Financial News (extract from issue of 26 June concerning British Guiana Prospecting and General Developing Company Limited);
• Demerara Railway Company (railway extensions);
• British Guiana Prospecting and General Developing Company Limited (concession of part of gold field);
• London & Globe Finance Corporation (mining concession);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (minor industries);
• Colonial Office (Venezuelan boundary, appointment of Messrs Hamilton and Davis to Executive Council).

Individuals:

• F C M Anson (application for appointment in Trinidad, salary as acting chief commissary, military instruction);
• W F E Ashe (forwards extract from the San Francisco Chronicle reporting British intention to defend the Venezuelan border [with map showing land grant conceded to C C Fitzgerald by Venezuela]);
• R N Blandy (resignation);
• A Binns (application for promotion);
• E A Burgess (condition of Mr T G G Wyatt);
• Dr C G Brown (health of Mr T G G Wyatt, health of Mr E A S Gray, health of Mr H G Spain);
• Dr J H Benson (health of Dr E G Leary);
• W Bateson (disputed territory);
• J W Carrington (revision of the laws);
• J T Cartwright (application for appointment in Barbados, application for promotion);
• J G Cruickshank (credentials required by Reverend John Cruickshank);
• Francis Comyn (Venezuelan boundary);
• Major A B Copley (development of colony);
• Conrad & Company (railways);
• H W Cobb (appointment as sub-inspector of police);
• G G Dixon (railway construction, Barima and Cuyuni Railway steamboat service [with map of part of British Guiana and Venezuela]);
• Dowsett, Knight & Company (appointment as agents for colony [with newspaper cutting about Mr C F Dowsett, auctioneer]);
• C G H Davis (application for appointment in West Africa);
• C E D Farnum (application for promotion and extension of leave);
• Mrs M E Gladwin (application for assistance);
• C P Gaskin (memorial re steamer contract);
• E B Hoare MP (application of Mrs Keelan for pension from Widows and Orphans Fund);
• Mrs Henrietta Hughes (charges against Mr Bourne);
• Joseph Headly (petition respecting his dismissal);
• J K D Hill (application for promotion);
• Sir A W L Hemming (appointment as governor);
• E F im Thurn (police station at Mount Terminus, communication between Morawhanna and Uruan);
• Captain G L Johnstone (his uniform);
• C E Kelway (collection of arms etc by Venezuela, river steamers);
• W Klass (complaint regarding his dismissal);
• Sir Charles C Lees (sugar industry [printed for Parliament as C. 8359, February 1897]);
• W F Law (increment of salary);
• M G Lambert (state of the Civil Service);
• C Lawson (development of colony);
• E G Leary (extension of leave);
• Colonel E B McInniss (application of Mr G H May for police appointment, application for governorship of Falklands [with details of his service], guns for Georgetown Defences, increase of Police Force, maxim and quick firing guns, Venezuelan boundary, maxim guns);
• W Mitchell (estate of his late father);
• A Matthey (army medical instruction, remuneration for medical attendance on militia);
• E A Nevill (assistance for Mr H Hutchens);
• W Nicoll (extension of leave);
• Sir Edward L O'Malley (appointment as chief justice);
• Packard & Company (recommendation of manures by Government chemist);
• J B Phillips (application for pension);
• A D Provand (mining concessions);
• Mrs Frances B Rose (promotion for Mr J F Rose);
• J H Reddan (Venezuelan boundary);
• J F Rose (application for promotion);
• J Robertson (Venezuelan boundary);
• C S Swain (military instruction);
• A de T Shaw (application for appointment at Gibraltar);
• Reverend P A Stevenson (death of Mr J D Stevenson);
• Mrs Florence Swan (promotion for her husband);
• Sandbach, Tinne & Company (sugar bounties [printed for Parliament as C. 8359, February 1897]);
• G D Swain (application for employment on Kumasi expedition);
• H G Spain (extension of leave);
• W T Toms (information re Cuyuni River);
• R Tennant (concessions);
• G C Vyle (refund of passage to England, re-employment, termination of his appointment);
• A D Williams (his pension rights);
• E C Weddall (contribution to Widows and Orphans Fund);
• Hugh Watt (development of colony);
• E P Wood (extension of leave);
• E F Wright (uniform of sub-inspectors of police);
• D Young (communication between Morawhanna and the gold fields on the Barima and Barama Rivers and thence to Uruan).

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