Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations)...

Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) on subjects concerning British Guiana. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (Venezuelan boundary);
• Emigration Agent at Calcutta (jute cultivation in the colony and sugar importation, report on Indian immigrants during the last season, sugar cane cultivation, plague and treatment by sodium sulphite, Samsara cane plants and jute seed, passages of assisted compounders to the colony, disposal of rejected emigrants and of those who decided not to emigrate, Indian emigration to Straits Settlement, immigrant ship Rhone, Indian buffaloes for the colony and their introduction, Indian immigrants and return passages);
• Crown Agents (bank, police stores, returning Indian immigrants on board the Rhone, issue of bonds, Indian workers required in 1897 [2 items], Armourer Sergeant Albert Edward Duce, investments on account of savings bank, compensation to T M Teed, Indian immigration, Widows and Orphans Pension Fund contribution from Sir John Carrington, Inscribed Stock Ordinance amendment, Queen's Regiment and expenses with regard to the troops, bank overdraft, return of Indian immigrants on board the Rhone, railway survey, passage for Mr B M Chatterjee, steamer service, mental condition of electrician S Vyle, loans, H L Calder, steamer contract and results of negotiation, J Fairbairn and the British Guiana Scholarship, New Amsterdam to Skeldon Railway, communication with Upper Cuyuni);
• Privy Council (Extradition Ordinance 1897);
• India Office (rejected migrants, Indian immigrants and return passages);
• Law Officers (Venezuelan boundary, pensions on the abolition of an office);
• War Office (request to purchase reventing tools, appointment of Sergeant Albert Edward Duce as Armour Sergeant to the British Guiana Militia and Police and passages of family, Anglo-Brazilian boundary, Colour Sergeant C J Russell, Venezuelan boundary, clothing of NCOs of the Imperial Army, clothing of Colour Sergeant Russell, War Office papers for Colonel McInnes, termination of the employment of Sergeant Major US Mayfield);
• West India Committee (Indian immigrants 1897-98);
• West India Association (Indian immigrants 1897-98);
• Kew Gardens (Liberian coffee and samples, rice cultivation);
• Inhabitants of the Colony (petition against the Vlissengen Lands Ordinance 22 of 1896);
• West India Association of Liverpool (United States tariff, Indian indentured labourers);
• British Guiana Bank (government guarantee, draft agreement between bank and Spain Brothers, arrangements for underwriting);
• General Post Office (Money Orders Convention with British Honduras, money order exchange with Bermuda, mental condition of Mr Vyle and his wife's address);
• British Chamber of Commerce, Paris (prospecting for Balata gum and trade with the British colonies);
• Public Record Office (Venezuelan boundary and the search for records, report of the result of the search);
• Royal Humane Society (case of W Goodfellow not one for recognition);
• Bishop's College, Montreal (Medical Degree for Dr John Monteith Rohlehr);
• Guarantee Society (information required of Mr Herbert Lindsay Calder);
• The Delhi and London Bank (pension to Mrs Kate Keelan, widow of Revered Joseph Keelan);
• Inspector of Migrant Ships, Cape Town (inspection of the returning ship Avon, return of Indian immigrants on board the Foyle);
• The Truth (petition of B E J C Belmonte and the cancellation of his admission as solicitor in the colony);
• Surgeon Superintendent Shaw (Indian immigrants on board the Lena);
• Surgeon Superintendent, Ireland (reports the arrival of Indian immigrants on board the Jura and that the ship is old and unsatisfactory);
• Plantation Leonora (sugar bounties and countervailing duty against beetroot sugar);
• West India Royal Commission (report on the condition of the colony respecting sugar production);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (packages for the Colonial Office from Demerara).

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