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:

• Admiralty (oil regulations);
• Crown Agents (Henry Fernandes, transport of 'coolie' immigrants, railway concession for Lord Glasgow, pension of Sir F M Hodgson, steamers for ferries, salary of J J Nunan, law examination);
• Emigration Agent (prohibition of indentured labourers, accounts of the agency for the year ended 31 March, Sir Frederick Hodgson's pension, penal liabilities incurred by emigrants, feeling in India as regards emigration, distribution of the work of agencies);
• Foreign Office (Brazilian boundary, disturbances on the Venezuelan frontier, Venezuelan boundary, railway from Manaos to the frontier, Putamayo, rubber collection in Venezuela, police detachment at Kwipa, Amazon Land and Colonisation Company, boundary between British and Dutch Guiana);
• India Office (antecedents of Dr Sharma, form of contracts for indentured immigrants, 'coolie' immigration, emigrants contracts, Indian labour enquiry, Indian emigrants contracts);
• Medical Adviser (Captain H M Brunker, C W H Bugle, J R Booth);
• House of Commons (unofficial members of the Executive Council);
• Board of Trade (customs statistics, amalgamation of Harbour Masters' and Customs Department);
• War Office (case of Sergeant G H Forsythe);
• Imperial Institute ('Bastard' Balata);
• The Colonial Nursing Association (appointment as Nurse Superintendent and recommends Miss E A Bridge, lease of Miss E A McLaren, appointment as Divisional Nurse recommends Miss M B Crow);
• County of London Asylums Committee (repatriation of Clarice Rupertie);
• West Indies Development Syndicate (regulation of cinematograph theatre, cinematograph exhibitions);
• West Indies Committee (Sea Defences Ordnance);
• Civil Service Commission (examination of T Irving, examination for Sub Inspector of Police);
• Customs Department (resignation of J M Reid as Comptroller);
• Rubber and Balata Estates (ordinance prohibiting importation of Balata Rubber);
• West India and Panama Telegraph Company (reduction in rates);
• Surgeon Superintendent Rendall (voyage of the Chenab);
• Colonial Office (Sir Thomas Crossley Rayner as Chief Justice, riot at plantation Lusignan);
• Demerara Company Limited (labour troubles on estates);
• West Indies Association of Liverpool (emigration agency at Madras);
• Stepney Union (Charles Belgrave);
• The Police Review (appointment to Police Force).

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