Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from Foreign Office,...

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from Foreign Office, Home Office, War Office and 'Miscellaneous Offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and from individuals on matters relating to British Honduras. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Offices:

• Foreign Office (Icaiche and Santa Cruz Indians, Livingstone-Belize telegraph cable, seizure of the Laura Louise, case of Dr W G Mortimer who treated the injured men on board the Liberator, railway to the province of Peten, Mexican customs boat, navigation rights in Mexican and British Honduras waters, Mexican boundary, money order convention with the United States of America, navigation of territorial waters, Nicaraguan Canal Commission, remission of excise fine imposed on Messrs Winzerling Brothers, customs decree Mexico, postal convention with Guatemala);
• Home Office (pension to A W Hood);
• War Office (arming of the volunteer force and supply of ammunition, carbines for the volunteers, tracing of maps);
• Belize Estate and Produce Company (floating customs house or fort);
• Exchequer and Audit Department (application of J A McKinney for employment in the Colonial Audit Branch);
• The Clarion (editorial on the railway scheme);
• Colonial Office (mails by the Harrison line);
• General Post Office (conveyance of mails during the United States-Spanish war, money order convention with the United States, parcel post agreement between British Honduras and Guatemala);
• Royal Irish Constabulary (position of Check Sergeant in the British Honduras Police);
• Halifax and Bermudas Cable Company Limited (cable communication Belize-Livingstone and Belize-Jamaica, cable communication with British Honduras);
• Direct West India Cable Company Limited (cable communication Belize-Livingstone-Jamaica);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (cultivation of coffee);
• Danish Legation (case of Carl Alexander Metzgen).

• Harold B Arnold (pier concession);
• Charles J Ackrill (advance on account of compensation claimed);
• W H Carlin (extension of leave);
• Captain T P Cumming (services in the colony);
• J R Caines (balance of gratuity);
• Henry A Case (railway scheme Belize-Mexico);
• Captain J H Davidson-Houston (his arrival and application for leave);
• C H Eyles (declines the appointment of Senior Medical Officer at the Public Hospital in Kingston);
• C T Hunter (railway scheme);
• Harvey Brothers (railway scheme);
• B Hoare MP (carriage of mails - America and Spain);
• Augustus Walter Hood (retirement and pension);
• Lady Annie Harley (Royal Bounty Fund);
• Messrs Little and Johnston (railway survey);
• Major A B R Kaye (application for appointment in Barbados);
• Calverley J Lystier (course of training);
• A L M Mitchell (acceptance of the post of Inspector of Police);
• J A McKinney (application for transfer, resignation and application for colonial appointment);
• Dr William Gaddon Mortimer (delay in arrival, appointment as Assistant Colonial Surgeon, claim for compensation);
• Dr P Manson (medical report of Mr A W Hood);
• F J Newton (departure for British Honduras);
• Miss K F Oschwald (estate of her late father John Henry Oschwald);
• Miss Josephine Oschwald (pension to Mrs Oschwald);
• Messrs Purvis and Company (railway concession);
• Packets Jarrett and Holman (Mr C I Hunter's railway concession);
• T Swinton (death of Mrs Oschwald);
• A R M Simkins (property left in the colony);
• Colonel D Wilson (application of Major A B Kaye for promotion, loan ordinance, extension of leave, coffee cultivation, cable communication, railway scheme, land tax, visit to Kew Gardens, reductions in the constabulary and medical departments, furniture for Government House);
• George Winzerling (memorial against customs fines);
• Alfred K Young (application for promotion, appointment as Registrar General).

Topics

International

Labour

Railways

Army

Taxation

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Maps and plans

Pay and pensions

Weapons

Ireland

Food and drink

Americas

Communications

Medicine

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns