Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Correspondence from 'offices' (Government...

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

• Admiralty (visit of the Governor of British Honduras to Mexico in HMS Scylla);
• Crown Agents (staff of the Stann Creek railway, appointment of Superintendent of Public Works, application of Messrs Boyle and Aplin for an increase of salary, export of tortoiseshell to Germany, loan legislation, Professor Boyce's report on yellow fever);
• Foreign Office (revolution in Honduras, telegraph convention in Mexico, Mr Tower's visit to the Colony, navigation of and smuggling on river Hondo, direct money order exchange with Mexico, outrage by Mexican Customs officials, pan-American medical congress, Mexican violation of British territory in 1906, affairs of Central America, British Honduras - Guatemala boundary, complaint against British SS Don Felipe, clearing of mangroves from river Hondo);
• India Office (emigration of 'East Indians' from Canada to British Honduras);
• Board of Trade (goods landed from the wreck of SS Anselm);
• War Office (case of Colour Sergeant Skinner);
• General Post Office (Insurance of Letters Ordinance, direct money order exchange with Mexico, telegraphic agreement with Mexico, repurchase of postage stamps from the public);
• Local Government Board (Motor Car Ordinance);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (mail service with the United Kingdom, steamer service with Jamaica);
• Institute of Archaeology of the Liverpool University (archaeological research);
• Board of Customs (goods landed from the wreck of the Anselm, tea from Shanghai);
• London School of Tropical Medicine (hygiene teaching, lantern slide of 'sleyomyia fasciata');
• Western Land Syndicate (Hindu labourers);
• British Honduras Syndicate (Hindu labourers);
• Belize Estate and Produce Company (Hindu labourers from British Columbia).

• J Paton Auld (appointment as Superintendent of Public Works);
• Colonel W J Ault (railway - Belize to Guatemala frontier);
• Mrs Mary Jane Franklin (case of her husband R H Franklin);
• Sir Douglas Fox and Partners (railway - Belize to Guatemala frontier);
• T H Gurrin (case of Mr Percy A Carter);
• C Melhado (development of Colony's railway);
• Messrs W N Nicholson and Sons (cohune nuts);
• R Parry (his engagement);
• Richard W Starkey (visit to Belize, railway proposals, Belize railway and harbour works);
• F E Starkey (land grant);
• E J E Swayne (extension of leave, increase of salary for Messrs Boyle and Alpin, loan, labour, visit to Mexico, bonus to Messrs Boyle and Alpin, land grant to Mr Starkey, navigation of river Hondo, Stann Creek railway, employment of 'East Indians' from Canada in British Honduras).

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