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:

• Foreign Office (case of ex-President of Honduras Señor Bonilla, Honduras new navigation laws, extradition of Isidoro V Perez, telegraphic communication with Mexico and convention, money order agreement with Mexico, navigation of Hondo River, visit of a Mexican gunboat to an unauthorised port, co-operation of British Honduras and Guatemalan Police, claim of J Chambers against Honduras, expedition against Honduras, complaint of the Master of SS Dordogne, repatriation of Mr and Mrs Muller to England);
• Home Office (use of firearms against escaping prisoners, expulsion of undesirable aliens);
• India Office (Sikhs for Police Force);
• Medical Advisers (medical report of C L Eyles);
• Board of Trade (wireless telegraphy, lighting of coast);
• War Office (documents of Sergeant P E Matthews and of non-commissioned officers generally, volunteer decoration and long service medal);
• Direct West India Cable Company Limited (wireless telegraphy);
• Seamen's Mission (assisted passage for J M Jarvis);
• Local Government Board (Quarantine Ordinance amendment);
• London Fire Brigade (Ordinance 19 of 1910);
• General Post Office (disposal of parcels sent to Guatemala, opening of telegraph lines to international service);
• Imperial Mercantile Service Guild (firing by soldiers at SS Dordogne at Utilla Island, complaint of Captain Blight of SS Dordogne).

• James Chambers (claim against the Honduras Government);
• Thomas and James Harrison (conveyance of Jarvis to Belize);
• Hicks, Arnold and Mozley Solicitors (development scheme of Mr J P Quinton, concession for the cultivation of rubber);
• David Hoskins (his leave);
• Herbert C Jeffreys (re-employment);
• Fred White Read (railway development and concession);
• F A Rurmals (complaint against the Honduranean authorities);
• H Rainier (Indian indentured labour for the colony);
• B Sigall (stock of obsolete unused stamps for sale by the Crown Agents);
• F E Starkey (land grant in Cayo District);
• R W Starkey (Belize railway, expedition against Honduras, conditions of affairs);
• B Travers (his pension, rate of salary);
• J S Watson (case of Mrs Mary Jane Franklin).

Topics

International

Labour

Railways

Army

Trade and commerce

Medals

Migration

Radio and television

Pay and pensions

Policing

Weapons

Americas

Communications

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns

Local Government