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

CO 137/541

1889

Correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and from individuals on matters relating to Jamaica. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (affairs on the Isthmus of Panama, destitute labourers at Panama, anchorage for foreign transports, marriages solemnised on board HMS Urgent);
• Crown Agents (sale of the railway, agreement with Mr Jonathan Mustill, formation of a railway company);
• Board of Trade (Merchandise Marks Law, light on Morant Cays, registration of the Trade Marks Law, lighthouse of Grand Turk);
• Treasury (destitute British subjects at Panama, Turks Islands mail service, supply of funds to the Treasury chests, extended leave of Bishop Nuttal, new agreement with the Colonial Bank);
• Foreign Office (repatriation of destitute British subjects from Panama, disturbances at Panama, affairs on the Isthmus of Panama, repatriation of destitute West Indians from Panama, relief of destitute labourers at Panama, shipment of 'vagrants' to Jamaica by the Colombian Government, repatriation of distressed Jamaicans and Barbadians at Panama, alleged ill-treatment of British subjects at Livingston, case of Miss Chamberlaine, exodus from Panama, quarantine on vessels from the Spanish Antilles);
• Home Office (applications for posts of warder in the penitentiary at Kingston, appointment of a Principal Warder);
• War Office (two batteries of artillery for the West Indies, title of companies of the African artillery to be raised, rifles for the Volunteer Militia);
• Examining Board of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons of England (medical degrees);
• West India Association of Glasgow (sale of the railway);
• Atlas Steam Ship Company (sale of the railway);
• General Post Office (money order system with the United States of America, Turks Islands mail service and Ordinance);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (appointment of a gardener, Dr Gage Brown's medical rejection of Kew Gardens recommendations, fibre industry in the Turks Islands);
• Ordnance Survey (proposed survey);
• Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales (opening of the exhibition).

Individuals:

• W Andrews (sale of the Jamaica Railway to an American);
• Sir Henry A Blake (his appointment as Governor);
• Joseph Bravo and Company (sale of the railway);
• W J Binning (appointment as Principal Warder);
• W Ernst (application for post of Chief Justice of St Lucia, application for re-employment);
• C Washington Eves (address to Sir H Norman, sale of the railway, trustees for railway bonds);
• Sergeant George Evans (improved administration of the island, introduction of European settlers);
• C Farquharson (departure of Sir H Norman, sale of the railway);
• E Alexander Foster (application for promotion);
• H F Gibbons (his case and petition to the Queen);
• Alfred E Husband (commercial union with Canada);
• Henry H Hocking (sale of the railway);
• W T Jamison (his house allowance);
• Major General Mann (application of Mr J D'Aeth for the post of Superintendent of Public Works in Barbados);
• Sir H Norman (sale of the railway, arrival in England, destitute Jamaicans at Panama, return of Messrs Hocking and Farquharson, case of Mr J C Macglashan and Mr L R Fyfe);
• Findlater Roper (cadastral survey);
• R L Rivett (extension of leave);
• Edmund Sturge (sugar cultivation);
• Dr A W Steer (his leave);
• Wendt and Company (loss of the vessel Lozama).

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