Despatches from Henry A Blake, Governor of Jamaica (October to December 1890), together...

Despatches from Henry A Blake, Governor of Jamaica (October to December 1890), together with correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) and from individuals sent during the year. Despatches are described at item level; other correspondence is not, and correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (proposed salvage of HMS Endymion, anchorage for Royal Navy ships, relations between colonial authorities and naval officers, cases of fever on HMS Buzzard, wreck of HMS Endymion);
• Crown Agents (Kingston Gas Works, Parochial Roads Law, cadastral survey, Kingston drainage scheme);
• Board of Trade (Pilotage Law, Turks Wreck and Salvage Ordinance, lighthouse at Grand Turk, Weights and Measures Law, Electric Lighting Law, stabbing affray on the Sverre, trial of seaman of the Sverre);
• Law Officers (marriages of Jews);
• Treasury (application for grant-in-aid for exhibition [2 items], pension rights of prison officers transferred to Jamaica);
• Foreign Office (outrage on Jamaicans at Gorgona, Colombia, in 1887, wholesale destruction of turtle [2 items], sandbank between Cuba and Haiti, perfume industries of Nice, complaint of J Bulgin of ill-treatment on board a Portuguese ship, Gorgona case, importation of cattle from Colombia, recognition of General Hyppolite as President of Haiti, foreign medical practitioners, fire at Colon and consequent destitution, relief of destitute Jamaicans at Colon [3 items]);
• War Office (proposed survey of Jamaica, honours due to Commodore, Major Parsons' services, Major Hutton's services, Commodore's claim to guard of honour, pollution of Hope River);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (fibre plants, perfume industries of Nice, coffee leaf disease);
• Committee of Jamaica Industrial and Manufacturing Exhibition (imperial grant-in-aid);
• Lloyds (need for light on Morant Cays [2 items];
• West India Committee (Falmouth Water Company's charges to steam ships);
• General Post Office (reduction of postage to Canada, United States, etc . [2 items]);

Individuals:

• W G Arthur (comments on proposed administrative changes at Caicos Islands [2 items]);
• Bishop of Antigua (recommends Captain Jackson for post of Colonial Secretary at Bahamas);
• Martha Brown and Alexander Barrett (seizure of their houses by the district judge at Colon);
• F E Cole (appointment as Clerk of Courts at St Elizabeth);
• F Delfosse (complains about his dismissal);
• L Delmege (complains about changes in medical service at Spanish Town);
• W Dawkins (wishes his name to be added to petition against Cadastral Survey Law);
• H F Gibbons (his claim to pension);
• H H Hendrick (application for Constabulary appointment [2 items]);
• C P Huggins (accepts appointment as Clerk of Courts);
• H Higgins (accepts appointment as Commissioner of Turks Islands);
• Major General Mann (supports Mr C W Tait's claims to promotion);
• E A Northcote (his application for post of Chief Justice of Natal);
• A W J Steer (tenders resignation of his medical appointment and asks for a pension);
• Lord St Levan (appointment of his son Arthur J S D St Aubyn as a sub-inspector of Police [2 items];
• L V Tinley (forwards Mr Roper's letter of objection to the Cadastral Survey Law);
• R H W Woodward (application for appointment as Clerk of Courts, application for colonial employment generally)

Topics

International

Manufacturing

Labour

Public disorder

Army

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Population

Race relations

Food and drink

Navy

Crime

Americas

Communications

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns

Prisons

Africa