Correspondence from 'offices' (Government departments) on matters relating to Jamaica....

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

• House of Commons (procedure of the Legislative Council);
• Admiralty (Cuban insurrection, Hanover Collectorate at Lucea);
• Crown Agents (transfer of Raoul L Reischach to Sierra Leone, requisitions for the Kingston Improvement Commission, appointment of an Engineer for the Kingston Improvement Commission, Kingston sewerage works, rifles for St James Rifle Association, requests for a loan of £100,000, uniforms for Sergeant Majors of the Constabulary, post of Mistress for Shortwood Training College, Chancery Deposits, pension due to the estate of the late Dr G T Martyn, proposed appeal of the West India Improvements Company versus Daubigny's case);
• Privy Council Office (Order in Council relating to Council);
• Board of Trade (rewards to the crew of the schooner Henry Souther);
• India Office (bark seed);
• Law Officers (Wharfage Law 1895);
• Treasury (pension to a bankrupt officer, Copyright Duties 1894, Constabulary pensions);
• Foreign Office (crew of the May Reed, insurrection in Cuba, alleged ill treatment of Mr H O Bodden by the Nicaraguan Government, Spanish firing on SS Ethelred, passport for Mr Henry Hicks Hocking, memorial of Mosquito Indians, claim of the owners of the May Reed, Mr E Macpherson's claim against Nicaragua, memorial of the West India Improvements Company, deportations from the Mosquito Reserve, seizure of the Pearl during the Cuban insurrection, case of the Lottie May, conduct of the Greek Consul, maintenance of neutrality, transmission of certain documents to Paris, visits of German training ships, claim of Mr J W Johns against Nicaragua, turtle fishery at Mosquito Cays, alleged ill treatment of Italian railway workmen, compensation claim of the Lottie May);
• War Office (appointment of Captain G H P Colley as the Governor's Aide-de-Camp, seconding of Captain Herbert S W Pennington, ammunition for the St Catherine and the St Thomas Rifle Associations, Martini-Henri rifles for the Militia, Uniforms Law, nuisance near Up Park Camp, military instruction for Lieutenant Chadwick, administration of the Government in the temporary absence of the Governor, Halifax-Bermuda cable extension).

Topics

Clothing

International

Railways

Army

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Conflict

Pay and pensions

Weapons

Treason and rebellion

Debt

Navy

Sewerage

Fishing

Americas

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Africa