Correspondence from 'Offices' (Government departments and other organisations) on...

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

• Admiralty (visit of HMS Psyche to the Cayman Islands, naval and military cemetery at Fort Augusta, contribution to be made by the Admiralty and War Office to the Parochial Fund at Port Royal);
• Crown Agents (railway works, proposed wharf at Montego Bay, revised timetable of the railway, General Manager and Staff for the railway, rolling stock of railway, bridgework workshop and plant of the railway, turntable for the Jamaica railway, Foreman Brickmaker for the General Penitentiary, direct steamer service contract and purchase of bananas, railway locomotives, steel tyres for railway, account with the Colonial Government, tenders for coal, decrease of business with the colony, case of the steam ship Port Maria, parts of wagons for the railway, fruit by direct steamer, goods ordered direct from private firms, Maintenance and Construction Engineer for the railway, dealings of the Colonial Government with firms in England, railway station, Elder Dempster's refusal to ship bananas, complaint of Messrs Knowles and Sons for the shipment of fruit, Government Debentures, books for the library of the Supreme Court, railway passenger cars, damage to the Port Antonio section of the railway, railway reports by the Engineer of Ways and Works and by the Traffic Superintendent 1900, railway correspondence between the Consulting Engineer and the Engineer of Ways and Works, Foreman Boilermaker for the railway, railway engines, working expenses 1901-2, replacement of rusted rails, case of the Railway Company versus the Colonial Bank, charges in connection with Imperial Loans, cargo capacity of the steam ship Port Royal, retiring allowance of Miss A C Johnson, conveyance of return Indian immigrants, railway coal, railway defective engines, bicycle badges and Constabulary clothing, Mr F Hovil's resignation, lease of the Constant Spring Hotel, derailment of engine 27, expenses of advertising the conversion of the railway debentures, advance to H T Thomas, expenses in connection with the issue and conversion of loans, railway loan account, shortening of tunnel number 6 on the Port Antonio line, hotel debentures sinking fund, irrigation loan, Kingston improvements Further Loan Law 1899, repatriation of Abdul Azitz, railway freight cars cancelled contract and disposal of materials, reports on engines and composite carriages by Mr E Cooper, charges for the inspection of boring and turning mill);
• Emigration Agency, Calcutta (payment of immigrants' remittances, unfitness of Indian immigrants for agricultural labour).

Topics

Shipping

Clothing

Government finances

International

Labour

Railways

Army

Migration

Caribbean

Badges and insignia

Coal

Navy

Banking

Farming

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Prisons