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

Correspondence received from 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations) on subjects concerning Jamaica. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Council Office (demonetisation of doubloon);
• Foreign Office (murder of F Constantine, J O Ebanks complaint against Guatemala, compensation to E D Hatch from the Nicaraguan Government, alleged murder of William Phillips, complaint against Guatemala and J O Ebanks and others, complaint against Colombia by C A Wilson, complaint against Nicaragua, date trees from Algiers, T Campbell and the complaint against Colombia, maintenance of Chief Clarence, Mrs Brandon's claim to income from estate in Amsterdam, claim from S Miller, detention of schooner Nonpareil, grievances of Mosquito Indians, Chief Clarence, disputes between Colombian Consul General and the Consul at Kingston, C J H Goring's claim of wrongful imprisonment in Ecuador, claims against Dominica Government, consular agency at San Andres in Colombia, Jamaican labourers to work in the rubber fields of Bolivia, A M Perkins claim against Nicaragua, claim by Mrs Parchmont, complaint by C A Wilson, lease of Turtle Boque at the Cayman Islands, case of A J Parker, J W John and compensation claim, wounding of J H Linton in Colombia, claims against the Dominican Government, coffee seed for British Central Africa Protectorate, A H Cole and complaint against the Nicaraguan Government, arrest of Mrs Parchmont's son-in-law on Bonacca Islands, Jamaican labourers in Ecuador, memorial of A Clarence, affairs in Panama and Colombia, complaint of Mrs Bullock, gratuity to the former secretary to the Mosquito Chief, Consular Officer at Bocas del Toro, case of W F Reynolds, grievances of Mosquito Indians, exemption of German training ship Grossherzogin Elizabeth from dues and charges);
• Home Office ('Imperial' as part of the title of the Direct West India Mail Service Limited, Calcium Carbide Sale and Storage Ordinance, D Reynolds and pension, T W Birkett and pension, prison scaffold [with tracing of apparatus], prison warders);
• India Office (Indian immigrants prevented from leaving Jamaica);
• Law Officers (Direct West India Cable Company's subsidy);
• House of Commons (advances under the Colonial Loans Act, Government Inscribed Stock, praedial larceny);
• Board of Trade (Shipping Masters accounts, merchant seamen fees for shipping and discharging, Marine Board Law 1900, proposed lighthouse at Sand Cay, light at east end of Grand Cayman);
• Treasury (mail service, D Reynolds and the Home Service, railway bondholders rates of income tax, supply of funds to the Treasury chest);
• War Office (resignation of Captain G H Pomeroy Colley, Defence Scheme 1900, Army commission candidates, commission for Lieutenant C A Robinson, armament of local forces, Captain L S Knox, priced invoices for War Department stores, Boer prisoners, regulations for volunteer officers decoration and long service medal, War Department contribution to the Parochial Fund of Port Royal, Captain J E L Gibbs);
• General Post Office (mail service timetable, Cayman Islands and postage stamps and political status, Cayman Islands admission to the Postal Union, penny post, mail service, information provided to police by post offices);
• Mayor of Kingston, Jamaica (death of Queen Victoria);
• 'Loyal Subjects of Annotto Bay' (death of Queen Victoria);
• West India Committee (reported storm on 21 January);
• St Catherine's Parish (death of Queen Victoria);
• 'Jews of Jamaica' (death of Queen Victoria);
• Colonial Office (development of fruit trade, direct steamer service and cargo at Port Morant, minutes relating to certain affairs in Jamaica);
• Jamaica Union of Teachers (death of Queen Victoria);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (transport of fruit by direct steamer from Jamaica);
• Co-operative Union (co-operatively established friendly societies);
• Aborigines Protection Society (Praedial Larceny Law No 21 of 1901);
• Humanitarian League (Pradial Larceny Law 1901);
• Royal Irish Constabulary (Sergeant Majors of Constabulary);
• West Caicos Sisal Company (installation of wireless telegraphy).

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