Correspondence from individuals on matters relating to Jamaica. Correspondents and...

Correspondence from individuals on matters relating to Jamaica. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• David Alexander (arrival in England and departure for Northern Nigeria, re-employment in Jamaica);
• Lieutenant Colonel Bell (Constabulary appointment for his son G C Bell);
• Thomas W Birkett (pension);
• Walter E Ballantyne (fruit steamer service);
• Gilbert E Brooke (temporary employment under Royal Army Medical Corps, promotion or retirement);
• Reverend Thomas Banbury (sugar cultivation and fruit trade);
• J T Cartright (computation of pension);
• Cooper Brothers (carriage of bananas by direct steamers, fruit trade with Jamaica);
• W A Clarke (labourers in Ecuador);
• J V Calder (finances of colony);
• E F H Cox (promotion to another colony);
• Frederick Stephen Church (transfer to a West African Police Force, promotion);
• Sir Fielding Clarke (Obeah Law and Appeal Law, post of Chief Justice of Ceylon);
• John D'Acht (appointment as Assistant Director of Public Works);
• George A Douglas (prison warders);
• H A Hood Daniel (adulteration of rum);
• Elder, Dempster and Company (direct steamer service, bananas per the steam ship Port Morant, further service of fruit steamers, weekly fruit service, development of colony, mineral resources);
• Benjamin C Frith (salt taxation in the Turks Islands, mail communication in the Turks Islands);
• Captain J E L Gibbs (resignation and passage for his successor);
• Eustace Greg (detention of Boer prisoners, powers of the Resident Magistrates, cases of Obeah);
• Thomas E Heath and others (oppression complaint);
• F V Hilaire (claim of Dr M Delevante);
• C J Hamilton (recovery of certain debts);
• S D Hopkinson (Railway Bondholders and Income Tax);
• Miss Amy C Johnson (pension, alimentary allowance);
• A L Jones (Dr Johnston's report on the culture of oranges in Spain);
• Mrs Lucie A King (poems on the late Prince Albert);
• Knowles and Sons (fruit shipment and fruit trade);
• Captain P Kelly (compensation for the abolition of his office, case of William Taylor, prison scaffold);
• Charles F Lumb (vacancy of Chief Justice in Ceylon);
• S P Leon (death of Queen Victoria);
• J B Lucie-Smith (promotion);
• Sergeant Major R E Lelt (leave salary and advance);
• A J Murray (quarantine regulations);
• Dr C B Mosse (case of Dr Joslen);
• Dr P Manson (medical report of H S Hammond);
• H Marks (labour conditions);
• Dr D Morris (coffee seeds for British Central Africa);
• Charles MacDonald (pension);
• Albert W H Pratt (certificate of service);
• Evacustes A Phipson (turtles of Jamaica and salmon of British Columbia);
• W E Ramsay (orchids per the steam ship Port Morant);
• Reverend Canon Ripley (restoration of the Spanish Town's Cathedral);
• D Reynolds (pension for his home service);
• J Richard Reece (promotion);
• John Roper (petition for an increase of his Police pension);
• James Richmond (appointment as Assistant Engineer of the Railway, application of W T Reid for the post of Locomotive Superintendent, railway officers and works, return to Jamaica, girders for Bowers Gully Bridge, new locomotives);
• F S Sanguinetti (post of Medical Officer in the Cayman Islands, harbour inspection of the Caymans by HMS Psyche);
• Lieutenant W C Syer (musketry instruction);
• R B Strickland (promotion);
• A Markland Taylor (death of Queen Victoria);
• C Taylor (estate of Mr Barclay in Chancery);
• Herbert T Thomas (leave salary, application for magistracy in South Africa, full pay leave, application for promotion);
• Charlton Thompson (Marine Board Law 1896, application for the post of Stipendiary Magistrate in British Guiana);
• Hector G Tilley (fruit cultivation);
• E G Von Tromp (pension of Mrs A Eldridge);
• Reverend Augustus Westphal (death of Queen Victoria);
• William Whitley (claim to property, search for will);
• T E Young (Widows and Orphans Fund and mortality statistics);
• Douglas Young (furniture for the Commissioner's house in the Turks islands, departure for the Turks Islands, half salary as Commissioner of the Turks Islands).

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