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

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

Offices:

• India Office (Indian immigrants and prevention of departure from Jamaica, Immigration Law Amendment and the extension of indentures);
• Board of Trade (casualty report of the SS Ethelred, passage of the shipwrecked crew of the schooner Sirocco, masters certificates for Canadian vessels under 100 tons, lighthouse keepers at Grand Turk);
• Treasury (Draft Bank Notes Law, Turks Island and the Paper Currency Ordinance, deficit loan, remittances of excess value of money orders, Post Office remittances to the United Kingdom, supply of funds for the Treasury chest);
• War Office (detention of Boer prisoners, appointment of Captain S H Hingley as Militia Staff Officer, acquisition of land at Port Royal, rearmament of militia and police, military expenditure 1902-03, rearmament of local forces, appointment of Colonel J E W S Caulfield, Port Royal defence works, acquisition of Port Royal, incidence of cost and mobilisation);
• Registry of Friendly Societies (friendly societies, Industrial and Provident Societies Bill);
• Royal Irish Constabulary (Sergeants Major for the Constabulary);
• West India Committee (settlement of Boer prisoners in Jamaica, old Bermuda floating dock, correspondence via direct mail and late posting at Paddington, Turks Island mails via the direct steamer);
• Humanitarian League (flogging);
• Daily Gleaner (sugar bounties);
• Merchants Exchange (sugar bounties, sugar industry);
• Royal Jamaica Society (sugar industry);
• General Medical Council (case of Dr P Macdonald Lyon);
• Colonial Office (riot at Annotta Bay);
• Royal Mint (nickel coinage and perforation);
• Lady Mico Charity (visit to college by the Reverend J W Gedge);
• Liverpool Chamber of Commerce (old dock at Bermuda);
• British Empire Finance Corporation (advances to planters);
• Imperial Institute (sample of copper ore);
• General Post Office (Turks Island mails);
• Board of Customs (Jamaica rum and re-exportation from the United Kingdom);
• North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association (port and customs charges at Kingston in respect of SS Angola);
• British Cotton Growing Association (encouragement of cotton growing);
• Direct West India Cable Company (renewal of subsidy).

Individuals:

• W G M Betton (labour question in Jamaica, interests of 'negro' population and commission of enquiry);
• Sir H A Blake (proposed rubber concession to Messrs Chapman and Cork);
• Aubrey Browne and Hopkinson (Colonial Stock Act);
• Colonel J Caulfield (appointment as Officer Commanding the Troops);
• H A Danuka and L F Davis (central factory at St Thomas);
• J Leslie Cox (extension of leave, return to colony, return to Jamaica);
• J D'Aeth (promotion, appointment in Egypt);
• J Davis and G Brown (false imprisonment in Costa Rica);
• Dunlop Brothers and Company (copper ore);
• Elder Dempster and Company (sugar industry, transfer of Bermuda dock and service to Halifax, direct mail service call at Bermuda, central sugar factory in Vere district, Direct West India Mail Service homeward cargoes, banana industry);
• Sir F Fleming (pension);
• Forbes, Forbes and Company (Railway 4% Mortgage Bonds);
• Freshfields (central sugar factory at St Thomas, scheme of Messrs Cunha and Davis);
• Eustace Greg (advances to planters, assistance to sugar planters);
• S D Hopkinson (railway bondholders and income tax);
• R Harvey (central sugar factories);
• Thomson Hankey & Company (central sugar factory at Clarendon);
• Sir A W L Hemming (Turks Island mails, West Indian team at Bisley, Central Factories Law 1902);
• Sir H H Hocking (Widows and Orphans Fund Bill 1902);
• J W John (claim against the Nicaraguan Government);
• Sir A L Jones (nickel coinage, old Bermuda dock);
• J W Jones (cattle breeding);
• Dr C F Lumb (his illness);
• H W Livingston (Imperial Service Order);
• Dr P Manson (J D'Aeth, Dr C H Elmes, M H Shee);
• E Nuttall (central sugar factory);
• Amos H E Paulwell (wrongful imprisonment in Guatemala and compensation);
• G Roe (mining possibilities of Jamaica);
• D Stewart and Company (sugar factory, central factory);
• A C Stewart (remittances of Indian immigrants, physical condition of Indian immigrants 1900-01, banana trade);
• H Spicer (one hundred Indian indentured workers for his plantation, 'negroes' from Barbados);
• Canon W Simms (Widows and Orphans Fund);
• G P St Aubyn (Chief Justice at St Lucia);
• J Steele (Fermentation Chemist);
• M H Shee (medical examination);
• R Thomson (cassava cultivation);
• S H Wheeldon (Boer settlement in Jamaica);
• H W Wolff (Industrial and Provident Societies Bill);
• E F Wright (Sergeant Major Phillips, police force);
• Archbishop of the West Indies (education);
• J Warner (losses sustained at the hands of the Government of the Dominican Republic).

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Conveyancing

Internment

International

Manufacturing

Labour

Public disorder

Railways

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Migration

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Policing

Race relations

Ireland

Children

Food and drink