Letters from various offices (government departments and other organisations) and...

Letters from various offices (government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters related to Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (Mora wood for shipment to England, passages of various government officials, appointment of James Wilson as registrar of the Vice Admiralty Court, Botanist Herman Cruzer's offer to conduct meteorological experiments);
• Crown Agents (shipment of various supplies, despatch book, Tram Road debentures, payment of £1,250 to William Eccles & Co due to steam service contract, delay in books and stationery requisition, payment of Clerk Secretariat R J S Smith's salary, Edward Bernard's enquiry concerning acting as an agent, pension for Mrs Anne Rourke, disallowance of Ordinance No 28 of 1859);
• Foreign Office (appointment of Mr Lovera as Venezuelan Consul, 'hostile' measures taken by Venezuelan refugees, judicial documents from the French Ambassador, charges against Mr Bingham in Venezuela, attack on the Butterfly by armed Venezuelan boats, alleged encroachment of Venezuelan vessels, case of Manuel Jose Oriarch);
• Trinidad Railway Company Limited (form of contract);
• Geological Survey Office (opinion on Mr Wall's and Mr Sawkins' geological report);
• West India Committee (requests an interview concerning the appointment of an assistant receiver general);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (price of a contract passage for a gentleman and a lady);
• Audit Office (reply to enquiry concerning Blue Books);
• Stationery Office (delay in transmission of stationery);
• Order of the Bath (appointment of William Warner and Dr Adriano Duigli to the Order of the Bath);
• Royal College of Physicians (receipt of post concerning quarantine);
• Board of Trade (need for court to take cognisance of charges against shipmasters, draft ordinances concerning payment of tonnage dues and steam communication with Venezuela);
• Treasury (confirmation of various ordinances, interest and sinking fund on the guaranteed loan, supplemental estimate, calculation of Mr Adderley's pension, salary advance to Inspector of Police Captain Bushe to pay for wife's passage, passage allowance for resigned Geological Surveyor G P Wall, barracks for troops, erection of a chapel in Free Port, funding for Port of Spain sewerage works, amount needed to meet a bond, organisation of the Post Office, repairs of Police stations, salary for an assistant harbour master, charges in excess of estimates, Mr Gould's gratuity, repayments to Reverend Gilbert and Reverend Laurie, proposed separation of the offices of colonial secretary and auditor of public accounts, pension request of Mrs M J Sorzano widow of Warden Martin Sorzano);
• War Office (ordinance for the improvement of quays in Port of Spain, mortality among white troops stationed in Trinidad due to Yellow Fever, barracks for West India troops in Port of Spain, unhealthy situation of St James barracks, recognition of Charles William Warner's public service, reconstruction on a new site of the battery on the Queens Wharf in Port of Spain, defences of Trinidad and St Lucia).

Individuals:

• C W Bucherer (requests appointment as professor of modern language at the Collegiate School);
• Henry Grattan Bushe (appointment as Inspector of Police, salary advance, charges made by Lord Carrington);
• Joel Brooks (price of land in Tobago and Trinidad);
• John James Berr (enquiry concerning the death of former Governor Hunter);
• William Henry Carter (Mr Johnston's address);
• William Caird (entitled amount of vacation);
• R Crawford-Cate (requests appointment as Inspector of Police);
• A H Curle, Supervisor (leave of absence extension request);
• Lord Carrington (asks if H G Bushe had served as a captain in the Royal Bucks Kings Own Militia, Captain Bushe's appointment as Inspector of Police);
• Edward Calvert (arrival from Trinidad after resignation as principal of the Queen's Collegiate School);
• H Drighton (appointment as principal of the Queen's Collegiate School);
• R E Gould (leave of absence extension request);
• Mrs B E Grey (requests assistance for her daughter who was the widow of late Inspector of Police Harragin);
• Thomas Goodsir (requests colonial appointment for his son);
• Lachlan Galbraith (enquiry concerning his brother John Galbraith);
• Henningham and Holly (debt due by Solicitor General George Garcia);
• Richard Ireland ('The West Indian Labour Question' by Stephen Cave as printed in The Port of Spain Gazette);
• Thomas F Johnston (lack of provisions provided for the payment of a bond of £10,000);
• John Keith (property supposedly left to him by his relative John Woodburn);
• William George Knox (application on behalf of his brother James Francis Knox for the receiver generalship);
• Norman MacDonald (application for receiver generalship);
• Marryat & Sons (recommends James Knox for receiver generalship);
• William F Perry, Paymaster Leicestershire Militia (application for appointment as Inspector of Police);
• E Sugnin (health benefits of electro-magnetics [in French]);
• R J Sanderson Smith (requests leave of absence due to ill health, return passage to Trinidad for himself and his wife);
• Lewis W Samuel (case of his suspensions from the Office of Superintendent of Public Works, leave of absence extension request, requests an interview);
• Mrs Susanna G Wall (remittance of her son Geologist G P Wall's passage allowance);
• James L Wildman (application for appointment as receiver general).

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