Despatches from Governor Sir S Freeling (1882 Nov - Dec) as well as letters from...

Despatches from Governor Sir S Freeling (1882 Nov - Dec) as well as letters from various offices (government departments and other organizations) and individuals. Despatches are described at item level; letters from offices and individuals are not.

Offices:

• Admiralty (carnival proceedings, Patos or Goose Island);
• Crown Agents (recommends the appointment of J W B Hill and E Robins, railway loan legislation, loan for £100,000, standing authority to pay West Indian Telegraph Company's subsidy);
• Education Department (appointment of Miss Helen Buncle as superintendent of the Girls Model School);
• Board of Trade (Merchant Shipping Ordinance, terminable certificates of registry of British ships);
• Law Officers (prohibition of export of arms);
• Treasury (arms export to Venezuela, pension of Sergeant Major Concannon);
• Foreign Office (Venezuelan Consul Senõr Gaundolphi, suggested appointment of Senõr Gellineau, Venezuelan application to see census returns, direct communication with Venezuelan government, Venezuelan refugees intrigues, suspicious movements of the Danish schoonerPetrel and the Colombian SS Colon [Cantabro], reported abduction of persons from Goose Island by a Venezuelan warship, Venezuelan prohibition of arms exported from Trinidad, British consul at Ciudad Bolivar, ownership of Patos or Goose Island, Venezuelan differential duties against West Indian goods, Merchant Shipping Ordinance);
• War Office (Patos or Goose Island);
• Lunacy Commissioners Office (appointment of G S Seccombe);
• Kew Gardens (complaints concerning English gardeners from Kew);
• Colonial Company (Guaracara railway extension, telegraph extension from San Fernando to Cedros);
• Estate Proprietors (importance of a telegraph extension from San Fernando to Cedros);
• Customs House (appointment of W R Browne);

Individuals:

• Miss Helen Buncle (appointment as superintendent of the Girls Model School);
• Dr S Leonard Crane (cost of living in Trinidad);
• Arthur Child (application for appointment as magistrate);
• Dr John F Chittenden, Medical Office of Cedros District (apology to governor and withdrawal of correspondence);
• Sir S Freeling (Patos and Chacachare Islands, travelling allowance for the magistrate of Ciudad, telegraph extension to Cedros);
• J G Gravely (application for appointment as medical officer);
• Albert P Marryat (Guaracara railway extension);
• S J Procter (application for appointment as dispenser to the Port of Spain hospital);
• J B Payne (Tramway Concession Ordinance);
• E Pollard (resignation of office as third clerk in the Audit Department);
• Edward Robins (pensionable service);
• J Edward Tanner (Guaracara railway extension, telegraph extension to Cedros, excess over estimate for the Model School, Port of Spain water supply).

Topics

Refugees

Shipping

International

Litigation

Mental illness

Railways

Army

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Inflation

Pay and pensions

Resources

Children

Navy

Americas

Census

Communications

Events and exhibitions

Medicine

Armed Forces (General Administration)