Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals most of which...

Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 295/305 - CO 295/308. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices (Government Departments):

• Admiralty (report on Carnival of 1885);
• Foreign Office (Venezuelan differential duties, claims against Venezuela for seizure of Josephine and Henrietta, commercial treaty with Venezuela, remission of tonnage duty in US ports on Trinidad vessels, designs against Venezuela by certain persons in Trinidad, Venezuelan revolution, movements of Venezuelan revolutionary General Venancio Pulgar, protest against leasing of the pitch lake, capture of Venezuelan rebel steamer Oriente sailing under a British Flag, seizure of rebel steamer Justicia Nacional by Santo Domingo [Dominican Republic], complaint regarding revolutionary movements against Venezuela from Trinidad, Venezuelan rebel steamer Justitia, petition of Watson & Sons regarding the Pitch Lake);
• Home Office (candidates for superintendent of Convict Depôt);
• War Office (allowances to troops in lieu of customs exemptions, presentation of guns for Volunteer Artillery Corps);
• Post Office (payment of Court fees by postage stamps);
• Kew Gardens (remarks on the Trinidad Botanical Gardens Reports for 1883 and 1884);
• Colonial Company Limited (defective means of communication with Cedros);
• The United Limmer & Vorwohle Roack Asphalte (protest against the increase of asphalt export duty);

Individuals:

• George Anderson MP (administration of the Pitch Lake);
• Lady J Barlee (civil list pension);
• R Gervase Bushe (application for post of treasurer);
• Bradshaw & Co (increase of asphalt export duty);
• Dr S Leonard Crane (application for promotion enclosing a memorandum of service);
• Callender's Bitumen Telegraph and Waterproof Company Limited (Pitch Lake administration);
• Gaston de Labastide (employment application);
• John Gordon Douglas (Pitch Lake);
• Charles Elms, Tide Surveyor (offer of services for detective duty in the United Kingdom);
• W E Forster MP (number of non-official members of the Legislative Council, Indian immigration);
• Hughes, Hooker & Co (petitions concerning Pitch Lake from Previté, Greig & Finlayson as well as Wattson & Sons);
• Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock (J K Horsford's claims to fifth clerkship Receiver General's Department, amount of C Hale's gratuity, his pay prior to assumption of Government of Natal);
• Sir J R Longden (death of Registrar of the Supreme Court F H Hamblin, Pitch Lake reserved lot);
• H Ludlow (application for chief justiceship, amendment of law regarding devolution of real estate);
• A Douglas P Owen, Inspector of Police (application for Police appointment in Grenada);
• Previté & Greig (Pitch Lake);
• Herbert C Stone, Inspector of Immigrants (application for Receiver Generalship).

Topics

Shipping

Government finances

International

Labour

Public disorder

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Migration

Treaties and alliances

Caribbean

Pay and pensions

Treason and rebellion

Navy

Americas

Communications

Events and exhibitions

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Africa