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 295/332 - CO 295/334. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices (Government Departments):

• House of Lords (Port of Spain's water supply);
• House of Commons (Venezuelan differential duties);
• Admiralty (W O Spence's appointment as Customs Officer);
• Crown Agents (Pitch Lake concession, copies of articles of agreement, issue of loan under Ordinances 9 and 31 of 1890, employment of W White and G Ramage, record of procedures for the Pollard v Harragin case, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council notes of the Pollard v Harragin case, proposed dock basin at Port of Spain, reengagement of A W Laverack, gulf stream service, purchase of two steamers);
• Board of Trade (merchant shipping instructions);
• Foreign Office (seizure of Lydia Peschan by Venezuela, Police assistance to consuls in exercising jurisdiction over seamen committing offences on foreign ships, money order convention with the US, jurisdiction of the German Consul in Port of Spain, Venezuelan differential duties, exemption of US vessels from tonnage dues in Tobago harbours, tonnage dues on Tobago vessels entering US ports);
• War Office (appointment of Sergeant Major W Auburn as Cavalry instructor to volunteers, offer of St James' barracks to the colony for £40,000, appointment of Colonel A Man as Commandant of Local Forces, return of Sergeant Major W Auburn to his regiment, application for local rank of colonel for Lieutenant Colonel A Man);
• West India Committee (complaint against encouragement given to minor industries at the expense of the sugar industry, administration of court funds, serious financial situation in the colony);
• Kew Gardens (Ordinance for the Destruction of Parasol Ants, forest conservation, report on a tobacco sample);
• Post Office (Post Office Ordinance 1890 Amendment Ordinance, money order convention with the US, Post Office Ordinance Amendment Ordinance 1891);
• Barbados Agricultural Reporter (misconduct of Justice John Cook);
• The Lartigue Railway Construction Co (suitability of the company's system for Trinidad, offer to construct a railway from Williamsville to Mayaro);
• Customs (certificates of landing goods in the UK);

Individuals:

• H Anderson (conduct of Justice Cook);
• W Allison (Port of Spain water supply);
• R B Anderson (Tobago: requests interview concerning affairs in the colony, Sir J Gorrie's letter concerning Metayer Commissions report, Supreme Court affairs, mismanagement of court funds, charges against Sir John Gorrie, Justice Cook and Justice Lumb);
• Samuel Bircham (Port of Spain to Chaguaramas Bay railway, harbour schemes, Chaguaramas Bay scheme);
• Dr Charles George Brown (recommends John A Harragin be retired);
• H W Chantrell (Supreme Court accounts);
• John Cook, Justice (applies for the chief justiceship of the Leeward Islands, Dr Anderson's allegations against him);
• Hugh Christie (Justice Cook);
• John F Chittenden (development of small industries, coffee cultivation scheme);
• Dr Leonard Crane, W Llewellyn Lewis and others (minutes of the medical expenditure committee, regulations for medical attendance on the poor);
• Charles M S Farnum (claims to the post of collector of customs);
• J Fanning (export duty, landing certificates, his return);
• Samuel Gillow (applies for gratuity or refund of passage expenses);
• Stephen H Getty (Justice Cook's intemperate habits);
• Charles W Hancock (Justice Cook's intemperate habits);
• John Arthur Harragin, Magistrate (extension of leave, transfer to Port of Spain from Couva);
• Wentworth Hope Johnstone (Justice Cook's habits);
• W Llewellyn Lewis (Justice Cook's intemperate habits, plan for making the administration of justice more efficient, record of the marriage of R Munnohur Sing and Mahadaie under The Immigrants Marriage and Divorce Ordinance 1881);
• Arthur M Lee (petroleum concession, letter from Sub Intendant of Crown Lands D Wilson);
• Hugh Lancaster, Leonard Milne & Raymond Warner (Port of Spain water and sewage works);
• Joseph Meston (Chaguaramas Bay and Port of Spain dock basin schemes);
• A Douglas Owen (applies for posts of inspector general of Police Ceylon [Sri Lanka] and Mauritius as well as Provost Marshal of British Guiana [Guyana]);
• Previté & Co (Pitch Lake concession: names legal advisers, trustee nominations);
• J Previté (Pitch Lake concession: complains of J Bell Smyth, losses sustained due to 'squatters');
• Emmanuel Scipio Pollard (his action against J A Harragin);
• L G Falkland Pyne (applies for promotion); Sir William Robinson (salary as governor);
• Edward C Smith (Port of Spain water supply);
• Edward Tanner, Director of Public Works (Port of Spain water supply at the time of the Marine Square fire, favourable opinion of Shone & Ault's drainage system, telephone communication between Police Stations, report on the system of railway construction for branch lines, Lartigue Railway Construction Company's offer to construct a railway from Williamsville to Tabaquite);
• Mrs E R Warner (pension due to her deceased husband);
• Lord Winchelsea (Port of Spain water supply);
• Raymond Warner (Chaguaramas Bay and Port of Spain dock basin schemes, harbour works, Port of Spain improvements);
• Hugh Watt, MP (Venezuelan differential duties);
• J B White (case concerning the management of Spring and Caraccas Estates by the receiver);
• Yarrow & Co (alterations in the recommendations for light draught steamers)

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