Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the...

Letters from various government offices (departments) most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 295/361 - CO 295/366. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

• House of Commons (judicial enquiry commission);
• Crown Agents (consulting engineers for railway extensions, lighthouse at Bocas, Instructor to Local Forces W Marsh, Engine Driver W A Campbell, Pitch Lake appeal, Dr Nicholl's yaws report, Chaguaramas Bay, conduct in marine insurance business, Calvary Instructor G A F Watson, lighthouse at Point Galera, Port of Spain harbour works, Chief Resident Engineer for Railway Extensions H Oliver, Master of Government Dredger Ortoire David Lyon, Port of Spain waterworks, Engineer of tug Caroni J Kennedy, staff for dredger Ortoire, Assistant Engineer for Railway Extensions C Craig, saddlery, scholar E H Gibbon, Tobago loan, surplus funds, forwards original designs for 4d and 10s stamps, Fire Brigade Instructor W Johnson, Clerk of Works for the Lunatic Asylum T H Rapson, railway improvement, Assistant Resident Engineer of Harbour Works H S Bidwell, Railway Department foreman platelayer, Foreman Erector George Willis);
• Privy Council (Attorney General versus Bourne and others);
• Board of Trade (Patents Designs and Trade Marks Ordinance, Petroleum Ordinance);
• Treasury (copyright return, J Fanning's pension, defaced silver coin, note issue);
• Foreign Office (fire at Port of Spain, Customs Tariff Bureau, Venezuelan arms importation);
• Home Office (fugitive offender Newsam);
• War Office (Captain R B Todd, Sergeant Instructor G A F Watson, Volunteer Ordinance, Uniforms Ordinance, Lieutenant Colonel Wilson, Mrs Zepharine Bynoe's application for the education of her son Athelbert A Lane);
• Somerset House Government Laboratory (recommends Dr Walter H Ince as Government Assistant Analyst);
• Anglo-California Land and Improvement Company (A Telfer's pension);
• Queen's Private Secretary (reaction to Port of Spain fire);
• Mayor of Port of Spain (Port of Spain fire);
• West India Committee (sugar industry);
• General Post Office (counterfeit postage stamps);
• Law Society (final examination papers);
• Civil Rights Defence Committee (resolution and pamphlets concerning R B Anderson's appeal against judgements in the Anderson versus Gorrie and others case);
• The Agricultural Loan and Trading Company (forwards prospectus);
• Customs (J Fanning's pension, collector of customs candidates);
• Daily Chronicle (Venezuelan attack on Ellen);
• The Guanta Company (coal supplies to the government)

Topics

Clothing

International

Mental illness

Railways

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Oil and gas

Pay and pensions

Coal

Food and drink

Communications

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns