Offices and Individuals. Letters received from various government offices (departments),...

Offices and Individuals. Letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals relating to Barbados. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Admiralty (commemoration of British 'conquest' of Trinidad);
• Crown Agents (appointment and passage of assistant engineer for railway extensions Mr F H Church, appointment and passage of foreman platelayer for railway extensions Mr J J Stevens, enquiry concerning numbers of Indian indentured labourers required for Trinidad and of those to be returned to Calcutta, appointment and passage of bandmaster to Police Force Mr Samuel Grainger, appointment and passage of foreman platelayer for Railway Department Mr William Birch, appointment and passage of foreman riveter and bridge erector Mr J Llowden, 'abstract account of receipts and expenditure on account of emigration [of Indian labourers] to the colony for the season 1895-96', medical certificate for Sergeant H Brooks of the Trinidad Police Force, proposed purchase of slip at Port of Spain, Mr Nourse's contract for the conveyance of Indian labourers, petition of appeal in the case of Mr De Silva v the Attorney General, improvement of permanent way of existing railway lines, provision of goods wagons, observations as to care taken to send suitable Indian immigrants [with printed circular of the West India Committee concerning sugar bounties, immigration, etc], cargo for St Helena, conversion of debenture debt into inscribed stock, centenary commemoration, re-appointment and passage of engine driver Mr G Ramage, provision of boat for the harbour master, blankets on emigrant ships, reports appointment of Mr J A Craig as engineer for the tug Caroni, conversion of debentures, payment for an iron shed, comparative statement of expenditure on Indian immigration, passage for wife of assistant resident engineer Mr H S Bidwell, appointment and passage of tunnel foreman Mr C Wilson, centenary commemoration medals, Port of Spain water supply, centenary firework display, Port of Spain harbour works);
• Board of Trade (electric lighting and telephone systems with printed copies of draft regulations);
• Law Officers (jurisdiction over British subjects in Venezuela);
• Treasury (defaced silver coins);
• Foreign Office (commission rogatoire issued by French authorities to obtain evidence in a criminal case pending at Bastia, appointment of Mr A S Laing as Danish consul in place of Mr Block, nomination of Mr J Contreras as consul of Colombia, repatriation of Indian migrant from Colombia to Trinidad, harbour dues, application of Mr M D Reece for employment in East Africa);
• Home Office (comments on Petroleum Ordinance 1895);
• War Office (rejection of application of Surgeon Captain J W Eakin to join the Army Medical Reserve of Officers, appointment of governor to be honorary colonel of Trinidad Light Horse, rifles for local forces, retirement of Major R B Todd, acknowledging governor's testimonial of valuable services rendered to Trinidad by Colonel J A Man, centenary commemoration, acting commandant of local forces);
• Colonial Office (yellow fever);
• General Post Office (proposed rules for money order business);
• Colonial Company Limited (wages earned by Indian indentured labourers);
• West India Committee (harbour dues, 'free passes' issued to Indian immigrants who have completed their indentures);
• Ordnance Survey (confirmation that they will provide assistance to Mr Smart in connection with the proposed survey of Trinidad);
• Royal London Friendly Society (requesting reference for Mr Arnott Telfer);
• Surgeon Superintendent Fonecca (summary of passage of Indian migrants on the Erne);
• Colonial Office (regulations for examinations of the Council of Legal Education, telegram to governor on behalf of Lady Broome).

Individuals:

• Mr S Boyce (petition concerning his dismissal from the Police Force);
• Mr J Bell-Smyth, member of the Legislative Council (Port of Spain Harbour Dues Ordinance, extension of leave);
• Dr C G Brown (condition of Sergeant H Brooks, recommendation for extension of Sergeant Brooks' leave, recommendation for temporary pensioning of Sergeant Brooks, reports that Dr Hewlett may return to duty);
• Mr H C Bourne (application for judgeship in the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements);
• Miss Margaret Buncle (complaint about decision not to allow the affiliation of her girls' school to the Royal College);
• Sir F Napier Broome (application for extension of leave);
• Mr G Bernstein (cocoa industry);
• Dr S L Crane (pension);
• Mr H E Caston (request for report on 'Asphaltum' in Trinidad);
• Mr C S Cochrane (purchase of a theodolite, survey);
• Mr H W Chantrell (pre-audit of Customs Drawback Debentures);
• Major A Champion (enquiry about new governor with view to obtaining post of aide de camp for his brother Lieutenant A D Champion);
• Mr H C de Cailleux (appointment as French consular agent in Venezuela and permission to wear his sword on landing in Trinidad);
• Mrs H Fowler (seeks appointment for her son in the Immigration Department);
• Mr G Fenwick (passage for Mrs Shelford Bidwell);
• Mr A Gosling (requesting refund of expenses incurred in repatriating a boy from Guatemala to Trinidad);
• Mr W G Gordon (memorial concerning Waterworks and Land Acquisition Ordinances);
• Dr J G Gravely (application for extension of leave, leave salary);
• Mr H Hancock (application for extension of leave);
• Mr J Hutchinson (pitch lake);
• Sir H T Irving (case of J E Tanner);
• Dr M Koch (resident surgeon at Colonial Hospital);
• Mr C F Lamb (asks for assistance in payment of his costs in the case of Anderson v Gorrie);
• Mr J H Livingbird (his dismissal from the Trinidad Police in 1886);
• Mr J Murray (his personal allowance while on leave);
• Colonel Alexander Man (reports his arrival in England, application for further appointment, application for appointment as administrator of St Lucia);
• Mr D Naoroji MP (has received complaint that the statutory wage for Indian migrants is not always paid);
• Mrs B O'Halloran (applies for advance of her husband's salary to enable her to join him in Trinidad);
• Mrs Emily Rudolphsen (application for a compassionate allowance);
• Mr H R St Clair (seeks variation in rules relating to his scholarship, requests advance of salary);
• Mr L A Samuel (objects to the appointment of Mr F R Hart as a justice of the peace);
• Mr G S Seecombe (application for increase in salary);
• Mr E R Smart (scheme of operations for proposed survey);
• Mr M Short (memorial praying for removal of Mr Low from Tobago);
• Mrs Scott (reports death of Sir Frederick Napier Broome);
• Mr J E Tanner (appeals for reconsideration of the reduction in his pension);
• Tennant Sons & Company (harbour dues);
• Mr J P Tulloch (seeks information concerning a medical appointment in Gran Couva district);
• Mr R Warner (sugar exports 1890-1894).

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