Letters from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals...

Letters from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 295/377-CO 295/382. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Offices (Government Departments) and other organisations:

• Admiralty (centenary celebration);
• Crown Agents (centenary medals, centenary celebration, proposed address and silver chest for the Queen, copies of various employment agreements, [Tobago] misprinted stamps, conversion of debentures into inscribed stock, water supply loan, sinking fund, G F Bowen's pension, Dr J G Graveley's salary, return Indian Immigrants, exoneration of the master of the Avon, return of detachments, issue of three percent stock, Mr Bidwell's leave, Rhine defects, widow and orphans fund, error in F H Burnell's employment agreement, scholarships, new lights at the Bocas and Point Galera, engineer for government vessel, mechanic for lighthouse, cost of shipping cattle from India and Ceylon [Sri Lanka], transfer of stock, government telegraph code for foreign telegrams 1883);
• Trinidad Government Emigration Agency, Calcutta (objection to remark about immigrant men of the 'Dhobi' caste, list of five men of the 'Dhobi' caste, application from Bengal Government to isolate Mecca pilgrims in the depôt due to the plague in Bombay, return Indian emigrant ships, need for more immigrants, measles on the Rhine, report on the five ships despatched in 1896 and 1897, provisions for return Indian Immigrant ships, measles among Indian immigrants at the Calcutta depôt, expenditure statement for 1896 and 1897, alleged defects of Rhine);
• Board of Trade (Trade returns);
• Treasury (copyright returns duplicates not required, unclaimed deposits in savings bank);
• Foreign Office (vice consul for France, Venezuelan import duties, tonnage dues on US vessels, return of Indian immigrants from Columbia, official visit to French vice consul, Venezuelan differential duties, Belgian consul, trade reciprocity with the US, lighthouses at Point Galera and Chacachacare Island);
• War Office (Colonel D Wilson as Honorary Colonel of Light Infantry, inspection of local forces, Lieutenant R R Mole, colours for volunteers);
• Customs (examination of the mail room on board French mail boat Canada, import duty on corn feed, instructions for R Muir);
• West India Committee (Indian Immigrants 1897);
• Surgeon Superintendents (Indian Immigrant ship arrival reports giving information of the journey);
• Ordnance Survey (survey of the colony);
• Law Society (examination papers);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (arrangements for the return of colonial contingents);
• General Post Office (money order scheme, savings bank deposits);
• Trinidad Chamber of Commerce (Venezuelan duty on Trinidadian merchandise);
• Colonial Office (Pension Ordinance, small arms for local forces);
• West Indian Royal Commission (sections of report relative to Trinidad and Tobago);
• Inspector of 'Coolie' Ships, Cape Town (report of Indian Immigrants on the Forth);

Individuals:

• H Anderson (report of the judicial inquiry commission 1892 ) [not included in volume];
• J Bateman (enquiry regarding land for sale in Tobago);
• H J Brooks, Sergeant (requests a refund of his widows and orphans fund contribution);
• Burroughs, Wellcome & Co (standing of Dr Thomas B Kenny);
• J Bell-Smyth (Chaguaramas Bay port and railway memorandum);
• John Cansick (asks to see copies of the Port of Spain Gazette from 1828, property in Trinidad);
• G R Dunlop (memorial concerning his dismissal for insubordination from the Prison Service);
• Stanley Gibbons Limited (Tobago postage stamps);
• Murray T Gow (import duty on corn feed);
• William Inniss (explanation of scholarship advance request);
• Hubert E H Jerningham (leave extension and salary advance requests);
• Dr Thomas B Kenny, (leave extension request, departure information);
• W Llewellyn Lewis, Supreme Court Judge (opinion on the widow and orphan fund draft ordinance, applies for transfer to another judicial appointment);
• William Low, Commissioner of Tobago (applies for the post of colonial secretary of Trinidad);
• S Theophilus Lawrence (complaint against being prohibited from landing in Trinidad);
• Miss E E Lynch, Assistant at Girls Practising School (extension of leave request);
• Minchin & Co (request to examine deeds at the Colonial Office concerning Trinidad asphalt);
• Alexander Man, Colonel (requests jubilee medal);
• R R Mole, Lieutenant (claims for jubilee medals);
• R Muir (customs instruction);
• H R Marwood (appointment as maintenance engineer);
• Mrs C Nolena Pasea (applies for the re-employment of her husband);
• Perkin (treatment of light horse troopers on their return journey);
• Previté & Co (US tariff on asphalt ) [printed for use of the Colonial Office, West Indian No. 112, see CO 884/6/23];
• R E Phipps (requests scholarship advance, explains delay in admission to Gray's Inn);
• C H Rooks, Major (complains of unsatisfactory accommodation on the Para for the detachment for Queen's reign celebration, requests more clothing for the detachment);
• Mrs Sorzano (death of F C R Sorzano) [not included in volume];
• H R St Clair (scholarship allowance, sends medical certificate, requests £10 advance, sends list of books);
• George Stringer (applies for £20 for passage);
• William T Thomas (applies for pension or gratuity);
• J E Tanner (L A Morvant's fitness for the post of assistant traffic manager);
• W Scott Tebb (requests to see certain Leper Asylum reports)

Topics

Shipping

Clothing

Government finances

International

Labour

Mental illness

Railways

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Medals

Migration

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Maps and plans

Pay and pensions

Resources

Children

Disease

Navy