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

Letters from various miscellaneous offices (departments), other organisations and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 295/343 - CO 295/348. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Miscellaneous Offices (departments and other organisations):

• Kew Gardens (coffee samples, ramie industry, Crown Land registration, seedling canes, date palms);
• General Post Office (mail steamers, parcel post convention, Venezuelan Post Office debt);
• Anglo West Indian Rubber Plantation Syndicate (rubber planting development proposals);
• British Embassy Berlin (Dr E Joseph);
• The New Colonial Co (appointment of extra inspectors of immigrants, failure of law against harbouring indentured Indian immigrants);
• The New Trinidad Lake Asphalt Co (asphalt digging on Crown Lands, plan of the Village of La Brea);
• West India Committee (Indian Immigrants);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Co (harbour dues complaint);
• Metropolitan Police (no volunteers for the post of detective sergeant superintendent);
• Medical Council (approves Medical Ordinance)

Individuals:

• Ashurst, Morris, Crisp & Co (Pitch Lake);
• Charles Alleyne (dismissal from the Rail Department);
• P Abel and others (request interview to discuss the Immigration Ordinance);
• H A Alcozar (resignation from the Legislative Council);
• Miss Mary Buckingham (J F A Redhead);
• Miss Ella C Cole (appointment of superintendent of nurses, salary advance request);
• Bruno Clauss (asphalt exportation);
• Mrs A F Chantrell (application for a grant, leave salary of her late husband);
• Charles S Cochrane (offers to examine road map);
• W H Coombs, Protector of Immigrants (application for the post of immigration agent general in India, protests against the proposed abolition of certain positions);
• William Howatson (sugar industry, reduction of expenditure and reform);
• E Howard (steamer service for Tobago);
• Sir H Jerningham (Professor Patrick Carmody's application, Crown Agents remuneration, extension of leave request, house rent of officer administering the government, Legislative Council);
• Lady Jerningham (her husband);
• W V M Koch (medical service promotion application, leave extension request);
• Sir C Knollys (Trinidad's debt);
• John C Lennon (application for colonial appointment);
• William Low (application for return of contributions to the widows and orphans fund, medical examination);
• Lazarus & Rosenfelt (claim against the late J L Worrell's estate);
• Alexander Man, Colonel (Volunteer Ordinances, resignation as Colonel of Volunteers, volunteer drill hall in San Fernando);
• F J Merry (asphalt concessions);
• Ferdinand J Maingot (stipendiary justice of the peace application);
• H Millen (appointment as curator of the botanic station in Tobago);
• Dr. Patrick Manson (copy of district hospital rules with changes);
• R Morgan Olcott (Venezuelan differential duties);
• James Pinkerton (asks for help to return his runaway 14 year old son Harry Craig Pinkerton alias Harry Macintyre to Scotland);
• Major Paterson (requirement of his services);
• F C Scott, Honorary Major General (application for local rank of major general);
• W E Smith, Government Railways General Manager (salary enquiry);
• Tennant Sons & Co (effect of reduced Indian immigration on the sugar industry);
• W Wrightson (R W Gordon's case, superintendence of water works, leave salary, new Lunatic Asylum);
• Mrs Ellen Rosa Warner (applies for compensation for loss sustained due to the Dry River Ordinance 1893);
• Charles Yearwood (dismissal from Police Force, which he had joined after the disbandment of the West India Regiment, after being charged for gambling)

Topics

Shipping

International

Mental illness

Railways

Army

Migration

Nursing

Caribbean

Maps and plans

Pay and pensions

Policing

Children

Crown lands and estates

Debt

Food and drink

Communications

Hospitals