Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals most of which...

CO 295/395

1899

Letters from various government offices (departments) and individuals most of which relate to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 295/391 - CO 295/394. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows:

Government Departments and other organizations:

• Foreign Office (tonnage dues, debt of Venezuela Post Office, Venezuelan President's journey up the Orinoco, Venezuelan differential duties, US tonnage dues on vessels from Trinidad and Tobago, return of Sir H Jerningham via Venezuela, reciprocity with the US, thirty percent surcharge on exports to Venezuela, duty on goods in transit in Venezuela, exportation of arms to Venezuelan rebels, shipment of war supplies to Venezuela);
• War Office (sergeant instructor, Sergeant Marsh, staff officer of local forces, offer of local forces for service in South Africa appreciated but not accepted [printed for use of the Colonial Office miscellaneous 133]);
• Mayor, Port of Spain (municipality Port of Spain);
• Kew Gardens (Cacao plant disease, assistant superintendent of botanic gardens, forest conservancy);
• New Trinidad Lake Asphalt Co (lot 68, copies of judgement concerning digging of pitch);
• Inland Revenue (visit of excise officer to the colony, administration of Stamp Acts in England, Mr Pratts' mission to Trinidad);
• General Post Office (savings bank depositors);
• Daily News (colony's industries);
• Trinidad Shipping and Trading Co (new jetty);
• West India Committee (Indian immigrant 'free certificates', reciprocity with the US [printed for use of the Colonial Office West Indian No 112], Immigration Ordinance);
• West India Rubber Plantation Syndicate Co (petition of inhabitants) [not included in volume];
• Surgeon Superintendent Oliver (Indian immigrants on the Bann);
• Seismological Committee (seismograph);

Individuals:

• Dr R C Bennett (application for promotion in the medical service, studies at London School of Tropical Medicine, requests transfer to medical district with hospital attached to it);
• T Cochrane, MP (memorandum on Trinidad asphalt);
• G Townsend Fenwick and others (reciprocity with the US);
• Sir John T Goldney (retirement, transfer on retirement, pension, return to colony, estate of Mrs Peterkin);
• J S Gamble (forest conservancy);
• Lovelace F Harte (application for promotion or transfer);
• Harold Hamel-Smith (artillery volunteers, disbandment, reciprocity with the US);
• Sir Hubert E H Jerningham (reciprocity with the US, extension of leave, public library, Legislative Council, cemetery for Port of Spain, Venezuelan differential duties, visit to Venezuela);
• Rev W I Keay (corporation);
• Kühner Henderson & Co (claim to the estate of Mrs Theadocia Peterkin);
• Sir N Lubbock (Indian immigration);
• F Lovell (death of Indian immigrant Sahti, cause of mortality among Indian immigrants);
• Alfred M Law (colonial appointment application);
• W Llewellyn Lewis, Senior Puisne Judge (applies for appointment in the Supreme Court of Ceylon [Sri Lanka]);
• F Lodge (forest conservation);
• Dr Patrick Manson (W Leslie's and O W Warner's fitness for service);
• Frederick John Mahoney (petition to the Queen respecting his dismissal, appeal against the Trinidad Court's judgement, his case);
• William Macintyre (sergeant instructor of British Guiana local forces);
• D S Macgregor (accounts adjustment);
• T Murray (leave extension);
• J W Oliver (forest conservation);
• R Morgan Olcott (Venezuelan differential duties);
• E P Popert, Conservator of Forests Madras (forest conservation);
• Benjamin C Prince, ex-Police Constable (service in the Police);
• W J Pratt (inspector of revenue work in the West Indies);
• Sir C Quilter (Indian immigration);
• Mrs L Sutton (requests assistance, recovery of her children, testimonials, G A Sutton);
• A C Stewart (amalgamation of the Trinidad and Mauritius agencies);
• Sutton Ommanney & Rendall (Trinidad asphalt Co, Ambard);
• C F Stollmeyer (attorney generalship);
• Tennant Sons & Co (West India Agency in Canada, Indian immigrants);
• Edward B Trotter, Archdeacon (education of 'pauper' children, education grants, report by the Bishop of Trinidad on elementary education);
• James C Taylor (claim to property);
• Mrs E R Warner (complaint against having her licence to collect sand from Dry River revoked);
• Wilson & Co (case and petition of F J Mahoney);
• O W Warner, Emigration Agent (leave);
• Young & Co (G Sutton's request for re-employment).

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