Correspondence from the Foreign Office, Home Office, War Office and other miscellaneous...

Correspondence from the Foreign Office, Home Office, War Office and other miscellaneous 'offices' (Government departments and other organisations), together with correspondence from individuals, on subjects relating to Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Offices:

• Foreign Office (reciprocity convention with the United States of America, tax on imports into Venezuela, trade with Canada, differential duties in Venezuela, Venezuela exports, arms exportation to Venezuela, Venezuelan 30% surtax, export of arms to Colombia, German sailors on Stosch, application for Japanese patent, claim of Indian migrant Ramon Marquis, Russian consular agent at Port of Spain, trade of Trinidad 1898, gunboats Augusta and Rayo, coal strata development, German coaling station off Venezuela, German man of war Vineta, extradition treaty between Venezuela and UK, trade of Trinidad 1899);
• Home Office (pitch lake at La Brea);
• War Office (offer of mounted contingent for South Africa, Sergeant D Young);

Miscellaneous Offices:

• West India Committee (Indian immigration, commercial relations between Canada and Trinidad, reciprocity with USA);
• Direct West India Cable Company (cable communications, government telegrams);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (mango plants from India, graft mango plants, seedling sugar cane, Mr F Lodge's report on forest conservation);
• New Colonial Company (Indian immigrants);
• Inland Revenue (excise officer, supervising excise officer);
• St Thomas Hospital (Mrs Roberts);
• Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (West Indian mail service calling at Trinidad);
• General Post Office (West Indian mail service, discount on stamps);
• Nightingale Fund (Mrs Roberts);
• Customs House (claim of E Tripp & Company, referees of Mr W White);
• Colonial Office (Sir H E H Jerningham);
• Patent Office (patent rights to Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company).

Individuals:

• H A Aleazar (asphalt mining);
• T Baynes (judicial staff);
• J Bell-Smyth (Chaguaramas Bay concession);
• W Bolton (Mr L H Lovelace);
• T Cochrane (pitch lake at La Brea);
• Dowager Countess Dundonald (claim to lands at La Brea, asphalt mining);
• A De Sousa (petition for spirit licence);
• J Fanning (relatives of W H White deceased);
• Sir J T Goldney (retirement and pension, pension, contribution to Widows and Orphans Fund on retirement, pension to his widow);
• R P Gibbes (appointment as assistant to emigration agent Calcutta);
• Sir J Goldney (judicial establishment, appointment of administrator general);
• Sir H Jerningham (extension of leave, his position, his services);
• G B Irvine (petition for re-employment in the colonial service);
• F Lodge (forest conservation);
• A M Law (appointment in Orange River Colony or Transvaal);
• A Lawrier & Company (cocoa dry competition);
• W Marsh (appointment as sergeant instructor to volunteer artillery);
• J Miles (education);
• Mum & Company (patents treaty with Japan);
• T Murray (resignation);
• Dr P Manson (Dr T Murray);
• F J Maloney (his dismissal);
• T Murray (pension);
• R W S Mitchell (Dr Olivier's gallant conduct in the Bann disaster);
• Colonel E B McInnis (West Indian contingent for Gold Coast);
• Mrs A E Murphy (dismissal of Superintendent Sergeant M Murphy);
• J C O'Halloran (retirement);
• R M Olcott (Venezuelan differential duties);
• R E Phipps (surety on joining Gray's Inn);
• J T Paterson (dismissal);
• J S Rousseau (application for promotion);
• J A M Stuart (Sergeant Major W Marsh, RA);
• D Slyne (appointment as supervising excise officer);
• W Wrightson (salary while on leave, roads railways and harbour works, electric lighting and tramways bill, electric lighting and tramways ordinance, proposed trigometrical survey, Mr C S Cochrane, Chaguramas Bay scheme);
• H B Wilkinson (assistant medical superintendent of lunatic asylum);
• R D Yelverton (case of J C O'Halloran).

Topics

International

Labour

Mental illness

Railways

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Asia

Migration

Radio and television

Treaties and alliances

Nursing

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Pay and pensions

Children

Coal

Food and drink

Americas

Communications