Correspondence from 'Offices' (Government Departments) on matters relating to Trinidad....

Correspondence from 'Offices' (Government Departments) on matters relating to Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• Admiralty (wireless telegraphy and submarine cable, inclusion of the crews of HMS Pallas and HMS Psyche in the Trinidad census, use of Port of Spain harbour by Venezuelan warships);
• Crown Agents (Port of Spain harbour works, Port of Spain sewerage system, Couva Water Works, foreman platelayer for railway, financial position of colony, Port of Spain Water Works, wireless telegraphy, barrel of coals sent for opinion of director of Museum of Practical Geology, Diego Martin pumping station );
• Emigration Agent, Calcutta (work of agency, leper emigrants, opinion on working of combined agency, jetty attached to agency premises, prohibition of recruitment in India by district magistrates, recommends Mr R P Gibbes as assistant, Mr Gibbes' certificate of having passed examination in Hindustani, prohibition of recruitment by magistrate of Chanda District, Mr Gibbes' appointment and acceptance, application for leave, selection of emigrants, form of agreement for intending emigrants, recruiting in Saharanpur District);
• Privy Council Office (Order in Council approving draft proclamation declaring certain fourpenny pieces to be current in Trinidad and Tobago);
• Foreign Office (proposed extradition treaty between United Kingdom and Venezuela, Venezuelan consular fees, outrage by Venezuelan gunboat Augusto, destruction of James Nathan Kelly's property by Venezuelan soldiers, German coaling station on Margarita Island, Venezuelan outrages at Patos, alleged burning of sloop Maria Teresa by Venezuelan gunboat, seizure of the Sea Horse and Buena Fe by Venezuelan coastguard, 30% surchage on imports into Venezuela, Venezuelan claim to sovereignty over Patos Island, seizure of John Craig's boat off Patos, certain historical and geographical points about Patos Island raised by Venezuelan foreign minister, detention at Caracas of Miss Becerra - sister of Colombian consul at Trinidad, Venezuelan affairs and Port of Spain Gazette, consular protection at Guiria, date palms from Algiers, ownership of Patos Island, export of arms to Venezuela, relations between Trinidad and Venezuela, hostilities between Venezuela and Colombia, shipment of arms to Colombia, infractions of international law by Venezuelan authorities, differential duties in Venezuela, ode to Empress of Russia by Mr Sylvestre Devenish [not in item], incident of the Pastor );
• India Office (forest officer, appointment of C S Rogers as forest officer, jetty attached to Emigration Agency premises);
• Board of Trade (Electric Lighting and Tramways Ordinance);
• Treasury (priorities of loan charges: amendment of colonial ordinances, British Guiana fourpenny piece).

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