Despatches from Henry Moore Jackson, governor of Trinidad (21 November to 31 December...

Despatches from Henry Moore Jackson, governor of Trinidad (21 November to 31 December 1906) together with correspondence from the Admiralty and the Foreign Office sent during the year. Despatches are described at item level; other correspondence is not, and details are as follows:

Admiralty:

• application for oil concessions,
• oil leases,
• concession to Jamaican Oil Company)

Foreign Office:

• Venezuela prints,
• transhipment tax in Venezuela,
• V L Samberson's claim against the Venezuelan Government,
• Venezuela and Colombia prints,
• wireless telegraphy with Venezuela,
• interruption of telegraphy with Venezuela,
• sinking of the SS Whitney,
• relations between the colony and Venezuela and Colombia,
• Venezuelan surtax,
• repression of Customs House at Rio Caribe,
• complaint from Miss H Gordon and Miss L M Blake against the Venezuelan Consul,
• cable communication between Venezuela and Trinidad,
• mining regulations in Venezuela,
• case of British schooner Hellena,
• Mr Truxillo's claim against the Venezuelan Government,
• case of P Hosford against the Venezuelan Government for ejection from certain lands,
• Venezuelan law against foreigners,
• case of Venezuelan attacks on British sloops Island Gem and Virginia

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