Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Immigration. Correspondence from the...

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Immigration. Correspondence from the Foreign Office relating to the West Indies. Subjects covered are as follows:

• distressed condition of European immigrants in Brazil;
• Paraguayan immigration scheme;
• Brazilian decree respecting immigration;
• new British Guiana Immigration Ordinance;
• immigration from Canton;
• renewal of Chinese immigration;
• emigration to Brazil;
• immigration into Surinam;
• transport of persons from China to foreign countries;
• emigration to Argentine Republic;
• migrants from India to French colonies;
• Spanish emigration agency at Canton;
• arrival at San José, Costa Rica of Chinese immigrant labourers;
• arrival at New York of destitute English emigrants from Rio;
• rumoured threatened 'invasion' of Argentine states by 'Indians';
• Mr Macdonald's report on emigration to the River Plate;
• conduct of authorities at Buenos Aires with regard to British immigration;
• suggested warning to British subjects in the West Indies intending to emigrate to Puerto Rico;
• condition of British emigrants in Paraguay;
• condition and prospects of the Republic of Paraguay;
• arrival at Surinam of the emigrant ship Lalla Rooks from Calcutta;
• state of feeling at Surinam;
• copy of telegraphic instructions to Mr Wade not to re-open the indentured emigration question at present;
• European immigration contracts in Brazil;
• Chinese emigration to Peru;
• English immigrants known as the 'Lincolnshire Farmers' in Paraguay;
• immigration to Peru;
• warning notice issued by British government to British subjects intending to emigrate to foreign countries;
• British subjects imprisoned at Puerto Rico;
• return home of 166 of the British emigrants who went to Brazil;
• 'outbreak'/riot of Barbadian labourers at Surinam;
• emigration from India to Surinam and French colonies;
• condition of Chinese immigrants in Cuba;
• measures of Argentine Government for defence of southern frontier against 'Indians';
• fresh scheme for emigration to Brazil;
• seizure of Dutch vessel for surreptitiously carrying Chinese migrants;
• immigration of Chinese migrants into San Francisco;
• limits of dates within which Indian migration to French and Dutch colonies should be permitted;
• emigration under contract of Chinese migrants to British colonies;
• proposal of Chinese government to send an agent to Cuba to enquire into conditions of Chinese migrants there;
• suggested abandonment of contract emigration from China;
• report by minister at Buenos Aires of a visit to the provinces of Cordova and San Luis;
• intended departure of the Corona from Canton with emigrants for Guiana.

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