Catalogue description Despatches from Governor Sir S Freeling (1881 Dec) as well as letters from various...

Despatches from Governor Sir S Freeling (1881 Dec) as well as letters from various offices (government departments and other organizations) and individuals. Despatches are described at item level; letters from offices and individuals are not.

Offices:

• Admiralty (shoals near Trinidad, carnival disturbances, squadron to be sent at carnival time, annual visit of a warship at carnival time);
• Crown Agents (railway loan, accounting);
• Board of Trade (regulations regarding vessel registry, Weights and Measures Ordinance);
• Treasury (duties on reprints of British copyright works);
• Foreign (alleged attempt of Venezuelan refugees to seize the Tubal Cain, Venezuelan passport regulations, Venezuelan claim to Patos Island, withdrawal of the exequatur of the British vice consul at Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuelan differential duties against West Indian produce, foreign bills of health, Venezuelan Consul Señor Gondolphi, Venezuelan consul's request to see the census returns);
• West Indian Committee (increase of the governor's salary);
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (exchange of botanical reports, government botanist's report, meteorological observations);
• Customs House (appointment of J Cavers);
• General Post Office (transmission of jewellery by post, mail for Venezuela sent to Trinidad, parcel post between Trinidad and France);
• Colonial Company (states that the Lees Pond had nothing to do with the malaria outbreak);
• Meteorological Office (meteorological observatory);

Individuals:

• F Astle (fall in government bonds);
• Dr Charles Gage Brown (W J Roach's retirement);
• Richard C Bennett (his appointment);
• H F Blissett (appointment of auditor general);
• John Gabbitas Gravely (medical appointment application);
• R G C Hamilton (a report on causes and circumstances of the carnival disturbances) [not in volume; sent to the Admiralty];
• Sir Henry Irving (sale of tranquillity lands, supplementary estimates 1881);
• William Kofi Nti (application to join the army);
• Rolph Lesslie (complaint regarding the medical service);
• W Irwin Roach (charges against him, resignation, pension, grant of full pay leave);
• Alexander William Wight (his dismissal);
• D Wilson (drawing of travelling allowance while on leave)