Catalogue description Correspondence from miscellaneous offices (Government departments and other...

Correspondence from miscellaneous offices (Government departments and other organisations) and individuals on matters relating to Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

Miscellaneous Offices:

• The New Colonial Company Limited (Immigration Ordinance 1897);
• Local Government Board (rates paid by State-aided schools);
• Colonial Office (Arthur Warner, oil concession, prison scandal, Venezuela arbitration, drainage of Caroni Valley, Legislative Council: assembling of crowds, appointment of Reverend J F Welsh as Bishop of Trinidad);
• West India Committee (Venezuela commercial relations, Venezuelan surtax);
• Colonial Defence Committee (Police Force);
• General Post Office (pension to the former Postmaster General of Trinidad Mr J A Bulmer, mail service between the West Indies and New York, Commercial Telephone Company Ordinance 1903);
• Royal Irish Constabulary (application of members of the Royal Irish Constabulary to the Police Force, case of Sergeant Superintendent P J McLaughlin, members of the Royal Irish Constabulary transferred to the Colonial Government);
• Trinidad Shipping and Trading Company Limited (exemption from tonnage dues, mail service to and from England via New York);
• Customs Office (certificate of origin for sugar exported);
• Colonial Nursing Association (appointment of Assistant Superintendent of Nurses);
• The New Trinidad Lake Asphalt Company (Asphalt Industry Regulation Ordinance 1904, seizure of the Bermudez Lake by the Venezuelan Government);
• Trinidad Estates Company (drainage of Caroni Valley, Venezuelan surtax);
• West India Association of Glasgow (Venezuelan surtax);
• Registrar of Diocese of Canterbury (new Bishop of Trinidad);
• The Symington West Indian Fruit Syndicate Limited (Government assistance);
• York Street Flax Spinning Company Limited (Venezuelan surtax);
• Lunacy Commission (case of Mr J F A Redhead).

Individuals:

• Mr J A Bulmer (pension);
• Charles Bizzell (resignation and pension);
• Dr L S Beale (medical report of Sir A Moloney);
• Mrs M P Bryant (compulsory retirement);
• Mr L D Corson (Asphalt Industry Regulation Ordinance);
• Mrs Elvira Cox (death of son and compensation);
• Mr T G D Cooper (re-employment);
• Dr J A De Wolf (medical service, case of Messrs K N A Inniss and Ferdinand de Vertenil);
• John Disney (resignation);
• Mr J W Gordon and Prof Henry Louis (Asphalt Industry Ordinance);
• Mr E Grell (case of the late T Wilson);
• Hale and Son (purchase of estates);
• John Hay (oil concessions);
• Mr D Jerome (petition to the King);
• Sir H Jenningham (compulsory retirement of Mr J B Saunders);
• Sir C C Knollys (action against Colonel Brake and others in conjunction with the riot of 23 March 1903);
• Kuhner, Anderson and Company (Royal Warrant for Angostura Bitters);
• Prof Henry Louis (Committee on Petroleum, Mining Inspector, Mayaro-Guayguayare oil field, bituminous minerals);
• Mr A Labastide (pension);
• Mr Z A Lash (Mining Inspector, oil concession);
• Mr G L Latonr (telephone line);
• Prof G D Livering (appointment of Assistant Analyst and Service Master);
• Sir P Marson (medical reports of Aeneas Macintosh and Sir A Moloney);
• Sir Alfred Maloney (destruction of his landau in riots, resignation);
• Miss Mary Agnes Mercer (death of her father);
• Mr C C F Monckton (wireless telegraphy);
• Mr R M Routledge (loss of Judges robes);
• Lady Cunningham Scott (civil list pension);
• Mr W Symington (Government assistance for fruit syndicate);
• Mr H Guthrie Spain (wireless telegraphy);
• Messrs Slaughter and May (floating dock agreement);
• Mr S J Steward (resignation);
• Mr J M A Thomas (case of Mr J F A Redhead);
• Mr R Warren (case of Mr J F A Redhead);
• Mr R W Wright (floating dock).