Includes: (fol. 97) notes (fol. 98) a letter [from Scarbrough] to Lugard.

Proposing the importation by Company of building materials and domestic equipment to enable Protectorate administration to purchase locally rather than use the uneconomical Crown Agent system.

Includes: (fol. 105) notes on interview (fol. 106) notes about points arising from it for 'H.H.' [Henry Howorth?]. Subjects include cotton at Zaria; wages; taking over government canteens at Jebba and Lokoja, and its Zungeru store.

Includes: (fol. 109) letter from Lugard (fol. 108) letter from the Company [W.G. Rand, Secretary?]. Appended are copies of Company letters of Oct 1902 (fol. 110a) and Apr 1903 (fol. 110) to Colonial Office officials about two of these applicants.

Comprising: (fols. 2-49) a typescript report, amended in another hand (fol. 1) a cover note initialled by Lugard but with a note in the other hand (fols. 50-56) accompanying area maps and plans of the Wushishi and Lokoja cantonments. The Report forms the first Northern Nigerian Annual Report and covers the first fifteen months of...

Also about Company plans to open stations in Bauchi and Lower Bornu (Borno).

Includes: (fols. 62-67) unsigned copy, from Jebba, on Company attracting trade to Zaria and Lokoja during present temporary closure of desert route to Kano (fols. 62-64), enclosing copied extract from Despatch on the same topic (fols. 65-67) (fol. 68) from Lokoja, proposing use of Company influence to hasten telegraph construction, which is outside Protectorate powers. ...

Describing: difficulties of taking and trying the Emir of Kontagora existence of Kano as focus of discontent improvements in Bida T.L.N. Morland's success against Mallam Jibr-ullah [Jibrella] favourable reaction to Goldie's suggestion of Chinese labour for the Protectorate, especially in view of mining development [Dr...

This, combined with the disruption of the caravan route to Western Sudan caused by the Tripoli revolution, and Lugard's own abolition of taxes on caravans, presents a favourable opportunity for Company expansion into the interior.

Includes: (fols. 74-77) deals with the case against Company representative resident in Lokoja and the establishment of stations in the Bassa country (fols. 78-87) concerned with Lugard's proposal for expanding trading activities into Hausa states (northern Nigeria); gives historical résumé of previous attempts, from Richard Lander to Company's potash, ivory, and unsuccessful gutta percha...

Includes: (fol. 88) on Company transport charges (fols. 89-90) recruitment by Company in Nigeria of discharged government employees.

Includes: (fols. 91-93) offering to lease land at Zungeru for a Company railway siding (fol. 91), enclosing extracts from report of Resident of Nupe about trading opportunities in his Province, and reestablishing factory at Wonangi (fols. 92-93) (fol. 94) on railway rates.

About the Company complaint of excessive taxation on the new rubber trade by Ruxton at Turkum, the canoe licence, wages, and rebates on barter goods.

Laws could be commissioned as a Justice of the Peace in the absence of other government civil representatives.