'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [‎202v] (409/616)

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administration report of the persian gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. political residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
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Political
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Visits of
Government
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was a resident of Katar, but settled down m Darin on Tarut Island opposite
Katif about 30 years ago. This cunning old Arab who was by profession
a pearl merchant, had long been a personal friend of Sheikh Esa of Bahrain
whom he used formerly to advise in a sense adverse to British interests.
He was also intimately connected with Sheikh Jasim bin Thani by marriage.
Of late years his influence had waned, and he avoided Bahrain as Tie owed
some E/20,000 to one or two Hindu firms in Manama.
The customs farm of Hasa, Katif and Ojair for the year commencing
14th March 1908 was re-sold to the Bin Faris Bin Akhwan Syndicate for
10,000 liras, again making a decrease of 3,000 liras on the previous year's
price.
In April 1908, it was reported that some 31,000 cattle, valued at 125,000
liras had died in Hasa of disease, presumably anthrax.
No true piracies were committed during the period under report, though
two or three conflicts at sea occurred in connection with the hot-weather
struggle between the Bedouin and the settled people of Katif.
It was rumoured that Ahmad bin Salman was engaged on the side of
the Bedouin, but he is not known ever to have put to sea this year.
Maior P Z. Cox, C.I.E., paid his annual visit to Bahrain on the 18th and
19th May 1908 in the R. I. M. S. Lawrence. The Chief went out as usual
to the steamer to welcome the Resident to his State, after which Major Cox
landed at the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and received visits from the European community and
the leading Muhammadan and Hindu residents. On the following morning
the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. called on the Sheikh at his residence m Muharraq
and at 2 p.m . he left in the Lawrence for Bushire.
The RIMS Lawrence called at Bahrain on the 18th May with the
Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. on board and left on the following day. She came again
on the 17th September to tow the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. steam launch down to the Bombay
dockyard, and returned to Bahrain on the 2nd December with the same
vessel in tow, as well as with the Koweit Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. launch.
On the 18th December, the Lawrence again visited Bahrain with Mr.
C. Akers, deputed by the Board of Trade, and Captain A. P- Trevor, First
Assistant Resident, on board.
H. M. S. Sphinx paid visits to the port of three days' duration m June
and four days in July. On the first occasion Commander Litchfield, R.N.,
called on the Chief in Muharraq and received a return visit on board the
following day, firing a salute of 5 guns as Sheikh Esa left the vessel for the
shore.
H. M. S. Lapwing spent 26 days in Bahrain and Katif waters during
May, June, July and August of which 19 days were in the last named month.
H. M. S. Redbreast was 38 days in the same waters between June 22nd
and September 5th, her stay of longest duration being 20 days from Augus
13th onwards. ,
The only foreign man-of-war to visit the port during the year was the
French gun boat Surprise, which arrived from K<weit on the 4t h April ^
left for the Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Coast two days later The Commander
Maxime Banal, exchanged official visits with the Political Agcnt andcanea
on the Chief of Bahrain in Muharraq, borrowing the services of the Age y
Interpreter for the occasion as the ship carried no Arabic ling uist ; Mon
Banal and his wife with two other officers of the ship also drove out to see we
tumuli at Ali with the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. on the afternoon of the 5th
On the 20th May 1908, the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. proceeded on four days crui
to Fuwairat and Lusail on the Katar peninsula in the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. steam lau •
On the 31st May, he paid a flying visit to Bushire in H. M. ».
to confer with the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. before the latter s start for
returning to Bahrain on the 4th June. tt Q
On the 3rd August, Major Prideaux proceeded in the H. M. &• , ^ is
to the vicinity of Katif, and visited four of the coastal villag