"[ملف غير مُرقم] مذكرات مسقط ١٩١٠" [و‎‎٨‎٣] (٢٧٨/١٦٥)

of 1910.
News for tlie week ending lOth 3ept,ember 1910.
LtQQ^J, OffioxaJs.
660. ) liimslii Munarir^ad Ibrahim, Fnglish clerk to His Highness
the SuJtan, left here for India with family on long leave by
S.3. "Goalpara” on the 7th Instant.
664. JTunshi Almied bin Muhammad Shubeili left by S^^Goalparsf*
for Bombay for the purpose of purchasing $.6,000 worth of furni
ture, etc. for His Highness* sons, Saiyids Nadir and, Ifuhammad,
v/ho are to be furnished with separate quarters to live with
their wives. The *nikah f took place last year.
Qmatteon of Oonntrv-
o6o. ith reference to Biaiy entry ITo.661, it appears that
'the trouble at Kaasab has subsided.
Pustoms.
. the oultan de offering the Muscat and Mutrah Customs
contract to Seta Nainsi Rattansee Pu shotam for 500,000 dollars.
The Seth is inclined to take up as a sole farmer but His High
ness is trying to retain Seth Lamodar Dharamsee, who at present
has a great deal to do with the running of the Customs.
Arms Traffic.
ES7. It. is reported that Mi^useir the local gun-merohant,
has despatched, on the right of the 1st Ramazan (6th Instant)
600 rifles ’oj- land for Koweit. The anas were removed to I.futran
whence they wa-e loaded on camels ar.d despatched in charge of a
Koweit man named liuru with one man from Muscat. Presumably the
anus will be shipped for Koweit from some point on the Crucial
or Katr Coast.