"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الجزء II. ج. ج. لوريمر. ١٩١٥" [‎٢‎٤‎٥‎٣] (١٢٦٢/٩٧٠)

b^ndac
'Abbas,
1867-1905.
of Basidu was maintained, a boat was sent from that station to meet
each mail steamer, and, although there was no post office at Basidu,
an exchange of mails was carried on ; these arrangements ceased with
the abandonment of the Basidu station in May 1883.
The most notable event in the history of the Lingeh post office
is a burglary which occurred on the night of the 21st of April 189S ;
the post office safe was broken into, and cash amounting to more than
Rs. 5,000 was stolen. In consequence of this robbery, for which the Persian
Government declined to acknowledge any responsibility, the rate of
commission on money orders was raised at Lingeh to two per cent.,
in order to check the accumulation of money, and a permanent guard of
three Persian soldiers was obtained on payment.
General supervision of the Lingeh sub-office, which is undei
Bushehr, is exercised by the Political Resident at Bushehr through the
Residency Agent at Lingeh.
The post office at Bandar 'Abbas was opened, concurrently with
that at Lingeh, on the 1st of April 1867 ; not only the mercantile
community but also the Persian Governor of Bandar Abbas had begged
for its establishment ; and it was from the first in every respect a
success, the income largely exceeding the expenditure.
From a station of the Indo-European Telegraph Department which
existed on an islet in Khor-ash-Sham (Elphinstone Inlet) on the
opposite or Arabian coast from 1864 to 1868, a boat used to be sent
to Bandar 'Abbas to meet the mail steamer, "here was no post office
at " Telegraph Isletbut the Postmaster of Bandar Abbas received
for despatch the mails sent from the telegraph station, and despatched
in return such articles as were received m his office addressed to Telegrap
Islet." ,
In 188* a Persian post office was established at Bandar 'Abbas and
a system of Anglo-Persian co-operation was arranged, m regard to mails
for the interior, which is described further on m the paragraph on politi
cal questions.
In 1884 to avoid the consignment to the Dead Letter Office or
numerous letters addressed to Qishm via Bandar 'Abbas, a letter box was
set up in Qishm town near the residence of the Shaikh and was visited
S . wiibj . postman bom B.nto 'Abba.; «... mojuro w„
pecuniarily a success and was a great boon to e ra a g
had relations with Bombay and Karac l - e i,,, , Indian
discontinued in 1903, in consequence of the delivery of le ^®' B ^ T
post offices in Persia being restricted to the precincts of po t offices.
Informal postal arrangements existed at Jashk from the fo^da jon ^
of the telegraph station at that place in 1868 mitd the ^ ^
1880 when a regular post office was established. Previously to 1880
the Assistant Superintendent in charge of
discharged the duties of: postmaster ; and since 1
performed bv one of the telegraph clerks, on an allowance provided by
the Postal Department. Thf jLk office has little business b^s^
which depends on the presence of the telegrap s a a . ^ . 0 ] asge d
military detachment. For the sake of simplicity in working it is classed
i ^ 1