"تقرير عن إدارة المقيمية السياسية في الخليج العربي والوكالة السياسية في مسقط لسنة ١٨٨٣-١٨٨٤." [ظ‎‎٣‎٥] (١٦٦/١٠)

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ADMINISTEATION EEPOBT OP THE PERSIAN GULF POLITICAL
35 In the month of December died also the " Mnshir-nl-Mnlk/' who in former times
was the all-powerful Wazeer of Fars. During his adunmstra ion the Mushjr acqmred enormous
was tne an [ l r | j pcfafps He spent lar^e sums in building bndffes and
wealth ^^-"T'^lTBuThle Mushir-S -Mufk were
rr=::^it i S commonly said that e.eitemeot eaused by the weleome news of his
rival's death hastened the death of the Kowwam.
36 In August it was reported from Shiraz that some Indian pilgrims had been plundered
by highway robbers near Dehbeed. The Government of Shiraz disavowed responsibility the
district being beyond the limits of Ears, and the matter was referred to His 1 oyal Highness
the Zil-es-Sultan, with what result is not known.
37. A few other cases of highway robbery occurred near Shiiaz.
38. Small-pox raged with great virulence in Shiraz during the autumn.
39. Mr. J. R. Preece, Assistant Superintendent of the English Government telegraph,
examined the route from Shiraz to Bunder Abbass and Jask in February, in view to the
possible construction of a line of telegraph between those places.
40. A French engineer surveved the Shiraz-Firozabad-Bushire route in connection with
a project for construction of a line of railway between the Caspian Sea and the 1 ersian Gulf.
41. Buskire. Mirza Mohammed Hoosain Khan, son of the Sahib Diwan, was appointed
Governor of Bushire in succession to the Naseer- ul-Mulk, and arrived in June.
42. The wealthiest Persian merchant of Bushire, Haji Baba, died in May, and his grand
son and heir, Haji Mohammed Mehdi, received the titles of Malek-ut-Toojar and Rais-ut-Toojar.
43. In January Mirza Mohammed Hoosain Khan, Governor of Bushire, was summoned
to Shiraz in view to his accompanying His Royal Highness the Zil-es-Sultau to Teheran. Haji
Fazl Ali Khan, son-in-law of Mohammed Hoosain Khan, was sent to act as Deputy
Governor of Bushire.
44. In April the period during which exportation of grain was allowed was extended, and
the interdict was re-imposed in August. In February it was again removed for a period of
four months.
LING AH AND BUNDER ABBASS.
45. The revenues of Lingah and Bunder Abbas were managed respectively by Shaikh
Yoosuf and Mohammed Hasan-bin-Nasir, both of whom act as Deputies for Mohammed
Hasan Khan, the Ameen-es-Sultan's agent.
COAST BETWEEN BUSHIRE AND LINGAH.
46. Shaikh Hassan-bin Mazkoor, son of the Khan of Kongoon, who was executed at Shiraz
by the Motemir-ed-Dowlah, has fled to Bahrain. In April 1883 he landed at Tahri and caused
considerable disturbances in the Gillahdar and adjacent districts, and Fath Ali Khan
Gerrashee, Governor of Lar, was ordered to act against him. Some Persian infantry and
a body of Baharloo Irregular Cavalry accordingly proceeded to those districts. Hasan-bin-
Mazkoor, however, fled and escaped. Subsequently, further disturbances occurred in Gillahdar
and Gaobandee from the people refusing to receive a new governor, named Naib Ibrahim Khan,
one Ahmed-bin-Saif being the ringleader.
47. Naib Ibrahim having proceeded to Jam with a force of sowars and infantry to
suppress a revolt there, serious resistance was made by the people of Jam, and in the affray
several of the Baharloo sowars were killed. On this the Persian infantry and the sowars
plundered Jam. Subsequently some thirty or forty men of Jam were seized as being guilty of
the blood of the Baharloo sowars, and made over bound to the Baharloos, by whom they were
of Jam 1 " 6068 ' A laige <1Uantlty of eameIs ' she «p. and donkeys, &o., were taken from the people
48. A severe earthquake occurred on l«th October on the Persian coast which was felt at
us ire, ongoon, Asloo, Tahri, &c. Much damage was done at Kongoon and other coast
villages, where shocks continued to be felt until October 21th,
6.—PERSIAN ARABISTAN.
49. This province is one of those under the supreme rule of His Koyal Highness the Zil-
es-Sultan, whose Deputy the TbH^om ^ q u i ,, uie zai-
I y, Ihtisham-es-Saltanah, usually resides at Dizful, which is also