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Kerman and Bam.
1st to 30th April.
535. Mubashir-ul-Mamalik has relieved Ikhtidar-es-Snltaneh as Superinten- Local Officials,
dent of the Persian Telegraph Office, and Naib-es-Sadr has arrived from Tehran
as Controller of Endowments.
536 On April 22 the Governor-General s Private Secretary took bast in
the Consulate, having been admitted under the impression that he was the bearer
of a letter from his master. He complained that Amir-i-Azam had used violent
and threatening language to him, and for some time obstinately refused to leave
the Consulate, though Amir-i-Azam came in person to re-assure him, but was at
last persuaded to leave on April 29.
537. Adl-es-Sultan,brother of Sardar-i-Nusrat, attempted to take “bast”in
the Consulate, but was refused admission.
538. Muhammad Khan of Jiruft was appointed Governor of that district,
Bahadur-ul-Mulk of Bardsir being dismissed.
539. The force under Bahadur-es-Saltaneh Khan) Co SountrV f
dar-i-Rifat (Rifat-i-Nizam), mentioned m paragraph 436, numbered 2,000 ,
with two guns. After committing much extortion m Bam and Narmashir they
attacked Salar Alam Khan of Pusht-i-Gudar, between Narmashir and Rudbar,
ostensibly in order to compel him to pay revenue, but actually m order to plunder
him The fight is said to have lasted four days and the casualties on both sides
to 4 ave amounted to nine killed. Alam Khan fled and took refuge m the I ^°^“
tains In the fight a nephew of Nawab Khan, chief of the Banians, was i
tarns, in t f ] t ut w i t j 1 a f orC e of 300 men to avenge his death by
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before he had done much damage.
The Governor-General ordered Bahadur-es-Saltaneh and Sardar-i-Eifat to
restore plunder w^h^ ^n
tfflfghtMuhammad Khan the “w Governor
bod^guEol'and 6 ^ v'ery^v'infantry. No arrangements can be made for the safety
of tKl or of ^property of the Europeans m the town.
• 54 °, D r g some
gtz r^rrelCf—
laden with merchandise, chiefly ^ th ’ ree men . Jiyand’s men broke
itXSr and ^ bTat a of the Telegraph escort at Dahana-
541. It is reported
fndTafeaStenScollect’the revenue in his own division and apply it to his
own purposes. * Q naravnu coming from Bandar Abbas, Condition of Roads,
^ left tie loads. The. Bandar
rising against the Governor-General.
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