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,, T1 ?e Muscat Government have detained both ■
consignments. The owner of the first consignme.o.
Sard bin Abdur Rahman bin Khalfan, has offered to selj
it to the Ruler of Abu Dhabi^if the latter writes to '
rne Sultan of Muscat claiming the consignment as his
property and asking for its release^ The Shaikh of
Sharjah has been making enquiries about the second
consignment and has received a ±j£te& letter from the
buitan^of Muscat saying that an investigation is takin
place into the circumstances that led to its export
rom Mukalla and that he v/ill let the Shaikh knov/ the
resuit m due course.
SALE OF R.A.F. PROPERTY .
arrivprt July an Disposals Officer
arrived at Sharjah to arrange for the sale of r.a f
qho?kh S Trnv! 0per i y ^ • 0ne station waggon was sold to
Shaikh Mohammed bin Saqr, brother of the Ruler of
oharjah, and res ^ The vehicles. 25 in number
ron^f tbp f p r i RUP % eS 355000 t0 Shaikh 9 Rashid 9 Sdest
son of the Ruler of Dubai. Electric plant and other
machinery were sold for Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 40,000 to Yusuf ObaidH
a mercnant who had flown from Bahrain for the sale: '
mo vements of tritotal COAST SHATKU.q .
Rn1 pt n-p Pnc °t 1 t 5 ? 6 - 10 ^ shaikh Sultan bin Salim,
Ruler of^Ras al Khaimah, arrived at Sharjah from
Dubai, visited the Political Officer. Trucial Ooa-t
at^the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , and left for Has al KhaSfthebe’
Resent nfMlS 11 shaikh Khalid bin Ahmad,
f k ^ or R as al Khaimah where he
hdo taken his family for the summer,
ov > (Tii) On the 14th Shaikh Sultan bin Saqr, Ruler
Sharjan, left for Ras al Khaimah to join his familv
who had gone there the week before. 3
n . Hh , On t h e 19th Shaikh Saif al Midfa« the
of Sharjah, left for Saudi Arabia via Bahrain
Saud! der t0 recelve his usual allowance from King ibn
LOCAL NEWS .
. 0n the night of the 21st July some coir>
ropes m the godo\m of a Bahraini merchant, Khalil bin
Ibrahim al Minayed caught fire. The hoSse was gutted
but ^ the occup^ts of the rooms above the godown stv -d
R e K f R v ® s . by . J m P ln g through the window!. The damfr*
is estimated at some ten to fifteen thousand rupee!!
. (TT) On the 28th Hamid bin Jasim Omani stphhpd
a Persian named Akbar bin Muhammad. The latter waq
removed to the Government Hospital where he died The
t! in k st R atin S the affair. This'is sA
he first muraer in Bahrain for over nine years.
SHIPPING .
34 ships (13 British, 6 American, 2 Panamanian.
1 Norwegian