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Yusuf Kanoo distinguished himself by the causticity of his remarks added
to a public petition. Shaikh Isa resented his tone and he was called on to apolo-
gise.
Shaikh Abdullah bin Isa called upon Yusuf Kanoo on Friday (17th May) and
after dinner impressed upon him the serious impropriety of his conduct and the con-
sequent indignation of Shaikh Isa. Shaikh Abdullah promised to assuage the
wrath of Shaikh Isa on this occasion, but advised Yusuf Kanoo to be very careful
in the future.
459 Turkish. —With reference to paragraph 366, Abdur Rahim Effendi left Foreign Interests,
for Basrah on board SS. Barala on 14th May. His original instructions from the
Wali were to go to Hasa and remove all irregularities in the postal service, reported
bv the Mutasarrif. He did not, however, go to Hasa on the plea that ™ e r °’ 1 *e
was unsafe, and wrote back to Basrah complaining that the Government was taking
no measures to suppress the Bedouin raids, and that, in consequence, it was impos
sible for him to establish any regular postal service.
He has, however, had a new mail boat built with a capacity of about 300
bags of rice, and has also changed the Sai, who carries mails between Oqairfand
Hasa.
Abdur Rahim holds the contract for the Basrah-Nejd post for Rs. 310 per
mensem. The local forwarding Agent in Bahrain, Mullah Abdur Rahman, !s pm
about T.£3 a month. The service between Bahrain and Oqair and between Ba -
rain and Katif is weekly. But between Basrah and Bahrain, sometimes weekly
and at others fortnightly. It depends on the steamers that may be available. *
They bring the mails in bigs, as personal luggage by B.I^ or other steamers //,
Abdur Bahim was heard to say that the British India fiompan^ had m Basrah
objected to taking the post, but that m the end they had to give in.
460. German. —Abdun Nabi, clerk of Messrs. ft°bert Wonckhaus & Co.,
who went a few weeks ago to Kuwait, returned by the S.S. Barala on 26th May. He
is said to have gone there to help the Kuwait Agent, Abdullah bin Ustad.
461 It is stated in the bazaar that a fire occurred recently in Messrs. Won-
ckhaus’s Basrah office, which resulted in considerable damage.
462 The pearling fleet left for the pearl banks for the season, during the first Miscellaneous
and second weeks of May. The nakhodas are said to have given liberal advances
to tbeir divers this year.
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no injury was sustained by the Bahrain pearling fleet.
464 On the 23rd May, Shaikh Ibrahim bin Muhammad Ishaq, lascar A term used by the British officials to describe non-European sailors employed on East India Company ships. of the
e innnrb Bahrain, died of beri-beri. The launch has been disinfected
andthl tScars have been brought ashore, supplying only a changing guard on
board the launch.
Kuwait.
1st to 31st May.
465. Shaikh Mubarak left for Failiyah in his yacht on the 19th, whence he I^cal Officials,
proceeded to Nasiri on the 26th.
486. With reference to paragaph 374, Zeid el Khalid died on the night of the
2nd '4 67 One Saivid Muhammad Rashid, who accompanied Muhammad bin Local Governmeut.
O V e i ,1; tbe Bombay Agent of Shaikh Mubarak, to Kuwait, arrived on the
ofi, im delivered a lecture in a local masjid on the 10th, which Shaikh Jabir, Shai