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Lingah. —Agha Sayed Husain Busliiry (Hisham-ul-Wazara) who had enjoy
ed a fairly long innings was dismissed in June and replaced by Ali Agha Mirza
Ahmed Khan.
The dismissal of Sayed Hnsain has had a very salutary effect generally and
relations of the Karguzarate with our Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. have since been more cordial.
The present incumbent a feeble old man who is eddicted to opium, is, never
theless, a distinct improvement on his degenerate and poisonously anti-British
predecessor.
Finance Department.
There was no change during the year in the incumbency of the post of
1 Amin-i-Maliyeh ' at Bandar Abbas, Lingah or Minab and our relations with
this department have been satisfactory.
Posts and Telegraphs.
Agha Sayed Jalal Sadri, Postmaster at Bandar Abbas remained m office
throughout the year and his administration continued to be efficient.
There was one complaint received from a British Indian subject who report
ed that certain Bank of Persia notes enclosed by him in a letter to Charbar were
extracted therefrom in transit. The Post Office contended that the letter was
delivered intact to the addressee and disclaimed responsibility as its contents had
not been insured.
The state of affairs at Lingah where Sayed Zamoon the Postmaster, has
somehow or another managed to retain his post for the fourth year in succession,
is not satisfactory.
The above official is too busily engaged in intrigues of all kinds and has bare
ly time to attend to his legitimate duties.
Notoriously anti-British, he is a lying contributor to several Persian news
papers and is believed to be responsible to a great extent for the cleavage between
Sunnis and Shias prevalent at Lingah.
Municipality,
Bandar Abbas. —The same old deplorable condition of the town continues,,
in spite of the existence under the presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. of the local Governor of a so-called
" Baladyia " Committee, the chief business of whose members is apparently to
quarrel amongst themselves.
Lingah. —This department exists only in name, the Deputy Governor and the
Officer Commanding the troops both being interested in depleting its slender re
sources, whilst the merchants' on the other hand absolutely refuse to pay taxes
and thereby cater for the greed of the two above mentioned officials.
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Bandar Abbas. —Monsieur H. Paquet, the Belgian Director of Customs
handed over charge to Mirza Mahmoud Khan Marzeban in February on his
transfer temporarily to Duzdab, but returned at the end of October.
Monsieur Paquet's return to Bandar Abbas was heartily welcomed by Per
sian and foreigners alike as his locum tenens Mirza Mahmoud Khan, owing to his
policy of crass obstruction, made himself intensely disliked.
He gave not a little trouble to H. B. M.'s Consulate by persisting to impose
on the staff of the Indo-European Telegraph Department at J ask. Customs duties-
which had not been hitherto collected and from which they were exempt in virtue
of the Jask Agreement of 1887.
His attitude gave rise to a lengthy and useless correspondence and necessi
tated a reference on the subject by the Hon'ble the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. to His
Majesty's Minister at Tehran, before the question was finally settled.
Lingah. —Mirza Hashim Khan was Director till September when he was
transferred to Meshed. He was relieved by Mr. Ibrahim Rafoo, an Armenian
Christian.
The relations between the Customs and the Consular Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. have been cor
dial throughout.
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