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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [242r] (488/616)
The record is made up of 1 volume (304 folios). It was created in 1907-1911. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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CHAPTER IX.
ADMINISTRATION REPORT OF THE
TRUCIAL COAST
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
OF OMAN
FOR THE YEAR 1909.
The well-beings of the
Trucial Coast
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is entirely dependent on the pros
perity of the pearl fishery, and happily the straitened financial conditions
which prevailed last year were dispelled by the incidence of a successful
fishery and improved market this season. Moreover no serious dissensions
among the Chiefs of the maritime tribes occurred during 1909 to mar the
generally satisfactory situation.
The chief event of the year, from the local point of view, was the death
of the Shaikh of Abu Thabi, Zaid-bin-Khalifah, on the 19th of May. This
venerable Chief had been the doyen of the Trucial Chiefs for many years and
at the time of his death must have been close on 90 years of age. For the
last few years his faculties had been failing and he had become somewhat
tiresome and fractious to deal with both in his relations with the
Residency
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and the other Trucial Chiefs, who probably regard it as a not unmitigated
evil that Shaikh Zaid has been gathered to his fathers. He was succeeded
by his second son. Shaikh Tahnoon-bin-Zaid. The latter is unffortunately
a confirmed invalid, having practically lost the use of his lower limbs from
some form of paralysis. It is therefore the more creditable to him to have
been designated by his father and brothers as successor to the jShaikhdom.
His succession has been recognised by the Government of India in the usual
way.
The familiar Taona" case came into evidence again during the year,
one of the three brothers credited with the murders, " Gaithoo " by name,
having been captured on the pearl banks by H- M. S. " Redbreast." ^ The pirate
violently resisted capture by the boarding party from His Majesty's ship, and
it was only after being stunned by a blow from the butt-end of Lieutenant
Blackman's revolver that he ceased to give trouble- The new Chief of Abu
Thabi having demurred to undertaking the responsibility of the pirate's
custody pending an attempt to catch his brothers, Gaithoo has been consigned
to durance in the Bahrain
Agency
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until further orders.
The Abu Musa dispute continues to pursue its deliberate course, but it
is understood that just before the close
Shargal1 - of the year, the German rejoinder to the
British arguments of July 1908 was received in London.
In February a definite application was made by Messrs. Strick for a
sample consignment of 400 tons of Abu Musa oxide urgently at 15^. 6c?. per
ton; and on the understanding that the settlement of the German case would
not be prejudiced and that no oxide be handled on which Messrs. Wonckhaus
could claim any rights, the shipment was allowed by His Majesty s Govern
ment and arrangements made for the mining of the aforesaid consignment.
Dr. Listemann, German Consul at Bushire, who must have heard all about
the transaction, took no exception to it, but Herr Wassmuss, who relieved him
on his departure on furlough, protested against the shipment on the ground
that the excavation of fresh oxide was an encroachment on the rights of
Messrs. Wonckhaus. The Resident was instructed to take no notice of his
protest and the shipment was eventually made.
Subsequently, in August, the German Consulate requested permission to
remove to the beach for shipment a further quantity of the oxide already
mined. In reporting his agreement to the shipment under the standing
instructions of His Majesty's Government, the Resident pointed out that
the German Government were protesting at the mining of the fresh oxide
for Messrs. Strick while still claiming to go on, removing oxide themselves
whenever they pleased; that they were thus receiving preferential treatment
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The volume contains Administration Report on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for 1905-1906 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1907); Administration Report on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. and Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1906-1907 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1908); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. and the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1907-1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. and the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for April-December1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year Ending 31st December 1909 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911); and Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1910 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911).
The Reports contain reviews by 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. and chapters on each of the consulates, agencies, and other administrative regions that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. . The Reports contain information on political developments, territorial divisions, local administration, principal tribes, British personnel and appointments, trade and commerce, naval and marine matters, communications, judicial matters, archaeology, pearl fisheries, the slave trade, arms and ammunition traffic, medical matters and public health, oil, notable visitors and events, meteorological data, and related topics.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 306 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and can be found in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. The following folios need to be folded out to be read: ff. 40, 261.
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