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Trtjcial Coast.
Pearling Season .—On the 13th October the divers of the Oman Coast
returned to port, and a summary of the results of this year’s pearling is as
follows:—
Abu Dhabi .—Some boats have had a good season and some bad.
Debai .—Most of the boats have had a successful season, and have sold
pearls to the value of Rs. 20,000, Rs, 30,000 and Rs. 45,000.
Shargah .—These boats have sold pearls to the value of Rs. 15,000, *
Rs. 20,000 and Rs. 30,000.
Most of these boats sold pearls to the value of Rs. 40,000.
Umm-ul-Qatoain .—Pearls to the value of Rs. 10,000, Rs. 15,000 and up to
Rs. 25,000 have been sold.
Ras-al-Khaimeh .—Owing to the unsettled conditions prevailing here
during a great part of the pearling season due to the fighting with the Shihuh
tribes, only pearls of Rs. 8,000 and Rs. 15,000 were obtained.
Bahrain.
His Excellency Sheikh Sir Isa bin Ali al Khalifah, K.C.I.E., C.S.I.,
accompanied by Sheikh Abdullah, C.I.E., and Sheikh Muhammad bin Isal al
Khalifah, moved to their winter residence in Moharraq on the evening of the
1st October 1921, the usual salute being fired from the shore battery as His
Excellency boarded S. L. “ Rafaa. ”
The members of the American Arabian Mission on recess leave to India
returned to Bahrain by S.S. Barjora ” and landed on the morning of the 6th
October.
Kuwait.
The pearling fleet returned from ithe pearl banks during the week. The
season has been a bad one, both as regards the catch and the prices of the
pearls. A few boats are returning for two or three weeks for the “ Raddah ”
or second season.
Mr. W. B. Wardle, of Messrs. Strick Scott and Company, Mohammerah;
and Mr. G. B. Pratt, of Messrs. Scott and Company, London, arrived on the
20th September in connection with the Kuwait water plant. Mr. Pratt
expects to be in Kuwait for several months carrying out extensive alterations
to the plant.
The Sheikh of Kuwait has had a windmill erected at Jahrah to pump
water for the irrigation of his garden.
The Ras-al-Ardh beacon collapsed on the evening of the 10th October.
On the 11th a mast was erected on the debris of the beacon, 30 feet above
the around, with a wooden disc of five feet in diameter at top, to serve as a
temporary land mark for ships by the day, while the lamp which was un
damaged will be on the roof of [the caretaker s house, thirty-five yards south
of the beacon.
On the 20th October, a large party of Dhafir, under Abdur Razzaq, the
son of Ibn Hallaf, Sheikh of the Sa’id section of the tribe, raided Zaqlah,
about 6 miles north-west of Jahrah. Fifteen of the Sheikh of Kuwait s
followers pursued the raiders from Jahrah, and came up with them in the
tract of country known as Yah, about 18 miles north of Jahrah. They, how
ever, found themselves very much out-numbered and lost one man and seven
horses killed without recovering anything. They estimated the raiders as 8J
A. P. TREVOR, Lieut.-Colonel,
Political Resident in the Persian Oulf.
Bushire ;
The 19th November 1921.
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