The file contains correspondence and notices concerning telegraph services issued to the Political Agent, Bahrain by Cable and Wireless Limited, Bahrain. The correspondence and notices are mainly issued by the Officer-in-Charge (later Manager), Cable and Wireless, Bahrain. The papers cover: inf...
‘File B/10 IV A CLAIM OF JAWAD BIN ABDULLAH GHULUM HAIDARABADI AGAINST SHAIKH MAJID BIN SAQR’
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The file contains correspondence relating to a debt recovery claim in 1936 made by Jawad bin Abdullah Ghulum Haidarabadi, a resident of Sharjah, against Majid bin Saqr [Shaikh Majid bin Saqr Al Qasimi] the brother of the Ruler of Sharjah [Shaikh Sultan II bin Saqr Al Qasimi]. The correspondence i...
‘File B/10-7 CLAIM OF MANIBAI WIFE OF DHAMANMAL AGAINST SETH KISHANCHAND NATHAMAL OF DUBAI’
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The file contains correspondence relating to a debt recovery claim made in 1937 by Manibai, the widow of the Indian merchant Seth Dhamanmal Jethanand. Her claim is against her husband’s former business partner Seth Kishinchand (also spelt Kishandas) Nathamal, merchant of Dubai, regarding her enti...
File No. E/18 V. O. HEARING OF CASES AND TRIAL OF PERSONS BY WRONG COURT.
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The file contains correspondence regarding three judicial cases in Bahrain: A group of men accused of robbery, including the case hearing minutes and witness statements A petition raised by an Iranian man who requested that his son be tried by the Political Agency Court rather than the Bahrain C...
File No. E/22 Claim of Muhammad bin Abdulla bin Hasan al Bu A'yeneh of Askar, Bahrain.
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The file contains correspondence in the form of a petition and some memoranda regarding a case of land registration. The petition was raised by a Saudi Arabian resident in Bahrain called Muhammad bin Abdulla bin Hasan Al-Bu ‘Ayenen to the Political Agency in Bahrain. The petitioner was asking fo...
The file contains correspondence of the Political Agent, Kuwait concerning botanical matters. The form Koweit is generally used in the papers. Folios 4-5 contain correspondence dated 1905 between the Political Agent, Kuwait (Captain Stuart George Knox) and the (Acting) Political Resident in the...
File 32/12 Estates of British and British Indian Subjects
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The file contains office notes and correspondence relating to a number of claims by relatives to the estates of individuals who had died in Kuwait. The papers include witness statements, lists of possessions, and correspondence that discusses arrangements for the transferral of property. The corr...
File 2/2 VII Contraband Questions with Iraq. (Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling)
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The file contains correspondence between the Director of Customs and Excise, Basra and the Political Agent, Kuwait, related to a case of a Kuwaiti nakhuda who had been fined by the customs office for smuggling goods from Kuwait. In turn, the Political Agent, Kuwait, passed the case to the Shaikh...
‘File 7/5 Appointment of Judicial Adviser to the Political Resident’
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The file is concerned with the appointment of a Judicial Assistant — Summer Hayes (also spelt Haines) — to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf for the purpose of providing relief to subordinate Political Agents in their judicial work. It also contains an incomplete copy (on folios 2-7) of...
The file contains two letters from F J McLintic, Chief Special Police Officer at Ahmadi, addressed to the Kuwait Political Agent. The letters concern the cancellation of Dudley Preston Lester's appointment as a Special Police Officer, and the appointment of Daniel Dudley Williams. The file contai...
