File 9/29 Naval & Shipping: Persian Gulf Mail & Steamer Services - Proposal to start Iraqi shipping company
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Correspondence and other papers concerning a plan by Michael Hanna Shaikh of the Hanna Shaikh River Transport Company to form an Iraqi Shipping Company. The correspondence discusses any objections that the British Government might have and includes a letter from an employee of Mackinnon, Mackenz...
File [11/4] Salute by H.H. the Sultan to Political Officers when leaving and returning to Muscat
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This file contains correspondence between the Political Agency in Muscat, the Government of India and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Faysal bin Turki. The correspondence concerns a disagreement that arose between the Agency and the Sultan as to whether or not he was obligated to fire a formal sal...
This file contains correspondence related to the administration of the Customs House in Bahrain from 1914 until 1929. The earlier correspondence relates to a disagreement between Shaikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa and Bin Saud regarding tariff charges on goods entering and leaving Bahrain from the ...
File contains correspondence related to hostilities that occurred between the forces of Shaikh Abdullah bin Qassim Al Thani of Qatar and the Al Naim tribe that took place in June and July 1937. At this time, the Al Naim tribe was allied to the Al Khalifa ruling family of Bahrain who claimed Zu...
This file consists of correspondence relating to the prolonging of the Muscat Commercial Treaty of 1891 for a further period of one year. The correspondence discusses issues of extra-territoriality; implications for Morocco and British rights; municipal taxes; tariff; taxation of British subject...
The volume contains correspondence relating to the signing of a new treaty between Great Britain and the Sultan of Muscat 'to replace the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation signed at Muscat on the 19th March, 1891, which terminates on the 11th February, 1939.' The new treaty consisted...
The volume consists of letters (in English and Arabic), telegrams, memoranda, handwritten notes, a draft of a Najdi passport and a copy of an official Najdi passport. The majority of the correspondence is between the Political Resident in Bushire (Arthur Trevor, later Stuart Knox); the Political...
The file relates to the development of formal communications between Najd and Bahrain, and the wider Gulf and Indian region. The first of two items in the file is a letter (dated 28 January 1932) from the Special Secretary to ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd) King ...
The volume contains correspondence concerning Qatar affairs, particularly the supply of arms and ammunition to Shaikh Abdullah bin Qasim al Thani, the Ruler of Qatar [‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī]. The principal correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Pers...
The file mainly contains applications submitted for US dollar exchange for importing goods, plus letters of credit granted by the Political Agent at Bahrain. Subjects discussed within the file are an increase in the quota for imports to the ports of Kuwait, Bahrain, Dubai, Muscat and Gwadur, an...