Report of Commander John Henry Wilson I.N. on the voyage of the steamship Hugh Lindsay from Bombay to Suez and back, Nov 1835-Feb 1836 (with associated correspondence)
Arrival at Bombay, in Nov 1836, of the Saxon rams ordered by the Bombay Government from the Cape of Good Hope - their subsequent distribution - a further supply ordered from the Cape - efforts to be made to obtain sheep from Afghanistan and Sind - Government refuse the request of Lieutenant Frede...
Sale by public auction of a portion of the jewels in the custody of the Collector of Mirzapur [Colin Lindsay] - some of the remaining jewels are subsequently stolen - their value is written off to profit and loss (includes, on pp 8-10, an account of the jewels sold at public auction)
Thakur Prag Das of Kunwara declares that he is not prepared to pay a pension of 1000 rupees 'per annum' to Bhairu Singh unless the latter agrees to do him personal service - the NWP Government find this condition unacceptable
Death, in Sep 1836, of the widow of Bhartju Chobey of Kalinjar - question of the succession to her estate - question of the rights of the Mafidars in villages formerly transferred to the Chobeys (includes list of Chobey villages, pp 118-30)
Case of an act of Sati performed at Una in Junagadh State by a woman who had travelled from Bombay expressly for that purpose - measures taken by the Political Agent in Kathiawar [James Erskine] to discourage the practice of Sati in the Kathiawar States
The officers and crew of the ship Tiger which had been wrecked on the island of Astove off Madagascar on 12 Aug 1836 make their way to Zanzibar where they are hospitably received by the Sultan (son of the Imam of Muscat) - the Sultan's hospitality is brought to the notice of the Bombay Government...
Copies of Financial Dispatch to India, no 7, of 27 May 1835, are sent by the Government of India to the Governments of Bengal, Madras and Bombay - paragraphs 4, 9 and 10 of the dispatch are published in the Calcutta Gazette and copies of paragraphs 1 to 8 are sent for information to the Managers ...
Return to Oudh of the presents which the late King of Oudh [Nasir-ud-din Haidar] had sent to King William IV - recovery from the present King of Oudh [Muhammad Ali Shah] of the 12,000 rupees advanced to Philip Friell in England - dismissal of Friell from the Oudh service (includes a list of the p...
Question of the rates of postage to be levied on letters carried by the Company's steam packets between India and the Red Sea or Persian Gulf - correspondence between the Secretary at East India House and the Secretary of the General Post Office, London