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GOVERNMENT OF BAHRAIN.

,cd several times nncl several times on me. On one of these occasions
.y told mo that they hod several other matters in mind but had not
iluclcd them in the petition one being that a third Shia Kadi should be
iointed and that all three should oit on one bench. This would be a
’C satisfactory arrangement than the present one but the Kadis would
;cnt it- Eventually, after many discussions with Shaikh Homed and
Mkh Abdulla a reply was sont to the petitioners of which a copy is
[dosed. On the day on which the reply v/as sent to them some agitation
iirred in Manama, meetings were held at various Mateins and persons
t*at Mateins and coffee shops taking clown names of all Bahamas who
Wj told that they would be given work at the Oil Company or in various
vernment departments. The men who took down names are v/oll known bad
nructera, one of them has been imprisoned more than once for liquor
fences etc. At the last meetings which were held at the Mateins it was
elded that the petitioners v/ould press for employment of Bahama by
e oil cpmpany, by Mccpes, and in all Government offices and also that
should be insisted that Ibrahalm nl Areyth should be appointed as
admaster of the Manama Boys* School.