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PART IV—CHAPTER XVI.
7*

Goldsmid’s
Dates of construction The Various line. Telkoraph
of the lines.
a"nd Travel.
Pages
90th April 1863 ... Land line from Karachi to Gwa- Mekran Prlcis, Chapter II —
dur completed. Treaties with the Khan
of the Khelat, Jam of
Bcyla and the Chief of Kef.
1802-63,—(Aitchison's Trea­
ties, Volume IX, pages 394.
395. 401—404).
41b—'9th February Cable laid from Gwadur to Mus- «3*—135
*864. sendom.
February—March Line laid across Maklab, after I35-I5* Trucial Chiefs' Prlcis, 1854—
1864. settling affairs with the local 1905, Chapter X—Treaty
tribes. with Trucial Chiefs, 1864,—
(Aitchison’s T r a a t i e t,
Volume X, page 137).
}■ Treaty with the Sultan of
Maskat, November 1864
(Aitchison’s Treaties, VoL
XI. page 74).
Convention with the Sultan of
igth—94th March Cable from Musscndom to Bu* IS*— *63 Maskat, 20th of January
1864. shire. 1865,—(Aitchison’s Treaties,
Volume X, page 76).

96th March—8th Ap­ Cable from Bushirc to Fao • •• I64—181
ril 1864.
15th May 1864 „. Cable from Gwadur to Cape Monre
(brought to Monora Point and
connected with Karachi by
land line in November 1864.
In 1866 this land line was
abolished and a harbour cable
laid in its place).
13th October 1864... Line laid from Baghdad through 907—999—945 (1) Engagement entered into
Tehran to Bushire vid Khan- and 249—259 by the Persian Minister for
nikin, but the line from Bu­ Foreign Affairs for con­
shire to Tehran was broken and struction of telegraphic
it was only in January-Febru- line from Khannikin to
ary that regular communica­ Bushire, 1863,—(Aitchison’s
tion was opened. Treaties, Volume X, page
8a).
(2) Engagement by Turkey for
the extension of a telegraph
line from Baghdad to Busra
and to Khannikin.
(3) Convention between Turkey
and Great Britain for estab­
lishment of—
Telegraphic communication
between India and the Otto­
man Dominions, 3rd Septem­
ber 1864.
[For Treaties (a) and (3) see
Aitchison’s Treaties, Volume
XI, pages 26 and 30.]