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AND TIIE MASKAT POLITICAL AGENCY FOR THE YEAR 1907-1900. 25

Jung, already mentioned, was M. Dcscos, laic Trench Minister in Tehran,
who passed through on a visit to Pcrsopolis in May.
The only foreign powers permanently represented at Shiraz are Franco pre^nuiuvea.
and Turkey, the former by Hiiji Mirza Hussein, and the latter by Hnji Ibrahim
Khan, both Persian subjects. M. Andre Miller, Acting Russian Consul-
General at Bushiro, spent the greater part of the year at Shiraz, arriving in
July and returning to Bushiro in March.
Floods.
An account of the evonts of the year would be incomplete without some
mention of the great flood which devastated the western front of the city on
January 17th. Between midnight of the 15th and 10 p.m. on the 17th about
inches of rain fell. The river left its bed, breached the wall of tho Bagh-
i-Sheikh, the premises of the Indo-European Telegraph Department, swept
through that garden and through His Majesty’s Residency destroying both
garden walls, and thence falling into the town moat, ruined a large number of
small houses which had gradually been erected in its bed. Altogether GOO
houses are reported to have been destioved. A subscription was raised lor the
sufferers, His Majesty’s Chargd d’AUaires contributing, and was administered
by His Majesty’s Consul and the Manager of the Imperial Bank.
Mr. G. Graliame held the post throughout the year though his promotion HIb Briunnio
to the Consulate-General at lslahsn was notilied in February. conauif 8
J. H. BILL,
Acting Consul, Shiraz.

P. Z. COX, Major,
Political Resident in the Persian Qulf.