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                                        CHAPvBAR.                                             I
                 Mr F. J. Hushes continued to hold charge of the telegraph station arid to
                                            look after tho interests of the British
                       British Official#.   subjects residing at that place.
                 Mr. Johannes Pater, Collector of Customs, left Charbar on the 11th May.
                                            His successor, Mirza Assadullah Khan,
                       Pcr-tina Custom#.
                                            arrived on the 1st June. The latter was
             relieved, on 1st December, by Mirza Ibrahim Khan who has been there since.
                 Sbahdad Abbas and Yusaf Safar were the Walis of Charbar throughout
                                            the year acting under the orders of Mirs
                          Wali#.
                                            Din Muhammad and Mahmud Khan
             respectively. The latter chief appointed Sulaiman Dilwush as joint "Wali with
             Yusuf Safar, on the 26th October.
                 In June, Saleh Muhammad, a British subject, was arrested by the orders
                                            of the Officer Commanding the Military
                        Espionage.
                                            detachment on tho charge of supplying
             information of any use to the enemies of the British Government. Hfs house
             was searched, nothing incriminating was found but as his presence was undesir­
             able, in view of the disturbed state of the country, be was deported to Karachi
             and banded over to the Police there.
                 In September, a Baluch, named Qadi Bukbsh, accompanied by two others,
                                            came to Charbar with the object of kid­
                          Slaves.
                                            napping Moktag Sarwash, a manumitted
             slavo*girl, but she managed to elude them. Later on they caught Jomuk
             Sarwash, also a manumitted slave, and decamped. The matter was referred
             to Shai Dost Muhammad, brother of Saivid Khan, who recovered the boy and
             sent him hack to Charbar.
                 The strength of tho Military detachment kcpt here for the protection, of
                                            the Telegraph station, was 100 rank and
                        Native Troop#.
                                            file under one British officer and on'c
                                            Indian officer.
                 The following ships of His Majesty’s Navy and Royal Indian Marine
                                            visited Charbar during the year :—“Fox”,
                          ‘BTy’              Dartmouth ”, “Pclorus”, “Philomel”,
             “ Pyramus’’, " Bramble”, “ Odin ” and “ Dalhousie ”,


                                         GWADTJR.
                 Munshi Abdul Rahim was Native Assistant during the year.
                 Shaikh Ghalib bin Ali was removed, on 14th July, from the ‘Waliship of
                          WalL              Gwadur. He was succeeded bv Saiyid
                                            Hamud who remained up to 13tK October
             on which date he was relieved by Prince Salim, brother of the present ruler
             of Maskat.
                 Seth Muhammad Rahmoo continued to hold charge of the Sultan’s
                                            Customs.
                          Customs.
                 All disputes arising between British subjects were settled by arbitration
                          JadWaL            on the spot or by correspondence with
                                            me at Karachi
                 Thirteen fugitive slaves took refuge in the office of the Native Assistant
                         siarc*.            during the year. All of them were sent
                                            to Karachi at Government expense.
                 In July two women and four men, all from British Mokran, arrived
                          U order.          from Basrah. Two of the men murdered
                    it. i-     « . , one of tho woinon; Robbery was appa-
              entiy the motive. Special messengers wore sent out with orders for the
              rrest of the murderers who had made their escape. One of tho murderers wan
              arrested by tho Naib at Mund. Tho two men and tho woman. Tthepa™
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