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and was sold as part of his assets. The ground has
been reclaimed and a very handsome new bank has been

built which is to be completed early in 1351. The
Contractors are the same firm who built the Port Trust
building and the Eastern Bank in Basrah. The building

of the new bank has encouraged several local persons
to build shops on the opposite side of the Sea P.oad
which strengthens the tendency for the bazaar to expend

towards the north west of the town.
The Pilgrimage. An exceptionally small number of
people from Bahrain attended the 1350 pilgrimage but

they included Shaikh Kohamed bin Isa and two sons of
H. E. Shaikh Hamad, Shaikhs Mubarak and Abdulla who
travelled to Jeddah by sea and returned across Arabia
to Bahrain by the land route.

ITaval Survey. H. H. S. "Ormonde", R.N.Survey boat,
spent over two months in Bahrain doing a survey of the
harbour end surroundings. She sailed shortly before the

end of the year. Very small interest v/as taken in the
matter by the local population.

Shaikh Khslaf. At the end of 1349, Shaikh Khalaf
A1 Asfur the ex-Shia Kadi of Bahrain, who had retired
to Iraq, was inadvertently issued with a permit by the
Iraq authorities and allowed to return to Bahrain.

Having arrived he was given permission to remain for
\ three months in order to settle his affairs in Bahrain,
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on condition that he remained in Manama. During the

Summer of 1350 this order waa unofficially cancelled,
Shaikh Khalaf was allowed to visit any place in Bahrain
and all question of his returning to Iraq was dropped.
Shaikh Khalaf had been twice dismissed from his position

of Kadi owing to his nefarious practices, during the time