DOMESTIC TROUBLES OF THE AMEER.
The brother of the Ameer of Afghanistan, Mohammed Umar Khan, is still a State, prisoner, and £2 person is allowed to see him under threat of j punishment. According to a etorv rej ceived from Kabul, Umar Khan had the i superintendent of the royal stables beheaded for refusing him the ns? of a horse. The Ameer, hearing of this, ordered him to pay £33 to the heirs of th* dead man and dismissal him from his post of head of the civil courts. Hβ also issued a. notice for tho benefit of the members of his family that in future no one ■would be permitted to take a horse from the royal stable -without his permission. The Ameer has also a disagreement with. Umar Khan's motJier, Bibi She had a complete raiment, studded with jewels, belonging to the late Ameer. Several times the Ameer asked her for it, but s-he denied its very existence. An inquiry which was made into the matter showed that Bibi Halima had ordered two goldsmiths to remove nil the jew-vls frum the dress, and that she had afterwards concealed the jewels somewhere. Tlie two goldsmiths were summoned to account, and confessed everything. They also stated that another box of jewels had btvn fhown them at the time, aud that it was worth a great sum*
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11871, 19 April 1904, Page 7
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