NORTH-EAST ARABIA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12603, 5 March 1903, Page 4

NORTH-EAST ARABIA.

- *"' ; . Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ST. PETERSBURG, Marcli 3. (Received Marcli 4, at 11.4 a.iil.) The Novoe Vremya states that the British Consul at- Muscat offered the Sultan of Oman a British naval detaciilhent if lie found'himself unable to maintain order in the town of Jluttra. The territory of the Sultan of Oman, tha capital gf which is Muscat, consists of an independent province in tho south-east of Arabia, extending along the coast line of tho Arabian Sea. Tlio Sultan, whoso effective rule does not extend inucli beyond , tlie walls bf Sluscat, has for liiany years been ih close treaty relations with Great Britain through the Government of India, which is represented in Muscat by a Political Agent and Consul. Muttra is the commercial siiburb of Muscat. Tho trcdo of the country, which totals somewhat under half a million sterling per annum, is almost entirely with India. — There hits just died at the age of 94 years at Benvick-on-T\veed, Mrs Elliot, the widow of a fisherman, who was the mother o[ 12 children, and had 76 grandchildren, 122 great-grandchildren, and ll great-great-grandehildrenj making her total direct descendants 22i. i)on't fqrget WOLFE'S is the real original SCHNAPPS. -