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Several unimportant engagements are reported from Manchuria. (Havas.)
General Linievitch telegraphs on the 11th inst. that the enemy resumed a decisive offen- sive against our right flank, but on the 7th inst. was repulsed (Reuter.)
It is confirmed that the Vladivostok cruisers "Rossia" and "Gromoboi" appeared off Aomori on the 9th inst. Apparently they have not captured any Japanese coasters. (Reuter.)
The new battleship "Andrei Peroswanni" and the gunboat "Chiwinez" were launched here yesterday. The keel of the gunboat "Gilyak" has been laid. (Reuter.)
France's assurances have calmed popular feeling. (Havas.)
With a view to allaying the agitation among the peasants the Russian Government has prepared a scheme enabling them to acquire leases of Crown lands, aggregating 250,000,000 acres, on the easiest terms. (R)
The newspapers regard Mr. Ballour's declara- tions as epoch-making, showing as they do for the first time that the whole scheme of Imperial defence has been maturely weighed and de- termined upon by the Supreme Council, which is superior to party. The view that the invasion of Britain is impracticable is based on Lord Roberts's opinion that a minimum of 70,000 invaders would be requisite for the purpose. (Reuter.)
The French fleet will visit Portsmouth from the 7th to the 13th August. (Reuter.)
According to a telegram received here from Teheran on the 11th inst., Mr. MacMahon's mission has completed its labours and was leaving Persia in a few days. (Reuter.)
The German commercial mission will pro- ceed to Fez to-day in order to examine the commercial possibilities and the situation. (R.)
The Minister of Marine has introduced a Bill providing for the doubling of the Navy by 1908 and 1909. (Reuter)
Sig. Tittoni stated in the Chamber of Deputies that the annexation of Crete to Greece was impossible owing to the effect it would have in the Balkans. (Havas.)
Yi-Han-Sung, Korean charge d'affaires here, committed suicide this morning by hanging himself at the Legation. (Reuter.)
There are 300 killed and injured at Snyder and 90 at Harrisburg. (Reuter.)
Gloucestershire beat Middlesex by 9 wickets. Lancashire beat Warwickshire by 8 wickets. (Reuter.)
According to the native Press, the Government intends to erect a lunatic asylum at Aboukir.
The staff of the Public Debt Commission will leave Cairo on the 1st June to take up their summer quar- ters at Alexandria.
A ginning factory at Siwbellawon, belonging to Ibrahim Adrai & Co., has been burnt down. The loss is estimated at £5,000.
8 vessels passed through the Canal on the 10th inst., 7 being British and 1 German. The receipts for the day were frs. 207,531.65, making the total from the 1st inst. frs. 3,073.675.19.
The production of Saturnino Farandola last night was a huge spectacular success. The piece will be repeated this evening. A matinee at reduced prices will be given to-morrow afternoon.
Some misunderstanding has arisen between the mamour of the Oasis of Siwa and the natives there. The Ministry of the Interior has despatched a commission thither to enquire into the matter.
M. Tillier, head of the transit service of the Suez Canal Company, is about to retire on pension. Count de Serionne has chosen his successor from among the pilots at present employed by the company.
Owing to the fact that the banks are closed to-day the date of closing of the subscription list of the Ibrahimieh Ploughing Company has had to be postponed from the 14th to the 16th inst.
The Go- vernment has authorised Chelu Bey, director of the Government Printing Works, to proceed to Europe to enquire into the latest inventions and improvements in the art of printing with a view to ameliorating the printing depart- ment.
From January 1 to May 11, 293,292 tons of coal were imported into Egypt The Welsh districts sent 155,079 tons, Newcastle 68,434, the Scotch districts 38,670, Yorkshire 17,466, and other districts 13,643 tons. During the same period of 1904 382,891 tons were imported.
An instance of te rise in the value of real property in the neighbourhood of Cairo was exemplified lately when the owner of two feddans at Shoubra, which had been purchased twelve years ago for £400 per feddan, was recently offered £7,500 per feddan for the same property.
is waking up from its winter torpor, and already numbers of people are to be soon enjoying the cool breezes out there. We may remind our readers of the first ball of the season, which takes place on Saturday next. The following day the first Sunday concert of the season will be given at 10a.m.on the verandah.
A young native girl of Sohag, belonging to a well-known family there, was kidnapped two days ago on the eve of her marriage night together with one of her relations. It is believed that the sons of a neighbouring omdeh are concerned in the affair. The whereabouts of the girl are still unknown.
Messrs. Reid and Barnard, the well-known stock and share brokers of Alexandria and Cairo, have published a new edition of their useful Egyptian Securities Investment List The highest and lowest prices between July 1904, and March, 1905, are given, and owing to the recent great developments in the share market the fluctuations afford interesting read- ing.
The relations between Greece and Egypt have always been very close ever since the dawn of history, and the Greeks are now the one foreign nationality which may be said to be really at home in the valley of the Nile According to Mr. John Lambrides, a publicist well known in Athens, who has just published a book on his travels up the Nile, two things strike the observer, and they are the numerical superiority of the Greeks over the other foreign races in Egypt, and the deep root which they have taken in the coun try. The statistics are somewhat misleading as they only take notice of Greeks of the kingdom, while those who come from Turkey are reckoned as natives, since they belong to the Ottoman Empire. Out of over a hundred and twelve thousand foreigners the Greeks of the kingdom number no fewer than thirty eight thousand, but it all those who come from the European and Asiatic provinces of Turkey are included the total number of Greeks amounts, at a moderate computation to one hundred and fifty thousand, or several thousand more than the peoples of other foreign nationalities put together.
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Mohamed Aly-square, as well as Cherif Pasha-street, at Alexandria to-day bears a very bright aspect, nearly every inhabitant of the vicinity having responded to the request of the Municipality to assist in the scheme of decoration. The Venetian masts from which the thousands of electric bulbs are festooned are gay with the Ottoman colours, and flags are flying from every building.
A large dais has been erected opposite the sta- tue of Mohamed Aly, where the official ceromo- ny will take place at 4 p.m. to-day. Over the entrance there has been placed a large triumphal arch which will be illuminated in the evening.
The illuminations this evening promise to be of a grandiose character. The Municipality have evidently spared no expense to make the celebration worthy of the occasion, and the Gas Company's electrical department have certainly done their work well. Mohamed Aly- square to-night will be one blaze of light, and it is expected that tout Alexandrie will be there to witness the illuminations. It is to be hoped that the Alexandria police have taken effectual measures to cope with any crush. One regulation is that carriages will only be allowed to circulate in the square at a slow pace and in single file, commencing from the entrance of Cherif Pasha-street down to the Cafe d'Europe and from thence in the direction of Tewfik Pasha-street.
The Khedive is to be represented at this afternoon's ceremony at Alexandria by Prince Aziz Pasha Hassan, Prince Omar Bey Tous- soum, and Prince Mohamed Bey Ibrahim.
Sir Reginald Wingate,Deputy District Grand Master of Egypt and the Sudan, has given permission to every individual Mason toattend to-morrow's meeting to commemorate the centenary at the Pyramids Masonic Hall, Alexandria, if regularly held.
Prince Ibrahim Pasha Halim will represent the Khedive at the centenary celebration at Cairo to-day.
The Cairo Fete Committee has purchased 1,500 okes of bread and will distribute it to- morrow to the poor undergraduates of Al Azbar University.
It is stated that the exact date on which the centenary should fall is the 18th June, as according to the historian, El Gabbarti, it was on that day a hundred years ago that the firman, appointing Mohamed Aly Viceroy of Egypt, was signed at Constantinople.
The subscriptions for the fetes at Cairo amounted yesterday to L.E. 1,404.
The ceremony of the return of the Mahmal took place at 9 o'clock this morning at the Citadel, Cairo. H. H. the Khedive was re- presented by Mustapha Pasha Fehmy, the Prime Minister, and all the other Ministers were in attendance.
The line of route of the procession and the large open spaces at the foot of the Citadel were thronged by even larger crowds than on the occasion of former, similar cere- monies, as doubtless the encounter with the escort at El Hamra is fresh in the memory of the populace, and great excitement prevailed.
On the arrival of the Prime Minister at a quarter to nine, a salute of 21 guns was fired and this was repeated when the Mahmal arrived at 9 o'clock headed by the Emir el- Hag.
The Emir el-Hag, Mahmoud Pasha Housni had a private interview with Mustapha Pasha Fehmy, President of the Council of Minister yesterday in order to explain to the Prime Minister the exact details of the El Hamra combat.
The following, is a resume of the answer received in April by the Alexandria General Produce Association:—
Sowing has taken place as usual during March and April Although the generally cool temperature and rather frequent showers were not very propitious to the cultures, the young plants are showing a healthy appearance. Some backwardness, however, may be remarked.
Resowing has been trifling in many localities rather frequent in other quarters, but always partial only. In the average, it was not more important than other years, and materially less than last season.
The acreage is considered to be almost the same as last season, showing only a slight increase of newly cultivated lands. Mitafifi continues to occupy the largest proportion whereas Abbassi and Joannovich have been slightly reduced this season.
With the exception of some districts in the north of Behera and Gharbieh, the water has been sufficient. With the amelioration and de- velopment of the irrigation system, hopes are entertained that it will remain sufficient during the summer months; although the level of the Nile is very low and application of the rotation system has already commenced.
Fayoum and Upper Egypt. In the Fayoum province cotton appears to occupy the same area as last year.
A further increase is reported from Upper Egypt, especially in the Beni-Souef and Minieh provinces.
Hitherto Upper Egypt has been slowly exclusively Ashmouny cotton, but we are in- formed that larger trials of Abbassi and some of Mitafifi will be made this year.
Cultures are in good condition, but rather backward.
The water is sufficient.
A very important Anglo-Egyptian flotation is on the cards. The capital will probably be £3,000,000 and of this sum £1,500,000 has been guaranteed by some of the biggest financial houses. The board will comprise some of the leading financial names in the City of London.
In about a fortnight or three weeks' time a new English company, whose sphere of opera- tions will be in Egypt and the Sudan, will make its debut. The whole of the capital has already been subscribed.
We understand that this company; has already the refusal of business which will be enough to pay a considerable percentage on the capitalisation.
The announcement of the flotation of the Egyptian Improvements Corporation will be found on page 6 of to-day's issue and we beg to draw our readers' attention to this new company, which has a strong local board. An important detail, which should not be overlooked by the thoughtful investor, is that there are no founders' shares nor any promoter's profits. The company is being formed with a capital of £100,000, divided into 25,000 shares of £4 each, for the purpose of undertaking all property operations, and especially the purchase and sale of lands situated in the cities and suburbs, and improvement of land, building operations, loans on mortgage, etc. Several important schemes are being studied. Half the capital is now offered for public subscription at par. As already stated, there will be no Founders' or Deferred shares or Debentures. The net profit, after deducting 10 % for the board, will be wholly available for dividends. The first board consists of Messrs. Alexandre Rustovitz Bey, George Nusgovich Bey, George Royle, Charles J. Nicole, Maxime Charvaut, Anthony S. Constantinidi, and Demetrius K Casdagli. The managing director will be M. Charles J. Nicole, of Messrs. Nicole and Naef, Geneva, of which firm he is one of the heads, and which he has managed since its foundation in 1881. The firm is one of the largest in that city and is engaged in property operations.
The final announcement of the above flota- tion appears today and on Monday next, 15th inst., the subscription list will be opened at the offices of Messrs. J.L. Menasce, Figlio & Co. Alexandria; as announced in our 8th page.The capital of this company is £300,000 and the profits will be allocated in the following pro- portions, according to the statutes of the company : (1) 10 per cent to the reserve; (2) the sum necessary for the distribution of a dividend of 5 per cent to the shareholders ; (3) 10 per cent to the board of directors, and (4) the balance as follows : 85 per cent to the shareholders, and 15 per cent. to the founders.
The following bankruptcy notices have been issued at Cairo in one single day, and will be dealt with on Monday next in the Commercial Chamber of the Mixed Courts. The details of the announcement given below speaks for itself and fully bear out our recent statements as to the severity of the trade crisis. The notice is as follows:
Les créanciers dans lea faillites ci-apres sont convoques pour le lundi 15 du mois courant a 9 h. du matin:
1. Mohamed Abdel Gani Mahmoud: verification et concordat
2. V. Friedmann : continuation verification des creances
3. Ibrahim Ismail: concordat preventif.
4. Hoirs feu Mohamed El Sadr: concords pteventif.
5. Raison sociale Dick et Cir: nomination syndic definitif.
6. Antoine Fotiades : continuation verifica- tion et-concordat
7. Bsarani fils: continuation verification creances.
8. A. Appel et fils: verification et concordat
9. Abdel Sayed Bichai et Erian Ibrahim verification creances.
10. Abdel Magaid Aboul Enen : concordat preventif.
The Khedive will not attend the centenary celebrations in Mohamed Aly-square this after noon.
His Highness is at Montarah to-day.
At the last meeting of the Royal Numis- matic Society of London the president of the society exhibited on behalf of Signor Dattari, of Cairo, a small selection of Roman coins mostly of the Constantine period, from a hoard of about 30,000 recently discovered in Egypt. These coins, before being cleaned, seemed not to differ in any respect from what are usually known as "third-brass" coins: but on being cleaned by means of a much dilluted bath of nitric acid, they presented all the appearance of silver coins. The blanks seem to have been silvered, or perhaps more probably tinned, before they were placed between the dies. Signor Dattari suggests that this may have been done as a precaution against forgery by coins cast in a mould in imitation of the original.
The statement of accounts for the year 1904, which has just been issued, shows that the cash balance in hand was on the 1st January, 1905, £180 12s 11d., as against £119 15s. 4d. last year; this includes, however, a special donation of £40 given by the children and heirs of the late Shalom Tuby in memory of their father. The amount subscribed by our community daring the year has been £210 7s 6d., as against £219 18s 6d. last year. The expenditure was under the following heads : Passages home, £41.7.7 ; cash, £48.1.10 ; board and lodging and' food at Sailors' Home, Rudolph Asylum, etc., £46.14.2 1/2-; hospital and funeral expen- ses, £73.6.7 ; assistance to distressed Maltese, £41.5.6 ; ad venous to persons in distress on their undertaking to repay the same, £26.2.0 ; clothing, £2.1.6 ; school fees, £19.14.0 ; sun- dries, printing, postage, stationery, £5.17.8 ; total, £204.9.10 1/2. The sum of £18 14s. Dd. was recovered from the Malta and Indian Governments and £29 2s. 5 1/2 was refunded by private individuals to whom temporary assistance had been given, making £4716s. 5 1/2d. The sum of £62 6s. 3d., which had been expended on the relief of persons not belong- ing to the Alexandria community, was also recovered from the Foreign Office. Deducting these three sums (£110 2s. 8 1/2d,)from the total expenditure leaves £194 7s. 2d. as having been spent on the relief of distressed persons belonging to our own community. This is a much smaller sum than usual. The greatest difference between this year and the average year is that the number of persons for whom it has been necessary to provide passages home has been less than usual. In 1903 the expense on this account amounted to £185 19s. 10d., as against £41 7s. 7d. in 1904. On the other hand, hos- pital expenses in 1904 have been £73 5s. 7d., as against £39 3s,8d. in 1903. Financially, the not result ol the year's work has been that the Fund has increased its cash balance somewhat, but the committee cannot hope that the amount required for passages home will remain at so low a sum as sufficed this year. It is not satisfactory to note that though the resident British community rapidly increases the total amount subscribed to the fund shows a ten- dency to decrease. As this fund takes the place of the poor rate it is hoped that all British subjects will subscribe something according to their means.
( From Our Correspondent ).
Keneh, Saturday
A terrible tragedy has occurred in this district, and has aroused considerable excitement throughout the neighbourhood owing to the deliberate character of the crime.
A man of Makhadoora village, near Keneh, desired to poison some of his cousins, and for this purpose he put a quantity of deadly poison into some compressed dates. He gave the fruit to his relations, with the result that three women, who partook of them, expired in great agony. Two men, whom the murderer also intended to dispose of by this means, escaped, although they also received the poisoned dates.
The Ellerman SS. "Athenian" sailed from Malta on Friday evening and is due here or Tuesday morning.
The Ellerman S.S. "Avon" sailed from Liverpool on Friday for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria with general cargo.
Lord and Lady Cromer are expected at Alexandria to-day,coning by way of the Mah-, moudieh Canal.
Colonel D. F. Lewis left Alexandria for Cairo this morning. He has come to Egypt in connection with an important financial undertaking.
It is with great regret that we record the death of Captain Brown, resident medical officer of the Kasr-el-Ainy Hospital, Cairo, who has succumbed to an attack by typhoid from which he had been suffering for some three weeks.
The funeral of Mme Beyerle took place at 4.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The general meeting of the brokers of the Cairo Bourse, which should have taken place yesterday after noon, was postponed to Monday, as a sign of respect for the bereaved husband.
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Teams representing the above met in a challenge match at Abbassieh. Both teams have been undergoing special training, the Inniskillings under the supervision of CpI. Tuck. They were in splendid trim, as also were the M.M.P.'s, so that a good game was in store for those who lined the ropes. The ground was in the pink of condition. About 1,700 spectators were present when the referee's whistle sounded for hostilities to commence. The following lined out in the order mentioned : M.M.P.—Goal, Sgt. Broad- hurst; backs, Cpl. Dunbar arid Cpl. Rafferty; halves, Cpl. Wingate, Cpl. Burns, and Cpl. Philips ; forwards, Cpl. Carter, Cpl. Goodman, Cpl. Hopkins (capt.), Cpl. Chandler, and Cpl. Field. N.C.O.'s Service Companies Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (Abbasaieh Contingent). —Goal, Lce-Cpl. Murray; backs, Cpl. Behan (capt) and Lce-Cpl. Supple; halves, Lce- Cpl. Dunlop, Lce-Cpl. Brennan and Lce-Cpl. Edgar; forwards, Lce-Cpl. Russell, Lce-Cpl. Davidson, .Cpl. Rafferty. CpL Carey, and Lce- Cpl. McLoughlin. Referree, Cpl. McClintock (M.M.P.)
Captain Behan won the toss and the attack on Port Arthur was commenced by Hopkins kicking off for the M.M.P. The latter pressed but Behan relieved and Russell getting pos- session raced along the wing and centred beautifully into goal, where Rafferty got the sphere at his toe and scored for the greenshirts amid cheers. On retaining the M.M.P.'s got away and Field gave Murray a hot one to save, which he did well. A corner to the M.M.P.'s proved unproductive. The horse soldiers now pressed, but Dunlop was displaying some of his old farm and his (Bob Milne) rushes were well worth watching. Still not to be denied the police broke away, and some misunderstanding between the Fusiliers' defence let the M. M. P.'s score their first goal. The M. M. P.'s still kept the pressure up and were awarded a corner. This was well cleared by Supple, the ball finding touch. Play now was of a very even nature until Russell broke away, but Davidson sent past. On the kick off the greens pressed, but Dunbar sent into touch. Touch was now the order for some time until Rafferty got away on his own, but he was robbed when in a good position. Play was now confined to midfield for a small period. The M. M. P.'s now got away in fine style, Hopkins doing some good work, but score they could not as Behan was playing the game of his life. Play now became fast, each team doing its utmost. A handball against the Fusiliers helped to put them on the defence. Carter, however, sent past. On resuming the greens pressed and Broadhurst had an anxious time of it. However he cleared in good style and Goodman receiving the sphere, made a dash towards Murray, only to find the latter well barricaded. The Fusiliers were now having the best of a good game, and Russell getting away on his own, sent a daisy into Broadhurst, who saved weakly and Carey rushing in had no trouble whatever in putting the boys in green ahead. Both teams were now playing a great game, the pace being a hot one. The excitement was at, fever heat as Carter missed by inches. The referree's whistle now announced half-time, the score standing
N. C. O.'s Service Companies Inniskillings 2 goals.
Military Mounted Police 1 goal.
SECOND HALF.
After the interval of five minutes both teams reappeared. Rafferty kicked off for the Fusiliers. The M. M. P.'s at once took up the running and Murray was called upon to handle, which he did well. Russell and Davidson were now seen to advantage, the former making some good runs, but the M. M. P.'s wore playing a steady game and retained the ball time after time off side against Russell. Some good com- bination was now shown by both sides. The centre forward of the M. M. P.'s was in good form, and many runs were made by him, but over-eagerness spoiled all chances. Behan, Supple, and Dunlop were conspicuous in re- pelling all attacks. The M. M. P.'s now woke up and Carter got on a good run and getting past Supple he passed to Hopkins, who with a splen- didly judged shot sent up the equaliser amidst great cheers. This made both teams play a lot better. A couple of hot scrimmages now took place around the Fusiliers' goal until Dunlop got possession and racing the length of the field passed to McLoughlin, who sent a magnifi- cent grounder with the custodian, who in saving conceded a corner. This was well taken by Russell, a scrimmage ensuing. Wingate, however, cleared and Hopkins getting pos- session raced down the wing at a tremen- dous pace, but this parting shot went wide (excitement was the order for some time). Both teams were playing a very fast game, The greenshirts now got a-going, Russell and Davidson being a terror to the M. M. P.'s defence. Both sides were playing the one back game, the consequences being that many players were given off side. Shortly after the referee's whistle sounded full-time, the score reading:
N.C.O's Service Companies Inniskillings 2 goals.
Military Mounted Police 2 goals.
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