Berths can be definitely engaged as if the voyage were commencing at Port Said. Plans can be seen at the Offices of the Company's Agents.
The through Steamers for Marseilles, Gibraltar, Plymouth and London are intended to leave Port Said after the arrival of the 11 a.m. train from Cairo, every Monday. A steam tender will meet the train to convey passengers to the ship.
The Brindisl Express Steamer leaves Port Said directly the Indian Malls arrive Passengers can go on board the evening before.
The express steamer usually reaches Brindisi on Wednesday afternnon, the special train starting at 8 p.m. and arriving in London at the very convienent hour of 4.56 p.m. on Friday.
The combined Sea and special train fare is 22.9.11 Port Said to London via Brindisl or vial Marseilles
Passengers having paid full fare in one direction are allowed an avatement of 25 percent on returning within 12 months.
In addition to the above regular weekly service there are sailings about twice a fortnight of 5,000 to 7,000 tons steemers to London, calling at Malta or Marseilles.
TO THE EAST.
The Mail Steamers leave Suez for Adenspo Bombay every Wednesday, and for Australia and China every alternate Wednesday. A steamer leaves for Calcutta, fortnightly, and another for Japan. Passengers can embark at Port Said.
Messrs Thos. Cook and Son (Egypt) Ltd. - Cairo.
Grosen Royle Reg - Port Said.
Mussers Hasulden and Co. - Alexandria.
F G Davidson Superintendent P and O. S. N. Company in Egypt - Suez.
REDUCED SUMMER FARES FROM MAY TO OCTOBER INCLUSIVE.
OUTWARDS to AUSTRALIA.
HOMEWARDS to NAPLES MARSEILLES, GIBRALTAR, PLYMOUTH, LONDON, TILBURY
Egyptian Government Officials allowed a rebate of 15% off the above fares.
Return tickets no longer issued, but passengers paying full fare in one direction allowed abatement of 1/3 fare back if return voyage be within 4 months of arrival, or abatement of 20 o/o if return voyage be made within 8 months of arrival.
Agents. Cairo:—Thos. Cook & Son. Alexandria : —R. J. Moss & Co.—For all information apply
Wm. STAPLEDON & Sons, PORT-SAID & PORT-TEWFIK (Suez) 31-12-904
Special Reduced Rates During Summer Season,
OUTWARDS to COLOMBO, TUTICORIN, etc., and RANGOON. Departures from Suez.
HOMEWARDS to MARSEILLES and LONDON. Departures from Port Said.
FARES from Port Said to Marseilles £12.0.0, London £17.0.0, Colombo £32.10.0, Rangoon £37.10.0.
Agents Cairo: THOS. COOK & SON. Suez & Port Said : WM. STAPLEDON & SONS,
31-12-905
FAST BRITISH PASSENGER STEAMERS
GREECE - TURKEY LINE.
Express Steamers leave Alexandria every Wednesday at 4 p.m. for PIRAEUS, SMYRNA, MITYLENE, and CONSTANTINOPLE, in connection with Orient Express train-de-luxe for Vienna, Paris, and London.
PALESTINE - SYRIA LINE.
Fast steamers leave Alexandria every Saturday at 6 p.m., and Port Said every Sunday at 6 p.m., for JAFFA (for Jerusalem), CAIFFA (for Nazareth), BEYROUT (for Damascus), TRIPOLI, ALEXANDRETTA, MESSINA, continuing in alternate weeks to LARNACA and LIMASSOL (Cyprus).
RED SEA LINE.
Steamers leave Suez fortnightly on Wednesday at 6 p.m. for JEDDAH, SUAKIN, MASSOWAH, HODBIDAH, and ADEN ; and in the intervening weeks for PORT SUDAN and SUAKIN direct. Calls will be made at TOR (for Mount Sinai) as required.
N.B.—Deck chairs provided for the use of passengers, excellent cuisine and table wine free.
Steamer plans may be seen and passages booked at the Company's Agencies at Alexandria, Cairo, Port Said, and Suez, or at THOS. COOK & SON or other Tourist Agency.
31-12-904
For LIVERPOOL calling at MALTA (Messrs. JAMES MOSS & Co. 31, James St, Liverpool, Managers.)
*Second class accommodation only, unless specially reserved.—Fares : Alexandria to Liverpool, 1st, £14 Single, £25 Return. 2nd, £9 Single, £15 Return.—To Malta, 1st, £5 Single, £9 Return, 2nd, £3 Single, £5 Return.—Return tickets available for six months.
Through freight rates on cotton, etc., to Lancashire inland towns, Boston, New York and other U.S.A. towns, obtained on application. Cargo taken by special agreement only.
Passenger Tickets also issued inclusive of Railway fare through to and from Cairo. Particulars on application to
R. J. MOSS & Co., Alexandria, Agents.
CAIRO-ALEXANDRIA TELEPHONE.--Rates as follows P.T. 5 for each 3 minutes, or fraction of 3 minutes; P.T. 10 for over 3 up to 8 minutes communication.
PUBLIC CALL-OFFICES : Cairo, Central Office, Opera Square, and New Bar; Helouan, Central Office, Maison Purvis ; Alexandria, St Mark's Buildings, Egyptian Bar, I. Castelli & Co.; Ramleh, Central Office. San Stefano Casino 30.4.906
(EGYPT) Limited.
CHEIF EGYPTIAN OFFICE: - NEAR SHEPHEARS's HOTEL.
Alexandria, Port Said, Luxor, Assouan, and Khartoum.
TOURIST AND CENTAL PASS UNDER AGENTS. BANKERS.
BAGGAGE AND FORWARDING AGENTS.
Officially appointed & Sole Agents in Cairo to the P & O.S.N. Co.
NILE STEAMER SERVICES.
TOURIST SERVICE. - The large and splendidly appointed SS. Rameses will leave Cairo on Tuesday, December 19th, for Luxor, Assuan, and Phillee.
EXPRESS SERVICE. - Steamers leave Cairo every Monday and Frieday for Luxor, Assuan and Philae. 19 days on the Nile for 22.
NEW SERVICE. - From Assiut. The first-class Tourist Steamers Amasis and Tewfik will leave Assiut every Tuesday from January 9th for Luxor, Assuan and Philae. 14 days on the Nile including excursions for 35.
Special combined rail and steamer Nile Tours at greatly reduced fares.
BI-WEEKLY SERVICE TO HALFA, KHARTOUS AND THE SUDAN.
SPECIAL STEAMERS AND DAGABEAHS FOR PRIVATE PARTIES.
REGUALAR SERVICE OF FREIGHT STEAMERS BETWEEN CAIRO & HALFA.
Cooks Interpreters in uniform are present at the principle Railway Stations and landing places in Europe to assist passengers holding their tickets.
Tours to Palestine, Syria, and Desert. Best Equipment: Lowest charges.
MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAM SHIPS.
SAILINGS FROM SUEZ, LONDON and CALCUTTA LINE.
Calling at ADEN, COLOMBO and MADRAS Outward, and MARSEILLES (GENOA and PLYMOUTH optional) Homeward.
Fortnightly Service in connection with the Co's Indian Mail Lines and monthly with the East African Mail Line between ADEN, MOMBASSA and Zanzibar.
OUTWARD.—
Queensland Line of Steamers Between London and Brisbane.
Calling at Colombo, Batavia, Cooktown, Townsville, and Rockhamptom.
The S.S. .................. will sail from Suez on about ..................
From Port-Said £2 less Homeward, and £2 more Outward. Second class, two thirds of 1st Class Fares.
Agents at PORT SAID, for the London, Calcutta and Persian Gulf Lines, Messrs. Worms & Co.
Agents at PORT SAID, for the London and Queensland Line, Messrs. Wills & Co., Limited.
Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son and the Anglo-American Hotel & Steamer Company, CAIRO & ALEXANDRIA.
For further particulars. Freight and Passage apply to G. BEYTS & Co.
Agents, Suez.
(HENDERSON BROTHERS,) LONDON, LIVERPOOL AND GLASGOW.
Booking Passengers and Cargo through to Ports in India, Europe & America
First class passengers steamers. Sailing fortnightly from Suez.
Saloon Fares: from Port-Said, to Gibraltar £9; Marseilles £9: Liverpool (all sea route) £15; London (all sea route) £ 12 London via Marseilles £15.5.0. Passengers embarking at Suez £2 more, 10 % reduction for officers of army of Occupation and Government employés. Through tickets issued to New-York (via Glasgow). Fares on application.
Agents in Cairo, Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son. Port-Said, Messrs. Cory Brothers & Co., Ltd.
For further particulars of Freight or Passage apply to G. BEYTS & Co.,
Suez.
Mail and Passenger Steamships. Regular three-weekly Service from HAMBURG, via ANTWERP & MALTA, to ALEXANDRIA and vice-versa, admitting goods from all chief German Railway Stations on direct Bill of Landing to ALEXANDRIA and all chief ports of Egypt, Syria, etc., at favourable through rates of DEUTSCHE VERKEHR (traffic).
EXPECTED AT ALEXANDRIA.
For tariff and particulars apply to ADOLPHE STROSS, Alexandria, Agent.
GERMAN EAST-AFRICAN LINE - REGULAR MAIL-SERVICE FROM PORT-SAID
OUTWARDS. To ADEN, ZANZIBAR, DURBAN, CAPETOWN and intermediate Ports.
HOMEWARDS. To NAPLES, GENOA, MARSEILLES, LISBON, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG.
Splendid accommodation for passengars of all classes.—First-class steamers, fitted with all recent improvements. stewardesses and doctor carried—Low passage rates.
For all particulars, apply to FIX & DAVID, CAIRO, Sharia Mansour Pacha
From Alexandria
Cairo Agency (Shepheard's Hotel)
Good Accommodation for Passengers.
Sailings every 10 days from Manchester and Liverpool and fortnightly from Antwerp and London to Alexandria and Syrian Coast. The dates are approximate
HOMEWARD SAILINGS: -- The S.S. SPARTAN PRINCE is now loading for
For terms of freight or passage apply to C. J. Grace & Co., Alexandria, Agents. 31-12-904
G. NUNGOYICH
are on sale at the Company's establishment by Grand Contental Hotel, Cairo, and at Walker & Meimarschi's, Alexandria.
Purveyors to H. H. the KHEDIVE.
Patronized by the Duke of Connaught and the Archduke Otto and all the High
Life of Egypt.
PURVEYORS OF THE FINEST COLONIAL
MEAT, GAME, POULTRY, BUTTER, FISH,
etc., etc.
The Company have opened a shop in the NEW MARKET, CAIRO, Nos. 39 & 40, where the goods imported by them can be inspected and purchased.
Telephone No. 1,369
CAPITAL: £10,000,000.
HEAD OFFIOE IN CONSTANTINOPLE. CHIEF AGENCIES: LONDON & PARIS.
BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL TOWNS IN TURKEY.
Agencies in Egypt : ALEXANDRIA, CAIRO, & PORT SAID.
Advances on Merchandise and Securities in current account and for fixed periods. Purchase and sale of stocks and Shares on the London and Continental exchanges, letters of credit issued, valuables received in safe custody. Drafts, cheques and telegraphic transfers issued on the principal towns of the world. Foreign exchange purchased, bills discounted, bills, invoices, annuities and dividends collected and every description of banking business transacted. 18-4-906
Weekly departure during Winter Season by the
Luxurious First Class
Tourist Steamers VICTORIA, PURITAN & MAYFLOWER.
Regular weekly
Departures to the SECOND CATARACT by the S.S. INDIANA.
THROUGH BOOKINGS
TO KHARTOUM, GONDOKORO AND THE WHITE NILE.
Steamers and Dahabeahs for
private charter. Steam Tugs and Steam Launches for hire.
FREIGHT
SERVICE BY STEAM BARGES BETWEEN CAIRO AND ALEXANDRIA.
Working in
conjunction and under special arrangement with the
"Upper Egypt Hotels
Company."
For details and illustrated programmes apply to "THE ANGLO-AMERICAN NILE
STEAMER and
HOTEL COMPANY."
OFFICES IN CAIRO: Sharia Boulac, "Grand Continental Hotel Buildings."
Regular Service from ALEXANDRIA (Passenger and Freight) to NAPLES-MARSEILLES.
The following steamers are intended to leave PORT-SAID:
FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS APPLY TO THE AGENTS OF THE
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD at Cairo, Alexandria, Port-Said and Suez.
OTTO STERZING, Agent In Cairo, Opera Square.
C. H. SCHOELLER, Agent In Alexandria, Cleopatra Lane.
Messrs. THOS. COOK & SON (Egypt) LTD., and CARL STANGENS REISEBUREAN are
anthorised to sell tickets in CAIRO and ALEXANDRIA,
Alexandria-Brindisi-Venice-Trieste.
Weekly Express Mail Service. Steamers leave Alexandria every Saturday at 4 p.m. arrive at Brindisi, Tuesday a.m. in time for express to Paris, London, Naples, Rome. Arrival Trieste Wednesday noon connecting with Vienna Express (Trieste-Ostende through carriage) and expresses to Italy and Germany.
For information apply to the Agents, Alexandria, Port Said and Suez, Thos. Cook & Son, Ld., Leon Heller, Cairo Agent, 4, Sharia Maghraby, (Telephone 192), Cairo; F. Tedeschi, Helouan.
Special passage rates granted to Egyptian Government officials, members of the Army of Occupation and their families.
Frequent Sailings from ALEXANDRIA to LIVERPOOL, also Regular Services from LIVERPOOL to ALEXANDRIA and to ALGERIA, MALTA, LEVANT, BLACK SEA, and other Mediterranean Ports.
Excellent Passenger Accommodation. Stewardess carried. Liberal table and Moderate Fares for single and return tickets.
The
CARGO taken by special agreement only. Through Freights quoted for the UNITED STATES and INLAND TOWNS in GREAT BRITAIN.
For passage or freight apply to the Agents, BARKER & Co., Alexandria.
Regular sailings from Liverpool, Glasgow, Antwerp and London to Alexandria. Frequent sailings from Alexandria to Liverpool and London. Through freight rates to Inland towns in Great Britain also to the U.S.A
Ellerman
N. E. TAMVACO Alexandria agents
Postal Service Accelerated
between Alexandria, Piraeus, Smyrna, Constantinople, and Odessa by the following recenlty built and perfectly equipped vessels:
Arrivals at Alexandria on Saturday afternoons.
Departures from Alexandria on Fridays at 10 a.m. Circular route between Alexandria, Port Said, the Syrian ports, Chio, Smyrna, Mount Athos, Dardanelles, Constantinople, and Odessa.
Arrivals at Alexandria every other Monday early in the morning.
Departures from Alexandria on Wednesdays at 4 p.m.
Crimean or Bessarabian table wines free.
By the 10.15 p.m. train between Cairo and Alexandria and vice-versa a sleeping car is attached every night. Supplement 30 P.T.
Restaurant and Sleeping Cars on Luxor trains:
A Restaurant car and a sleeping car are attached to the 8 p.m. train from Cairo every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday and to the 5.30 p.m. train from Luxor every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.
Railway and Sleeping Car tickets can be obtained any number of days ahead at the office of the International Sleeping Car Company in Cairo Station. 1st class Cairo-Luxor P.T. 200. Sleeping Car supplement P.T. 75.
CAPITAL: L. 2,500,000. RESERVE (ENVIRON) : L. 862,000.
Gouverneur: Sir ELWIN PALMER, K.C.B., K.C.M.G.
Siège Social au Caire, Succursale à Alexandria, Agence à Assiout, Assuoan, Benha, Beni-Suef, Chibin el Kom, Damanhour, Fayoum, Khartoum, Kéneh, Mansourah. Minieh, Port-Said, Suakin, Sohag, Tantah, Zagazig, Mouski (Caire) et Londres (4 et 5, King William Street).
La National Bank of Egypt reçoit des dépots à termes fixes, fait des avances et ouvre des comptes courants sur titres, valeurs et marchandises. Elle s'occupe de l'achat et de la vente d'effets sur l'Etranger, de l'escompte, ainsi que de toutes opérations de Banque. 31-12-904
Established 1836. Capital £1,000,000. Reserve Fund £650,000.
THE IMPERIAL FIRE OFFICE united with THE ALLIANCE ASSURANCE, Co., Ltd.
1, Old Broad Street, LONDON—Estabished 1806.—Total Funds exceed £10,000,000.
31-12-905. Policies issued at SUEZ by G. BEYTS & Co., Agents.
FIRE AND LIFE.
Largest Fire Office in the World.
HASELDEN & CO., Agents, Alexandria.
R. VITERBO & CO., Agents, Cairo.
PHOENIX ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
(ESTABLISHED 1782);
HASELDEN & CO., Agents, Alexandria.
THE BRITISH AERATED & MINERAL WATER MANUFACTORY.
CAIRO Exbekieh ALEXANDRIA Rue Avernoff
Soda Water, Lemonade, Ginger Ale, Ginger Beer. Tonic Water
Pomegranade, Orangeade, Pineapple, Champagne, Cider, etc., etc.
Water guaranteed by Chamberlain's Filter (Pasteur's System).
Inventor of WHISKY & SODA and BRANDY & SODA, bottled ready for use.
Depot for Prince Metternich's "Richardsquelle," the best mineral table water in the world.
Great assortment of Wines, Spirits, Liqueurs, of the finest Brands, etc
AND IF NOT SUPPLIED APPLY TO JOHN B. CAFFARI.
ALEXANDRIA & CAIRO.
LONDON, PARIS ALEXANDRIA, CAIRO MALTA, GIBRALTAR, TANTAH, AND PORT SAID.
Subscribed Capital JS1.500,000
Paid up '' £ 500,000
Reserve Fund... 500,000
The Anglo-Egyptian Bank. Limited, undertakes every description of banking business on the most favourable conditions.
Current accounts opened with commercial homes and private individuals in conformity with the custom of Bankers.
Fixed deposits for one year certain received at 8 per cent. per annum. Deposits at interest for shorter periods are also received at rates to be agreed upon.
Letters of Credit for the use of travellers are issued payable in all parts of the World.
Approved bills discounted.
Bills, documentary invoices, etc, collected.
Drafts and telegraphic transfers issued payable all over the World.
Foreign exchange bought and sold.
Advances made upon approved securities and upon cotton, cotton-seed, sugar and other merchandise.
The purchase and sale of stocks and shares on the London Stock Exchange; and on the local and Continental Bourses, undertaken.
Customers can deposit their valuables, bonds, etc., for safe custody in the Bank's fire-proof strong-rooms, and the Bank will attend to the collection of the coupons and drawn bonds so deporited as they fall due.
Mercantile credits issued.
Annuities, pensions, dividends, etc., collected.
All farther particulars and information can be obtained on application.
The officers and clerks of the Bank are pledged to secrecy as to the
transactions of customers.
Medical Invoice Forms in Various Styles
J. Margosches
Engraver & Printer
Bulac Road Cairo
de provenance directe et de toutes les meilleures marques
Nicolas G Sabbag
IMPORTATEUR GENERAL
FOURNISSIUR DE S A LE KHEDIVE et de tous les grands Clubs et Hôtels d'Egypte.
2—Rue de la Gare du Caire—2 ALEXANDRIE
Adresse Télégraphique : SABBAG Alexandrie
Téléphone No 559.
BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT TO HIS MAJESTY THE KING.
REIMS.
SOLE AGENT IN EGYPT AND SUDAN,
NICOLA G. SABBAG
ALEXANDRIA, 2, Rue de la Gare du Caire
Telephone; No. 559.
24528-15-3-905
Sole Agents for Egypt & Sudan
G. G Drossos & Co.
Late Prazzica & Drossos.
Alexandria. Cairo. Port-Said and Khartoum.
1080 31-5-905
ECCLESTONE AND KEILL ENGLISH DRAPERY.
Opposite Austrian Consulate, near the Zizinia Theatre. Catalogue on application.
THE EGYPTIAN SUPPLY STORES.
CAIRO AND ALEXANDRIA.
Exquisite and Extensive Selection of Solid Silver & Plated Articles
CUTLERY, LEATHER & ATHLETIC GOODS & GAMES.
TEA AND LUNCHEON BASKETS.
CHOICE HAVANA AND INDIAN CIGARS.
VINTAGE WINES
PROVISIONS, CONFECTIONERY AND TABLE DELICACIES,
Full South, Electric Light, opposite Esbekieh Gardens, Large Verandahs, Moderate Charges,
CHAS. BAUER, Proprietor.
The Hotel is beautifully fitted up and is in the most central part of Cairo.
Terms for pension fare at the rate of ten shillings a day. Special terms for
officers of Army of Occupation.
On the bank of the Nile. Formerly the Place of the Khedive Ismail. Transformed into a luxurious hotel.
SPLENDID PARK.
Renowned for its afternoon-teas on the West Balcony overlooking the Park. Excellent Tsigane Orchestra. Motor-car running to Shepheard's Hotel and vice-versa.
26737-31-3-906
HELOUA, near CAIRO.
Formerly the favourite Residence of H.H. the late Khedive. Perfect Sanitation.- Purest Desert air. Electric Light. Hot and cold baths attached to most rooms. House warmed by special system of Radiators, adjoining the Golf Links and Race Course, Tennis, Billiards, Garden and open air palm house, good stabbing, dark room. Excellent table. Modest charges.
Medical Resident Director: Arthur J. M. Bentley, M.D.-Town Office at Stephensori & Co., Opera Square, Cairo.
P. E. HERGEL. Maager.
26 56-31-3-903
First Class. Finest Situation of the "Wilhelmstrasse"
OPPOSITE THE PARK AND ROYAL THEATRE.
Proprietor: ADOLF NEUENDORFF.
26775-8-1
Grand Hotel, Helouan.-Finest and most luxurious Hotel near Cairo. Patronised by Royalty, Moderate charges. Special terms for residents.
Hotel des Baine.-Most comfortable hotel, opposite the Baths. Pension from P.T.40. Attached to the above hotels and specially reservesd for their clients are the Golf Links (18 holes) with English Professional. Own Golf House in the desert.
Sulphur Bath Establishment.-Sulphur water stronger than any other in Europe. Eight European Massuers and Masseueses. Every modern improvement.
LUXOR
Karnak Hotel
Luxor Hotel
ASSOUAN
Cataract Hotel
Savoy Hotel
Grand Hotel Assouan
THE MOST QUIET AND COMFORTABLE FIRST CLASS HOTEL.
Highest situation. Excellent Cuisine. Restaurant a la Carte at all time. Rechereche Lunch and DInner served on the Open Air Verandahs and beautiful gardens of the Hotel.
ATERNOON TEA.
Visitors to the Bazaars should have lunch here.
CHARGERS MODERATE.
Cigar Importers.
Largest depot of cigars in Egypt. Always in Stock the best brands of Havana such as Henry Clay, Bock, Murias, Lopez I. Alvarez Cabamas, Villar y Vihar, etc., etc.
Manilla. Hamburd, and Holland "Louis Tinchant" Cigars.
Smoking Tobacoos. Articles for smokers.
Finest Egyptian Cairo Cigarettes, own manufacture.
Stores for Retail Sales:
CAIRO: FLICK'S HAVANA HOUSE. Grand Continental Hotel Buildings.
ALEXANDRIA: OLD BOURSE STREET. St. Mark's Buildings.
ASSOUAN, near the GRAND HOTEL, ASSOUAN.
Beetham's "Larola"
Will entirely Remove all ROUGHNESS, REDNESS, HEAT, IRRITATION, &c., in a very short time. IT KEEPS THE SKIN SOFT, SMOOTH, AND WHITE at all seasons, and is DELIGHTFULLY COOLING and REFRESHING.
Agent: MAX FISCHER, CAIRO and ALEXANDRIA.
Sole Makers M. BEETHAM & SON, CHELTENHAM, ENGLAND
"TOUCHES THE SPOT"
In all cases of cuts, burns, chafes, sores, ulcers, open wounds, and similar ills of the flesh anoint with Homocea on linen or lint.
Homocea for bruises, bites, stings, swellings, sore throat, face-ache etc., gently rub and cover with Homocea on linen.
Homocea is anticeptic, soothing, and healing.
Homocea is allays inaflamitive, initature &e
Homocea is the most wonderful relief and cure for piles known
Homocea Embrocation is for rubbing of in pains of all kinds, rheumatic pains. strains, stiff joints neuralgia, etc.
Hippaces does in the kennel, stable, and farm, for all animals what Homocea does in teh Household.
Sold by Druggists and Chemists
The wholesale trade supplies by: MAX FISCHER, Cairo.
25303-52-
Soda Water, Lemonade, & Ginger Ale.
As Supplied to King and Royal Family.
Agent: - John B. Caffari.
SPORTING TAILORS & BREECHES MAKERS,
32, BROOK STREET, LONDON, W.
SHOOTING, HUNTING, and FISHING SPECIALITIES.
RACING, POLO, and MUFTI BREECHES od every Description.
Thomas & Sons' representitive, Mr. E. L. Botham, is now in Egypt for the Cairo Season and will be glad to recieve orders for either sporting clothes to be executed at their London establishment and fitted in Egypt.
Addresses: Hotel Metropole, Cairo. Hotel Abbat, Alexandria.
THOMAS & SONS, 32, BROOKSTREET, W.
Telegrams: Sportingly, London.
FRENCH NATURAL SPARKLING TABLE WATER.
BY APPOINTEMENT TO M.M. KING EDWARD VIL. Supplied to the Imperial Houses of Parllament.
BY APPOINTMENT TO M.M. THE KING. Supplies to the Imperial House of Parllament.
"THE CHAMPAGNE OF TABLE WATERS."
This Crisp, Invigorating Water, Sparkling with its Natural Gas, has had a phenonenal success in England. It has rapidly become the Predominant Water. In all First-Class Clubs, Restaurants and Hotels. Recently it has recieved the honour of a Special Warrant of Appointment to H.M. King Edward VII.
SUBSCRIPTIONS.—Alexandria, Cairo, and the Interior of Egypt (including delivery in Alexandria or postage to subscriber's address) P.T. 231½ per annum, P.T. 116 for six months, P.T. 80 for three months. To other countries in the Postal Union P.T. 273 (£2.16s.) per annum. Six months P.T. 136½ (£1.8s.), three months P.T. 92 (£0.19s.) N.B.—Subscriptions commence from the 1st or 16th of any month.
ADVERTISEMENTS.—P.T. 4 per line. Minimum charge P.T. 20. Births, Marriages, or Deaths, not exceeding three lines, P.T. 20. Every additional line P.T. 10. Notices in news column P.T. 20 per line. Contracts entered into for standing advertisements.
SUBSCRIPTIONS and ADVERTISEMENTS are due in advance. P.O. Orders and Cheques to be made payable to the Editor and Manager, Rowland Snelling, Alexandria.
London Offices : 36, New Broad-street. B.C.
THE EGYPTIAN GAZETTE can be obtained in London at our office, 36, New Broad Street, E.C., and also at Messrs. May & Williams 160, Piccadilly, W.
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An English Daily Newspaper, Established in 1880.
Editor & Manager: R. Snelling.
Price: One Piastre Tariff.
We sincerely trait that the meeting held in Berlin for the purpose of promoting an Anglo-German understanding (as reported by Reuter to-day) will be fruitful of good results. We only wish that the reasonable classes in Germany would realise that it is their naval programme which is almost entirely responsible for the feeling against that country which undoubtedly exists among us to-day. There is nothing in England of that furious hatred which raged through the Fatherland during the Boer War. Even to this day the ordinary Englishman has not recovered from the shook of surprise with which he learned how the Germans disliked and loathed us, and to what gross excesses they were allowed to proceed. That loathing has no counterpart in England, nor is it likely that it ever will have. We are too unimaginative a people even now to understand why Germany suddenly went mad over a war which was no concern of theirs, and could at the highest only affect the wildest dreams of the Pan Germanic fanatics. We harbour no feelings of aggression against Germany, as Coant von Bulow knows. He is well aware that oar Parliamentary institutions and our free demo* eratioc Government constitute an absolute barrier to the formation of offensive sohemes, and that our diplomacy is characterised by only too obvious a desire to bend before the passing storm. We have been driven much against our will to regard the sayings and doings of our neighbours with deep suspicion. And so long as the increase of the German Naval Estimates is ostentatiously directed against England, there is little chance that pacificatory speeches at mass meetings will allay our feelings of deep-rooted apprehension.
The exhaustive address delivered by Mr. Balfour at the meeting of the British Cotton Growing Association yesterday week should be of great service in concentrating public attention on the only real preventive of gambling in raw cotton. That evil accompaniment of the great Lancashire industry is consequent on two causes, operating together. The one is the continuously increasing demand of the world for the commodity, without corresponding augmentation of the Supply ; the second governing factor is the uncertainty of the amount likely to be available for the outside world out of the American crop. Only the other day, the price suddenly advanced by more than 50 per oent solely because of the growing probability that the American surplus would be considerably less than had been previously estimated. With such fluctuations in market values of constant occurrence, gambling for the rise or the fall is inevitable, and Mr. Balfour does well to discountenance any expectations of legislative remedies. Bat there is, hapily, another way of rendering the New Orleans and Chicago rings comparatively ineffective. In the case of cereals, every attempt, however heavily capitalised, to maintain an artificial level of prices has terminated in the financial collapse of its promoters ; it was impossible, they discovered, to "corner" sou roes of supply spread all over the world. And it will be equally difficult to engineer forestalling operations in raw cotton when it is produced in all of those portions of oar Empire where the soil and climate are congenial. That gigantic work is undertaken by the British Cotton-Growing Association, and the quick progress already made in West Africa and other tropical parts of Greater Britain renders it almost certain that in the course of a few years Lancashire will be much better secured from having her working population reduced to semi-starvation by Transatlantic or home gamblers.
London, Tuesday, Deo. 19. An alarming state of anarohy and destitu- tion in reported as existing at 0 iersa. The alien residents are demanding that foreign cruisers should be sent to ensure their eeoape.
All Government offices will be closed od Saturday next on the oooasion of the ceremony of the Holy Carpet.
The German training ship Charlotte (Capt. Meyer) arrived at Alexandria this morning and will remain in this harbour until the eud of the month.
The Coptio Patriarch has deolareJ in favor of the reoonstitution of the Coptio National Council, and the eleotions will take plaoe in Cairo on the 23od inst.
The heanug of the appeal lodged by the Hon. A. J. Davey against the verdiot of the Mixed Courts in the Poutrel-Davey oase will take place at the Mixed Court cf Appeal on the 37th iDSt.
The ooanoil of discipline which judged Sheikh Abou Khetwa will hold another sitting at the Ministry of Justice on Sunday, for the trial of Sheikh Mahmoud El Abshilu, the Cadi of the Kafr el Zayat Mehkemeb.
Wa ker and Meimaraohi, Limited, inform thepoblic that their nfreshment saloon in Old Bourse-street, Alexandria, will in fatnro bs open from 8 a m. to 3 a m. An excellent orchestra performs every day from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. [Advt.]
A meeting of the society will take place at the H-.hool of Medioine on Thursday, 31st in»t., at 4 80 p.m. The following papers will be read: "Note on Looal Attraction in the Nile Valley'' (Mr. J. T. Craig); "Notes on Mummies" (Dr. Elliot Smith.)
To-day being the name-day of H.I.M. the Tsar of All the Ru-sias, a religious service was he'd at the Hamziwi Church, Cairo, at which M. 8myrooff, M. Voivodsky, and M. Max'moff, with the personnel of the Russian Diplomatic Agency and Consulate/.were present.
A German named Abel Fritz, residing in the Esbekieh quarter of Cairo, committed suicide on Snnday evening by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. On enquiry before the German ooDsular authorities it proved that the uufortunate man had been suffering for some time past from an ihourable disease and evid- ently decided ia a mome nt of pain or despair to put an eud to his life and sufferings.
On Friday evening next, at 6 o'olook, the new organ in H B.M.'s Garrison Charch of St. George, Mostly ha Pasha, will be dedioated and opened. There will b3 a short service and an address by the R*v. Canon Ward, M.A., chaplain of St. Mark's. Mr. Heaton, organist of St. Mark's, has kindly promised to give a recital of snored musio. AU are cordially invited. The service will last abont 50 minntes.
The first of the usual Monday small dances took plaoe at 8hepheards' last Dight the musio being supplied by the Tzigane Band under thr direction of the celebrated "primaa" Caroli. At dinner-time several dinner parties were given in the restaurant. Among many others there we noticed : Mr. and Mrs. Johnson aDd a party, inolnding Lady and Miss Lambton ; Mrs. Nawe and Miss Nash ; Mrs. McMillan and party; Mr. and Mrs. Whitshoose snd party ; Connt Jamoiski, Sir WiUiam and Lady Fry and party ; Baron and Baroness Budden- brock, Baron voo Tottau, Mrs. and Miss Hurst and Miss Wilkea, Mr. Mrs. and.the Misses Barr, Vioom'e de St Exupdry, Mr. and Mrs. Chick, Mr. and Mme de Vilmorin, Messrs. Ewart, Neville, eta
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Prinoe Immanuel of Jerasalem, otherwise Mr. E. J. Goldreioh, says the "Daily Mail," s dissatisfied with .the present attitude of Sion'sts, and is organising an Anglo-Zionist iooiety, the first congress of which will be leld on the uninviting Sinaitio Peninsula in 1907.
After presiding over the Connoil of Miniears, H. H. the Khedive gave audience yesterday to Count Thaddens fiolesta de lotziebrodzki, Diplomatic Agent for Austria- Hungary, who presented M. von Oeliorenne, Austrian Minister tn diaponibilitf, and MM. I. Matassek and Mrorios Cattaoui. Hie Highness afterwards gave audience to Prinoe laidar and Mohamed Ali Bay Sharara, Idoudir of Fayoum. H.H. the Khedive will probably leave Cairo o-day for bis estates at Lmeilia.
H.M.S. Minerva, a twin-screw protected iruiser of the 2nd class, arrived at Alexandria rom Malta yesterday afternoon, to relieve 3.M.8. Carnarvon. The la'ter vessel intends saving for Malta to day should the state of he sea at the entranoe to the harbour permit. The Minerva is a vessel of 5,600 tons and an ndicated horse power of 8.000 N.D. (9.600 ?D) She was commissioned at Devonport or service with the Mediterranean fleet on 9th iune of last year by Captain Arthur W. Vaymootb.
This company, under the new reorganisation cherne, will s'ill have the same London board « before for the preeent. There has been some igitation in favor of moving the ohief lirectorate to Egypt, but this has been aban- , loned, and complete harmony now reigns be- tween the looal directorate in Egypt and the London board.
A very favorable deal has recently been 1 soinpleted by this company at Alexandria in i (be purchase of 65 per oeut. of the Gourbal Mtate. The estate consists of 49 feddans t )f excellent bnilding land, and a very large i profit may reasonably be expeoted to remain. , 'he company has also purchased an excellent i wilding estate in the Nasrieh quarter of i 3airo. olo«e to the Ministry of Finanoe, for irbirh it has already received an offer showing considerable profit.
Some excellent business bas, we understand, been done by the company in the neigh- i bourhood of Khartoum. A large number Df other real property negotiations are now procefding or are under consideration by the jompany, wh~.se prospects, now that the preliminary unfortunate misunderstanding has been done away with, are in every respect most encouraging.
Mr. Maok, of the London board of th;s company, left for England yesterday, after having arranged everything to the satisfaction of the Egyptian shareholders.
"Here von Strait, the Director-General of the Greek National Bank, has made a declaration," writes the Athens correspondent of the "Frank- furter Zsitung," "concerning the changes that are to be expected in the recently founded Barque d'Orient on the oreation of the Dew Deutsche Ori*ntbank. The Greek National Bank,' says Here von Streit, 'only concurred in the foundation of the Btcque d'Orient in order to pnt an end to the entire interruption of business relations with Germany that had been oaused by the State bankruptoy, and at the same time to see itself side by side with the bank of a powerful nation in Turkey.' Perfect equality in business relations was established between the two banks at the time the company was formed, but only on reoeiving the aaaursnoe that the Greek element should have the preponderance in the conduot and direction of business transactions. Difficulties arose, however, from the aotion of the Na'ionalbank fur Deutschland in seeking to infiaence the seleo- 'ion of the personnel of the governing board, and so interfering with the unity and promp- titude of its so*ion, and that in the interest of the German element — a courte of aotion which the Greek National Bank naturally opposed..."
The solution of the difficulty now proposed is that the Banque d'Orient should be left en- tirely to the management of the Athenian board, on whioh Greek preponderance should be assure!. The Binque d'O isnt would retain its branches in Smyrna, Salonika, Alexandria and Cairo, while the branches in Constantinople and Hamburg would be handed over to the National bank file Deutschland for further oession to the Deutsche Orientbank.
The Moss liner Peti sailed from Liverpoo on Saturday and is due here on the SOt in«t. with passeogers, mails, and general cargo.
The Mom liner Tabor arrived at Liverpoo yesterday morning.
London, Taeeday Deo. 19. * The failure of John Walsh's bank in Chioago, announced yesterday, oaused a great sensa- tion. The timely assistanoe of the allied banks, however, has completely restored confidence. After a short but sharp panic, prices are dosing near Saturday's level. Jnited Copper broke twenty points, but rallied afterwards. AU John Walsh's enter- prises have been taken over by the allied banks.
The two days sale of work which was ' opened at Connaught House, Cairo, yesterday 1 afternoon for the benefit of the Yonng Wo- | men's Christian Association should he a great suooess, judging from the largS^umbers which J attended yesterday. The rooms had been moat tastefully deoorated and the manner in whioh the several stalls had been laid out was quite artistic.
Unfortunately, Lady Cromer wee unable to * attend, and her abaseoe was greatly felt, but drs. Bollock very kindly consented to open the sale. The oeremony commenced with a short prayer by the Very Rev Dean Butoher, ).D., who also made an excellent speech in * which, after expressing the general regret alt at the absence of Lady Cromer and the gratitude of the committee to Mrs. Bullook for filling the gap thus oaused, he gave a bort sketch of the progress of the Young fomen's Christian Association in Bgjrpt- In I* a few well-chosen words Mrs Bollock declared the sale open, and after a vote of thanks to dra. Bullook had been moved by Crookshauk '*»ha and oarried with aoolamation, the stalls c were surrounded by reedy purchasers.
The principal stalls were the English stall, consisting ohiefly of children's garments, end presided over by Mrs. Alban, Mrs. Bullook. irs. Botcher, and the Hon. Mrs. Davey ; the i lootoh stall, with woollen goods, presided over by Lady Rogers, Lady Willoooka, Mm. Graham, and Mrs. L'Eetrange Johnstone; the Irish stall, with li^en goods, presided . over by Mrs. Johnson Pasha, Mrs. Milward. and Mrs. Trevithiok ; the American stall, with 1 cakes and sweets, presided over by Mm Crookshank Pasha and Mrs. Btoct ; aed the Continental stall, presided over by Mrs. looker and Mme. Fabrioius Pasha. Besides the*e there were the Connaught House stall, eavily laden with London goods, end a ohil- . drop's stall on which toys, dolls, and books abounded, and the tee-room, when refresh ; rnenta were served at a moderate prioa, was well-patronised.
Want of space prevents os describing the various stalls and their burdens in detail, but eaoh reflected great oredit on those who were responsible for their arrangement, and what is more important, each was well patronised, and at the dose of the evening their bnrdens were considerably lighter. Should the second day prove as sncoessfal as yesterday the organising committee will be able to con- gratnlate themselves on the ample manner in which their efforts have been repaid. We should imagine, however, that snoceu, such as is their due, is already assured, for, although ' we have no idea of yesterday's takings, they must be considerable if all those who were present did their duty.
The following distinguished passengers embarked here for Mombasa yesterday morning, by the M.M. mail steamer Melbourne: Prince d'Arenberg and his son, M. Tellier, M. De Ohoisenl, and M. Ledonx. I understand they are going to inspeot the Victoria Niarza Lake, and for this purpose a speoial train ' will be placed at their disposal on arrival at Mombasa.
The Messageries Maritimes S.S. Co. have decided to open an agenoy at Caiffa from the 1st January next M. Ant Catoni, the com- pany'a present agent at 8nez, has been ap- pointed .to open the new agenoy, and he is leaving Soez on Bnnday next to take up his new post He will be replaced by M. Da La Noe, who many yean ago was also agent at Baez. M. and Mme A. Catoni were very po- pular at Soez, and all who knew them deeply regret their departure.
By kind permission of Lieut Col. C. J. i Markham and officers, the bend of bs 1st i Batt King's Royal Rifles will perform the r following programme of marie on the terrace, Grand Continental Hotel, oe Thursday after noon:—
1. Spanish MArch... La Mattchiche.......... Borel-Clerc 2. Overture........ Tancredi............... Rossini 3. Selection....... The Blue Moon.......... Rubens 4. Liedr Ohne Worte Fruhlingalied.......... Mendelssohn 5. Rusian Dance.... Pas de Patineurs....... Godfrey (Piccolo, Corpli H. Arnold). 6. Selection No. 3. Il Trovatore........... Verdi 7. Valse............ River of Years......... Liddell 8. Polka, Two-Step.. Laughing Water......... Hager Regimental March. - Khedivial Anthem. God Save the King Thomas Brown, Bundmaster.
To the Editor of the Egyptian Gazette. Sir,—I should be glad tor inserting the s following few lines in your esteemed "Egyptian c Gazette.":—
"Had not they attacked the Egyptians—the Greeks—nothing would have ooourred," aeys the much vexed for the accusation thrown on his compatriots "Egyptian Patriot" Allow me, please, to oootradiot The incident between the two Greeks, of the loweet-olaae, which had as a consequebee the wounding of the native, cannot be the sole reason of Sanday's riot for a man who has a bit of common sense. Many inch aooidents have ooourred before which Lad no snob disgraceful consequences as those of Snnday'a last. Should the natives, of low- class, not be injured by the lest (holy) speeobes of the sheikhs and the disonssion in the street of the "Hub el Diana'' (Holy War), no men sen believe thel they, who otherwise live in the harmony would raise the arms against them. If the aeoident that obliged them to fight the Enzopaans, haul not happened, they would find another reason (whichever might be) to attack, and always of conrse the Greeks, being very numerous.
The "Egyptian Patriot" seems—against his g kssnmnoe—inspired by his fanatioism, and not e by common sense and jastice, otherwise he j would not mention in his letter, that the Mixed Courts should be entitled with right to diaanse the Greek rondents—end only the Greek residents—as if be had never read the criminal lists of the different Courts—to see who ere the most accused for murders, etc.
Last Thursday evening, about nine o'olook, i ping from my office home, in company of a 1 riend of mine, we met in the Qaai Eagrnie s [the most frequented street) two Arabs who t mid lendly: "We will kill all the Nonstranis." las there been shot a native again?
The same thing has happened long before t unday, when the International Fleets were i erderod to go far the "famous demonstration." a —Yours truly,
The trial of the seoond batch of rioters at the Native Coart, which began yesterday, was . continued this morning, when a number of witnesses for the defence were heard. The trial, which presentee no feature of interest, was itill proa-ding as we went to press. It is npected th*t jsdgment will be delivered this afternoon.
A third hatch will be brought up for trial tomorrow, and the trial of the first batch of prisoners, began on Sunday, will be continned cn Saturday next.
Among the prisoners arraigned on Snnday was a man who alleges that he is a descendant if the Prophet, and who has 14 previous con- notions to his credit !
In an article under the heading of 1 "Developments in the Sudan," the City editor cf the "Standard" says: With the opening of the Sudan Railway shortly by Lord Cromer, a most important step will have been taken in the direction of developing the resonroee of the Sudanandinorsasing the commeroialimportance of Khartonm. Only a few years ago the cost and abonr of conveyanoe between Egypt and the la dan was heavy and wearisome, the Nile route having to be followed, with the alter- native of the no less arduous though some- what shorter journey by oamel from Suakin, vift Berber, while, even in recent times, the jour ey from Cairo to Khartonm has taken something like foor days, with almost daily transfers from one kind of conveyanoe to another. Now, however, the mode of transit will be comparatively rapid and simple, and some id— of the shortening of the distanoe may be gathered from the faot that after the opening of the new railway, Kh\rtonm will he within eight days' journey of London. With these improved facilities there will naturally be a groat redaction in the freight chaiges, and it is felt that a considerable and important impetus it about to be given to trade and to business with the Sudan. The whole of the country is extremely fertile, and, with that attention that the Government of the Sudan intends to devots to irrigation, the prospects ahead appear te be meet promising, and al- ready have had a considerable influence upon the value of land round about Khartonm, prices of bnilding sit— in the city within the past six months having risen anything between 100 and 500 par cent 1 n view of the recant over specula- tion in Egyptian land, it may be hoped that future prospects in t ha Sudan will not be too promptly disconntod by excessive speculation ; bnt, at the same time, it would be unwise to leave out of sight the great commsroial possibi- lities of the country, which is shortly to be more closely linked with the gnat commercial oentres byAbi opening of the new railway.
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The following are some extracts from the speech of Sheikh Cherif at the distribntion of grants-in-eid on Snnday last
Gentlemen,—Yon are aware that the ques- tion of the improvement of the exi-ting knttabs and the oreation of new institutions of this class has long ooonpied the minds and formed the snbjeot of the discussions of Egyptians, This is explained by the fact that the knttabe are the only means for the propagation of elementary ednoation in Egypt, and the ne- oessary base for all superior education and instruction, which are indispensable for the improvement of the nation and its assured prosperity. The Government, being preooon- pied with the interest of the country, is taking aotive steps for the improvement of these schools. The inhabitants of the conntry have been quiok to understand the objeot of the State's endeavours, and a general movement is on foot to seoond them. Egyptians realise the absolute neoeseity for the propagation of instruction and ednoation in an epooh in which it has beoome impossible for men to remain in ignoranoe and darkness.
The Ministry of Public Instruction, repre- Mating the Government in all that conoerns education, has considered it beat to pursue its endeavours toward this end in a regular and gradoal manner to aeonre good results, and has resolved so to continue them, what- ever obstacles it may enoonnter. The Wakf knttabs, which are not numerous, have assnred resources, and oannot be abolished, are the first that have teen taken in hand. After nomerons difficulties a satisfactory resalt has been arrived at in the oaee of these schools, and the Ministry has tin— tamed its atten- tion to the free knttabs. In spite of obstaalee it has been able to attract more than half ef these institutions which have submitted to be inspected by the Ministry, obtaining a money grant paid yearly to the most de- serving.
Since the application of throe measures, i.e., siuoi 1898, certain important measures have been taken of which the following are the chief:— '
1. The yearly increase of the Bndget for the knttabs. 2. The inorease of the number of inspeotors and snb-inspeotors, of whom there are now 81. 3. The inorease in the unmber of the hours in the normal onnionlnm of the Government schools and knttabs eaoh Thursday and Friday to complete the training of.the knttab teachers. 4. The foundation of normal schools for male and female teachers in the knttabs. In two years three schools of this sort have been founded, which now train 18 i male and 40 female students. ' * 5. The institution of annual examinations bo test the professional capabilities of fikis and arils. 6. —The elaboration of programmes, regula- tions, and roles for the organisation and discipline of the knttabs and the normal sohools......... Despite the short time that has elapsed since the adoption of these measures, their application under the control of the Ministry has given, notably this year, remarkable results, as the following facts indicate :—
(1).—The unmber, which increases very year, of knttab wakia and free knttabs that plaoe themselves under the control of the Ministry. The former unmber 109, with 194 male and 17 female teaohers, the latter 4,859, with 6,395 mala teaohers and 33 school mistresses.
(2).—The development of the training of teaohers for the knttabs, which has made speoial progress siooe the institution of teaching conrses and the foundation of normal sohools. To this development the excellent results of the examination of fikis and arifii last August are das............................ The most satisfactory feature is this, that the majority of those who passed the examine- tions have obtained plaoaa as teaohers. Some, having clearly understood the objeot of thair training at the sohools where they were pre- pared for the examination, preferred to open knttabs themselves rather than aoospt the offer them of employment in existing knttabs.
(3). The knttabs under the control of the Mioiatry have made real progress in manage- ment,raligioaa instruction,and in instr otion in other matters, as is proved by(a)the inorease of papila, especially of girls, in the— knttabs. ... (b) by the yearly inowase in (be numbers ot kattafas that deserve e subvention. There are at proa—t 517 first-class knttabe in receipt of grants amounting to LB. 5,098.430 milL and 2,148 of the seoond olaas reoeiving grants amounting to LB. 8,185.800 mill....(c) The unmber of advanoed pupils increases every year in tiro— knttabs, — will be shown by statistics shortly, to be published. I hast— to say here that the teaohing of the Kona and of religions prinoip'oa is the objeot of porti- on]— can on the past of the Ministry. The statistics of knttab pnpils learning the Koran by heart give figures..which show that the arrangements of the Ministry are favorable to the learning of the Koran.
With the aid of the Ministry of Finance the , Ministry of Public Instruction
attempted an important reform which is intimately connected with the
improvement of the knttabe. This reform consisted of giving elementary in-
dustrial training to certain pupils of the kuttabe with a view to develop
the test for professional occupations and to make the people understand that
the instruction given in the kuttabe is indispensable for the young
While the Ministry worked to obtain these excellent results it attempted to improve theB knttabs themselves, which were in an in- desoribable state of dilapidation. Bat in view of its moderate resoaroes all that could be done under this head was the minimum of repair necessary to preserve the buildings. The real need was their reoonstrnotion, which demanded earns which the Ministry was never likely to dispose of. Thns the que-tion of im- proving the sohoolhonses appeared to pres—t an inanrmoantable obstacle, when, at ri»« most critical point, by a providential chanoe, the Wakfs Administration, happily inspired by the goodwill of its direotor, H. E. Abd el Hamil Pasha Assam, came to the aid of the Ministry by m«king an annnal inorease of L B 6,000 in its budget for the improvement of these knttabs and particularly of the kuttab buildings. The Ministry has set apart this year the sum of LE. 5,000 lor the construction of six new knttabs, three in Oairo and three in the provinces, and for the repair of 11 knttabs in Cairo. It will be in a position to reconstruct gradually every knttab which requires repair.... At the same time the public, which clearly realised the objeot of this improvement of the kuttabe and has grasped the neoeseity of the combination of all classes in developing instruction, has set to work in every part of Egypt.
Everywhere buildings suitable for kuttabs are being constructed, some by individuals, some by subscription, especially since the Government has decided to give free grants of land for the construction of kuttabs. Up to date 758 suitable buildings have been con- structed and 187 others are in course of construction. Local committees have been formed for the improvement and extension of ednoation and have oolleoted considerable sums for the purpose.
The best method of insuring tint these buildings shall always be nsed at kattafas, Le., at soholastio establishments where teaching is given exclusively in Arabic and includes the Koran, religions instruction, caligraphy, ele- mentary arithmetic, etc, is to make buildings wakfs, and qua wakfs, to endow them with property sufficient to ensure their main- tenance continuance in perpetuity. Let us hope that the notables of the country will grasp the advantages of this course and hasten to adopt it By so doing they will give proofs of their foresight and of their zeal in sustaining the dearest interests of the nation.
Lady Prioe-Fotbergill if leaving England shortly for Egypt, —d early in the
New Year the will join her consin,
Surgeon-General Sibthorpe, who has gone up the Nile, is — old Indian Medioal Service officer, which service be entered in 1870. He served in Afghanistan from 1887 to 1889 and received the medal with olasps —d also did good work in Burma (1885-86).
The Right Hon. E lmnnd Robertson, LLD., K.C., D.L, who has] represented Dundee in Parliament in the interests of the Liberal party since 1885, is staying at the Grand Hotel, Helonan. Dr. Robertson was Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1893 to 1895. He is a keen politician and hat written,several articles and pamphlets, inolnding a very interesting publication on American Home Role.
The Rev. E. J. Hardy, Senior Chaplain to the Forces, is living at the Hdtel d'Angletene, Cairo. Mr. Hardy's latest book "John Chinaman at Home" has be— bo well received that, although it was only published about a month ago, a seoond edition has already been called for, and is now in preparation.
Ahmed Fai'k Pashs, ex-Moudir ofQbsrbieh, has won hie oase against the Govemfltont in whioh he claimed the right to a fall pension on his retirement.
Among the many residents who have already booked rooms at Mona House Hotel for 'Xmas are : Major and Mrs. Delavoye, Miaa Molones, Mr. P.W. Jones and party, Mr. John Bell and party, and Mr. Boys.
The following were the passengers by the P. S. Cleopatra, which left Cairo yesterday for the Nile:—Mr. and Mrs. H.A. Thorndike Mr. and Mme. Ph. le Viemorin, Capit de Saint Exapery, M. Jacques de Dorlan, M.de Terbecq, M. F. Lofebvre, Mrs. F. Jacobi, Miss R. Jacobi, M. and Miss le Breton, Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Houghton.
By kind permission of Lt. Col C.J. Mark ham and officers the Band of the 1st Batt. King's Royal Rifles will perform the following programme of music at the race meeting to- morrow :-
1. March......... Roumaine.................... Ganne 2. Overture....... Poet and Peasant............ Suppé 3. Valse.......... Donau Wellen. ............ Ivanovioi 4. Selection...... The Catch of the Season..... Hainee 5. Pairol......... The Rose, Shamrock and Thistle. Sousaj 6. A Selection of Hunting Songs. 7. Piccolo Solo. The Laks'Festival.............. Brewer (Soloist, Opl. H. Arnold). 8. Characteristic American Indian March, Navaho Alstyne Regimental March.- Khedivial Anthem. God Save the King
The Tsar has sanctioned a stringent penal ordinance for the prevention of railway and telegraph strikes. At the same time the pay of telegraphists and a section of railwaymen has been increased. The telegraph strike is collapsing, except in the Baltic provinces, which remain in a state of chaos.
An official communique dwells on the activity of the extreme revolutionary parties and adds that in the struggle with them the Government still relies on existing laws and ordinances, but if these fail, absolutely exceptional measures will become necessary. (ft.)
The Rostoff Regiment has submitted. The ringleaders have been arrested. (Reuter)
The workmen's delegates were arrested on account of a manifesto ordering the people to refuse to pay taxes and other dues, declaring that no debts contracted by the Government since it began warring against the nation should be recognised. Eight newspapers have been suppressed for publishing this manifesto.
Telegraphic communication with Russia has been re-established in all directions. (Havas)
The negotiations between China and Japan on the subject of Manchuria are at a deadlock, as China refuses all concessions. (Reuter)
Rioting has taken place here. The German Consul was struck by a stone, and the American vice-consul was wounded, as well as several Europeans. The warships are disembarking men, and the volunteers are being called out.
Later.
The police aided by tailors and volunteers have repressed the riot. A police station was burnt. A score of Chinese rioters were killed. It is believed that no European has been killed although there are several wounded.
The streets are empty with the exception of patrols, which are everywhere to be seen. ( R )
Two thousand merchants, financiers and deputies have attended a meeting to promote an Anglo-German understanding. (Reuter)
The Ministry has resigned. M. Theotokos baabean summoned to the Palace.
The Ministry has resigned. The Chamber voted its confidence, but rejected the commercial "modus vivendi" concluded with Spain. It is probable that Signor Fortis will reconstruct the Cabinet. (Reuter)
It is possible that the Morocco Conference will meet at Madrid instead of Algesias. (H.)
The nomination of Mr. Charles Robert Spencer as Lord Chamberlain is confirmed.
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Whatever else the modern Egyptian may have to complain about, he cannot well say that the opportunity asked for in the above quotation has been denied to him ; in recent times there has certainly been no lack of books written for his edification. There must be something peculiar in the North African climate, which makes it so difficult for a person to travel from the coast to the cataracts without succumbing to the apparently irresistible attraction of rushing into print.
A rather remarkable writer, not many years ago, published an essay on "The decay of the gentle art of lying," and to this deoay he attributes the dull monotony of most modern literature. The older books of travel in Egypt were free from this reproach ; we have lately read one dated 1785 which is well out of range, and many of the much earlier produo tions may be said to "combine the eloquence of Demosthenes with the inaccuracy of state* ment of Annanias," though they were occasionally lacking in the first element. It sometimes makes ns shudder to see how some modern writers will bald up an airy fabric based on the slender foundation of some old traveller, and then expect us to believe that such things were so.
To those of our readers whose bookshelves may be over-full of the class of literature we have just referred to, we still recommend that a place should be found for the book now under review, for it is a remarkable work, although its author is so modest that we only know that it is translated from the Italian into exceedingly good English, by another equally unknown person. He takes for his preface a well-known quotation from Lord Milner's "England in Egypt," and on this text be preaches us, in his earlier pages, an exceedingly good sermon. From the introductory chapter we quote
"He who would really look into the annals of Egypt during the century which has just closed, and would seriously endeavour to give a clear, fair and accurate idea of their meaning must keep a cool head. If he dips into the mass of literature, or tries to master a tithe of the innumerable books and pamphlets, in which the latter-day history of Egypt has been distorted or caricatured, he will see that he must struggle hard to avoid being carried off his feet by the tide of wilful or unintentional prejudice. From the very outset the fair-minded observer must endeavour to place himself at the right standpoint. This is evidently not any easy matter for him to do. Most of the literature which is his rough material, consists in journalistic attempts to blow either the French, English or native trumpet, regardless of truth or falsehood. Of such books there has been enough, and more than enough. These passionate partisan outpourings achieve little ; they advance the interests of none, and least of all those which they profess to champion."........
"It is the peculiar task of any one investigating Egyptian affairs, that he must take into consideration not only a complex native civilisation, as far as that exists,but at the same time seek to understand that heterogeneous concourse of strangers from every clime, which has congregated about the banks of the Nile ; and moreover, he must take into account the considerable interests in Egypt of Turkey, France, and England, of Germany and Italy, of Austria and Belgium, and in a lesser degree of other European nations."
"The student viewing Egyptian history of the nineteenth century is confronted with almost insuperable difficulties. His authorities are, as often as not, in violent contradiction. But that is far from being the worst. Much more misleading, much less easy of refutation, are the half-truths of which these chroniclers are so fond. It needs unusual powers of insight and a rare faculty for weighing testimony and balancing probabilities, to unravel the tangled skein. If gifted with a capacity for separating the grain from the chaff, of discriminating between fact and fiction, and endowed with a penetrative instinct enabling him to discern what is certainly right, the historian may be successful in forging for himself a chain of irrefutable trustworthy evidence. It is thus, and thus only, that he oan thread his way securely in any attempt to foreoast the future___________When we attempt, as we shall attempt in the present work, to foreshadow, anticipate or suggest the probable future of Egyptian affairs, or what we consider the future of Egypt should be, we shall find that our balancing rod needs to be very evenly, very justly poised, our feet must be planted warily, and our eyes most be undeviatingly fixed upon the true necessities national as well as international—of Egypt."
Our readers will see from the above, that our author has not approached his task in any light spirit; he fully appreciates his difficulties, and like an ancient knight, has armed himself cap a-pie ; he does not plunge suddenly into the middle of things, but lays siege to them from afar, as we may judge from the following lines :—
"It is but natural that We should begin with a cursory appraisement of French influence in Egypt. The part played by that country extends farther back than that of other European powers, and a rapid review of its importance since 1798 presents no considerable difficulty," etc.
'The Egyptian civilisation of to-day is French almost to the backbone."
"The reforms introduced by Mohamed Aly and his dynasty were carried out, if not exclusively , at least for the most part,by Frenchmen....... The irrigation Schemes to which Egypt owes half of its present-day prosperity were inaugurated by the French. The whole idea of Nile barrages and dams is French; and,
albeit finally carried out by British enterprise, the attempts which paved the way to these broader designs, and which were in themselves anything but contemptible, were French in their inception."
We are not quite of this opinion and there might be a good deal to say about this, for the modern system of irrigation and dame carried out by British engineers have very little to do with the schemes projected and partly carried out previous to 1884 ; had this not been so the present state of Egypt would not have been attained. Although this is an important subject we do not wish to divert our readers' attention by developing it at present, we merely note it as a rather weak point in our author's armour.
He goes on to say : "The educational system is thoroughly French; and through the schools, the language of France has spread until it may be said without fear of contradiction that French is still the predominant European language of that land of innumerable tongues. French is the tongue generally affected by the upper classes, and perhaps a striking and not generally known illustration of how French has sunk into the very soul of the country, is that it is even used by British officials in their official reports—yet another anomaly in this home of anomalies."
This is another point we do not wish to discuss at present, but Would merely remark that the book we are reviewing is dated 1905 ; that for a long time past we have heard of some 50 British professors or teachers at Egyptian Government schools, and we are under the impression that they were not brought out to this country to teach French only. It looks as though our another were again a little off his guard.
"We see what the influence of France has been ;—we need not trace the changeful phases of French policy in Egypt, or discuss the alternating attitude adopted by successive French ministers. It is at present immaterial to us whether the conduct of de Freycinet was inopportune, dilatory, or precipitate, and it will be more to the point to treat French policy towards Egypt together with our appreciation of British policy, to which w now proceed."
"If it were possible to read the story of 'British aggression' in Egypt as it has been penned by writers whose implacable hostility to England has rendered them blind to their own absurdity-; if it were possible to read the story without at once being provoked to uncontrollable mirth by the bread humour of its incongruities; if it were possible for a brief space to become oblivious of all well-established facts, to make our minds a blank, and to read these writers in all seriousness ; there are probably few who would rise from the perusal without a painful conviction that the iniquities of the human race are beyond all hope. They would besides discover by this assumption, that within the brief period of little more than a oentary, one little plot of island earth should have produced a succession of ministers whose diabolic schemes would have raised a blush of shame on the cheeks of a Machiavelli, or perhaps have caused him a pang of envy that his principles, which until then had been held to be the most unprincipled ever yet advanced, should have been out-distanced by a series of not very remarkable English statesman."
"Supposing the reader had thus far missed the humour of the tale, he would ba set still farther wondering when he came to observe that these self-same statesmen had not overstepped the customary limits of diplomatic guile in their manifold dealings with the rest of the world. AU their diabolical cunning had been visited upon poor Egypt. At this point, probably the most credulous of readers would begin to see that he was being mystified . It is our duty to point out that there is no justification whatever for the statement that England has carried oat a long-meditated Machiavellian policy with regard to Egypt. We shall show that England has not taken more advantage of the weak position of Egypt than any other country has taken of its weaker neighbours, and that whether England's interference in Egypt has been beneficial to that country or not—a point on which we shall at a later stage enlarge — that interference has been justifiable, and, indeed, for England a matter of imperial life or death. AU that we would point out is that, from that moment (i.e. when England took India)Egypt was inevitably destined to figure as an important factor in British policy."
"We have not to justify the English footing in India, but once that footing established; England could not contemplate with equanimity the presence of a powerful enemy, or Even a potential adversary, astride the closest line of communication with India...... A strong hand in Egypt which was not her own she could not tolerate."
'It is the consistency of British foreign policy which has been misinterpreted as Machiavellianism ; because England has often been able to play a waiting game, she has often been credited with a subtlety, to which in reality she has no claim."
"Neither Germany nor France can venture to despatch a couple of hundred thousand men or even a far less number, over seas,. without perilously impairing its internal equilibrium. The French expedition to Mexico can without exaggeration be set down as-paid for at the price of Metz and Sedan."
" By a series of political moves (some costing blood, some much diplomatic effort) land has thus far succeeded in scaring away all her dangerous rivals from settling down on the Isthmus of Suez. Was she now, after ridding herself of the first Napoleon and disposing of Mohamed Ali, to allow another powerful monarch to take their place ! The whole labour of seventy years would have been utterly wasted."
"We need in conclusion to touch but lightly on the last question—the events of
1882. England has been wildly accused of having in her own interests and for her own ends fomented the revolt of Arabi Pasha.
Prima facie, the whole idea of England having fomented She Arabi affair is highly improbable; and it remains for the accusers to adduce more cogent evidence than has yet been forthcoming before the matter can be regarded in a serious light, We must remember that Seymour's action before Alexandria took place upon the direct invitation and with the explicit consent of France, and that up to that date England never acted without the concurrence of France. "
" It will be very evident that England his' not interpreted her role in any selfish manner, and that the period of British occupation has been one of continually increasing material prosperity. When England first set foot in Egypt, she found the finances in a state of absolute confusion. To-day the finances of Egypt are in as sound a condition as those of any European state."
The author concludes his brilliant introduction by an able financial statement into which we will not follow him ; the question, though very interesting, is not the one which engages our attention for the moment; under the present regime the finances of Egypt can be trusted to take o=care of themselves.
( To be continued. )
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ARCHITECTURE AND ALEXANDRIA.
HOW TO BEAUTIFY THE CITY.
BY R. WILLIAMS, F.R.I.B.A.
The new Technical and Art Schools now being established in Alexandria and elsewhere will train a new race of native young men, whose energies will need to be directed into useful and artistic channels. And what work could be better for these young men than the turning of Egypt's wealth of material into the service of man ?
Question of Style.
Now as to the question of style. Consideration of space precludes disquisitions as to architectural styles generally, But briefly, architectural modes or styles can be reduced to two broad definitions, and these can best be described by adjectives well understood by chemists, namely, organic and inorganic: and again, broadly, all architecture exhibits in greater or lesser degree a combination of organic and inorganic forms.
Thus the ancient architecture of Egypt is mainly inorganic, that is to say, it is composed of upright posts or columns and horizontal beams. There is no organic growth in the structure, it stands by weight of substance alone. The wails, however, which usually surround the Egyptian columnar structures are partly organic and are built up or are made to grow piece by piece, but here again strength depends upon sheer weight.
But the ancient Egyptians were forced into the adoption of an organic form of architecture when they constructed in brick. In the arched construction of the most interesting series of granaries which were lately brought to view at Thebes,, and which I inspected and took sketches and measurement of some months ago, there is exhibited an interesting method of organic construction, and of which I may have something to say later on.
The Greeks, following the Egyptians, perfected the inorganic form of architecture. So beautiful did their master artists make the column and its beam or lintel, that they no longer confined the column to the interior of the building. They were too beautiful to be hidden, so they reversed the Egyptian order. They built the wall inside around the cell, or naos, and surrounded it with rows of columns or what has been called by a great artist, perhaps irreverently, "a holy railing." This was inorganic architecture in its perfection.
"Organic" Architecture.
After the Greeks the Romans. To the Romans is due a fine conception of organic architecture. The Greeks even as the Egyptians before them had used the arch, but the Romans perfected arched or organic construction even as the Greeks perfected the columnar or inorganic construction.
The Romans were masters of organic construction, but of the ornamentation of construction they were not. The Greek ornamented their inorganic construction and so made it architecture. On the other hand the Romans failed to ornament their construction, mark this, their construction, so they conceived the Idea of using Greek inorganic architecture, incongruous as it may stem, as ornamentation to their own superior organic construction.
After the Romans, for a while, chaos. The world lay fallow. Bat never could Egyptian, Greek and Roman influence utterly fail. A new art arose called in these days, variously, Romanesque, Byzantine, Saracenic, and Gothic. In these styles organic construction, in the main, prevailed. The 13th and 14th centurie witnessed the perfection of the Gothic styles. Artistically architecture had reached a point nearer perfection than it had hitherto. A catastrophe, however, was at hand.
A Renaissance.
The renaissance of literature came in. The only book on architecture discovered about the time of the sack of Constantinople was that of Vitruvius, a Roman architect of the latter Roman days, and had he confined his discourse to walling and mortar all would have been well. But in time the schoolmen got hold of the book and began to flood, by the aid of the newly invented printing press, all Europe with disquisitions on architecture, albeit the falsely ornamented architecture of the Romans. Nothing but Roman work came within the designation of architecture, as for various reasons, known to history, Greek architecture was not renaissance until three hundred years later.
Notre-Dame in Paris, Westminster Abbey in London, and the mosque of Sultan Hassan in Cairo were without the pale of architecture, they were not "scholarly," so the schoolmen invented the adjective Gothic as a term of opprobrium to describe these and other artistic works of one of the finest architectural periods the world has ever seen.
Accordingly, in the fifteenth century a school of architects arose in Italy. Great among these were Vignola and Palladio. The first influenced the French architecture of the renaissance and the second become the re naissanoe get of England. These men studied the old buildings of Rome. The Coliseum was measured and drawn, books were published and the rich "patrons" of art employed these artists and their followers to reproduce the false art of Rome after the lapse of nearly a thou sand years.
It was not until the beginning of the nineteenth century that the Greek
renaissance came in and since that day there have been revivals of Gothic
architecture and re-revivals
A Bad Example.
Now Palladio, great artist in a false style though he was, was yet an architect in stucco. I have seen much of his crumbling stuooo works in his native town of Vicenza, where his fellow-citizens of a later day have erected a statue to his memory, for, in his manner, he had carried out some fine works in Venice, Vicenza, and elsewhere. Unfortunately, apart, from the falsity of his art, he has given the world, and especially Alexandria, a warranty for works m poor materials and stucco.
But what of it ? What do you suggest as to style ? I am not going to suggest a style, the artist must be his own master in matters of form and ornament. Later on in a lecture I may be able to avail myself of illustrations which may help us. Meanwhile a few broad principles may perhaps, be aimed at In designing we should never be afraid of a blank wall. A plain wall well built is better than a wall meretriciously ornamented. In their treatment of walls the ancient Egyptians were great masters. They were at no pains to apply ornament to their walls, but with their beautiful hieroglyphs and pictorial scenes they made the wails themselves ornamental.
An opening as for a window or a doorway should have the stones of its jambs, or tides, and of its arch, or lintel, lrankiy acknowledged and ornamented organically, i.e., each stone should have the ornament oat in itself and it should be made apparent that it is a part of the wall. The ornament should not be applied or planted on, nor should this appear to be the case.
A column should never be used as mere Ornament. Even Pompey's Pillar would have lto "raison d'etre" more apparent if it carried a statue. The function of a column is the bearing up of a load, and this should always be in evidence. The material of which a build-ding is constructed should be frankly acknowledged wherever possible.
The foregoing principles were developed by the Byzantiue, Saracenic,, and Gothic architects. Nevertheless bold imitation of the works ot these artists is not desirable. The great mistake of imitation was made by the Renais-sauoe men and later by the Gothic revivalists. The style must and will be an exponent of the artistic temperament and morality, good, bad or indifferent, of the people of the day.
What is wanted is bold, frank design in good material which shall he at oboe serviceable to the requirements of the day and be the exponent of the awakening of a new life, moulded by a robust and healthy conception of art.
The New Esplanade.
There is an opportunity for art in the vacant land of the new municipal esplanade. The coast line of Alexandria is low. Buildings of good height will in part remedy this. A municipal hall and offices (Hotel de Vide), with a fins tower, would be a welcome feature. A library worthy of the old seat of learning might well find a place there. A municipal theatre might be erected, and a great arcade designed as a flowery shade with fountains playing in sam-mor and a pleasant promenade in winter, might be conceived. Added to these there might be municipal baths and wash-houses and suitable Rooses for the clubs of Alexandria.
An interesting picture can be imagined of the facades facing the sea. Polished red and grey granite would flash their myriad scintilla tions in the sun. These in tarn would be toned and modified by mouldings and filling in of brown sandstone and pale limestone. Here and there would be spaces for the statues of notables of bygone days, and these in turn would be pleasantly interspersed with parterres of flowers, seats, walks, and playing fountains, and if you pat into the foreground of your picture the colour and the grace of the native dress and the "modes" of the Europeans, yon have a picture of life hardly to be surpassed.
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A FORGOTTEN STAR.
The pathetic end of FeChter, whom he much resembled in manner and style, is suggested by the death of Herr Bandmann, the Prussian actor, and father of Mr. Maurice E. Bandmann, who at the age of sixty-five has just died from heart failure upon his ranch at Missoula, Montana. Fechter, like Bandmann, had a meteoric career in England, and it is said that the memory of his successes at the Princess's and the Lyceum tortured him as the recollection of Holyrood and Culloden tortured Charles Edward in his declining years. Herr Bandmann was in many respects a remarkable man. He was born at Cassel, Germany, and entered the dramatic profession at the age of eighteen, making his debut at the Court Theatre of New Strelitz. From thence he migrated to other towns in the kingdom, and subsequently pro* oeeding to the United States, he created a very good impression by his performance of Shy-look, a character to which he had given dill gent study in order that he might render it in English. After five years' work in America Herr Bandmann played an engagement at San Francisco, where his "Hamlet" enjoyed a run of a month, and finally in February, 1868, he made his first appearance on the English stage in a play called "Naroisae," founded on "Le Neveu de Rameau,'' of Diderot, and containing almost the same story as was afterwards produced at the Haymarket under the title of "The Pompadour." In the character of Nar-oisse Herr Bandmann made a considerable impression, and was credited with picturesque and pathetic powers, while his mastery of the English tongue was far more pronounced than that of Fechter. Six months later HerrBandmann undertook the character of Vy vyan in the late Lord Lytton's play, "The Rightful Heir." The play was not a success. With pie* ty of resolution Herr Bandmann proceed* ed to take up a whole round of Shakespearian characters—Othello, Petruchio, Richard, and others— and after a sojourn in the Australian Colonies and a tour in the United States he returned to England in 1871, and appeared at the now Abolished Queen's Theatre in a play by the late Tom Taylor, called "Dead or Alive, following this op, at the Princess's, with Hamlet," which was first rendered at the National Standard Theatre in Bishops gate. The actor, however,1 found his principal subse qaent occupation in the provinces. Thedeoeassd married a clever lady—Miss Mill; Palmer, now known as Mrs. landmann-Palmbr. For several years she p ayed "lead" with hi husband in his repertoire, and she is one of the few artists who have appeared both as Hamlet and as Ophelia.
The Faris correspondent of the "Times" says that with regard to Prince Bulow's) reference to possible new disagreements among the powers, a careful survey of the diplomatic situation suggests that the Chancellor probably alludes to Abyssinia. Germany has appointed, or intends to appoint, a representative'the re. Negotiations have for some time! been going on between England, France, and? Italy on questions of common concern, which as a matter of fact, had economic rather than political objects in view. They have been' jealously watched by Germany, and it Prince' Billow really had Abyssinia in his mind there1 is evidently some intention on the part of Germany to claim the same right to intervene' there as she has done in Morocco. There are, in fact, well-informed diplomatists who consider' that it is very much with the same object— namely, that of preventing an international' understanding from being concluded without Germany's having a voice, even in a direction-where each a pretension oan scarcely he regared as justified.
Our London Correspondent writes Sir! Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the new Prime Minister, has snookered more rapid iy in getting together his colleagues in the new Government than had been generally anticipated, and there is a suspicion that he can only have done this by softening down his views as far as the practical programme is concerdably, particularly on the subject of Home Rule. The array of names is probably the best that could be selected from that side of the House, and there are certainly among them men who deserve the Dame of statesmen. So oh men are Sir Edward Grey, Mr. Haldane, the Eiri of Elgin, and Mr. Asquith, though the latter has hardly risen to the level that was expected of him. A man, may however, prove muoh more powerful in active administrative work than as a snarler and barker in opposition. Indeed, we are inclined to think that those who have been least aggressive in their opposition tactics and speeches will proce' the sound, purposeful section of the Govern ment This is, after all, only natural, as loud- -sounding instruments are generally hollow. In Sir Edward Grey and Mr. Haldane the * Government have men worthy of aDy Cabinet, and it is to men like these rather than to ' the Prime Minister himself that the country will look for safety against hysterical and unpatriotic legislation.
As, however, all the appointments are made with a view to dissolution, should the council show its aversion to any particular part of the Government's programme, it would no doubt lead to some of these appointments being reconsidered after the election. To gain the votes of dissatisfied Unionists is no doubt' the main object of a present choice of mi* maters, and does credit to the Prime Minister, who has always shown himself an aoute party manager.
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On Saturday last the Sorting Club had as their guests the St Andrew Football Club after a lapse two years, and we regret to say the game came to a premature end owing to the misbehaviour of the left back of the Saintsl a soldier, who, though a useful player is Apt to forget that it is football and not War he1 is engaged in. He is happy when be can bowl an opponent over, and we do not complain of this, bat he cannot endure reprisals. On Saturday his temper was possibly not improved by the resalt of Barnard's attentions, whereby he frequently hit the dust Hus offence, however, was in using insulting and sulphurous language to a player and also to the referee, who rightly ordered him off the field. As he refused to go there was nothing for it but that the referee should stop the game, which he did, when there remained about five minutes for play. The beginning of the outburst was a charge by Wiihnott on the goalkeeper, who, as the charge took plaoe, was in possession of the ball. True, just before the moment of impact he got rid of it, bat it was then too late for Willmott to alter his direction, though we think not too late for the custodian to avoid receiving the charge. It seemed to the spectators as though the goalkeeper took some appreciable time to discover that his injuries necessitated a recumbent position. We have seen this occur before with the same player, so we fancy it must be becoming a habit
The referee* gave no sign that he considered the charge a foul one, but the game was not resumed after this point Having related the facts in connection with this most regrettable incident we hasten to add that but for it the game would have been a most enjoyable one. We sympathise heartily with the tit Andrew Clab and would advise them to rid themselves of the cause of discord. The taking of this advice would, we think, greatly enhance their popularity. The result at half-time was two to nil in favor of the club, the first a lovely crossfoot by Byrne and the second the result of a penalty kick taken by Byrae.This penalty kick, although rigorously protested against by the Saints' goalkeeper on the ground that the penalty area was not marked out, was well deserved, is McLean's finishing touch to a centre of Carver's would certainly have gone through but for the intervention of an opponent's hand. The second haif was well fought out, each side seoring once, Byrne for the dub heading through a centre from the left and Rofe for the Saints scoring for the visitors. The Saints' forwards combined well, but their efforts were neutralised by the strength of the club's defence, Which we* have not seen better. Crosier was invaluable and led his forwards beautifully. Curtis had heaps of work to do and did it well, though he might have saved the first goal. Byrne was in good form and had on ' his shooting boots, while the rest of the club forwards were in fair form. The Saints'trio of halves had a lot to do with keeping the shoring down. Final score J Sporting Club 3 ; St Andrew 1.
Our Minieh Correspondent writes*: — On Friday, 15th inst., the English officials' here and the scholars oi Minieh Government School played football on the market ground, the English team won by 4 goals to 1. There was a large number of spectators.
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On sait que le chiffre des documents sons seing privé que l'on fait enregistrer aux Tribunaux Mixtes et qui sont trop souvent entachés de faux est énorme. La loi, telle qa'elle est actuellement, n'exige môme pas que la signature des parties contractantes soit léga limée et la jurisprudence de la Cour qui assimile les cachets aux signatures n'est pas faite pour améliorer la situation, puisqu'un oachet—qui est peut-être volé— ne peut contribuer que dans une bien faible mesure à établir l'authenticité du document au bas duquel il sc trouve.
En outre, œs pièces qui constatent des contrats de vente, de prêt, de gage, sont généralement dressés par des gens illettrés, qui sont incapables de les rédiger, et lenr teneur incompréhensible et confuse donne lieu à de nombreux procès qui, pour la plupart, n'auraient pas lien si la confection de oes actes était confiée à des fonctionnaires compétents.
Enfin il ne faut pas oablier que les droits d'enregistrement ont été dernièrement réduits de 5 à 2 % ; on est donc en droit de supposer que le plus grand nombre des contractants préféreront s'adresser à un notaire officiel et payer des droits minimes, plutôt que de courir le risque de perdre leur propriété en négligeant de remplir les formalités de l'enregistrement.
La Sous-Commission judiciaire se rendant compte des défectuosités et des dangers da système, a décidé que les aotes authentiques senls peuvent être enregistrés ; par conséquent, tout acte auquel on a l'intention défaire subir cette formalité devra être dressé, selon la loi projetée, par un des fonctionnaires de l'ordre judiciaire compétent.
Cette disposition ne se trouvait pas dans le projet primitif da Gouvernement, mais y a étéajootée, par voie d'amendement, par la Commission, et le Gouvernement, estimant qu'elle était utile à loi qa'il proposait, l'a acceptée.
LES TAXES MUNICIPALES
Nous apprenons que M. Z euro, loin de suivre certains de ses collègues dans leurs projets d'entreprises grandioses dont l'exécution et l'entretien occasionneraient des dépenses colossales pour la ville, se propose de demander à la Municipalité de profiter de l'augmentation de ses recettes pour supprimer quelques charges vexatoires, telles que la taxe sur l'oocupation de la voie publique et oflle de 9 % sur les loyers; deux impôts qui, s'ils rapportent brut le premier 4000 livres environ et le seoond 17.000, se trouvent réduits à peu de chose à cause des frais considérables qae nécessite lear perception.
Certains s'imaginent à tort quela taxe de 2% sur les loyers doit disparaître après la construction du quai-promenade,tandis quelle a été imposée pour une dorée de cinquante ans. S'il est difficile de la supprimer complètement, du moins pourrait on en exempter les locataires pauvres, o'est-à dire ceux qui paient on loyer inférieur à 50 livres.
Il en est de même de l'occapation de la voie publique. On pourrait la maintenir à Minet-el-Bassal et sur les grandes places pabliques ; mais on devrait la supprimer partout ailleurs où elle gêne la oiroulation.
Nous souhaitons qae oes deux propositions de M. Z mro, qui ont le double mérite de ne diminuer que fort peu les recettes de la ville et de remplir un but hautement humanitaire, soient prises en sérieuse considération par la Commission Municipale.
(Aujour d'ui d midi et demie)
La corbeille des valenrs a fait volte face complète. Au soutien relatif de œs derniers jours et à l'activité croissante des Estâtes vient de succéder un calme général avec tous les changements de prix en baisse.
D'inquiétantes rumeurs circulent sur le compte de la Sait & Soda dont le cours fléchit à 19/7 1/9.
Malgré les excellentes nouvelles publiées sur l'exerciœ énoncé de la Khédivial Mail, l'Ordi* nary continue à baisser de 25/6 à 24/6.
Lee Eitates eux-mêmes suivent le courant et tombent à 1 1/2, presque sans affaires. La part de Fondateur fléchit aussi de 6 1/4 à 6.
Les valeurs de banque sont délaissées^omme toutes les autres. De 9 3/16 l'Agricole recule à 9 1/8 ancienne et de 8 3/4 à 8 11/16 la Nouvelle.
De 133 1/2 la Banque d'Athènes réactionne à 139 1/9 et la Cassa di Sconto de 212 à 209.
Les Sucreries tombent à 99 francs.
La Béhéra perd une demi livre à 35 1/9.
En baisse également le Trust de l 8/16 à 1 5/32, la Nungovich de 10 3/4 à 10 5/8, la Nile Ooid Storage de 13/16 à 11/16,du Caire de 117 à 116 1/2 et les Tramwaya d'A-lesandrie de 169 à 161 1/9 les Privilégiées et de 305 à 302 les Dividendes.
Par contre,la Delta Light reprend de 11 9/16 à 11 8/8.
Tout le reste de la cote demeure sans changement et mas affaires.
Ce revirement da marché est dû en partie à l'approche des fêtes de Noël et do Nouvel An, sb partie à la situation générale troublée da monde politique et à la pénarie monétaire. Cette situation pourrait dono bien dorer quelques semaines.
NOTES ET CRITIQUES
La Caire, 18 décembre.
Le Consolidé anglais a haussé de } de livre samedi passé à Loudres. Les valeurs égyptiennes sont restées invariées, à l'exception de la Daïra, qui a perd a | à 17. A Paris, le Crédit Foncier a éça'ement baissé de 2 frano3 à 770.
Ici, 09 matin, le marché a été calme sur la National Bank et l'Agricole, qui restent plus on moins à leurs oours précédents. L'aotion Crédit Foncier a reculé à 777.
Par contre, il y a beaucoup d'animation sur divers autres titres et petites valeurs.
Les Enterprise and Development, par exemple, ont avancé à 12| acheteurs; la part de fon-dateur.en bonne demande,a atteint 8 J. L'Agricole du Nil s'inscrit à 234. La Brasserie des Pyramides gagne 2 francs à 112; les dividendes 6 francs à 56.
Les Ciments restent à 75 ; les dividendes montent de 5 franos à 25.
Dans le groupe des Hôtels, les Nungovich sont faibles à 1011/16. Ea bonne demande, les Baehler avancent à 3 1/16 acheteurs.
Parmi les petites valeurs, les Estâtes donnent toujours lieu à de fortes transactions. Elles atteignent 1 9/16 pour clôturer à 1 17/32 ; les parts de fondateur montent à £6 J. Bon mouvement aussi sur les Hooker, qui débntent à 29/32 pour monter à 31/32 et olôturer à 16/16.
Nous apprenons que l'Egyptian Estâtes CompaDy vient de rénssir à placer à Londres une émission de £150,000 d'obligations.
On nous télégraphie de Londres que l'assemblée géoérale ordinaire de la New Egyptian Company, tenne le 14 da oourant, s'est passée de la manière la plus satisfaisante.
Le disoonrs du président, Sir Gérard Fitzgerald, exposant la bonne marohe de tontes les affaires de la Sooiété, a été chalearensement applaudi.
Un dividende de 12 et | pour cent a été déclaré. L'assemblée a approuvé le rapport annnel et les comptes présentés.
Des détails qui nous parviennent an sujet de l'achat du Fayoam Light Railway par V Anglo Belgian Company, dont nous avons déjà parlé, il résulte qae cette dernière Sooiété aurait fait une très mauvaise affaire même si elle avait acheté l'entreprise à un prix beau-oonp moins élevé. Le cahier des charges relatif à la conoession faite par l'Etat à la Fayoom Light Railway contient, en effet, des danses des plus onéreuses pour la Société.
Nous avons, il y a quelques jours, publié d'intéressants détails sur la Khédivial Mail Line. Nons pouvons ajouter que le service des obligations et aurions privilégiées de la Sooiété absorbe annuellement une somme de £ B,000, que l'avant-dernier exeroice a donné une somme totale de f 6,000 livres de bénéûœa nets, le dernier plus de 80,000 et l'exeroice eu cours semble devoir rapporter une somme encore supérieure. 11 est donc aisé de se rendre compte des perspectives ds l'aotion ordinaire (Il y en a 100.000 de £ 1).
On poarra, en effdt, distribuer des dividendes très élevés, tout en amortissant chaque année des sommes considérables.
En outre, la 8ooiété possède environ 23 feddans de terrains dans le port d'Alexandrie. Ces terrains valent aujourd'hui environ 400,000 livres, o'est-à dire qu'ils représentent senls pins de la totalité du capital actions, actions privilégiées et obligations de la Société.
On peut dono s'attendre à ce que l'aotion ordinaire Khédivial Mail atteigne bientôt des oours très élevés.
Les cours du coton sont arrivés hier en légère reprise d'Amérique et de Liverpool.
Ici, ce matin, le Mars a ouvert à 16 1/16 ponr fléchir à 15 15/16 et olôturer à 16.
MM. H. de Vries et Bontigny, agents de change, se chargent de l'exécation de tons ordres de Bourse (valeurs et marchandises) sur les marchés de Londres, Paris, Bruxelles, Anvers, Liverpool et New-York. La Circulaire quotidienne de la maison est envoyée sur demande.
DEPARTURES.
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MM. les Actionnaires sont invités à assister à l'Assemblée Générale Ordinaire qui sera tenue le Samedi 20 Janvier 1906, an Siège Sooiai an Caire, à 4 h. p.m.
ORDRE DU JOUR
1° Rapport du Conseil d'Administration sur l'Exercice écoulé.
2° Approbation du Bilan an 31 Décembre 1905.
3° Fixation du Dividende.
4° Nomination d'nn Commissaire.
Les dépôts d'actions donnant droit à assister on se faire repré enter à l'Assemblée devront être effeotnés jusqu'au 5 Janvier an pins tard, soit an Siège Sooiai an Caire, soit dans une des Banques oi-après désignées :—
Banque de Reports, de Fonds-Pablios et de Dépôts, à Anvers ;
Caisse des Propriétaires, à Bruxelles ;
Josse Allard, à Brnxelles ;
Banque de Gand, à Gand ;
Crédit Lyonnais, à Lille ;
Pb. von Hemert & Co., 8, Square de l'Opéra, Paris ;
Anglo Egyptian Bank, Limited, an Caire.
Lb Conseil D'Administration.
Le Caire, 18 Déoembre 1905.
(Société Anonyme)
AVIS
La Brasserie des Pyramides (Sooiété Anonyme) reoevra des offres ponr la fourniture de 2000 à 2300 tonnes de charbon Cardiff première qualité, à livrer en 1906.
Ponr pins amples renseignements, s'adresser an bureau de la Sooiété, Immeuble A. Colaoci, rue Chérif; à côté de l'Agrioultaral Bank.
Le Président du Conseil,
J. G. Chakoür
Le Caire, le 18 Décembre 1905.
Circulaire H. de Vries et Boutigny
Resultats du COncous pour les plans de construction du nouvel hotel d Louxor.
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1er prix - M. Baroni ex aequo
2me prix - M.M. Negri at Chiera (plan signe "Roma")
3me prix - M. Silvagni.
M.M. les Archetictes dont les projets n'ont pas obtenu de prix sont pries d'envoyer chercher leurs plans au Secretariat se la Compagnie sis au Shepheard's Hotel.
par order du Conseil d'Administration.
O. FLOOD, Secretaire.
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Marché ferme
Cotons —Clôture du marché du
Etat du marché de ce jour, cotons : Baisse de 1/8
Les arrivages de ce jour se chiffrent par cantars
Grains de coton.—Sans changement
Blés.—Très fermes
Qualité Saïdi.—Cond. Saha P.T.
" Béhéra: " " "
Feves.—Sans affaires
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Fayoum : disponible :
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Cotons.-Total des arrivages depuis le
Grains de coton.—Total des arrivages depuis le
Contre même jour en 1904 :
Cotons.—Total des arrivages depuis le
Graines de coton.—Total des arrivages depuis le
Cours de la Bourse de Minet-el-Bassal
REMARQUES
Cotons: Nouvelle récolte.—Le marche a ouvert
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Grains de coton: Nouvelle récolte.— Nonvelle
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Fèves-Saidi: Nouvelle récolte.—Marché nul.
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The Egyptian Gazette has much pleasure in presenting to its subscribers the accompanying description of some of the many interesting routes by which they may travel homewards. Great care has been taken to arrange them as accurately and concisely as possible, and it will be found that none of them are fraught with difficulty. In choosing the route home there are several things to be considered. To begin with there is the difference in climate between Egypt and the various points at which you may arrive in Europe.
This depends partly upon the month in which you leave Egypt, for Cairo in January may be a little warmer than the Riviera, and possibly not so warm as Sicily, but in March it will be warmer than Rome, and more uniformly warm than many other places in Europe. Many people leave Egypt far too early in the year, for as a rule the weather in April and May is perfect. The warmest place to go to on leaving Egypt is Sicily.
Some will want to take into consideration the number of days to be spent at sea, and we therefore subjoin a list showing the time occupied on each of the various routes between Egypt and the Continent of Europe.
They are as follows:-
The long sea routes—from Port Said or Alexandria to Plymouth, Southhampton, London or Liverpool—occupy about 4 days. The short ones are as follows:—
The steamers, of the P.&O. North German Lloyd, Orient and Messageriea Maritimes are the largest. The Anchor, British India, and Bibby Lines are also excellent, and their steamers are largely patronised by travellers to Egypt.
As regards the train journeys from Cairo, the shortest is that to Alexandria, without change (3 hours). That to Port Said, can now be made without change in 4 1/2 hours.
The least expensive way to England is by the Moss, Papayanni, Prince, and Westcott lines of steamers from Alexandria to Liverpool. The German Levant line has also good steamers from Alexandria to Hamburg.
The most expensive but quickest through Continental routes are by P.&O. Brindisi express from Port Said, and the Austrian Lloyd Trieste Vienna express from Alexandria.
As regards heavy luggage, it must be borne in mind that very little luggage is allowed free on the railways of Europe, but there are several good and responsible forwarding agents in Egypt who undertake at a fixed charge to deliver packages to any address in Europe.
The quickest manner of getting to Europe from Port Said is undoubtedly by the
fast Mail Steamers "Osiris" and "Isis" to Brindisi. One of these leaves port
Said every week, as soon as possible after receiving the Indian
These small but comfortable ships have enormously powerful engines, and attain a very high rate of speed. They are called the "Ferry Boats" having been specially built to carry the British mail from Port Said to Brindisi. If you are going straight through to England you will find the train waiting at Brindisi which will take you to Calais without changing. It has complete arrangements for sleeping and eating on board, and you should arrive in London on the fifth day from leaving Port Said.
PIAZZA MAZZINI, SYRACUSE (Sicily)
First Hotel in the Town.
First-Class House. Beautiful Position. German Management.
Same Proprietor Hotel Grande Bretagne, Catania.
First Class English Family Hotel with Garden, Terraces, Lawn Tennis, Winter Garden, 25 beds, Heating, Ancient historical convent, sitautated in the finests and most select part of Taormine. Views of Etna and the Ionian Sea. French Cooking. Most comfortable Pension. House warmed.
LUIS YODARI, Director.
A. PACHLER Manager.
Hotels Tramontano & Tasso, & Hotel Pension Syrene.
These excellent Hotels, which are situated in the best part of what is worthily named the "Beauty Spot of Italy," are the annual resort of the most distinguished English and American families. The principal centre for excursions. Electric light throughout. Tennis. English church.
Mr. G. Tamontano, Proprietor & Manager.
Unrivalled position. First Class.
Private bathrooms, steam heating throughout, newest sanitary arrangements.
Hauser & Doepfner. Proprs.
Unrivalled Position.
Suites and Rooms with Private Bath and Toilettes,
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS.
First Class
EVERY MODENR COMFORT.
BRANCH HOUSE: HOTEL D'ITALIE, BOLOGNA.
FLORENCE, FULL SOUTH.
LUNGARNO DELLA ZECGA.
Beautiful view of the surrounding hills. First class Hotel with Every Modern Comfort.
First-class family hotel, situated full south, on the best part of the Lung' Arno,
House lately renovated.
Every English Comfort. Latest Improved Sanitary Arrangements. Lift. Electric Light throughout.
C. Gobbo, Proprietor.
Under the patronage of the English Royal Family.
Entirely remodelled and re-organised. Perfect quiet and finest climate. Splendid arden baths, Electric Light in every Room. Special arrangement during Winter. The Grand Hotel and the Hotel de Londres are now united and under the same management.
W. Ganbrecht.
Kept by an English Lady.
Comfortable & home-like. Highly recommended.
Exhibition of Paintings.
Proprietor: Galanti & Co.
Proprietor: Kienast, A.
Proprietors: Melano & Ratelli
Proprietor: Carlo Borgarello.
Proprietor: R.G. Bonera.
Proprietors: Kienast, Schucani & Cie.
Proprietor: Frederico Floroni.
Proprietor: Davide Caneuli.
Proprietors: Lirreet & Floroni.
Proprietor: Smith Fratelli.
Proprietors: Walther & Oestheln.
The most recently built Hotel in Salsomaggiore, and on which no expense has been spared to render it completely up-to-date as regards hygiene and comfort. The Hotel is directly connected with the New Bathing Establishment by a covered passage.
Charges Moderate. Steam Heating.
For prospectus and particulars apply to the Manager.
Telegraphic Address: Central Salsomaggiore.
Mountain Air Cure
HOTEL VICTORIA-Hug.
Mr. Alfred Hug, Proprietor and Manager
The direct route to Sicily is by the Florio-Rubattino Co.'s steamers which leave Alexandria weekly for MESSINA, where one takes train to TAORMENA, one of the most charming and popular places on the island. Giardini is the station at which to alight, and the drive up to Taormina is most delightful, occupying about one hour. In and around the town is much to interest the visitor. The theatre is of Greek origin, but restored under the Romans. CATANIA is the starting place for the ascent of Etna and here also is a fine Cathedral. The Greek, Roman, and Saracenic remains that are found all over the island, are an endless sources of pleasure. SYRACUSE has an interesting history, having been a Greek city, which was designed by Demosthenes in B.C. 413, and taken by the Romans in B.C. 212, when Archimedes was slain—his tomb is to be seen. The cathedral was once an ancient pagan temple. PALERMO, with about 300,000 inhabitants, is the capital of the Island, and enjoys a delightful climate. Much of interest is to be found in this fine city. The Palazzo Reale is of Saracenic origin and close to it the church of S. Giovannia degli Eremiti with its picturesque cloisters. The Cathedral, Museum, Botanic Gardens, Villa Giulia and Royal Park are also worth a visit.
The fine steamers of the North German Lloyd leave Alexandria every Wednesday during the season for Naples, the voyage being only 3 days.
NAPLES is also reached in 10 hours from Palermo by the Florio-Rubattino Co.'s steamers, which leave daily. One cannot approach Naples or leave it without wishing to explore some of its islands, besides the lovely places on its bay—Castellamare and Sorrento. The small steamer that takes you to Sorrento [you can drive too] will take you on to Capri.
From Naples to ROME is a train journey of but five hours. All who can will devote at least one week to visiting the many historical and interesting portions of the Eternal City, whose charms and beauties are too well-known to need comment here.
Leaving the Eternal City with much regret, a railway journey of five hours brings you to FLORENCE, where another week can well be spent admiring the City of Flowers and its surrounding country. In Florence itself the churches and galleries are of absorbing interest, whilst the local promenades and excursions should not be omitted. The Cascine is the most attractive and fashionable promenade in Florence, whilst the Viale dei Colli, one of the finest walks in Europe, opened 35 years ago, goes winding up through the hills a distance of four miles. The most delightful excursion outside Florence is that to Vallombrosa, with its Monastery 3,300 feet above the sea level. This is made first by ordinary train from Florence to St. Ellero, thence by cog-wheel railway to Saltino. The ascent through groves of oaks takes an hour, and most striking panoramas are unfolded to view.
PISA is easily reached from Florence in about 2 hours ; hero there is a fine Cathedral and the Leaning Tower. A stay of at least one night should if possible be made in order to enjoy the view from the Campanile at sunset.
VIAREGGIO. One of the most delightful places on the Italian Riviera near Pisa and on the main line from Rome to Genoa. It is a very convenient half-way house between Egypt and England, and where living is reasonable and the air and surroundings exceptionally good.
GENOA (La Superba).—The most picturesque and interesting city in Italy, with the record of having one of the lowest death averages of European cities and a phenomenally equable temperature—warm in winter and deliciously cool breezes from the surrounding mountains and the Mediterranean in summer.
The patriarchal home of Italy's most ancient nobility, whose palaces, gardens, and famous collections of statuary, frescoes, and paintings, are a constant delight to thousands of travellers who annually sojourn in Genoa. Then there are the superbly decorated medieval churches containing exquisite marble columns and historical paintings, and the incomparable Campo Santo filled with its wonderful tombs.
From Genoa to Milan is a matter of only three hours by rail.
MILAN is a good centre for Northern Italy before making the tour of the Lakes. The Cathedral is the principal attraction, with its beautiful windows illustrating the History of the Bible. The public gardens and the monumental cemetery are also worth a visit.
Between Bologna and Milan and only an hour and a half from Milan is SALSOMAGGIORE, a renowned health resort on account of its thermal springs, change trains at Borgo San Donino and in half-an-hour you are at Salsomaggiore.
Newly Enlarged and thoroughly refurnished Electric light throughout. Central Heating in every room. Beautiful gardens.
Cencerts daily. New Proprietor.
GUSTAV KOCKEL also of the Hotel Grande Betagne, Catania and Hotel Metropole, Taormina.
First-Class House. Full south, fine view of Mount Etna. Wamest climate in Sicily. Swiss management.
First Class. Only hotel in Palermo with central heating apparatus throughout. Electric light, lift, winter garden, 100 rooms, nearly all sunny, best and healthiest situation.
P. WEINEN, proprietor and Manager.
FIRST CLASS.
Every Modern Comfort.
Central Heating, Private Baths, etc.
The last word of modern hotel refinement.
50 bathrooms.
Central steam heating.
Finest view in the world.
First Class.
Private Bathrooms.
CENTRAL HEATING IN EVERY ROOM.
OPEN ALL YEAR.
Steamheating.
Electric Light throughout.
LIFT.
Winter Garden.
CONCERT, AMERICAN BAR.
The Only house expressely built for an hotel.
The most complete & comfortable of modern hotels.
Chiari Bros., proprietors.
LUNGARNO, ACCIAOLI.
FIRST CLASS. OPEN ALL THE YEAR.
CHIOSTRI, Propr.
COMFORTABLE FIRST CLASS HOUSE.
All modern comforts.
Electric light and central heating.
A QUIET AND LOVELY WINTER RESORT.
Absolutely First-class modern hotel, in the finest situation, sea view, full south.
CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED AND RESTORED.
Electric light, electric lift, stigler's system, heating by hot water stoves, suites with priate bath and toilette, perfect situation, extensive garden, auto garage, omnibus meet all trains, moderate terms.
A. Marson, proprietor.
(For many years at the Grand Venice.)
This High-class comfortable Hotel has been enlarged since last season. Finest position on Alassion. South aspect (300 feet above sea). Extensive grounds. Excellent water and sanitary arrangements. Electric light throughout. Smoking room. Quiet. Comfortable. Good cuisine. No charge for attendance of lighting. Private carriage meets all the best trains.
Proprietors and Managers: Mr. and Mrs. John Congreve.
Highest order, immediately opposite the bath entrance, in the best and highest part of the village. Built according to the most recent ideas and principles. Modern comort. 100 Bedrooms. Salons, dining room, restaurant, reading, music, billiard rooms, electric light, lifts, baths and douches, steam-heating, large and shady garden, latest sanitary arrangements. On every floor there are special baths of Muriated lodo Fromine waters. Moderate charges. For prolonged stay, pension rates.
RITZ & RFEFFER, Proprietors, of the Grand Hotel National, Lucerne; Carlton Hotel, London; Ritz Hotel, Paris.
First Class.
EVERY MODERN COMFORT.
Large Terrace on the Grand Canal.
FIRST-CLASS HOTEL.
Situated in the Finest and Healthiest part of the Town
Railway Ticket Office in the Hotel.
All modern comforts.
First class hotel in the best position with garden on the Grand Canal.
In the same position but more moderate.
CHARLES WALTHER Propr.
Same management HOTEL DE LA VILLE at Genoa.
First-class establishment in the healthiest and finest position. Latest comfort, bedrooms and suites with private bathrooms and toilette. Central steam heating.
O. & G. Fiorentino, Proprietors.
Highly reputed and fashionable First class Hotel, situated on the Via Nationale ( the finest street of Rome) in the highest and healthiest quarter of the Eternal City. Beautiful garden, full south, magnificent new hall, restaurant Francois, apartments with private bath and toilette, steam heat throughout, 350 beds.
BRANCH HOUSES:
Hotel Mediterrnee, Pegli. Palace Hotel, Milan. The grand Hotel, Lugano. The Hotels at Burgenstock, near Lucerne. Hotel Stanserhorn, near Lucerne. Palace Hotel in Locerne, to be opened in 1906. Hotel Euler, Bale.
First class Hotel, best situated in the valley, in the middle of an extensive garden. 240 Beds, large sitting rooms, lift, electric light in all the rooms, English Chapel in the garden, moderate charges, Cook's Tickets taken, open from 1st May to 1st October.
This new First Class Hydropathic Establishment with 250 beds, fine sitting rooms, two lifts, electric light in all the rooms, central heating, opposite the hotel Titlis, was opened on May 5th 1899. The building is fitting up according to the most recent hygenis principle. The various medical appliances fulfill the utmost demands of modern science, and furnish every thing necessary for Hydropathic, mechanical, and electric treatment.
For propectus and Tariff, please apply to the Proprietor of Hotel Titlis and the Kuranstalt.
ED. CATTANI.
Beautiful new hotel.
First class. Electric light. Central heating and every modern comfort.
39, Avenue de l'Opera.
Finest central situation in the Capital, facing the Opera House. First-rate Restaurant. Luncheon & Dinner served at small tables. Lift. Baths. Special arrangements made for the Winter. No extra charge for Service and Light. Tel. No. 23,378. Tel. Address: "Hotel Bellevue, Paris."
Mme. T. Hauser Proprietress
3, Rue de la Paix, 3
Place Vendome. Place de l'Opera.
Peace. Comfort. Ease.
Same Management in Summer. May-October, at Chaiel Guyon (Puy de Dome). Splendid et Nouvel Hotel; and at Contrexeville (Vouges) Grand Hotel.
HOTEL CECIL
HOTEL DE FRANCE.
GRAND HOTEL DE PARIS
VENICE is a 5 hours journey by rail from Milan, and one of the most delightful places imaginable to pass a quiet stay. The total absence of vehicular traffic strikes one as very strange ; no horse, cart, carriage or bicycle is to be seen, and yet there is the sound of life at every turn. The approach to Venice from the Adriatic is unlike that of any other sea port. The town seems to be gradually, like Aphrodite, born of the sea, no hills behind, no stretches of rock, but first the tops of Campaniles appear above the horizon, then slowly the whole glittering town rises like a fairy mirage out of the calm lagoon.
Going northwards from Milan you make the tour of the beautiful Italian lakes.
COMO, the birthplace of the younger Pliny, is reached in one-and-a-quarter hours by train by way of Monza :
Boats leave Como frequently for the other towns on the lake, which is very beautiful, and the scenery on either side going up the lake is most enchanting. CERNOBBIO is a charming spot; then come Tremezzo, Cadenabbia, and Menaggio with the prettily-situated town of Bellaggio opposite. The walk from Tremezzo along the shore of the lake to Menaggio is most enjoyable. A steam tram runs from Menaggio to Porlezza on Lake Lugano in three-quarters of an hour, then steamer to Lugano in two-and-three-quarter hours.
Switzerland, the heart of Europe, has been described as "A cluster of delights and grandeurs."
LUGANO is some 20 miles from Como and reached by train in one-and-a-half hours. It has a population of 10,000 people and is charmingly situated on the Lake of Lugano, amidst lovely Italian scenery. Around it rise M. San Salvatore, M. de Caprino.and M. Generoso.
LOCARNO, may be reached by rail from Bellinzona in forty minutes. This pretty town, situated at the top of lake Maggiore has a mild climate and is an excellent winter resort. The church Madonna del Sasso, situated above the town, is worth a visit, as it contains interesting paintings, "Entombment," by Ciseri, and 'Tho Flight into Egypt," by Bramantion.
LUCERNE—A striking picture on the Lake of Lucerne facing the Rigi and Pilatus and the snow-clad Alps.
In and around the town the walks are charming, and the excursions to be made from Lucerne by boat, rail, etc., are very numerous.
The Lake of Lucerne abounds in delightful excursions, those to the Rigi, Pilatus, Burgenstock and Sonnenberg needing a special visit each. Other excursions on the lake can be made by steamer, and the ever-changing scenery on the trip from Lucerne, to Fluelen is a source of delight to the lover of nature.
BRUNNEN, charmingly situated on the most beautiful part of the Lake of Lucerne, commands magnificent views of lake and mountain scenery. Along the Lake of Uri from Brunnen to Fluelen runs the famous Axentrasse
A delightful exeption from Lucerne is that to ENGELBERG. Take boat to Stansstad and from Stansstad it is about 1 hour and 40 min. by Electric Railway, with delightful scenery en route. The ascent of Titlis, is made from here, and the panoramic view of the Alps is grand; extending from Monte Rosa to the Black Forest, and from the Santis to the Matterhorn.
THE BERNESE OBERHAND.-INTERLAKEN a favourite summer resort and the best centre for making excursions in the Oberland, abounding in fine walks and views. There is a magnificent view of the Jungfrau from the Hoheweg, a fine avenue of walnut trees the chief resort of visitors. Interlaken is also not far from the famous waterfalls, Giessbach, Trummelbath and Staubbach. Then also the glaciers of Grindelwald and view from Murren and the Schynige Platte are sights not to be missed.
CHATEAU D'OEX. 3,500 ft above the sea on the new Electric Railway between Montreux and Interlaken, surrounded by magnificent scenery, with pure dry air. Much frequented by English people in Summer and Winter.
Many people visit Greece after wintering in Egypt, as it is so easily reached from Alexandria ; the climate in April is charming. The best steamers are those of the Khedivial Mail Co. and the Russian Steam Navigation Co.
If possible tourists should arrange to be in Athens for the Orthodox Easter in order to witness the Good Friday and Easter Eve ceremonies, and to be present at the dancing on the Easter Tuesday festival held at Megara for which a special train is run from Athens.
It is worth while to spend a few days in CORFU on account of the beauty of the scenery. There is also good snipe and quail shooting to be had.
Best Spring resort. 2,200 ft. above the sea. Every comfort.
The leading Hotel for English and American families. Trains every fifteen minutes by Electric Railway from Brunnen to Axen-Fels. The Park having a frontage of nearly a mile on the lake, is one of the prettiest in Switzerland.
World-wide reputation.
P: Sohnack, Proprietor
Level Wooded Walks.
From Vernon or Lido, 12 min by steamboat. Climatic Station and Sea Baths, with Chinesitherapic Institute. Express between the station and Lido for the hotels.
The most important bathing station in Italy. ____ Restaurant and Terrace on the sea. Hydrotherapic institute. Concerts daily, frequented by the highest classes of society.
Adjoining the sea. First-class hotel with dependencies & chalets. 200 rooms & saloons. Electric light. Aqueduct. Every modern comfort. Delightful residence, without any mosquitos.
Hotel with its dependencies (Swiss Hotel), in the most delightful situation of the Lido at the landing place, five minutes walk from the bathing place. Wonderful view of the Legune of Venice. Room from 3 lire, with board from 8.50 per day. No mosquitos. Very dry and safe air.
Address- SOCIETE BACHI, LIDO, VENICE, ITALY.
A new first class hotel with every modern convenience.
Address all inquiries to THE MANAGER.
First-class hotel, finest situation on the Lake. Immense park and garden. Moderate charges. Omnibus at Como station.
T. Domben, Manager.
On the border of the Lake with beautfiul Garden and large Terraces. Magnificent Palace, built for the purpose of an Hotel, with the most complete comfort. Opened March, 1899. Very reasonable prices. English church.
Proprietor: J. De Glacomi, Manager of Gd. Hotel Neues Stahibad, St. Moritz, Engadine, Switzerland.
Manager: C. Scrobbi, of Neues Stahibad, St. Moritz.
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS.
A BROCCA, Proprietor.
Also of the GRAND HOTEL, LUGANO.
OPEN ALL THE YEAR.
Strictly first class. Every modern comfort. Terminus of the St. Gothard Railway. Magnificent winter and spring Resort. Best stopping place on the Italian lakes. Beautiful walks excursion English Chruch. Tennis and Golf. Central Heating.
Comfortable family hotel, charmingly situated, known for its quietness, Extensive view of Lake and Mountain scenery. Newly furnished, every modern comfort, lift, electric light, throughout, grand hall and covered terraces, beautiful garden, table d'Hotel at small tables, moderate terms.
New proprietors, Blorn Bros.
Beautiful situation overlooking the Lake.
FIRST CLASS.
Every modern comfort
Moderate charges.
Splendid situation, overlooking river and valley, surrounded by fruit, conifer and rose gardens, modern comforts and home-like, Library, English and American papers, baths, carriages, good Table and sanitary arrangements.
Specially suitable for those requiring rest, quietness, and change of air. Capital headquarters for excursions. Post telegraph, telephone, dark room, terms moderate for either short or long stay. English spoken. Apply for prospectus.
JUNGFRAUBLICK.
Unrivalled position. FIRST CLASS. Thoroughly renovated suites and rooms with private baths.
Central heating. Every modern comfort.
J. Oesch.
Proprietor and Manager.
The newesty and most up-to-date, thoroughly First Class and replete with every modern comfort.
ELECRTIC LIGHT, CENTRAL HEATING, PRIVATE BATHS.
The most comfortable first class family hotel.
EVERY MODERN COMFORT.
Berthod Brothers Proprietors.
Special Office in the Hotel for Railway and Steamship
Tickets: also Post Office.
E. Lampsa, proprietor.
2. Philellenic Street (corner of Constitution Square), Conducted Tours for visiting Greece, Ionian Islands, Islands of the Archipelago, Asia Minor, Turkey, Palestine and Egypt.
Only first-class Hotel in Corfu with magnificent Garden. Fashionable modern Family Hotel. View of the Sea and lovely landscapes. Quietest, healthiest, and highest situation. Is the only Hotel situation in the highest part of Corfu.
Jean Garru and Freen, Proprietors.
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Messrs. RUSTON, PROCTOR & CO., LIMITED, Lincoln. Fixed and Portable Steam and Oil Engines, Corn Mills. Patent Tibben-making Thrashing Machines.
Messrs. PLATT BROTHERS & CO., LIMITED, Oldham. Cotton Ginning Machinery.
Messrs. JOHN FOWLER & CO., LIMITED, Leeds. Steam Ploughing Machinery and Sundries.
THE CENTRAL CYCLONE CO., LIMITED, London. Grinding and Pulverising Machinery.
Messrs. CAMMELL, LAIRD & CO., LD.. of Sheffield. Steel Ralls, springs, buffers, &c. — Patent sand blast files.
Messrs. MERRYWEATHER & SONS, London. Steam and Manual Fire Engines.
Messrs. F. REDDAWAY & CO., LD., Pendleton, Manchester. The Camel Brand Belting, etc., etc.
Ratner's Safes.
THE ENGELBERG RICE HULLER. Gilkes Vortex Turbines.
Messrs. A. RANSOME & Co., LIMITED, Newark-on-Trent. Wood Working Machinery and Appliances.
McCORMICK'S REAPERS & MOWERS.
PLANET JUNIOR AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. Horse Hoes, Seed, Drills, etc., etc.
OLIVER PLOUGHS.
Agent in Cairo: M. A. FATTUCCI.
Agent In Khartoum: RIETI & BERTELLI.
Chatwood's Safes in Stock.
Agents for Green's Economisers.
Connections made with the most important trains of the State Railway in the
Provinces of Behera, Gharbieh, Dakahlieh Charkieh and Galioubieh.Through service for goods between all stations of the
Company andover 100 principal stations of the State
Railway in Upper and Lower Egypt. Goods may also be through-booked
from or to any station on Helouan Railway. The Company has 70 stations
opened for public Telegraph Service in conjunction with all offices of the
Government Telegraph Department.For time tables, tariffs
and information apply to the offices at Cairo, Alexandria
Damanhour, Tantah or Zagazig.
Contre: Constipation, Congestion, Hemerrhoides, Migraine
Obesite, etc.
Conserve le beint frais et la taille svelte ; d'une efficacité absolue agit
sans douleurs. Il es conseillé par toutes les sommités
medicales.
Le purgatif le plus économique.
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Prix 1.50 pour 12 purgations. Se trouve dans toutes les pharmacies.
Dépôt général pour l'Égypte GEO. BUSLENEG, Pharamcien, Alexandrie. 25-1-05
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Capital 250,000,000 de francs
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Alexandrie, Le Caire, Port-Said
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Emission de traites et chèques, émission de lettres de Crédit, paiement par télégraphe sur les principales villes de la France et de l'étranger;
Garde de titres;
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MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS, ALSO SHIPBUILDERS, &C., &C. All classes of engineering work and supply of stores undertaken. Pontoon Dock for raising vessels of the largest size.
BOULAC ENGINE WORKS
Branches at Sharia Bab-El-Hadeed (CAIRO), ALEXANDRIA AND KHARTOUM.
Sole agents in Egypt for
RICHARD GARRETT & SONS, LTD. Portable and semi-portable steam engines, Road rollers, threshing and straw-chopping machines.
SHAND, MASON & CO. Patent Steam and Manual Fire Engines.
NOBEL'S EXPLOSIVES CO., LTD. Gelignits, Blasting Gelatine, detonators, safety fuse, etc. ''Sporting Ballistite" and "Empire" Cartridges.
GEO. ANGUS & CO., LTD. Machine belting of every description, leather, rubber, cotton and Balata.
TANGYES LIMITED (SOLE VENDORS.) Steam, Oil and Gas Engines, with Produce Plants, Pumps and Machinery of all description.
CROMPTON & Co., LTD. Dynamos, motors and electric machinery of all description.
STOHWASSER & WINTER PUTTIE LEGGING & MILITARY EQUIPMENTS CORPORATION LTD. Agents for Jesse Ellis & Co. Steam and Oil Motor Wagons.
CHUBB & SON'S LOCK & SAFE CO. LTD Chubb's Steel Safes of all sizes on hand, the building of strong rooms undertaken.
COCHRAN & CO. ANNAN, LTD. The Cochran patent vertical boilers.
THE SEAMLESS STEEL BOAT CO., LTD. Seamless steel boats fitted with any class of motor.
THE COOPER STEAM DIGGER CO. LTD. Diggers made in size No. 5, 6, 8 and 12.
Specialities: TANGYES' GAS ENGINES with Producer Plants, COOPER PATENT STEAM DIGGER, specially suitable for small landowners.
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Capital 10,000,000 Frs.
Purveyors to H.H. the Khedive.
Portable and permanent railways. Passenger and goods cars.
Tipping and platform waggons for all purposes. Locomotives from 10-400 H.P.
Large stocks of rails, trucks and locomotives always kept in Alexandria.
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Bridges and iron frame works.
HUMBOLDT ENGINEERING WORKS CO
KALK, NEAR COLOGNE.
Steam engines, Boilers, complete installations for Factories.
R. HORNSBY & SONS, LTD., Grantham (England).
Fixed and Portable oil engines.
KIRCHNER & CO., Leipzig.
Wood working machinery.
CARL MEISSNER, Hamburg.
Oil motor boats and launches.
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SYSTEMS OF STEAM PLOUGHING ENGINES TO PLOUGH 8 TO 20 FEDDANS PER DAY
Offices:
Cairo: 24 Kasr-el-Nil Street, opposite Bank of Egypt. P.O.B. 690. Telephone No. 139.
Alexandria: 29, Cherif Pasha Street. Telephone No. 661.
The Egyptian Engineering Stores.
MERCHANTS, CONTRACTORSS & MACHINERY IMPORTERS, ALEXANDRIA.
Sole Agents for Egypt, Asia Minor and Syria for
Messrs. CLAYTON & SHUTTLEWORTH, Lincoln, Portable & fixed Engines & Boilers, Corn mills, Thrashing, Strawbruising & Cutting Machines.
Messrs. GALLOWAYS, LTD., Manchester.—The Largest Boiler Works in the World.
WALTER A. WOOD, Mowing and Reaping Machine Co. Hoosick Falls, N.Y. (America) Reapers, Mowers, Harvesters & Rakes.
PIGUET & Co., Lyons. —French Steam Engines.;
AVELING & PORTER, LIMITED, Rochester.—Steam Rollers and Steam Ploughs.
LES TANNERIES LYONNAISES, Oullins (Rhône).-Best Leather Belting.
E. S. HINDLEY, Burton, Dorset—Vertical Engines and Boilers, specially designed for driving Electric Dynamos & Centrifugal Pumps, etc., etc.
HILLAIRET HUGUEOT, Paris.—Electricians.
L. DUMONT, Paris.—Centrifugal pumps.
R. F. & E. TURNER, LTD., Ipswich.—Floor Mills.
21188-24.5.905
SOLE AGENTS FOR EGYPT FOR MILNER'S SAFE COMPANY, LIMITED.
Transatlantic Fire Insurance Company, Limited of Hamburg. (Covers also Burglary Risks.)
The National Assurance Company of Ireland.
Fire Insurance Policies granted on all approved Descriptions of Property, at moderate rates.
ALEXANDRIA, Maison A. N. Abey, Rue Constantinople. CAIRO, Hosh Issa
17-11A-905
Chief Office: Sharia Kasr-el-Nil, Cairo. Near the National Bank of Egypt.
Engrais Naturels Complets
Poudrettes, Engrais Chimiques Organiques.