The band of the 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusilier by kind permission of Lt. Colonel J.H Gideon and officers, will play the following program at the Esbekieh Gardens tomorrow evening, commencing at 9 p.m.

River Transport of Goods between Alexandria and Cairo.

THREE SAILINGS A WEEK

Agents at Alexandria

Alexandria Bonded Warehouse Co. Ltd.

Doctors Disagree>

The following report concerning the death of Osman Ahwed subsequent to alleged ill treatment at the hands of policemen of the Labban caracol was supplied to us this morning by the authorities of the Alexandria Government.

In consequence of the death, which occurred on the 21st inst. at the Labban police station, of a native youth, against whom an aggression on the part of policemen is alleged, a postmortem examination was held by the police medical officer, who reported that death was due to natural cause, and that there were no incriminating marks on the deceased's body. The body was subsequently transported to the Government hospital where a second autopsy was held by two doctors attached to the hospital, who reported that death was due to heart disease, but one of the doctors also expressed the opinion that death might have been due to other causes. In consequence of this difference of opinion the body ' was submitted to a third examination by Dr. Betts, director of the Government hospital, who concluded that death was due to heart disease and that the deceased showed signs of having suffered from inflammation of the longs and other internal troubles. Permission for the burial of tho body was then granted by tho Chef du Parquet.

We are also informed that, as a result of the statement in our report of Saturday that the man had met his death as the consequence of a severe kick dealt him by an Italian onbashi of police at the Labban oaracol, the Hakem- darieh has written to the Parquet to ask for a report of the result of the official inquiry with a view to determining the responsibility of the policeman. An administrative inquiry into the affair has also been ordered to discover whether the policemen concerned wore guilty of a breach of duty.

New Appointements

There is some talk in French Government circles of the impending retirement of M. Bernardi de Sigoyer, judge of the Court of Appeal at the Alexandria Mixed Tribunals, in which event he would be succeeded by Judge Pruners, who has for twenty-one years been the President of the Mixed Courts at Cairo It is stated that Judge Satow will in all probability succeed Judge Archer at the Alexandria Mixed Courts owing to the latter's retirement to take up his important new Siamese appointment. The appointment of Judge Satow has not as yet been officially announced, and it will not be decided upon until the return of Lord Cromer to Egypt.

Relief of Khartoum Garrison

The extensive army maneuvers which are being carried out this summer by the troops of the Army of Occupation certainly exceed in interest and extent those of former years. Next month the North Sudan will be the scene of operations, and our troops will be charged with the relief of the Khartoum, leaving Abbassieh siding by special trains at 8:45 a.m. on the 13th, 17th, 22nd, and 27th October.

Rear Admiral Sir Edward Chichester, Superintendent in charge of his Majesty's naval establishments at Gibraltar, who died last week first saw active service during the Egyptian Campaign of 1882, where, as lieutenant of the Thalia, he won a war service promotion as commander, together with the more barren honours of the "Crippy" medal and the Khedive's Bronze Star. In 1884-85, for the Nile Expedition to Gordon's relief, it was Chichester who was selected as principal transport officer, and his exertions gained for him the special thanks of the Admiralty for the perfect organization that had contributed so materially to tho celerity with which the expeditionary force and its mass of incubus had been landed.

The Messageries Maritimes mailboat YangTse, which left Marseilles last Thursday, passed through the Straits of Messina on Saturday, and is due at Alexandria early tomorrow morning.

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Egyptian Land & General Trust

Increasing Values Reported

The annual general meeting of the Egyptian Land and General Trust, Ltd., was held on the 1st inst. at Winchester house. Old Broadstreet, E. C., Sir William F. Haynes Smith, K.C.M.G.,LLD. (tho chairman of the company) presiding.

The Secretary having read the notice convening the meeting,

The Chairman said: Gentlemen,—I do not desire to detain you with any lengthened observations. The report and accounts place tho position of the company plainly before you. Since the 30th of June the investments grouped under the beading "Other Investments," £13,462 16s. 1d., have been realised at a small profit and the amount applied in reduction of the outstanding amounts due for the purchase of land, which has been reduced by £15,778 5. 3d. The capital of the company has been invested in building lands at Cairo, at Alexandria, and at Khartoum,and in each case the lands have risen in value since they were purchased. We wore advised that it was undesirable to realise these properties within the period of the accounts now laid before you; but we are proceeding with the steps necessary for the realisation of these properties to the best ad- vantage. The Ghorbal Estate at Alexandria is an exceptional property, and, as I have already mentioned, it appeared, expedient, in the interests of the shareholders, to refuse an offer for it, which would have yielded a profit of over £30,000. It would have been pleasant to have been able to give to the shareholders a large dividend on the first year of working, but it seemed expedient, after having taken the risk of purchasing this property, that the share- holders should reap the full profit to be derived from its proper development Its position as being almost the only remaining building area in Alexandria, a vast commercial centre, which is daily growing in importance, appears to render this property independent of the ordinary fluctuations which may affect the land market in Egypt. We also for similar reasons declined an offer for another property, which would have yielded a profit of about £7,O0O. After receiving the best advice we can obtain, the Board believe that these properties will yield larger profits than those offered, and they are taking action for the purpose.

New Business

During the negotiations which have been pending, many matters have remained in abeyance which are being proceeded with. Offers of new business on terms which appear to be favourable are now being dealt with by the Board, and there is no reason to doubt that the operations of the company can be made a success for the shareholders. I now beg formally to move the adoption of the report and accounts.

Mr. J. Woodrow Matthews seconded the

The Chairman invited questions, but none were asked and he thereupon put the motion for the adoption of the report and accounts, which was carried unanimously.

The Chairman next moved the confirmation of the appointment of Mr. E. Toriel as a director, which was seconded by Mr. A. P. Mack, and agreed to.

On the proposition of Mr. C. H. Rigg, seconded by Mr. Veasey, Messrs. Annan Kirby Dexter and Co. were reappointed auditors of the company.

In acknowledging a vote of thanks, the Chair- man said the duty which he had had to perform at that meeting had not been very arduous, and he hoped that if he had the pleasure of meeting the shareholders in future similar unanimity would be shown.

The proceedings then terminated.

An interesting insurance was effected at Lloyd's last week on the Khedive's pleasure yacht Mahroussa. This vessel, now valued at £100,000, has, as we recently reported, been entirely reconstructed, having been fitted on the Clyde with three of the most modern steam turbines and otherwise converted from a paddle into a screw steamer. The previous Thursday she succeessfully ran her official trial trip in the Firth of Clyde and attained a speed over a measured distance of 17.75 knots. The present insurance covers the yacht against all maritime perils on her voyage out to Alexandria, via Gibraltar and Constantinople, at which latter port it is anticipated that the Khedive will go on board.

Until the vessel is officially delivered she is in the hands of the contractors, who have provided in the insurance contract that the yacht will be navigated as far as Gibraltar in the charge of a special pilot. Seeing that the Mabroussa was originally built of iron on the Thames as long ago as 1865, some underwriters have been surprised that she was worth the enormous amount spent upon her reconstruction, but they are unanimous in considering her a first-class risk for the voyage out, as she is practically an entirely new yacht, inferior probably to no other pleasure craft of the same type afloat. The Mabroussa is not the first yacht built for a distinguished potentate which has been insured in London. Some time ago after the Sultan of Turkey's new yacht was constructed on the Tyne, she was insured for her maiden voyage to the Mediterranean for £80,000.

A 75 Hours' Passage.

The Egyptian Mail Steamship Company Limited is pushing on the construction of its fleet for its service between Marseilles and Alexandria, and the first of its turkine steamers will be ready to be launched next May. Lady Cromer has been asked to christen the first steamer and to preside at the ceremony of launching, which will take place next summer. The service between Marseilles and Alexandria will begin to run from the 15th October, 1907. The steamers are being built Fairfield's. The time occupied by these turbine steamers in the passage between Marseilles and Alexandria will not exceed seventy five hours. The steamers after leaving Marseilles will call at Tania, and this will be the only port of call on the journey. It is expected that the passenger service between Marseilles and Tunis will be a lucrative asset of the Company, as now there is no first class line of passenger steamers plying between Franco and Tunis. The Egyptian Mail Steamship Company will be under contract with the Egyptian Government to carry the mails from London to Cairo in one hundred hours. The present mail service by way of Brindisi and Port Said frequently exceeds this limit oven when there are no untoward circumstances in transit. A special train in connection with the steamers will be run by the Internationstional Sleeping Car Company from Calais by Paris to Marseilles. At Paris these express trains will connect with part of the trains from Belgium, Germany, and the north. The steamers will fly the Egyptian flag.

Rich Copper Deposits

Rich new deposits of copper have been found in the north of Rhodesis, and as a result of the discovery it has been decided to proceed at once with another extension of the Cape to- Cairo railway.

The line, which has reached Broken Hill, is now to be carried a hundred miles further north, to Bwana N'Kubwa, in the vicinity of which there is said to be great mineral wealth. This extension will take the railway close to the Congo State border, and it is believed that in a few years it will be continued to the southern shores of Lake Tanganyika. The extension will also facilitate the linking up of the Rhodesian lines with the new railway,which is to traverse the Congo State from Lobita Bay.

Suez, Sunday

The U.S. transport Glacier, which, it will be remembered, escorted the American floating dock Admiral Dewey to Manilla last April, has returned to Suez and entered the canal yesterday afternoon, after a successful voyage.

In their weekly report upon the cotton market Messrs. Collinge Brothers remark that tho chief feature this week has been the bureau report of Monday giving the condition on the 25th ulto. as 77.3 against 82.9 last month. This was a lower figure than had been anticipated in general and in conjunction with the deterioration news which had been received after the 25th ulto, caused considerable covering by "shorts." There has, however, been but little real "bull" support and we are against the market for the long ran in view of the facts that the South has been offering more freely lately, crop news again reads favorably in general and that an increased crop movement may shortly be expected.

(Aujourd'hui a midi et demie.)

Notre marché se trouve déprimé du fait de la hausse du taux privé d'escompte a 4 1/2 % et de l'incertitude des places européeunes. Cette situation se traduit par one baisse presque générale de la cote, sans qu'il y ait en, d'ailleurs, beaucoup d'affaires traitées. Les valeurs qui ont été surtout échangées sont comme précédemment la National Bank, la Cassa di Sconto, les Nungovich Hotels, la Delta Land, et le Comptoir.

La National perd 3/16 á 26 3/8, les Nungovich 3/16 á 17 1/8, la Delta Land 1/16 á 3 9/32, ainsi que la Land Back á 8 15/16 Let autres pertes sont peu importantes. L'obligation Crédit Foncier Egyptien gagne 3 francs á 338.

Un fléchissement plus accentué aurait probablement pour effet d'attirer des acheteurs.

Le Supplément Commercial et Financial l' "Egyptian Gazette" paralt chaque Samedi midi, de facon á pouvoir etre expédié par le paquebot sutrichien. Il contient des revues complétes et impartisles du coton, des graines de coton, et du marché des valeurs; les derniéres statistiques jusqu á la veille de sa publication: des tableanx des fluctuations de la place et les copies dos dépeches officielles | envoyées á la Liverpool Cotton Association, etc etc

L'abonnement pour une année en Egypte coute 1 L.E. y compris les frais de poste; poor l'étranger 10 P.T. deport en sus.

Captain Charlton- Miss Whitaker

The marriage took place at St Peter's, Eaton-square, on Saturday the 15th inst., of Captain Claud G. Charlton, Assistant Military Secretary to the Sirdar, and Miss Gwendoline Whitaker, daughter of Mr. Arthur Whitaker, of Chiddingstone Hall, Edenbridge, Kent. The Rev. Prebendary Storrs, Vicar of St. Peter's, assisted by Canon Brooke, took the service. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a gown of white lace and chiffon with white satin Court train, tulle veil, and wreath of orange blossoms and myrtle. She was attended by nine bridesmaids—Miss Dorothy Whitaker (sister), Miss B. M. Whitaker, Miss Phyllis Agnew, Miss Joy Agnew, Miss D'Erves Allen, Miss Violet Edwards, Miss Victoria Wingate, Mias Madeline Rory, and Miss Naville Harter. Masters Raymond and Geoffrey Whitaker (brothers of the bride) acted as train-bearers. Mr. Sacherwell Coke, Irish Guards, was best man. The presents were numerous, and included from the Queen of Spain, silver salt-cellars; Princess Henry of Battenberg, silver cigarette lighter and ash tray; the Sirdar and Lady Wingate, silver sauce-boat; Mr. Arthur Whitaker, diamond tiara; Mrs. Arthur Whitaker, diamond ring; Sir Rudolf Von Slatin, silver cake-basket; and the household servants at Chiddingstone Hall, a large silver tea-tray.

Captain Reeves- Miss Allen

At all Saints' Church, Cockley Cley, on the 4th inst., the marriage took place of Captain H. C. Reeves, RA, son of the late Col. H. N. Reeves, Bombay Staff Corps, and Mrs. Reeves, Palace-gardens-terrace, Kensington, and Miss Elsie M. Allen, yougest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Allen, of Ramleh, Egypt, and Cockley Cley HalL. Swaffham, Norfolk. The service was conducted by the Rev. D. E. Nicholas, the Rev. A. M. Harbord, and the Rev. E. Harris, rector of the parish, and the church was decorated with quantities of flowers, ferns, and palms. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a lovely gown of ivory satin with sleeves, yoke, and a flounce of Limerick lace, the gift of her mother, with sprays of orange blossom and white heather. Her veil of embroidered tulle was arranged over a wreath of orange blossom, and her ornaments included a diamond crescent and bow brooch, and an aquamarine and pearl pendant. She carried a shower bouquet of white flowers, the gift of the bridegroom.

The bridesmaids were Miss Ursula and Miss Gwen Allen (sisters of the bride), Miss Lilian and Miss Violet Reeves (sisters of the bride- groom), Miss Olive Auley, and Miss Eileen Chataway. Master Chris Briscoe acted as page, and wore a white cloth Louis XV. costume braided with gold. The bridesmaids wore ivory soft satin dresses, with gold tissue belts and bows and white crinoline hats trimmed with tulle feathers and pink roses, and carried shower bouquets of pink roses and amilax. The bridegroom's gifts to them were pearl crescent brooches, and the bride's to the little page was a pearl grenade scarf pin. The best man was Major Henvey, R.F.A. After the ceremony a reception was held at Cockley Cley Hall by Mr. and Mrs. Francis Allen, and Captain and Mrs. H.C. Reeves left later for Norwich. The bride's going-away gown was of pale blue cloth trimmed with white silk braid, and a lace yoke and sleeves and she wore a toque of white crinoline. The presents were many and beautiful.

On Saturday Prince Mohamed Aly visited the tomb of the late Sayid Abdul Khalik El-Sadat, situated at the foot of the Mokattam Hills, where he was received by Sheikh El-Balm, son-in-law of the late Sayid El-Sadat, who was a sincere friend of his Highness.

Sir Reginald Wingate is expected to arrive in Cairo on the 6th prox. on his return from England.

Mustapha Pasha Fahmy is on his way to the exhibition at Milan. He will stay in Italy till the 17th Ocotober,returning here on the 21st.

Ibrahim Pasha Neguib, under secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, left yesterday for Cairo,

Lord Edward Cecil returns here from Cairo tomorrow evening.

Maltre Carton de Wiart is leaving Cairo for London about middle of next month for a shot visit.

Mr. and Mrs. George Royle and their ai daughter, Mrs. Maclean, wife of Colonel C. W Maclean, commanding the 16th Battalion, Egyptian Infantry, have returned to De Vere Gardens, Kensington, and are due to arrive in to Egypt on November, by the P. & 0. S.S. Caledonia.

Sharif Pasha, Turkish Minister at Stockholm, arrived here this morning on his way to Cairo. His brother-in law of Abbas Halim Pasha.

Shawl Bey, translator of the Khedive, returned here yesterday from Stamboul, whither he bad gone on a private mission.

Dr. Kawoski Bey, physician to H. H. the Khedive, has arrived at Alexandria on his return from Alexandria, where he accompanied his highness.

Financial Activity

M. de Reffye, French Consul at Cairo, in an interesting article to "L'lnformation" on the economic situation in Egypt, remarks upon the financial activity in Egypt during the year 1905-6, when quite a number of companies came into being in Cairo, and furnished the occasion for the introduction of a large amount of foreign capital. He divides the companies into land, financial, industrial, commercial, transport and hotel companies. There are other two branches not included in this list—namely, land mortgage, in which French capital plays the moat important role, and those companies with registered offices abroad—principally in London, Paris and Belgium, which are governed by their respesctive national laws, and which he has failed to find out much about. It is difficult to determine what is the proportion of capital subscribed by foreigners and natives respectively in those companies which have been issued in Egypt, for the foreign element amongst their shareholders is resident in the land, and cannot be easily sorted out. Eleven land companies were founded in 1905 and three in 1906, with a capital of 113,500,000f., and the contribution of the Egyptians thereto, always admitting the uncertainty named above, was about 84,500,000f. France shared to the extent of about 4,500,000f, whilst French- men in Egypt contributed about 780,000f. Other races took part as follows:—English, 7,070,000f; Anglo Egyptians, 15,700,000f; Belgians, 11,276,00f; and Dutch 2,000,000f, Two financial companies were established, whose combined capital was 17,500,000f, which was taken up in Egypt There was but one "industrial," a cigarette company, in 1905, with 625,000 fr. capital, of which Germany subscribed 325,000f, England 125,000f, and the balance was made up by Germans in Egypt or by pure Egyptians; but in 1906 there have been five such companies, with a combined capital of 4,500,000f, almost entirely locally subscribed by English and Belgians, except for 550,000f, subscribed by Austrians. There were six commercial companies with relatively small capital, subscribed to almost entirely by the English and French in Egypt. There have been likewise six transport companies, with about 4,130,000f capital The total companies established were five, with a combined capital of 8,590,OOOf, to which Egyptians, French Egyptians, Syrians and English were large contributors. The disposition is strong, he sums up, on the part of the foreigner to support land companies, and particularly so in the case of the French.

Khedivial Yacht Club

The following are the results of the race on rating of Saturday

The wind was fresh from the N.W., and a very pretty start was witnessed, nearly all the boats being over the line within a few seconds after the starting gun was fired. The largest boats soon drew away from the smaller, until it became a following race.

The following are the results the race on rating which was held yesterday:

Yesterday only five boats turned up. The "Calypso" did not race on account of her old sails, which are quite worn out. The "Minnie" leaked so badly in the first race that it was not worth her while starting on the second one. The Isis II. very pluckily started in both races, and continued to the end of each.

Above are given both the actual finish and the corrected times according to the allowance made for rating. It will be seen that the Anake was first in each case; she therefore wins the cup. The Sans Pareille was very unlucky in each race; in the first one she made a bad start, and in the second one when halfway round the first round she carried away her jib, which split right up, being apparently very old. This was most unfortunate as she was fighting well with the Ananke for first place. The Fen Follet did not come up to what was expected of her, being beaten by the Ananke in the first race by approximately 4 1/2 minutes and in the second by approximately 8 1/2 minutes; her sail does not appear to be as well stretched as it might be. The Banshee did very well in the second race in comparison with the only other local built boat, viz Fen-Follet, only being beaten by her by 1 min. 26 secs,which difference no doubt is due to her being the older boat.

Owing to an error in last Wednesday's report of the results of the races the Fen-Follet was omitted. She also had the misfortune of dropping part of her crew overboard, but they we repicked successfully and no damage done.