President—Barow Von Kalbficisch. Chairman—Johann Grossmann, Esq., Committee—BIessra. John Brown, Esq., F.LP., McGregor Aufwaerts, Karl Engel-def, H. St. M. Von Lager, Herr Johann Kuh, and 8. Lowenheim.
wwer—J. Kraussmann.
Hon. Sec.—Otto, Von: Schmidt. ing the Sirdar's two railways—one following King: William-street," the offices of the the course of the Nile towards Dongola new. journal, -does.not exist: for 200 miles; the other going across the Transport of the 25th: ult. says:—'The desert to Abu Hamed, and thence, when death is announced of Herr H. H. Moler, completed, to Khartoum. Bat; in: order the founder of the famous North-German to work this. Jast railway with the best Lloyd. line. of steamers, at the "advanced economy, it would' be necessary to make age of: 89. In- early life. Here Moler f the Fifth and. Sixth Cataracts in represented the steamship. undertaking mn; which Prof. Forbes has not of Moler & Ca., in England and the examined: Near the Third Cataract at United States. After having undertaken in Kaibar a dam could easily be built, not 1846 a successful mission to Berlin in the only for impounding the water in a reinterests of a-steamship service between servoir, but also for assisting the irrigation Germany and North America, Herr Moler at low water in Ezypt Proper, and to.work was elected in 1848 a member of the Frank-machinery for generating electric power. fort Parliament, and some years later This would be applied partly to the founded the Bremen Bank and the North-working of the first railway spoken. of German Lloyd. He also represented Bre-above, and partly to pumping opera-men, his native city, in the first Northtions-in the Donxola provines. "This pro-german Reichstag, where he joined the vince appeared to the Professor to be cap-National Liberal Party. In addition to able of being made one of the most fertile other commereinl enterprises he devoted regions of the world, but hitherto no irrigahimself to the establishment. of large irontion had been attempted there except on a works in the Harz Mountains, and other small scale at the river banks. By the mining. enterprises. He. also took part construction. of canals such as. exist in in. the construction of a. railway-in South Egypt Proper, or by the establishment of America, and in the establishment of two large steam pumps, the.wholo. of this: pro-'German trans-oceanic telegraph lines." vince, in his opinion, might be brought SeveRat attempts have been made to into cultivation. As might naturally be utilise Milford. Haven in Wales as a point expected, the. cost. of establishing. all: or of departure for Atlantic It is, 0 part of the works connected with the pro-splendid harbour, which the largest, vessels posal.would run. into a considerable sum can enter and leave easily at all states of but. the return for the money expended, the tide, railway communica the Professor thought, would be very high with London has been hitherto insufficient. indeed."
A new line has now been started by. the Tue two. following notes are.from the Canadian. Steamship. Ca., as to which 'New. York: Nation of the 17th: ult. "It is but justice. to the British, to say qiitlie vessels, which are intended' for that. their refusal to, evacuate is, probably passengers as well as goods, will ply fort ightly between Milford Haven and, Pos. due to their wonderful success. Their administration. has, transformed Egypt. Tt ino, an ice-free port at the mouth of the, has restored agriculture, spread security t. Lawrence, and vice versd. It is computed that it will be possible to make the and order such as have not been seen in it it trip in from four and a-half days to five days, as compared with the six. and o-half-Mebemet Ah beat days to seven days at present. ocoupied: bythe Egyptian dobe the Liverpool route. On the Canadian si paying investment and. as.it happens, 'a railway from Paspebiac will carry the country profite by ti so mush as goods and passengers away to Montreal France; a8 the French are the principal and other places. The first vessel—tho Egyptian creditors. As the British withia—is to leave Milford Haven on the drawal would probably be followed by the 7th December, und is to be followed. by the old disorder, the British determination to Paspebiac. In the spring the steamers are remain is not to be wondered at. Lord to go weekly. It appears that the two Salisbury's aim has, apparently, been to boats named, which make about fourteen or fifteen knots, are not for permanent use. continue the occupation while Provoking France as little.as possible, and for this Later on faster vessels, equal to eighteen reason, in spite of the Jingo: mood of the or twenty. knots, are to be brought into British pi he refased to declare a tion, and those best informed are of protectorate last week at the Lord Mayor's opinion that there is a successful future quet. After what has happened, before the venture. It is probably partly England probably never evacuate in connection with this. vow opening for except as the result of a crushing defeat in Great Western enterprise that, a leading war—something which will hardly occur in member of the General Manager's Staff at Paddington has been promoted to the position of marine and docks superintend-staying polyer, very like the United States our time. England is, in the matter of—in that only an enemy which can land eat of the- Company, but the appointment and ravage the country will ever bring her has not yet been officially announced." to hor knees.
Nile," and th Beret river is now to be "Tae Nile ¢ and. Egypt is the "We do not generally attach great imharnessed, to be made to drive the Bread, but we assume that the London trance to the sayings of Mr. W. T.
rays of Egypt and the tramways, and.
Daily News would. not publish a letter is to work the pumps: with which its own. from him touching an interview with the water is to be distributed for irrigating pur-Czar of Russia without reasonable assurance poses. The latest issue of Transport says of its fidelity to truth, Mr. Stead says Professor George Forbes, the well-known that such: an interview was accorded: to electrical expert, lias, on the request of him at-Livadia, and that. he was strongly the Eayptian Minister of Public Works, impressed with the Czar's earnestness in examined. the Nile from Cairo to the favour of disarmament. He does not repeat Fourth Cataract, with. reference to- its the Czar's words, since that would be impro-capabilities of generating electric power riety, but he thanks God that Russia and the uses-to which that power might as such a man at the head of her Gov-be put. In his report he said: that ernment. Th nificance of the inter-power: could: very easily be generated at view at this time is that it assures the the First Cataract, where Assouan, one public that Russia is not now stirring up of the most important towns in Egypt, is strife in Asia, or giving England any cause situated, to supply electricity for pump-for uneasiness. It may be fairly. assumed, ing purposes for the irrigation of Egypt now that the Fashods incident is dismissed, Proper, which was of the greatest import-that the war clouds lately disturbing vho ance. It could also be utilised for electric European horizon are passing away, and light, railways, and tramways. At the that the poor people of the Old World may Second Cataract, just above Wady Haifa, go about rheic daily task of earning a live-the: chief value of the almost unlimited.
Iihood: with some confidence in the per-power to\be.developed: would: be for. work-. minence of peace."
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