CENSOR AND PLAYS. A DEPUTATION OF DRAMATISTS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1908, Page 7

CENSOR AND PLAYS. A DEPUTATION OF DRAMATISTS.

By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received February 27, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 26th February. Messrs. Barrio, Pmero, and Sir W. S. Gilbert, and many other dramatists cleputationised the Right Hon. H. Gladstone, Home Secretary, asking for the appointment of court arbitrators against the decision of the censor in regard to plays. - .Mr. Gladstone expressed himself personally sympathetic, and promised to consult tho - Prime Minister, Sir H. CampboU-iJarmerman. IRRIGATION. ■ -4, . WHAT MIGHT BE DONE. By Telegraph.— Press AssufllttioiL— Copyright. LONDON, 26th February. Lord Ciomer, formerly British Minister in Egypt, speaking at a meeting of tho Society of Arts, said that in tho next fifteen or twenty years twenty millions sterling might very advantageously be spent on irrigation in Egypt and the- Soudan. During Lord Cromer's long and valuable term of office* much good work in ihc way of irrigation was done. The Assiout burrage, Assouan dam, and Ziftch barrage have been of enormous value, and a barrage iit Eseuh, at an estimated cost of one million, is in course of construction. Last year tho Council of M*inistor3 sanctioned another great development — the raising of the heighth of the Assouan dam so that the water leve] will be 23ft higher. The cost is estimated at £1,500,000, including land compensation, but with a water storage two and a quarter times greater, about 950,000 acres will come under cultivation, bringing about an estimated increase in the cotton crop worth £3,000,000 to £4,000,000 annually.