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Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 174, 25 July 1907, Page 7

Egypt is still a country which is almost wholly agricultural, and the success or failure of agriculture there depends well-nigh entirely upon the water supply. It is by giving the land water with a lavishness that it has never enjoyed before that Egypt has "been raised from insolvency to wealth. Lord Cromer, guided by his trusted technical advisers, now recommends that another great step forward shall be made. He- proposes that the dam ot Assouan, one of the most wonderful triumphs of modern engineering, shall be raised by 23 feet at a cost of £El,----.500,000. The change will enlarge the. storage capacity of the reservoir from 980,000 cubic metres to 2,300,000 cubic metres, or to nearly two and a halt times the actual figure. This addition to the water supply will make it possible to bring some 900,000 acres of land under cultivation, and to raise a cotton crop in this area worth from ~£E3,500,000 to £E4,000,000 ia year The benefits which the raised dam will bestow upon the country can.be measured by the benefits which the actual dam has conferred upon it. Sir -William Garsten, who has studied _tne whole problem of-.water supply and or its relation-to the wants of the people, has estimated that the,sale value of the lands which the reservoir, supplies with perennial irrigation has increased by £E24,510,000 since the dam was made. When the canals now under construction .have been finished the increase will be raised to £E28,312,000. The rental value has grown by a million and a half, an increase which will expand to over two millions. Those who are well posted- as to the best means of relieving pain and curing sores, wounds or burns, always use Chamberlain's Pain Balm. They insist there is nothing like it. For sale by J. Benning, Blenheim, and W. Syms, Picton. * When Robert Lowo was Chancellor of the Exchequer h© laid down ninet> fest of asphalt, and got himself a pai of roller skates. That was his metlio" of mastering a liver and the fatigue I of office. Earl Spencer, when in Ire land, during the darkest days of hi office, found riding fast and far tL one thing to relieve his spirits of gloon: Gladstone cut down trees and tranlated the classics; Lord Randolph: Churchill went racing; Sir• Willia? Harcourt bought a hunter and neve • used it. Palmerston fought his ba; tie against weariness in the worslio;itself. The late Sir Janios Paget foun<! him at work, standing at a high desk, and told him that he really must take more rest. Pam answered that it war? impossible; that it had now become hi; habit to work while standing. Formerly he had been so overworked that he used to fall asleep while sitting ■writing at his table. To conquer thi weakness he took to standing. "For," ho said, "if I fall down that wakes we."