FIFTY YEARS AGO
(From the Mail of 29th May, 1866.)
All pending questions between the Egyptian Government and the Suez Canal Company have now been finally and satisfactorily settled. The commission appointed to fix the boundary of the land to be ceded, to the company have completed their labours and sent in their report to the Viceroy, by whom it was ratified on the 19th February. Their decision has not only given satisfaction, to all parties concerned but is also by Colonel Station, the British Consul-General, who had hitherto shown some opposition. The ground finally ceded by the Government to the company extends oven an area of 10,200 hectares. This comprises the Company's establishments at Port Said, Ismailia, ■Suez, and other places, as well as the narrow strip of, land bordering the canal on either side, from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 30 May 1916, Page 2
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