EGYPT.
PROGKKS3 AND SURPLUS. BENEFIT OF IRRIGATION. PHR PRESS ASSOCIATION Riceivsd 14 069 a.m. Cairo, Apiil 13. Lord Cromer has announce.-.! that, despite the exceptionally bad year, Egypt wouldhavea6urplnsof £716,000. The Smdan was miking a marked advance in its material, moral, and commercial progress.
Tie closing of the gates of the Aesiou 1 -. dam in August list had saved £600,000 worth c f crops. O-ving to physical difficulties, Lord Cromer doubt.d the necessity or practicibi ity of continuing the Nile railway to Uganda and the Caps. He remarked that there were obvious objections to the Government constructing a great irrigation reservoir at Lake Tsana in Abyssinia,'even thoagh King Menflik was friendly to the scheme.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 91, 14 April 1903, Page 3
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