PORT SUDAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13904, 15 May 1909, Page 3 (Supplement)

PORT SUDAN.

The port and harbour of Port Sudan were opened on April Ist by the Khedive in the midst of a brilliant assemblage of Egyptian and Anglo-Egyptian notables and a large-crowd of natives. Port Sudan is the new harbour constructed by the Anglo-Egyptian administration of the Sudan to serve as the port of the Sudan, the site, after mature consideration, having been selected for that' purpose in preference to Suakiui. The new port has railway connection with Berber and Suakim. The Khedive arrived off the port at seven in the morning on .board his yacht, the Mahrussa. An artillery salute of twenty-one f,uns was fired as the yacht, breaking a line of flags, steamed into the harbour. Sir■-Reginald Wingate, the Governor-General of the Sudan, proceeded, on board to welcome his Highness.

The- Khedive received addresses presented by Sir Reginald Wingate, Kaimakam Kennedy Bey, Director of Works, and Kaimakam Dray Bey, Controller of Harbours and Lights. Sir Reginald, after -welcoming the Khedive and congratulating his Highness on the completion of the port, said :—"The construction of Port. Sudan is a work of which civilisation may well be proud, and marks yet another-stage in the task of bringing peace and prosperitv to the Sudan and its inhabiants.' Sir Reginald handed to his Highness a gold casket containing an illuminated conv of the address.* In describing the. .facilities ol the port, Kaimakam Druv said: —'/The entrance to the port is very good, and when within, vessels are protected from alniost anv wind or sea that may prevail. There is not the. slightest risk to vessels entering or leaving the harbour bv dav or night. The entrance to the port is very good, and when within, vpsspls are prntpcted from almost any wind or sea- that may prevail. There is not the slightest risk to vessels enterin «■ or leaving the harbour by day or night The. facilities for shipping should induce vessels with small consignments of ear™ to call here instead of transshinning at Suez and elsewhere." The Khedive, in reply, read t''« J o 1; lowing speech:—"The. opening of Port Sudan is a striking evidence ot the <?r"at advances made in the Sudan, and will tend, bv improving communications to unite- the more remote districts, cnInrcrp the sphere of trade, and promote the development of the resources of the countrv, thprehv brining the ble«un"s of and prosperity to the inhabitants " "«:<, or the coin" of the nun" wall lrr i"«nns of an fWtnV.-il pnnnpction. and formally declared the port open.