EGYPT'S ASSEMBLY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 789, 12 April 1910, Page 5

EGYPT'S ASSEMBLY.

DISSOLUTION. ' • MINISTERS EXCLUDED FROM SUEZ DEBATE.'. By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyrieht ■ (Eec. April 11, 9.35 p.m.) Cairo, April 11. The Egyptian General Assembly, which recently threiv out the Egyptian Government, a proposed extension, of the Suez Canal concession, during the debate refused .to allow tho Government's proposals to' be discussed, and declined to hear Ministers. V The Assembly has now been dissolved.

This very interesting pen picture, of the new Governor, Sir John Dicison-Poynder, by "Jehu Junior," appeared in "Vanity Fair" on June 22, 1905:- .■■. ■ : "Sir John Dickson-Poynder is too einoere a politician to bo quite successful. "When Chippenham elected him in 1892 he was a Conservative with ideals— always a threatening combination. He believed it to be possible to conduct , the affairs of the nation- on business lines; eflicieney with a capital E was the political deity which he -ignorantly worshipped. And tlius it came about Hint from a party standpoint he rapidly went from bad to worse.. He had the inconceivable audacity to insinuate in the House that Mr. Brodiick, instead of being a heavenborn marshal, had not the, military intellect of a Snelgrove j he was progressive on the subject of trams, and was quite offensive ■to Lord Hugh Cecil and that gentleman's friends on tho subject of education.. Knally he declared himself a Free-trader, and thus filled the oup of His iniquities to the brim. The Government have put up a candiaato against him in his own constituency, while the Liberals in that locality have accented him as their representative. He will be as unorthodox a Radical as he was heterodox in his Conservatism, This is tho ono fact which lightens the woe of tho Central Conservative Office. '

"But Sir John being ia popular man, very wealthy, and of a pleasant counten-

NEW ZEALAND'S NEW GOVERNOR.