Morocco.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 42, 23 February 1904, Page 2

Morocco.

Those wlm> know Morocco must marvel afresh to hear of the Sultan ami 11is advisors squabbling with Parisian bunkers out lhe loan of lifty million francs which thoy offer." The situation is wy much Unit of the banker with cellara full oi wealt'h staiiklin# at his front door to beg of pies,sci"s-hy. Morocco is <\ land of boirmllesß wealth a« H\v world will discover when Moors IH> longer rule it. (!oM, silver, copper, tin, nickel, aiVtt* nion.v. iron, nml lnugant'tte atIOUWI : and coal uih! petroleum Iwve b*en found. Hut all iiw fanatic Moslem It'llws in Hie care 01' tho genii to whosv domain lie 'drinks them proper. 'lll.' treasure of tho put ty is I li»* property of tlio tit* mini* who live below. 'IVy will not mine theinsehes, awl tb*y will not allow others, fox thvy say. U they permit the t'hnsUmis lo Uo so,' the genii will slay 'he believers. There have been elo.u'r Ipotkls bo-, tttwn Morocco ainl Ove-at Uritata thftn we fivnvrally reineniber. A llooriwh H'oli'le was in the train of. William tlu- Comiujeror he came, to siibjugttU' lOnpl'aiwl. Six centuries later uhe llrrtis'h flag waif: flying in Morocco, wan part of the <lowr.v which CTiftvk« 11. ifccivfil with I'atiheriiio of Br*« Riinza. (<reat works were eetafelisiied anil a Kari ison mniiittvjncid until l'arliaituiil, suspectthat tho siwallnd (jnrrisoii was in lvaHty a Polish army, drew I the strings 01 its put.'n', imwl (diaries IT. hftd perforce to recall tho troops. J'ho H'reat mole which had beott built was '(icsli'o.u-il, ami Tatigiw frfl •Wain into Moorish our with not eitileii. Mohaiiunivl Ixti Allah, iino of tho most i-u 1 li-n*xl Sultans I he counlry tuis ever Iniid, who, duriiiß his rei«ii in the latlor ■half of I till! h ceivtury, s,.nt Moot<ji.sli lCm)Mi.ss;,« to the chivf cities of Kui«|k', enconraj,n<l and trade, (i,id the ivis<?st tiling 1m; coultil by marryinp tile of an lush sei- K vant oi tlw> Ito.val BngJ. "eeis. Hie Irish Sultann had a »gn, a \ei'il.alde Xero, who, wlw»« te mb ci-iulwl the throne, fch dom run r,xl with (d.Mifl, His liuttlter he aus)>vmk-4t «« a slow flfe with .yrew, tu , h,.| hi-a<l, until «( the CMit 01 (wo days who died. »M«> j those days lii-laiwl has not k*en««nt>. ,s|iicuoiis in Morocco, by.k .Scatlaocl floui'irfws in tho | V .uon of «h«> ■nqng'h'ty K#i4 M^chjau.—3t J'mteH' Gazette, * ' k ii