CAPE TO CAIRO RAILWAY.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 150, 25 June 1904, Page 15

CAPE TO CAIRO RAILWAY.

News was lately received by cablo of the completion o£ tho Rhodesnan Railway to Victoria Falls. In a recent description of fcho works the Central News •says — "bo rapid has been tho progress with the construction of the Cape to • Cairo railway that Victoria Falls is. expected to bo reached very shortly. The now lino has now beeu. carried 288 miles from Bu.awoyo, and lias only some 50 miles to cover to reach tho falls. Tho engineering difficulties to bo encountered in the latter portion of tho "work are not so great as those experienced alter leaving Bnlawayo, when the track had to be cut througil forebt and carried over cxtromoty rugged country. Beloro the railway can bo continued northwards a hugo bridgo will have to tie erected across tho falls. Tho ironwork for tlje construction of tho bridgo has already been shipped, and whon tho bridge is completed tho rail level will be 4201t above the water-lino, or 55ft higher .than the dome of St. I'aulV Whilo tho construction of tfio great span is in progress tho metals for the permanent, way on the other sido will bo convoyed across by aerial gear, so that no delay may be occasioned in cairying on the railway to the rich deposits of copper in tho Broken Hill mine, some 3uo miles to the northwards, and which at present is the objective. Nothing ,hos yet beon decided as to tho continuance of tho raiiway beyond Broken Hill mine, although the dnectors of the British South African Company hopo that some day it may bo possible to rcaliso tho dream of the late Mr. Cecil Rhodes in having through railway communication from tho Cape to Cairo."

Mr. Becrbohm Tree, owing to the number of applications for admission to hm now 'ncatloiny of JJrmnatio Art, is unablo to accept any more candidates for tho first entrance examination, which has be,* gun at llib Majesty's Thoatro. Among those' who havo promised to visit tlio school and test the pupils by examination arc Sir Squire and Lady Bancroft, who hnvo offered an annual prize for competition ; Mr. John Hare, Mr. Pinero, Mr. Cyril Maude, Mr. Arthur Bourchicr, Mr, Edward Terry, Mr. W. S. Gilbert, Mr. J. M. Barrio, Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, Mr. Sydney Grundy, Mr. It, Oj, Carton, Mr. Corny ns Carr, Mr. IT. B. Irving, Captain Robert Marshall, Mr. H. V. Esmond, and Mr. Haddon Chambers. Lecturoi on Rtihjectn dealing* with the drama w ill he dolivercd at intervals by Mr. H. B. Irving tind othcis.