RAILWAY IN NIGERIA.
FOUR HUNDRED MILES LONa 8y Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. • (Received April 15, 9 a.m.J LAGOS, 14th April. A fom hundred mile long railway, connecting Baro, on tho Niger, with Kano, in the heart of Northern Nigeria, has been opened. [Railway work in Nigeria is being actively prosecuted. The Baro-Kano railway is a light one. It will connect with the Southern Nigerian railway from Lagos to Zungeria. Some months ago the Northern Nigerian Minos Association was m formed that, subject to certain condidtions, the acceptance of which cheir interim committee agreed to recommend a branch line of railway to the Bauchi tin-fields would be constructed by the Government forthwith. The line is to be 100 miles in length, and on the light railway principle, with a 2ffc 6in gauge. It will run from a point on the Baro-Kano line on the Kaduna, River called Rigachikun, and, following in the main the road constructed for wheeled traffic tc convey machinery, etc., to the mines, will cross tho Province of Zaria and terminate at Leri, at the loot of the Bauchi Plateau. Among tho conditions laid down by the' Government is one that the Niger Company shall for a period of ten years guarantee to make good the halt of any deficit that may arise.J
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1911, Page 5
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