CAPE TO CAIRO.
_ew people, perhaps, realise how rapidly the "Cape to Cairo" i.-ilway-*wbich some years ago seemed a Utopian Bcheme —is being pushed along to completion. Ihe British South Attica Company have received information, that the railroad has been brought up, to Victoria Falls— the line now stretching a distance of over a thousand miles from Capetown. The sections o£ the huge, single spam bridge, which is to carry the railway acroßß the falls, are on their way out from England, a>d it is expected that th& structure Will be completed before the* end of this year. Meanwhile, the line: will be taken one hundred miles further north,] to Kalomo. The completion of this railway will be accompanied with vast changes lor better or worse, for Africa. Unjess Christian people bestir themselves to do more than they are doling now m foreign missionary work the changes will be for the worse. Mere "commerce nevef civilised anybody* much less Christianised anyone.— Ex* change. ' "
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10659, 12 May 1906, Page 5 (Supplement)
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163CAPE TO CAIRO. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10659, 12 May 1906, Page 5 (Supplement)
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