The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, APRIL 17. THE LAST FRONTIER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 85, 17 April 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, APRIL 17. THE LAST FRONTIER.

Speaking of how the penniless younger son in the English society play, jilted by the luxury-loving and impossible heroine, invariably nowadays packs his bag and betakes himself to Rhodesia in search of fortune, Mr E. A. Powell, in “Scribner’s” remarks that fifty years ago the jilted fortune-hunter sought the golden fleece in California; thirty years ago he took passage by P. and 0. boat for the Australian diggings; ten years ago he helped to swell the mad rush to the Yukon; to-day his journey’s end is the newest of the great new nation’s—Rhodesia. Mr Powell goes on to tell us that Rhodesia is in the heart of equatorial Africa. Bearing the name of the great em-pire-builder is the whole of that region which is bounded on the north by the Congo and the sleeping sickness, on the east by Mozambique and tbe blackwater fever, on the west by Angola and the cocoa atrocities, and on the south by the Transvaal and the discontented Dutch. It is watered by the Limpopo, which forms its southernmost boundary; by the Zambesi, which separates Southern Rhodesia from the north-east and northwest provinces; and by the innumerable streams which unite to form tho Congo. “When the railway which English-concessionares are now pushing inland from the coast of Angola to the Zambesi is completed, the front door to Rhodesia will -be Lobito Bay, thus bringing Bulawayo within sixteen days of London by boat and rail. At present, however, he says, the country must be entered through the cellar, Capetown, and a railway journey of fourteen hundred miles; or by the side door at Beira, a fever-stricken Portuguese town on the East Coast, which is fortunate in being but a night’s journey by rail from the Rhodesian frontier. But today Rhodesia is the bust of the world’s frontiers where the hardy and adventurous of our race are still fighting the battles and solving the problems of civilisation.”