NEW RAILWAY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144197, 13 September 1913, Page 3

NEW RAILWAY.

IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Sopt. 12. Tho romance of tho Uganda Railway promises to be equalled by tho construction of a great artery of 550 miles from tho newly-discovered port named after Mr. Harcourt, on a branch of tho Bonny River, Nigeria, to tho Kaduna River, where it joins tho Kano Railway, The cost of the new line, which the' Government has just sanctioned, is £3,000,000. The lino will traverse a mysterious and almost unknown land, where Juju worship rules, tapping the richest palm oil belt in tho world and a coalfield of a thousand square miles, of 75 per cent, value of tho best Welsh coal.