Router's A coney loams that, n#v eordins: to :i. telegram received in London, locomotives are now Tunning on 11u> Capo to Cairo railway to a. noint 40 miles hevond the Oonco frontier, i.0., 218" miles from Capetown. Earthworks aro completed for CO miles furtlior northward, and hy tho end of Anril it is expected that tlio railhead will Iks 100 miles within Conpn torritorv. From the start of the Congo or ElizahcthviHe. tlio npxt section of the railway will he to Tva7iihove, an important centre 110 miles distant to the -northward. The sni'vv of til "'iition now hoinrr made heyond 1-"-md)nve. Tf. Ha l : heen decided that the rails will next "0 to llii!;:iii:i—a sffli'm of ahont' 100 mile' —situated on the navi'rahle head wafers of tho Centre. "When Hill-ana. is reached there will h,.> connection hy river anrl r'-'nd with the p+. ilio nuinlh of the Con'-'o, Thrnneh t"!>inq ;irn nr.\v riMiniM" +"■'!(•" we"l;lv between ( 'anetowl) "'"1 t l '/' TT: 'i'vnn ''■"'iweii Victoria Fulls -and BroUoai HilS.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14221, 10 June 1910, Page 5
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167Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14221, 10 June 1910, Page 5
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