AFRICA.
Cape to Cairo Railway. The construction of the Cape to Cairo railway is advancing at the rate of 10 miles each week. The head works have now- reached 47 miles south of Khartoum. The distance between Capetown and Cairo as the crow flies is 3700 miles, and the work is proceeding rapidly from both ends, and considerably over half the line is in working order. In the south tho Zambesi has been crossed, and the work pushed well on towards the Rhodesian border. The British-South African Co. is doing the work to the border, and three other companies carry it on in the Congo State. The line w-ill run to the westward of Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria Nyanza, and between the White and Blue Niles to Khartoum.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 26, 30 June 1909, Page 6
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128AFRICA. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 26, 30 June 1909, Page 6
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