Uganda.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 9, 27 February 1902, Page 15

Uganda.

Bishop Hanlon, who has been for some time in England in th interest of hia far-away mission in Uganda, addressed a crowded meeting of the members of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce and the Manchester Geographical Society in the early part of December. The i Very Rev. Dr. Casartelli, M.A., the learned Rector of St. Bedes College, presided. His Lordship selected as his subject ' Uganda, and the Way Thither.' The Bishop, whose remarks were illustrated with lantern pictures, said that the great event during the past forty years in regard to Uganda and Bast Africa was the establishment of the Uganda railway in 1896. This railway waa expected to be completed as far as the ihore of the Uganda Lake by Christmas. When the railway was finished he believed two steamers would be put on the lake, and that it would be the means of opening up the country. There was a good deal of trade at present in German East Africa, and German merchants would find it to their interest to send their goods by rail and steamboat as the coßt would not be half of what it was now. Many great resources in Uganda were simply awaiting development. Amongst theM were the cotton plant, the rubber plant, and the salt mines Ooal, too, he thought, would be found, and there was iron ore in abundance. It was stated that gold had been discovered, but ho

would not vouch for the truth of this. Lime also existed in the country surrounding Uganda. The natives were rich in ivory, and were anxious to exchange it for clothing and other things possessed by Europeans,