DELAGOA BAY.
' TRADE'OUTLET FOR TRANSVAAL. Bt TELEGRAPH—PHKBB ASSOCIATIONr-COPVRIGHT. ' . Pretoria, March 9. Tho Portugiioso delegate to' the tariff Conference'at: Pretoria of tho South ! African Colonies has received instructions which tho Portuguese Government hopes will assure Louenco Marques prc-eminenco ini regard, to' Transvaal trade. . " Lourenco Marques, tho. Portuguese commercial . port on Delagoa Bay, '• and • tho :starting point, of, tho Transvaal railway,, is said to have not /nearly so,'fino : a, ; natural, harbour as Port Melville, in the. south-east portion of tho Bay. Lourenco Marques, according ,to tho samo' authority, can bo approachcd only by narrow tortuous 'channels, and... at . low tide access Js hindered by a bar. 30ft.deop.ftt high water, ordinary spring tides, whon the riso of the tide is 15ft. vessels are loaded' 'and. discharged. by \ lighters. , Delagoa Bay is tho natural port of' the Transvaal,' and Britain claims a pre-emptive , right. A cablegram, dated February 2fi, hinted that, owing to financial embarrassments, Portugal might sell.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 143, 11 March 1908, Page 7
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154DELAGOA BAY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 143, 11 March 1908, Page 7
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