CENTRAL AFRICA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 201, 19 May 1908, Page 7

CENTRAL AFRICA.

TWO SCOURGES: FAMINE AND SLEEPING SICKNESS..

A BUREAU IN BRITAIN.

Br AfiSboiATItjN^COPYBIGHI. (Rec. May 18, IL3-5 p.m.) ■ < Ldrtdorl, May-18. The inipßriai Government has established a bureau HtJll&e, With apaid director* ahd under tlie gfencfal Wntrol Of; dtl honorary committee, of winch! Sir .-.West . Ridgway is chairman, to billate aiid distfß biite information, and publish IhapS relate ing to slcopiilg si6lihesd:\ ' VTile Royil Society Will cd-opefatd, ftiid the - Sudan Government will pay one-fburth of the expenses of the btlreaii. MANY DEATHS IN THE EQUATORIAL . . ' REGIONS. •• 1 / - London; May 17. 'Tho "Daily Mail 1 ' states that "the failuM of the banana crop from Busoga northwards to Lake Victoria Nyanza .has caused.- famine and a thousand deaths. ; - 1 - The Government of Uganda is feeding the people., -.-••• New Burlihgtoii: House is erected near the site of Old Burlington House, which wa3 built in 1695-1753,' between 'Bond Street and • Sackvillb by Richard Boyle, lord Burlington. " New Burlington- House,dates from• 1872,' and contains rooms for the meetings and management of learned societies—tho Eoyal, Geological,, and. Chemical east; of the; entrance; the Antiquarian,".Astronomical, aiid Linnean west, of ,'it. ' Old • Burliiigtbh l House itself-. #43' in ; 18fe handed bver to the Royal. Adadenly. The Uganda : Protectbratfe,' 253.500; sijuarfe 1 miles,; is. estimated tb cbfitain sbhiething under 4,000,000 ,natives. The Eurdpeftli population' is about iOO, including 83-.females; Sleeping sicskness, prior' to famine, epininitted great ravaged.