NEWS OF THE EMPIRE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 522, 1 June 1909, Page 7

NEWS OF THE EMPIRE.

.of. Scotoh'and .English farmefs . who left Liverpool frfr Canada on Moroh 12 to- inspect, the: Canadian Pacific 6,000,000aero irrigated land, schome have purchased between thorn ovor 8000 acres at ;a cost of .about £40j000. I *Fiteo,homeateads inSouthem Alborta are now practically exhausted. Rhod«slan Postago Stamps. . . , postage stamps issued by tho British South Africa Company for'lls6 in.Rhodesia have hitherto only borhefha name and arms of the company. Tho company has now pro- . visronally■ over-printed all values of its current issue of stamps .up to*£l with the W6rd "Rhodesia" in black letters. ' Sympathetic Maglo> , - "A friend of mine came across a liativo sitting in f the verandah of a house from .. which groans proceeded," said Air. E.' Tliurs- : ton atßoyal Society of Art-s. in a lecture on ; the 'natives 7of\Sonthem - India. "He ■leamt that the man's on a . studded with sharp nails in "ornßr •••••" !• 'Wm by sympathetic magic of some tn- . ; flmg aihn6nfc. n ' . Oil Found In Egypt. 1 , % A syndicate, prospeoting 150 miles south . 6 ?. Suei, on :tho Red Sea coast, has struck oil,-the gusher giving increasing quantities indicating large reserves.-The well has been properly capped, pending storage arrangements.- Thei possibility of'tt cheap supply ,of liquid fuel is a disoovery of the greatest importance tor Egypt, and the unique 'geographical position should render the discovery valuable to the British Navy. -' Daps To Cairo Railway. Renewed' .operations have' commenced in ownection with the-Capo to .Oairb Railway. At.preseiit.:thb_terminus of the northern line jj, Broken a Hi!l^the centra of a mining district some 380 miles north of the Zambesi Ki'er. The enginoor of the railway has .just loft England to commence operations tor tho, eitehßion 'of the railway northward , ~ irorn. Broken, Hill,, ; and largo quantities of pormanont way material are now being sent fonrard from, England. The completion of . ; railway from tbo Capo to Cairo is So far realised that only a gap of 600 miles exists ovor which one has to find transport other • tuan by rail, or, steamer.' ■ ; Loyalty of India. ■ Leading . Bengali notables rcoently gave a reception in, honour -of Mr. Sinha, the new , V legal.member_of the Viceroy's Council, llio ■ Alaharajah of Tagore, who: presided, said I that I there was an unvarying deep-seated ,- '.sense, of loyalty, among; the great! masses of tlw people. Anarchism was unmistakably , sbhorrent to the thought of all thoso w«lldisposed and healthy-minded people who constituted tho liege subjects oAhe Kine "t A ho "■ -continued the, Maharajah, affMtwnate;sense in which he is'W. , garded by the British nation in every part of the world where-Englishmen are-to bo rC L?. of an-Vchiam mako: for disintegration, while the welfare of India depends on unity," / ' . Mysterious Troo-Daublng. Sir Edward Henry, Chief Commissioner of Police, was tho guest of the Authors' Club' on April JO, at a houso dinner presided over by -Mr. H. Annesley Vaohell. lUoountinc «"U0 Of his experiences whilo .v serving . in India, Sir Edward recalled the period of unwith ' trefi-dauoing, ' which created a great amount of alarm./ The police , were-instructed to .take 'the. daubs from the height, and sond them to the « . a ! i iw-i 1 J or examination. Thon V t c?t-i odl was tho height ' nothin S but buffalo's i lO --I® 1 ? » a .pig'«t-contained *^ U i 4 ' la,r3 ' ft being thus proved ■ that the daubs Were due. to, natural causes the alarm subsK cil. It wa3 quite worth c ' on .. SKldrmg, Sir Edward , added, whether there er° u "cl for bfing alarmed about •V' '• tiorew 'being- deep-seated.- '