GERMAN ENTERPRISE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 119, 11 May 1908, Page 3

GERMAN ENTERPRISE.

COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT RAILWAYS FOB AFRICAN COLONIES SUBSIDY FOB EASTERN SUITING LINE. Received 10th, 4.23 p.m. Berlin, May 9. The Reichstag read a third time the Bill providing for the construction of railways as cabled on March 13, and the Bill authorising tlie payment of a grant of £11,300 to the North licrmau Lloyd Co. for the Australian-Japanese steam line.

The cable on March 15 states that the German Federal Council sanctioned the scheme of Herr Dernburg (Director of German Colonial Affairs) to construct SOD miles o{ railway, at a cost of seven and a-half millions sterling, in the African colonies.

At an interview with Herr Dernburg granted to a representative of the Berliner TageMatt, at Naples, the Colonial Secretary expressed his confidence in the fnture of German East Africa. The colony, he stated, wan within measurable distance of being able to support itself, and, with care and perseverance, the exploitation of its rich natural resources would lead in due time to great results. The Journey would lie productive of important administrative incisures and reforms, but as to the precise nature of these proposals, and concerning the railway and immigration <|ucs tiona, Herr Dernburg had no communication to make. The black population. In Ms opinion, was most serviceable ■ad indnftrious. Herr Dernburg cordially recognised the valuable information and guidance which he had received from the British, whose colonies in East Africa he considered were much in the same stage of development as the German—a somewhat inadequate appreciation of their progress. The manager of the East African railway, Herr KBneke, who ma also one of 'Herr Dernburg 1 ! party, said that the two things of which the colony stood most in need of were railways and irrigation. A white population was, in his opinion, out of the question, except in the highlands around Usambara and Wahehkc, where there was room for a million aettlers as soon as the Waihehe railway had been built