NEWS OF THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 109, 5 June 1909, Page 3

NEWS OF THE EMPIRE.

The party of Scotch and Knglisii fanners who left Liverpool for Canada on Villi March to inspect Ihe Canadian I'acilic Il.MllO.OOl) - acre irrigated land scheme have purchased between t'Ueiu over KIMIM acres at a cust of aboilt L'-111.01111. free I' 's ill Southern Alberta, are, now practically exhausted. The (postage .stumps issued by the British South Africa Company for use in Rhodesia, liave hitherto only borne the name and urnis of the company. The company lia.s now provisionally overprinted all values of its current issue of stomps up to cl witlii the word "Rhudcs'ia" in black letters.

"A friend of mine came across a native sitting in the verandah of a house from nvliicii groans proceeded.'' said Air. Ik. Thurston at the Royal Society of Arts in u lecture on the natives of Southern India, "lie learnt that the man's wife was sitting oil a swing studded with sharp nails in order to cure him by sympathetic magic of some trilling ailment."

."Renewed operations have commenced in connection with the Cape to Cairo railway. At present the terminus of the northern line is at Broken Hill, (lie centre of a milling district some HBO miles nopt'h of (ihe Zambesi river. The chief engineer of the railway has just left England to couiiiience operations for the extension of the railway northwaul from lirnken Hill, and !ari.'c quantities of permanent wav material are now beins sent forward from England. The completion of the railway from tho Cape to Cairo is so far realised that only) a pa t p of fit)!) miles' exists over which 0110! has to find transport other than hi- rail I or steamer, ' I ]