A LAND OF WEALTH.
A cablegram from London, on Wed-, nesday last, stated that sixty thousand pounds' of gold from King Leopold's Kilo mines, in the Ituri province of the Congo, passed through Uganda last week, and that it was reported that enormously ricn goldfields had been discovered in the King's private domain. The fabulous wealth of the Congo Free State, which Belgium proposes to annex, was dwelt upon by Mr Schollaert, President of the Belgian House of Representatives, in a speech in that Chamber early in the month. He declared that the riche3 of the territory surpassed the imagination, and that the Katanga district was destined to become the largest copper producing centre in the world. The report of the Anglo-Congolese Frontier Commission, which has just been publisheJ, also bears witness to the mineral wealth of the region. It mentions that there is considerable activity on the Kilo goldfiel.ls, inside the Congo border, which ere being largely worked by Australians. The first two lots of gold sent away frjm the mines were worth £70,000.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9151, 25 July 1908, Page 4
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175A LAND OF WEALTH. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9151, 25 July 1908, Page 4
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