260 DEL AGO A BAY. 



regular mail contract as far as Mozambique 

 and I bo. 



Small tug steamers often run from Natal, and 

 some very large lighters belonging to a Shipping- 

 Company render the task of discharging cargo 

 much more quick and safe. 



Anthracite coal is said to have been discovered 

 very close to this part, which if true will render 

 it of still more importance. Then the long- 

 wished-for railway is actually a reality, the first 

 sod being turned on the 2nd June 1886, and so 

 rapidly has it been pushed on that in November 

 1887 trains were running to the Lebombo range 

 (the Portuguese frontier), a distance of 52 miles. 



One immediate effect of the railway has been 

 the establishing of one or two good hotels and 

 many additional canteens, where the owners 

 realise small fortunes, and the customers help 

 to fill with alarming rapidity the fine new 

 cemetery lately opened some little distance from 

 the town. The customers aforesaid are many of 

 them loafers from Barberton, where I am told 

 men who have no ostensible means of subsist- 



