210 Timehri. 



found in that district, the rubber of the lower Hooded areas being 

 inferior in quality. A moderate sum may be added to the freight account 

 tentatively on this score. 



It will thus be seen that the shibboleth, as it has become, of an 

 unknown hinterland is becoming anachronistic, if it has not already 

 become so. The Hinterland Railway Committee have the opportunity of 

 putting together cold figures which may freeze stray facts together into 

 a form so substantial that the most obtuse will scarcely be able to deny 

 the real existence of a business proposition in railway freights to and 

 from the interior, which depends for its development solely on the fore- 

 sight, capacity, energy and business acumen of the commercial men of the 

 colony. 



