Excerpt from Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute, Session 1907-1908, Vol. 39: July, 1908; Part VIII Kingdom and the Colonies, and from Fellows of the Institute and others. The chairman: Lord Milner's name is so well: and so widely known and so highly appreciated all over the British Empire, that for me to say a word by way of introducing him to you would be entirely superfluous. Perhaps I may be allowed to say I feel myself greatly honoured in being asked to preside on this occasion, and I feel also that the Institute is to be congratulated on the fact that Lord Milner, in the midst of, the great demands on his time and attention, has kindly consented to give this Address. With these few words, I now invite him to do so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute, Vol. 40: Session 1908-1909; Part IV., March 1909 At the beginning of the twentieth century (which, by the way, Canada has annexed, leaving the nineteenth to the United States) it was obviously necessary that a second thoroughfare of steel should be built from the Atlantic to the Pacific through British territory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute, Vol. 39: No. 2, Session 1907 1908 Lake Nyasa and the Shire Valley form a portion of one of the lengthiest rifts in Africa; it may be said to commence at the junction of the Shire with the Zambesi, and to run without inter ruption to the north end of Lake Nyasa. Here the line Of rift is shifted a little to the north, and is carried on by the Lake Rukwa Valley. It is continued again by Lake Tanganyika; and, with a few breaks further north, by Lake Kivu and the Albert Edward and Albert Nyanzas to the Nile. Lake Nyasa is now lower by some feet than it has been for twenty-five years. All round the margin of the lake, moreover, are to be seen beach marks far above the present water level, which show that at previous periods the water has been much higher than it has been at any time within the knowledge of Europeans. Last year the lake fell to such an extent that at the end of the dry season it ceased overflowing at its outlet (the Shire River). Not only so, but at the commencement of the rains in November, when local streams began to throw their water into the Upper Shire, this portion of the river for some weeks ran into Lake Nyasa, instead of carrying Nyasa's water southward. As banks of sand and mud began to appear at the exit of the river, they were quickly clothed with grass, reeds, and other vegetation, thus closing up still more the lake's outlet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute, Vol. 39: Session 1907-1908 All communications to be addressed to the Secretary, Royal Colonial Institute Northumberland Avenue, London. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute, Vol. 36: January, 1905 The next objection is the theory of the need of all resources for internal development, an objection which can easily be Shown to be equally fallacious with the first. For money which is devoted to remunerative business enterprises is not usually regarded as a heavy burden. Shareholders in the c.p.r. Scarcely look upon their holdings as drawbacks. The true line of reasoning on this subject seems to be this: When a State uses the funds at its disposal for non-paying purposes, it may justly urge that it is the less able to contribute towards its naval insurance. But when it invests those funds in a manner which yields it in creased profits, then the use oi that contention becomes absolutely absurd. On the contrary, the greater the interests at stake, the greater the insurance required; and, in like manner, the wealthier a British State has become through judicious development of its resources, the greater the claim which the Empire has on it for its quota of insurance premium. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.