The Rev. E. H. Hubbard, of the Church Missionary station
at Nesse, on the shore of Lake Victoria, who has just arrived in England, has made an interesting statement to a reporter of Reuter's Agency. Everything was prosperous and peace- fill when he left Uganda. Coffee, tobacco, and English fruit-
trees are being planted, and the country is being developed at New Consols (21) were on Friday, 1131.
a rapid rate. Mengo is surrounded by splendid roads, with a good surface and suitable for vehicles. The Government has presented King Ill'Wanga with a brougham, and dog-carts and similar vehicles have been ordered for the Government officials. "Bicycles are expected up this year. Building is going on apace. The chiefs are erecting for themselves stone and brick houses of two stories with windows and doors,—a remarkable contrast to their former grass huts." The Prime Minister is not behindhand, but is said to be acquiring business habits of a Western type—a somewhat ambiguous compliment—and has furnished an office with tables and chairs. All this is most satisfactory, and means that when the railway reaches Uganda three years hence it will enter a fairly civilised country in which trade has been developed, and a market for Western goods already created. It is annoying to think that but for the vacillation of Sir William Harcourt the railway might already have reached the lake.
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