TATI  , a

district of British South Africa forming, geographically, the S.W. corner of Matabeleland, but attached administratively to the Bechuanaland Protectorate . Area about 2500 sq. m . The railway from Cape Town to Bulawayo crosses the territory with a station at Francistown, the principal settlement . Francis-town stands 3254 ft. above the sea and is 126 rn . S.W. of Bulawayo by rail . The town of Tati, on the river of that name, is 18 m . S.E. of Shashi river railway station . Tati owes its importance to the presence of gold, first discovered by the German traveller, Karl Mauch, in 1864 . Mining began in 1868, but it was not until 1895 that work on a large scale was undertaken, and it has been frequently interrupted since that date . The chief mine is the Monarch, situated by the railway . A concession to work the gold-mines, and for other purposes, was obtained in 1887 by Mr S . H .

Edwards from Lobengula, the Matabele chief, and the mining rights are vested in a company, thereafter formed, called the Tati Concessions Company .