The Panama Canal.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1668, 26 March 1886, Page 3

The Panama Canal.

A Telegraph correspondent gives the^ following graphic sjfetjpvoj^h iujtejrvie..w with the viTacious^lr^-^erHiii«liid>- -fttSouthampton. The other night at midnight, I was awakened by a^ud <?Uttering and thumping on the corridor near my bedroom m the Radley Hotel. It was the 'lMtfiffiUdtir onxhis trav4ls»3 just arrive^sOy^th^Trfte^train^from 'Eoii^ don, secretaries, followers, bag, and baggago. Judging- £ roraj the which passed be(ote'WeJwero- owee i more* as quiet as church mice, Monseinr lo Comte wa^u no particulnr h^UMy ta,«ffct to bed. TRfPiFe**iffust *haye been up with the lark— if, indeed, the lark ever thinks it wTrTliswhjj^^jggjt^ft^in^UQh; weatlid- of thisV'sort. At any rate, when I went to call upon him,. a few minute's before 8 o^6TJkj{ttte.re he was^spibfc aridi span, frautt^as rogy-c«loured r morn, and Ins bajflrtpxbe'fire, and vine.;, .sweetest of quieffefniles* oir'hjv striititig' keen face. ABli^^ft'e'allr^dreitie^' 7^^ black tie tpipolishe'dbdotfl.'ha^iUßt'linVe' been up MiUe^ Lesser^ 4s' •ighty-one]yeairß ftld,-jyMshe would npassl for a ycun^i^BJ^j.-l^Lvrtarge asctioft, of the cpinmeriaa^.ian^,; enginewringt) world is emieij {against .Uig/magr.j nificient e*nTC I rp'ris*ci : 'or' scepticjil of,' x his ( . Bucceßs ; yet be pursue^Hhe 'slyject 07 his' last ambition 5 with the ' Biio^atttf sbjfitiiT and hopefalaess dfoyguth. ' It' in inipos-' aibie to b% jhrM. de:fcessepß'B> company ; without feeling for him not only> respect and admirat|on, but.alßO.ia sentuuent otM. Bomething-^ery'JikVJ.affection- . t Hpw _. that dapper little' inan^iias^ laughed. it I the croakersfas likewise 5 ai Mrs' Gri)hdy, these twenty" fi^e^years^^k^' more' ! L Their most:«ppailing^'rSphecies^of ruin-; have nevdiieinade thejlilightest 4mpies'--«ion on hjtUij ? [^?Ji I «i)foa\' a S)B ia.n^ their ridicule lx^re., run offi.jf rqm ?4»m>;Hke water fro|y*a duck's back*.. o AVhen , called hisS^ez'piatfs uric "v/iiste plajsan : terie he J^n^dat'^hem;; ' When ;they called him un/ou'daT^&'eu^lii^hne^d ■till mor4i* J antl^ai^a ! ll- tli'e ; World ~h£d known for^he la»t,aixte ! en:yeari. Ho got: th« bettej^pf '&!&?M ji&flStfy f ; and? tli* croakers, and^ leaped. ; con|ußip,n upon them m ( d^ r^f{^,i^f9/}^.jfo.-hini,: bow the prophets' speak, eytl'^qf Panama scneimeV lfp will' t&ll off, with 'a «hrug of Ris Bholirders,'sKo# 53 h ; e' r ;h'e*r<i' exactly the^satne tßiD^itwenty 1 year's ago ; m fact," he appears to regard' th.«(' hostile cril^cjs.ijigtr hjch j« ;at}H;«Q!'jpreva-. -j lent as pajtt of .thejßtriess pf:thingft. ; ; /. lieve me wjieritliol^them I, could; 'dig; out seven^^Hiib'ir'ciiDicineties of tW J Suez Isthffftg'irf ; ' ! yea^; <J bup they :? believed itMjjrheriJtin^'BS'tiirt© ( thW^iny ;; promised $wo lyears; i^eyi'lsa^ia 1 lowg;; procession of steamers sailing.ithroughi! f am doing 3 nQy, f .yJhat^ iuv nia skilledTDgincers who. will warn, ,wilh tlwir own«eye^B Wh ? at iVah d^H^e. Wf ; •will returflFto^Burop'e in-^ twb'Vmontlrt; 1 sod m thrs4 ffiimttoA Mikt^ tinft ? l 'Biy^ hundred uaillioaicubicßonoefros o£is|iid: : and rock wijl<j.bife^c.fc%yate,d,;.and. tlitv Pacific aud^A^l^nticeQceapßj,jqined< to y gethen vfi-yjj^ -sahaoii jfoi.! u> j ,i^