A. MffAE. SCKEJIfi. - Thu Mchomu for * canal between the Channel and the. Mediterranean is heinif seriously taken np irt France. Th« duiojfates o* Chambers of tfomniurcu have {ortntsd themselves Into iv commission! to< promote ite execution, and have had: an interview with several mem&tffc* elf tha Government. The Minister ot Finance asked {or a sketch ot the necessary works ami the cost, and the Minister of Public Works acknowledged the advantage ot a, canal servinir {or vessels 06 USo or ;:»» tons*- adrttri« thut thu financial question was the only thintr te> fee «onsldered. The commission,, tuloptinir the estimutss ot State eniflneers. put thecost at titV.mw.OOOtL—namely. tOi(HK>,OOO6 outlay on the tower Seino. (J.IXW.OOOt on thu tapper Seine ami Yonne. tO.OiHWOfc on the f.trrjrundy Canal, and tti;(H>»."» n ft on th« Rhone. The depth would be t;M> metres on the Rhone, ami two metres «lsewh«re. Transhipment would in any case be-necessary only at Lyons. The locks would be um< tormly 133 metres »*nd twelve bmivd on the canals. The workft would be completed in si.* years, tt i» heli«v«d that the traffic otherwise likely to he carried by th* St. Qofihurd Railway would he retained" it* Prance by this canal., and that the {reitrht ot wine and other commodities would be considerably reduced.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 93, 8 August 1876, Page 2
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