Postscript to Summary.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 145, 13 March 1886, Page 4

Postscript to Summary.

London, January 28th, 5 30 p.m. The Agent-General and Sir Gibson-Mait-land, who carao down for the purpose from Scotland, spent the greater part of yosterday on board tho lonic superintending iho safe shipment, &c, of the salmon ova. As this is incomparably the finest lot ever packed for your colony, both Sir Francis and Sir Gibson aro naturally very anxious it should get out all right. M. Lesseps and a number of experts leave Southampton to-day by mail steamer for Cologne. Tho object of tho tiip is to complete all arrangements for tho oponing of the Panama Canal, and to cnablo representatives cf tho various nationalities to inspect tho progress of the works. The Chairman of the P. and O. Company has announced that the canal will not affect the Australian trade, as the voyage from Flymouth to Sydney via Panama will be .315 miles longer than by Suez. The New ZeaJ land mail packets may possibly return Home via Panama, though even that is not very likely, as tho canal dues will bo enormously heavy at first. Sir F. D. Bell has had to contradict u statement in tho '' Times" to tho effect that New Zealand contemplated a I" 1,500,000 loan, lie stated, of course, that a million loan was a possibility, but that even that was not certain.