THE PANAMA CANAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 300, 19 September 1888, Page 5

THE PANAMA CANAL.

Dr. Wolfred XeKon, \\ ho lecently \isitcd the I-thmu« of J'anania, v. as tnter\iewed ab Washington on August 10th touching 1 tlio uoikoflhe cana 1 . He icj)oitcd a deplorab'e and di.scoiu aging condition of aflaii?. The statement of De Lebbcp*. that the canal will be opeiicd in 1890 ii ticated with open liflicnlc by the contiactou-. In the mountains ab Oalebia, on the loot excavation, they are moving into the cut at the late ot 18 inches p?r month, and to leach the le\el of the lock o' the canal they nuij-t go down another 180 feet. Tl c wlvio cnteipiisc, acco ding toNo'&on.i-; a botchi'iom endto end, haxing assumed the position of a piece of unbkislnng jobliciy colossal in it- pioportions. The two largest conti actors lately stopped woik, an the Canal Company has no money for them De Lc;-rieps, in plating that the canal will be opened in 1890, f-tated Avhat he Ktiows to be imj)Os-ible. To-day the lised ehaige ayatiist the Company i-5 o\er .>10,000,000 per annum, with pei baps a fifth of the woik done on the surface at that. Theie is woi th ot machinciy on fciie i&bhmus, twothiidtf nsoleps and rusting. Many of the conti actors have chopped woik, and a number aie now suintr for bicach of conliaci.