The Panama Canal.
w With regard to the Piinania Canal, tbo Coiumitteo of Initiative in tho French Chambers has agreed by eight ■ votes to live to take into consideration the proposal authorising the Company to issue a lottery loan of 340,000,000 francs, Meanwhile, on the 22nd March, the long-looked-for opening of the canal through the Mindi Hill, four miles from Colon was finally accomplished. There is now, says the Telegraph Home letter, a continuous waterway open, from the sea at Colon to a point near Bojio Station, 011 the Panama railroad, or, in other words, for about fifteen English miles, with a depth sufficient to float a 1000 ton vessel, Thus a very small fraction of this gigantic undertaking is brought into birth, Buo the canal, according to M. de Lesseps' latest plans, has to -jiiount 160 feet above sea level by five *f»ps, or locks, on each side of th summit, Truly, the part just opened is amy small fraction of the total worn
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2893, 8 May 1888, Page 3
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165The Panama Canal. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2893, 8 May 1888, Page 3
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