THE SUEZ CANAL

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2011, 28 May 1885, Page 4

THE SUEZ CANAL

Mr R. Mckkav-Smith, the Vietoiian Aguit-Ucneinl, has ioiwaidul to Mi .Sen ice the leport which he has icceivul tiom .Sir Andrew Clarke, who was the di'lciiiti" of the Austiali.m (mv eminent at tin 1 lnti i nation il Consultation Commit -ion of the Sue/ Can<>l The lepoit stale--, tli.it tin Co nniiv>ion unatmnouslv. lesolved in favom of an uiLigement of the existing canal, subject to the views, which may be cxpiessed by the sul> Commission which is al>out to plowed to Kgypt. Mi Mm iay Smith, in foiwaid ing the tcpoit, explains: — "You will ahead} hue Ihmul. tlnough the ordinal v channels of inhumation, that the \ lows of Sir Amlicw Claik in favour of the widen ing, lathci than duplicating tin- canal, na\e been unanimously accepted by the Commission, and his lepoit will -nti&fy you that, to all points connected with Austi.iliau interests, he devoted that degioe of loiebight and close atten tion which your Government well knew they might expect from him on so impoi taut an occasion " bn Andrew Cl.tik concludes his. repoit as follows . — " Alter much discussion, the sub Commission unanimously agreed to the following dimensions for the improved canal . — P.ie.idth (at a depth <>f 2(>ft).— Fiom Pint Said to Bittei Lakes, 71yd*.; fiom Bittei Lakes to Sue/:, N2,yd-. Depth— 2!Hft .it low water, ordinary apt ing tides. " The order in which it was recommended that the vvoiks should be executed was loughly as follows : — Ist. Canal to be widened 50ft., and depth increased to 28ft. lincl. Canal to be widened to its final dimensions. Bid. Canal to be deepened to 2(Hft. "On Feb. 9 the Commission met to consider tins report, and adjourned to Feb. 11. "The width pioposed for the canal was so nearly in accoulauee with that I had prey iously recommended, that any further obser"ations from me on this point would have been superfluous. I was, however, well aware of the importance to the Australian colonies of a deep channel, and was fully prepared to raise the question, am' to use every effort to obtain a minimum depth of 30ft. The pilots require 3ft of water under the Keel of a steamer ; the finest vessels in the Atlantic trade— notably the latest additions to the Canard fleet, the Umbria and her sister ship— draw l*7ft. With less than 30ft in the canal, it is evident that there will be a tendency to employ somewhat inferior vessels on the Australian packet service. It was, however, de sirable to avoid discussion. The tnajoiity of the sub Commission, had, with some difficulty, succeeded in obtaining a unanimous expression of opinion in favour of a depth of 29 1 ft, and it was clearly undesirable to re open the question in order to obtain so .small an addition as 6in. Unanimity was all im poi Unt to enable M. de L esseps and the Duectors of the canal to obtain the sanction of the shareholders to so large an e\pendituic Finally, the Commission adopted the resolutions of the sub Commission iicmuu conhndiiiiitc. A translation of theae resolutions is annexed, and a details! repoit of the proceedings ot the < ommissiou will be forwaided as soon as a copy has been received from the Piesiilent ot the Sue/ Canal Company. I tiust that the woik of improving the c iii.il will Ijc commenced without di'iv, and tint before many ;>is>,. (1 tilt: pis 1 age to .st n,i .mil ,\lh Zealand will be shorten d l>> at Ita^t thnty hums m the canal alone; while the employment of larger ■mil swifter ships will still further .umini-.h the distance between the Wothei Count ly and hei southern colonies If by my propi/ii'iions for the impiovc.nent ot the canal, or by my service on tle Intemation.il C-minifC -minif ion, I have becu instiumetitul m na> lowing the Mi'^eunl gult wiii'-ii ei'pnrati s iv, it will cvtr be a souice ut d«.ep gi Uiricaticm to ire. I am piond to line boen of some Might service to those colonies with whiHi I have Ik en for feo long a ociiod connec te I, and in whose wJf < a ai.d pio&pi»ity I ta .c so profound an interest."

A swi-Lr,, while hung measured for a j pair of bootfc, obsetvtd — "Make th^m cover the calf" "Impossible!" exclaimed the astonished shoemaker, surveying hi» customer fiom head to foot. " Ain't leather enough in my shop." A Gkokcjia negro named Gabe Walker, tired of sowing his bachelor wild oats, man icd the other day at the age of ninety five. " Gabe's '' father lived to be 110, and was in a fair way to live foi ever when a waggon ran over him. The total number of banking institutions that failed in 1884 in the United States was 1-1, eleven of these weie National Banks, twenty-two State Bauks, eleven Savings Banks, ami seventy-seven Piivate Banking Institutions. The excess of births over deaths in France in 1883 was 00,843, against 97,027 in 1882, and 105.22!) in 1881. The number of departments that lose population fiom this decline of the excess of births over deaths is gi eater every year, and now amouuts to about 30 pei cent. An Italian admiral has invented shrapnell shell for the 100 guns. At thnty yards from the cannon's mouth it burst*, throwing forward seventy-five smaller projectiles, which in turn burst, strewing in fan shape a thick shower of balls and fragments with terribly distructne effect. Another Monaco tragedy is lcpoited owing to gambling losses. The \ntim was a young Eugl'shman who was lecently married, but whose name is concealed. After losing £,"50,000 at the tables, he blew out his brains with a levolver. CKrßiui farming in South Africa has advanced with such strides that the number of tame birds there is estimated to have increased from 80 in ISGo to at least 70,000 in 1884, producing feathers for e.vportof the value of about $3,000, 000 per annum. In the United States and Canada there are 413 horse railways ior passenger travel. Besides the cost of their construction, they employ 83,000 men, and 100,000 horses, and to feed these horses one year, the farms must furnish 150,000 tons of hay, and more than 100,000,000 bushels of grain. It appears that the Chinese have found a novel way of making money out of the high rewards offered for foreigners' heads in Tonquin. They disinter the French, or any others who have been killed or otherwise died, and cairy their heads to the olficials to obtain therewaids offered. The Bad and Worthless aie never imitated or cotoitoftitetl. This is especial'y true of a family medicine, and it is positive proof that the remedy imilatid is of the highest value. As soon as it had been tested and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters was tiic purest, best and the most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitations spiuiif' up and began to steal the notices in which the press and the people of thu country had expressed the met its of fl B , and in every way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the ciedit and good name of H. B. Many others started n<m tuiins put up in similar style to H. 8., with variously devised names in which the word " Hop" or " Hops" were used in a way to induce people to believe they were the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cures, no matter what their style or name is and especially those with the word " Hop" or " Hops" in their name or in any way connected with them or their name, are imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them, louch none of them. Use notiling but genuiuc American Hop Bitters, ith a cluster of green Hops on the white label, and Dr Soule's name blown in the glass. Trust nothing else. Druggists and Chemists are warned against dealing in imitations or counterfeits.