THE PANAMA CANAL.
(ill' ELKCTRIO. TKLKGKAI'H. —COl'TlllOHT) Paius, January 1-1. , A'r'tlie hearing of tlit charges against llie Panama CJiuml Company directors one or the witnesses for the proseciition testified that the lalej Baron Reinach received '28,000,000 francs for inducing one of the contractors in connection with the canal works to retire in favour of another The case for the prosecution has, now. closed. The authorities have made further seizures of dociiinonts, belonging to the Panama Canal these implicate twelve niore members of the Chamber of Deputies,' including four Boulangists. Now that the evidence for the proscution has been heard, tha ease against Charles de Lesseps looks blacker than evei I .' / i / The Boulangist and Socialist press accuse President Onrnot'of signing the Panama Oaiml : Lottery Bill in ISS6, although he had refused to do so in the previous year, and they >urge upoil him to resign, f. J
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Waikato Times, Volume XL, Issue 3208, 17 January 1893, Page 2
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147THE PANAMA CANAL. Waikato Times, Volume XL, Issue 3208, 17 January 1893, Page 2
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