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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1745, 16 August 1905, Page 63

Messrs Turnbull and Jones, electrical' engineers, AYillis street, Wellington, have secured the lighting contract for the new Eunedin railway station. The system of work on the Panama. Canal (says a Panama telegram to the “New York World”) must be radically! reorganised. There must be ten times as many steam shovels in operation, and one thousand times less Governmental red tape, else the canal will not. ba completed for two hundred years. The statement is based incontrovertibly; on careful observation and study here. The people in the States think, the French people did no work. The impression is erroneous, us; 75 per cent, of the work, done up to to-day was done by the French company. Travelling along the line of the canal from Colon to Panama one sees millions of dollars* worth of abandoned French machinery. Thousands of small travelling-cranes, little engines, and: dump-cars are standing on the rails covered by vines and trees, which have grown, over and around them. Some of these have been recovered and put to use, but to thoughtful people all this abandoned and rusting, machinery is a solemn warning that' there has been one failure' to dig the canal, and that time is’ passing.