wortes is hereby given that the masts have been blown out of the bark Chinaman and that, at low water, a drag, 5 fathoms, failed to foul the wreck which is settling down in the mud.
Vessels auctioned not to anchor near this wreck which lies 7 miles to the 8, 37° W. of the Amherst Rocks.
By order of the Inspector-General of Custome, DAVID M. HENDERSON, Engineer-in-chief, Imperial Maritime Customs, inoer's Office, Shanghai, 7th May, 1881.
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Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.