The Archive · 1893

A COMPLAINT

The tricks of @ low river still continue to interfere with the due receipt of out mails, and more than once lately we have received a double-barrelled discharge from one steamer, in the shape of French and English letters and papers, which is undesirable, as it robs all the papers of the former mail of interest. For the "latent" is always the most popular, even in China, Yer the latest wontd not waken echoes of these solitudes until une half of the human race had been slain by the other, and they were called on to chant the requiem, were it not for the Shanghai daily newspapers. River still fulling sluggielily weather, after a heavy fall of snow (10

sequent frost, is now bright and crisp. iuche-) om the 27th lin, and wame gubb 4th February.. 4

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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