are quiet. After much trouble, delay, and expense I hear that the Rattler has reached her berth opposite the British Consulate. The steamers find it impossible to come up
sengers and the injury of business. It is the river, greatly to the discomfort of almost impossible adequately to set forth the disgraceful state of affairs at the present time in this connection. But it is thought that the River Conservancy question is progressing in a fairly satisfactory manner, and thas next year's conditions will be greatly changed for the better—in a word, that the old conditions will practically be restored, and the steamers be able to come up to the bund for the entire season.
ember,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.