are hurrying up and down between ports just now with large cargoes. The Changwo arrived on Friday afternoon at four and leaves on Sunday morning at day-Tight. Soon the godowns will be full. The difficulty is to get the cargo transhipped into native bouts for up rivers On Tuesday bales of cotton were lying stacked up on the river beach, waiting to be trausferrad to the godowns, As rain came on, on Wednesday evening, the coolies had a hard time of it getting the cotton quickly under shelter. They were working by torchlight, We had a severe storm of wind and rain on Wednesday evening and all through the night.
THE MUD-STORM, Next morning the verandahs were as if they bad been washed with muddy water, Evidently the rain had brought down in solution the fine dust suspended in the air, For several days we hud been troubled with dust storms,
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