if: sustained, will obviate all. difficulties. Should the stream become navigable even to a few of the handiest, vessels,.. the differences between the big Companies and the shippers. would dissolve like the, base-lees fabric of a vision and leave. not a rack behind. Altogether the'export ip not very big it would not require the preseaceof a Leviathan at the Bund. Two or eRe with it except at very busy times, three medium-sized steamers per week could Meanwhile it is pleasant to state: that the river has steadily improved. this. spring, and that, too, at a time when it la usually.on the down grade, On Thursday last, 13th of April, the Shengking, got. up' on 8 feet 10 inches (even keel). Unhappily she tried to. turn too soon on: the downward. voyage.and- got athwart the channel. She remained there for two days-and-a-half. thereby blocking: the-.way for two steamer coming up, and deterring others from the-attempt. The Kwangchi, however, crept -past her and. got up. and down: with facil ity the Poochi did.not attempt to pass, Wo are ali.extremely disappointed at this mishap. The big ship's presence at the Bund was hailed with enthus-irisin a8 it.seemed about to restore us to the dignity ofa ses-port. Tientsin is not the same place when the ships don't come to the Bund. There is " general belief that the churning of the propellers of the big boats helps the scour, and itis feared the Shenghing's experience may issue in losing this assistance.
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