Efforts have been made during the week to raise the dredger Canton River, sunk in the recent typhoon off the Praya, opposite to the Hongkong Club. The' steamer Sabine Rickmers and two lighters are alongside, and yesterday the pumps on the steamer discharged a good deal of water from the dredger's tanks, and she rose two or three feat. But the work makes slow progress, and I fear it will be some days at least before the dredger is hoisted.
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