'There is almost a deadlock in' getting cargo away; a8 soon as a stermer unloads, the large bales of cotton and cotton yaru ure divided and repacked, and these with other goods are, as soon as possible, stored in the chartered junks. Quite a number of junks are all ready Jaden,' but the tracker difficulty is keeping them from' a start, How slow the Chinese are to see that increased steamer trafic is increased business all round. It used to be said by the Chinese that the opening up ofthe rivers to foreign trade and the-coming of steamers would result in the throwing out of employment of the boat trackers and others, Hero is a proof already in this demand for higher wages by the very. men who were to become poorer, that the opening up of the country proves a blessing and brings prosperity,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.