A company of merchants, headed b the of the Liperi! Customs, are engaged in Haiyany Hsien, and under the auspices a large reclamation scheme. For many years a branch of the river leading to the Prefectural city has been obstructed by a bar of sind during che dry' season. Tempers without number, and thousands of dollars have been lost by the firms whose goods pass along this, the main artery of traffic citywards. When the water channel has been kept more or less open by manual Labour; but it was often a questionable advantage, as the straggle for places in the procession of boats that squeezed through it Ied to many fights. The company now formed proposes to remove the bar, and use the sand for filling up at the mouth of the river. The filling ap will provide a valuable property, out of the sale of w shareholders are to be indemnified. Whether, in the absence of a proper scheme for manipalating the river, the removal of the sand will ive more thin temporary relief seems
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