The 28th of March siw the official opening of the port, twenty of the thirty odd vessels waiting at the bar came up in batches of five, with a pilot on bourd each leating vessel, said pilots having been taken out to the brand put on their rexpective steamers by " torpedo-boat. The ply laden had still to wait outside, the water on the ber being not sufficient to allow their crossing. Thirty-steamers in port and all anxious to discharge—such " hurry and scurry, the contrast to the scene before ux two day previously can well be imagine'.
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