Chinkiang, Jan. 13.
After a long spell of beautiful mild weather, we are getting a touch of winter. Today there is sleety hail falling and no doubt the farmers are hoping for a fall of snow to give their thirsty fields a soaking.; 7 After remaining abnormally high for some time, the river has fallen abnormally low and what was once the harbour is now one large sand bank. One shipping hulk at least is resting on a hard bottom. If this state of things continues, we shall soon be an inland town.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.