very serious Iandslip occurred at Chinkiang last Friday afternoon, a large piece of the river bank, with godowns on it fall of merchandise belonging to Y. Ching Chang, being swallowed up by the river, and an unknown number of Chinese who were on the property or in boats aldugside it drowned in the catastrophe. The site of the accident is marked "Godowns" in the excellent map of Chinkiang published in the new volume of "Decennial Reports" of the 'Customs; itis bounded on the west by the easternmost of the three mouths of the Grand Canal, a creek known as Ho Hua of Messrs. Buttergold and' Swire, which, Tang; and_on the east by the property
being banded, is still holding its own, but is in s very precarious condition. It appears that the river bod has boon gradually silting up lately opposite Golden Island, Jardine Matheson & Co.'s property, Garlic Hill, and the front of the British Con and the force of the current has boon thrown against the bank below the Foreign Settlement, which it has undermined. The loss is a very heavy one, and it is to be hoped that the bunded property next to it will be able to resist the current, Holloway's Ointment, in con-matched ga Skin Cure, pechly janction "wth \the Pus: is un.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.