The steamers have had difficulty one of the crossings, and for some days we were without any communication with Hankow. Bat a channel is being gradually washed out and the steamers are arriving again. The Japanese company has four steamers on the ran so with them we hare good serv Butterfield & Swire have their Tangting Lake Boats ea, and the Tungting, we hear, has gone to Shanghai for anni repair, Jardine Matheson & ('o. have' also two steamers ranning. If these woold all ran at regaler intervals we should never be without arrivals and departeres, but there is no fixed schedule at this season.
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