Chinkiang, Mar. 5 The new Chinese Conservancy Beard has made a start in real earnest to improve facilities for native craft to enable them to reach the} railway jetty, where their can be transhipped by rail to various*centres of trade. At a. cost of $19,000, workmen are now busy! erecting a dam by the old Ewo Wharf, and the creek which runs through the large sand bank is to ba deepened and widened from' that point to the railway wharf. At the present time, an army of cooli has to carry the cargoes of peanuts ete., from the junks a long distance over the mud, before the goods can be placed in railway trucks. When the new work is completed, it will be. quite a boon and will' effect a great saving ini time and labour in handling cargo, This year, the water in the Grand Canal is the lowest known for 15 years.
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