Tientsin, Sept. 2.
The extraordinary blocking up with silt of the Haiho has caused serious situation for local shipping. Jardine's, N. K. K. and the 0. S. K. refuse to bring their ships to Tientsin and these are stopping at Tangku until conditions improve.
The Haiho Conservancy _Commission has issued a statement that the silt output from the Yungtingho delta has reached a maximum of 5.5 per cent. by weight which, with the silt dropped in March above Fientsin, is the immediate cause of shoaling the river-bed, also because! the usual July freshets have not been forthcoming from any of the river's tributaries, The statement concludes: "The present state of the river is a temporary setback but, as has tantly exposed by the Hi servancy Commission, the navigabil ity of the Haiho is threatened so long as the Yungtingho is permitted to flow into the Haiho—Reater.
August 28, of Mr. Charles McCas lin, late of the Standard OW Ca. Mr, McCaslin had been ailing for! some weeks, and it was for some time noted that he appeared to be in failing health, bat his cheery nature encouraged the hope that his remarkable vital would to recover.
He died very suddenly and painlessly in his wife' farms just after addressing a re-to her.
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