From Tie "Norra-Cuina Day News" or Marcu 11, 1878
On Friday, about 1 pin. as the s. Ningpo was' rounding Halfway Point, suddenly found hersd: the midst jiier "way up. to Shanghai, she of a fleet, of junks at anchor "all over the river." In the endeavour io avoid 5i y, an hereby st collision, the Ningpo took the mud Sar ime in contact with one of the junks and sunk her. We hear that the new s, Newchwang and the s. Yangtsze have also been in collision with other craft—the former it is said with the Kiangyuen (late Plymouth Rock) but no authentic particulars have as yet been obtained, though it is said that, like that of the these collisions were occasioned in ug to avoid junks. The movements of these craft have latterly become more eccentric than ever, and the obstruc-{ion and danger to navigation have correspondingly increased. They seem fo. set all. harbour regulations at defiance, and complaints from captains thereupon have hitherto, it is said, been fruitless.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.