No.
DATE.
TIME.
INCIPIENT FIRES DURING THE YEAR 1893.
No. of
BUILDINGS
DESTROYED.
DAMAGE.
SITUATION OF FIRE.
Wholly. Partly.
CAUSE.
REMARKS.
A number of trees destroyed.
138
Do.
Wooden partition close to a lighted Unknown. [lamp caught fire. Spontaneous combustion of coal. Carelessness with lighted match. Unknown.
6 matsheds destroyed and 15 pigs burnt.
$5
Unknown.
...
...
...
Trifling
Do.
Chimney on fire.
Unknown,
...
$2
Do.
$30
Burning of Joss paper.
Unknown.
Do.
$150
Do.
***
Trifling
Do.
1 Jan.
3
8 p.m.
5
2.10 p.m.
"
5
5.45 p.m.
8
1.30 p.m.
"
11
"
2 p.m.
18
9 a.m.
>>
18
55
19
2.30 p.m.
"
9
10
Feb.
""
2
3 p.m.
11
7
11.45 a.m.
>
12
9
1.30 a.m.
"
13
11
3 p.m.
Tang Man Hing's Coal Godown at Yaumati,
33
14 March 4
7.45 p.m.
A Stack of Grass at Quarry Bay, House No. 77, Praya East,,................ House No. 13, Hillier Street, Grass on Hillside at Deep Water Bay, A Stack of Grass above Ship Street,. Matshed at Coffee Plantation,..... Grass on Hillside near Mountain Lodge, Grass on Hillside at Tsimshatsui,
Matshed at Tanglungchau,
Grass on Hillside near North Point Battery, House No. 12, Li Un Street, West,].
House No. 33, Praya, Yaumati,.
Matshed at Wongneichung,
A Stack of Grass on the Hillside at Shaukiwan, Grass on Hillside at the Rifle Range, British Kowloon, House No. 70, Stanley Street,
ד
--
***
...
K
K
...
...
***
$175
Do.
Trifling
Capsizing of a kerosine lamp.
Bursting of a kerosine lamp.
Unknown.
$4
Ar
...
$1
***
Trifling
Do.
A coat hanging above a lighted lamp
caught fire.
Chimney caught fire.
Upsetting of a kerosine lamp.
Unknown.
A mosquito curtain caught fire. Unknown.
Incendiarism,
A wooden partition caught fire from a lamp.
A bamboo screen caught fire from a
Unknown.
[charcoal furnace.
+++
Do.
Do.
$100
Trifling
$5
$2
Trifling
Do.
Do.
$100
***
$4
Unknown.
...
1
Trifling
Upsetting of a lamp.
$100
Incendiarism,
...
Supposed to have been set on fire by one Li Yau.
Carelessness with lighted Joss-sticks.
Chimney caught fire.
Unknown.
Upsetting of a lamp.
Chimney caught fire.
Set on fire by one Chan Chau who was insane.
19
20
21
PERARE N*****
15
11
"
16
12
>
17
12
19.
18 April 10
9.40 p.m.
House No. 42, Lyndhurst Terrace,
13
,,
1 p.m.
Grass on the Hillside at Stanley,
15
Grass on the Hillside at Deep Water Bay,
>>
16
9.30 a.m.
House No. 134, Third Street...
33
22
20
93
8 p.m.
House No. 93, Wing Lok Street,
23
23
4.30 a.m.
House No. 12, Upper Lascar Row,
35
24 May 12
10.30 p.m.
House No. 62, First Street,
25
13
5.55 a.m.
"
26
19
2.25 a.m.
House No. 93, Station Street, Yaumati,
A certain House (unnumbered) in Chuk Hing Lane,
"
27 June
5
4 a.m.
House No. 123, Second Street,
28
5
15
12.30 p.m.
House No. 93, First Street,
29
3 p.m.
House No. 9, Bonham Strand, West,
30
9
10.45 a.m.
House No. 24, Praya, Kennedy Town,
31
23
1 a.m.
House No. 32, Stanley,
32
27
"
10.30 p.m.
House No. 4, Holland Street,..
33 July
30
12.15 a.m.
34 Aug.
4
11 p.m.
35
10
12 Noon.
>>
36
12
4 a.m.
House No. 310, Queen's Road Central,.
House No. 5, Cleverly Street,
House No. 6, George Lane,
House No. 30, Taipingshan Street,
37
13
}}
6.30 p.m.
House No. 74, Aberdeen,
29
}}
38
39 Sept.
40
53
11
2.45 p.m.
3.30 p.m.
7.30 p.m.
House No. 27, Mosque Junction,
7
House No. 9, Duddell Street,
House No. 40, Lyndhurst Terrace,