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floor, and

loft

with the readily

ignitible goo

goods. and: onaterial

of

the business - and the outbreak

flames

was

instant, causing

immediate alarm in the

Onanneds

neighbourhoods

:hood. Fortunately the Government Manual Engine

by the detachment from the Harbor Master's Department ( center charge of Foreman Me

Clellan, ) and the Volunteer Manual.

Engine of the Nam Pak Hong whose Engine house adjoins that beforementioned,

and were

LACACI

both at hand

& promptly brought

work, keeping : until the Manual

inte

in check

The fire

Engine of

491

the Imperial Insurance Company ( Mess? Gibb Livingston & br, (lgents)

The Government. Nr. 7 Steam

Engine

and the Steam Engine

of the Hongkong Insurance Company

-quick succession

arrived in quick.

AVCALI

and

• promptly brought into operation with two delivery) branches to each Engine when the fires suppressed without doing any) great

great amount

of damage to other than the houses

in which it

however is

The

orv

originated. which mly) partly

condurned).

adjoining housco No. 100 and 104,

of N.

"N: 102 had some

either

damage

done to the upper floor

.

A second. Government Manual