FIRES AND ALARMS, 1892.
NO. OF
162
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH MARCH, 1893.
BUILDINGS
No. DATE.
TIME.
SITUATION OF FIRE.
DESTROYED.
DAMAGE.
CAUSE.
REMARKS.
Wholly. Partly.
Jan.
House No. 32, Hollywood Road, Grass on hillside near Mountain Lodge,
Trifling
Accidental.
Unknown.
Honse No. 14, Burd Street,
Trifling
12.30 p.m.
House No. 78, Queen's Road West,
Do.
10.
6 a.m.
House No. 9, Queen's Road Central,
$40,000
10,.
House No. 34, Praya Central,.
11
700812
10,
8 p.m.
House No. 16, Tsz Mi Lane,
11,
1.30 p.m.
House No. 4, Ezra Lane,.-
12,
2 p.m.
House No. 28, Battery Street, Yaumati,
13,
4.30 a.m.
House No. 146, Bonham Strand,
$8,000
"
15,
7 p.m.
15,
11.30 p.m.
A stonecutter's matshed at Kennedy Town, House No. 140, Third Street,..
$100
Trifling
13
14
15
16
අප්ප
16,
2.30 a.m.
16,
3.30 p.m.
House No. 528, Queen's Road West,. House No. 41, Staunton Street,
$6,000
Trifling
A bed curtain accidentally caught fire.
Unknown,
Trifling
Do.
....
Overheating of a stove.
A bed curtain caught fire.
Overheating of a stove pipe,
A basket of coffee beans accidentally caught fire.
Old bags accidentally caught fire. Upsetting of a kerosine lamp.
Unknown Spontaneous combustion of coal.
Unknown,
Supposed arson.
Wooden partition accidentally caught fire.
Unknown,
Insured in Messrs. Reuter, Bröckelmann & Co. for $45,000.
Insured in Messrs. Hewett & Co. for $10,000.
Insured in the Hongkong Fire Insurance
Company for $12,000.
False alarm.
16,
3.20 a.m.
A certain house in Western District,
21,
4.15 p.m.
House No. 81, High Street, ..
$100
Do.
25
26
28
2-227***KANAROM 28-DONG
24,
2.40 p.m.
S.S. Haiphong in Victoria Harbour,
$25
Do.
28,
5.30 a.m.
House No. 54, Jardine's Bazaar,..
Slight
31,
3 p.m.
21,
2 a.m.
Houses Nos. 28 and 29, Battery Street, Yaumati, House No. 24, Wellington Street,
A bed curtain caught fire.
Spontaneous combustion of coal.
Trifling
Unknown.
23,
"
11.40 p.m.
A house (unnumbered) in Mong Kok,
Do.
Do.
25,
11.50 p.m.
A matshed at the Naval Camp, Kowloon,
Do.
Do.
29,
8 p.m.
A stack of grass at Shaukiwan,
$50
Do.
March 3,
12.30 p.m.
A matshed at the Naval Range, Stone Cutters' Island,
$60
Do.
"
7.30 p.m.
No. 7, Central Market,
Trifling
Do.
Do.
4 p.m.
House No. 78, Jardine's Bazaar,.
Overheating of a boiler.
4.30 a.m.
A room in the D Block Military Barracks,
$200
Unknown.
Do.
13,
29
13,
7.45 p.m.
13,
1 a.m.
"
>>
32
33
10 a.m.
34
27,
35
30,
36 April
1,
37
4,
88
5,
.....
39
10,
4 p.m.
4.40 p.m.
8.15 p.m.
10.40 p.m.
House No. 95, Queen's Road West,
No. 34, Square Street,..
House No. 16, Chinese Street, Grass on hillside at Mount Kellett,
House No. 368, Queen's Road West,.
A matshed in Coffee Plantation,. Chimney of House No. 23, Centre Street, House No. 26, Sai Woo Lane,.. Grass on hillside at Tai Tam Tuk,. Grass on hillside above Deep Bay,.
House No. 17, Queen's Road West,
Grass on hillside at Magazine Gap,
$200
Trifling
Do.
Slight
Do.
Trifling
Do.
Accidental,
Unknown.
$1,000
Upsetting of a lamp,..
Unknown..
Overheating of a furnace for drying
A bed curtain caught fire. [tobacco.
Unknown.
..
$400
Unknown,
Firing of crackers while worshipping
at the tombs.
Insured in Messrs. Schellhass & Co. for $3,000.
Insured in Messrs. Hewett & Co. for $2,500.
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