No.
DATE.
TIME.
FIRES DURING THE YEAR 1900,
No. of
BUILDINGS
SITUATION OF FIRE,
DESTROYED,
ESTIMATED
DAMAGE.
Wholly. Partly.
House No. 29, Praya, Kennedy Town,
I
$ 265.00
CAUSE.
REMARKS,
298
Carelessness while worship- No insurance effected. ping.
300.00 Overheating of flue.
100.00 Falling of a kerosiue lamp.
40.00 Incendiarism.
3,000.00 | Unknown.
3,000.00 Upsetting of a pot of tar on
40.00
a fire.
Accident.
30.00 Unknown.
Unknown
Accident.
7,500.00 Do.
2,000.00
Unknown.
1
200.00 Caused by firing crackers. 3,300.00 Upsetting of a kerosine lamp.
15.00
Accident.
Unknown.
100.00
1,100.00 Caused by burning joss-sticks. 1,700,00 ¦ Unknown.
50.00
Do.
800.00
Do.
1,000.00
Do.
1,500.00 Overheating of a stove.
Insured in the Chun On Insurance Co. for $1,000.
Insured with the Meiji Fire Insurance for $2,000.
Not covered by insurance.
18 cows burnt to death.
Not insured.
Do.
Do.
Insured in the Meiji Insurance Co. for $6,000. Insured in Butterfield & Swire for $1,000. No insurance.
Covered by insurance in the South British In- surance Office to the extent of $1,000.
Not insured.
Do.
Premises insured in Holliday, Wise & Co. for $2,000. A woman Leung Tai was burnt to death.
Insured in the Union Assurance Society for $1,000.
Insured in the Tung On Insurance Office for $1,300.
Covered by insurance in the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha Insurance Co. for $11,600.
Insured in Meiji Fire Insurance Co. for $2,000. Insured in Schellhass & Co, for $5,000.
- mat-
sheds
sched
1 Jan.
2
12 Noon.
6
7.15 a.m.
House No. 25, West Street,
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16
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8.15 p.m. 5.30 a.m.
5.45 p.m.
2.15 p.m.
House No. 22, Western Street,
Fishing Boats at Kan Pai Kang Village, Matshed at East Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Matshed of Dairy Farm at Pokfulam,
6 boats
mint-
Rhod
I mat-
shed
1
mat-
shed
5 mnt-
sheds
1800I2*
19
20
2.30 p.m.
7.00 p.m.
House No. 22, Ma Tao Kok,
Shed at Sha Po Village, Kowloon City,
25
3.15 a.m.
29
2.10 a.m.
Caretaker's Matshed at Coffee Plantation Cemetery,. 1 House No. 335, Queen's Road Central,.
30
11.19 a.m.
House No. 18, Cochrane Street,.
31
8.10 a.m.
House No. 10, High Street,
Feb.
2
7.10 p.m.
House No. 11, Shing Hing Lane, West Point,
14
16
17
* * * *
10
16
22
+998
10.30 p.m.
2.25 p.m.
5.15 p.m.
2.00 a.m.
House at Ma On Kong Village, Pat Hemig, Matshed opposite Harbour Office,
Carpenters' Marshed at Hung Hom Cement Works, House No. 25, Queen's Road West,
18 March
20
22
23
25
26
27
28
30
19
22
23 ASKEAANRES
1
11.40 p.m.
House No. 11, Hollywood Read,
Ilouse No. 77, Wellington Street,
11
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31
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24 April
9.15 p.m.
3.00 p.m.
7.50 p.m.
12.15 a m.
1.00 a.m.
5.00 p.m.
House No. 128, Winglok Street,
House No. 324, Queen's Road Central, House No. 287, Queen's Road West, .
House No. 7, Wild Dell Buildings, “Bluff,” Plantation Road, Peak...
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30,00 | Unknown.
15.00 | Overheating of a pipe.
Not insured.
Unknown
Unknown.
Do.
12
2.30 p.m.
16
3.00 p.m.
House No. 230, To Kwa Wan, Hung Hom Docks,
1
300,00
Do.
Do.
Unknown
Do.
Do.
slici
21
An unoccupied Houso in IIa Mi Lane, Ping Shan,
80.00
Do.
29
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7.30 p.in.
A Stack of breaming grass on the Aberdeen Rond,
220.00
Do.
29 May
4.
9.00 p.m.
A Stack of grass at Hung Hom West,
30.00
Do.
29
7.30 a.m.
House No. 36, Upper Lascar Row,
400,00
Do.
**
No insurance,
Do.
Covered by insurance in the Atlas Assurance
Co.
Carried forward,
27,115.00
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