On Sunday afternoon, at about 5 o'clock, the Hongkew Fire Bell gave the alarm of a fire in the first district, and the Brigade was soon on the alert. 'Five o'clock on a Sunday afternoon is not the best time to show the smartness of the Firemen because most of them at that hour are usually out of town. Such was the case on Sunday, Dut this did' not deter, the others from Hongkew engine station is close to where the fire was, consequently the members were able to get their streams on before the other companies had time to arrive. The Victorias" and "Deluge" men raced along Broadway, with the former some yards ahead, but as they overshot a hydrant, the Deluge" men promptly annexed it, so that the others had to go some distance further to find another. The French engine and the Mih-ho-loong turned up later and the former took water from a hydrant on the premises of the Associated Wharves, leading their hose over the boundary wall. It was found that the pawnshop had such high walls, that the pressure on the hydrants was insufficient to force the water over these walls, so the Hongkew engine got up afoam and water was pumped from that. One of the Companies required 1,100 feet of hose to reach the fire, while some of the others required almost as much, owing to the hydrants being oe far away.' Many of iremen did not get to the fire a after 6 o'clock, some were at the Point, Secessions and Disruption upon and others at Gough and one was the National Church, which, then the Church down at the New Dock, when the bells of nearly the whole people and in the van rang. They could not hear the bells, but of freedom, has been rent into throe divi-they could see the flames which at one sions, producing bitterness and strife which time rose high up in the air. Some of the have not yet been allayed. This was pro-sparks set fire to a house on the opposite duced by the Act restoring Lay Patronage comer of the lane, but the danger was averted by the Firemen promptly ex-passed liament against 1 the reign of Queen Anne, which was tinguishing the flame. ides this some Uesires of the whole Scottish Members, matting was twice ablaze. The fire origin-'To what cause then is due the material ated after some men had been soldering the prosperity of Scotland? Our national. pros-roof. The Firemen were unable to get at the perity is due to the mineral wealth of the burning part; they poured water on the country, the inventive genius of her sons, roof, but it mostly ran off again, so it was and the rise of the middle class. Modern not till the roof gave way that the water mechanics, as well as political. economy' could reach the flames. One of the walls at sprang into existence in Scotland, and she the back fell, and a Chinaman had a nar-in common with the rest of modern Europe row escape. "It was reported that he had shared in the prosperity of this century, been buried under the ruins, and a search It is the energy of the middle class, how-party was organised to dig him out, but as ever, of which our nation is largely com-they could not find him, they gave it posed, that has created such great industrial up. Shortly afterwards pirated look-centres as Gl Dundee, and Aberdeen. ing individual appeared on the scene.
Had deen mostly He was the man who was supposed to have agricultural, like those of Ireland, the deen buried on the ruins. It appears he result would have been the same as in that was close to the wall when it fell, but ran country, or as it exists in portions of the away in time to escape serious injury.
Being of a utilitarian turn of mind, he re-Highlands of Scotland at the present tine, What is the position of Scotland now turned to find his cap which he had lost The fears which our ancestors entertained
the locality at 8. Ne ie propert; yrhen the wall fell, The last engine left have proved only tog well founded. Our Na-was Chinese owned faced is said to alive been tional Institutions have been assailed by those who knew little and cared less about insured in a local and a German office for the national sentiment of our people. In Tls. 100,000. We heard that the lessee of England our Scottish Courts have been the pawnshop stated his loss was Tls. 22,000. treated as non-existent, the jurisdiction of our Supreme Court has been set at naught, and in defiance of the Treaty of Union,
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