Foochow, 12th Jan.
'A great fire broke out on Friday night in the foreign settlement at Nautai. Sixty native houses were destroyed, the area over which the flames extended being from Rozario's to the back of Schinfeld's. Hing Chang's, Kaw Hong-take's, the Bazaar, Baboo's, and Rozario's are burnt down. the top of Water street, a lane leading (The fire appears to have broken out.
from the river to one of the principal business streets of the foreign settlement, up the slope of the hill leading to the foreign residences outside the settlement. This street consisted principally of Chinese
among them. Messrs. Adawison, Bell & Co.'s houres with a few foreign longs scattered and Russell & Co.'s premises are in the same street, but they both, we understand, escaped, while Hing Chang's has been destroyed." Messrs. "Russell & Co.'s loss amounts to about $200, which was covered by insurance. Baboo's was a bakery and general store, kept by a Malay; Kaw Hong-take a Chinese hong belonging toa British subject; the Bazaar, which was Chinese owned, was a butchery and provision store; Mr. Rozario is the printer and publisher' of the Foochow Echo. The native shops were mere shanties of mean appearance but usually contained
the Chinese loss is probably very heavy.
lunge quantity of valuable gonds, so that Baboo is insured. A fire, attended with great destruction of property, occurred in a locality about two' years ago.—
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