Canton has likewise had its fire sensation during the current week. On the night of the 14th inst. an outbreak occurred in Ching Fung Street, near the Governor's yamen. A light breeze was blowing at the time and carried the flames along until the fire had attained considerable dimensions, The district firemen turned out and did the best they could with their appliances to confine its ravages to a small area, but in spite of their exertions the consumed about thirty houses before its progress could be stayed. In this exse fortunately the blaze was unattended by loss of life, Hongkong, 18th November, (From the Foochow Echo of 18th instant.)
The Into order to suppress gambling houses in the city was not is-ued altogether in vain, tive proprietors of auch houses having already been arrested by yamen runners.
At a fire which took place in Suryune trict a few days ago three hundred a were burned down, Nu life was lost but the value of the properly destroyed is reported to he very considerable, The coffin of " lately deceased wealthy wan priced temporarily in a coffin house on the bill side near the Suuth gate of the city was found open three days afterwards, and the object of the depredators sas at once apparent: all the coally raiment of defunct great sian had been exrced away.
There has been a further fall of cents per picul in the price of tien this week swing to the arrival of fresh supplies From the northern ports and a good yield of the second crop locally, The quality of the local second crop is said to be poor, the grain being sell owing to the absence of rain for a long time past, We learn from Ingohong that one ut two natives sitting under a tree on hill in the district: wna carried of by n tiger; the other was found by passers-by insensible from terror, On coming to, he narrated what had weurre, A search was subsequently inde for the missing man, or what might remain of him, but as no trace could be found of him, it was supposed he had been carried off " long We hear that importers of kerosene oil petitioned the Taotsi to modify the prohibition to sell the oil in the cit ing out that they would sustain siderable loss if the law continued in force, His Excellency, after considering the ult ter, decided to remove the prohibition but imposed a tax of ten cents per exe on the article, and proposed to set apart the proceeds ut the tax for the northern famine fund, Wong Hing Lee, the discoverer of the large amount f treasure on the bill account of which was lately given this journal, intends to give a grand feast as " thank our ut the Joss through whose guidance he became posses-def the fortune. The cust of the feast is te be $10,000. The day is nut yet fixed. Tis said that papers found with the trend Sure point to more treasure being found elsewhere, and the date of the festival depends upon the early or liter discovery of these further riches, In Wong Hing Lee we ha fact, another instance of the Monte Christo of
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