A fire broke out on the first floor of Beaconsfield Arcade on Sunday afternoon, which at one time threatened to develop into a serious conflagration. This floor is used as offices, and they were all closed, but in a closet adjoining the office of Messrs. Tejada & Ca., which seems to have been tenanted by accolle, a lamp is believed to have been overturned or exploded. However that may be, the flames burnt down the intervening door and speedily gutted Messrs. Tejada's office, in which were stored some goods, and the flames forced their way through the ceiling and partly consumed the furniture in the room above. The Fire Brigade soon arrived and deluged the place with water, confining the fire to No. 8, but Mr. Wilcox's office suffered somewhat from water as did a tailor's shop on the ground floor. In the bustle attending the operations of the Brigade, a soldier belonging to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers fell over the verandah and was seriously injured by the fall; he is now in hospital, Messrs. Tejada & Ca. were insured for $3,000 in the Hongkong Fire Insurance Office, and the tailor's contents were insured with a German office,
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