News was received by us on Friday of the total loss, by fire, of the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company's j steamer Fushun in the river at Canton. "It appears that the fire originated in the native passengers' quarters and occurred at 1.30 a.m. on Friday. The vessel was lying too far out in the river for any assistance in extinguishing the flames to be rendered from the shore. No lives were lost, and at, ithe time of the fire the vessel only contained a few hundred tons of cargo. 'The steamer is, however, a total loss, being burnt right down to' the water-line.
TheFushun, Capt. Lunt, left Shanghai for Hongkong' and Canton on the 15th She was a steel screw steamer of 346 tons' gross and 1,461 tons' net measurement, and was built at Glasgow in
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