About 7 am. yesterday, a fire was discovered to have broken out in a godown at 75, Praya East, the property of the Mitsu Bussan Kaisha, ~The Fire Brigade were soon, on, the. scene, but it was some time before the. fire, could be brought under control, but it was prevented from spreading to. the adjoining buildings. The fire is combustion, believed to, have originated in spontaneous THE RECRUDESCENCE OF PIRACY, The number of cases of piracy in the waters of Southern China, of late, point to a recrudescence of piracy, either due to misgovernment in the Tivo Kuang or to poverty among the people, Even in the waters of the Colony we are not exempt from the attentions of the pirates. Only on Monday Jast a fishing junk of 70 piculs' burden reported to the Police at Aberdeen that when at' anchor the previous day on the west side of Lamma Island.five armed men boarded the vessel and seized goods to the value of $50 with which they sailed off in a Chinchou boat.
The steam launch Sanchow was also rated on' the 13th inst. when near Shining on the West River, upwards of $3,000 being lifted on the occasion. The launch arrived here on the 14th inst. and reported the matter, but it is unlikely that anything will bedene,
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