A tire broke out in the Lau-Kung-Mno Cotton Mill, Yangtzepoo Road, at about 6 a.m, on Wednesday, doing damage which, it is estimated, will amount to something proaching 10,000 tae's. The fire originated in the mixing room and 600 piculs of cotton, which had been placed. there on the previous night, were destroyed by Durning. The" building escaped injury, Dut the leather belting in the blowing room below was damaged by water. The business of the mill Ins not been impeded to any material extent by the outbreak. As to the origin of the fire, the idea of ig not entertained at all but it ed highly probable that the cause was a match carelessly dropped by one of the Chinese or by one ofthe hands wrongfully smoking in the mixing room. Good service was done by the Grinnell sprinklers, with which the works are fitted for fire extinction, and the hands also worked willingly in preventing the spread of the flames, the Fire Brigade not being called out. The insurance on the build divided' amongst all the principal loca
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