The fire broke out at about 1 o'eluek on the 26h July ina small shop in ihe very centre of the foreign business quarter. A high wind was blowing at the time and the flames spree! with gry rapidity. To the eastward Messrs. Gilman_& Co.'s offices on the river side were the first of the foreign buildings to be attackd and destroyd. At this point the progress of the fire was arrested by the sp'endi-t practice of Messrs. Mulehanoff's fire engine, while on the "ther or, south side of the street the burning was checked by the high fire wall which runs along and encloses Messrs. Gilman & Co.'s rang: of godowns. More lire wails did gond service. They were the means of stiving the extension of the fire in that direction and of saving the cargo of ten stored in the godowns ready for shipment,
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