Extensive damage was done by a fire, which broke out about ten minutes past n'elock on Saturday morning, at the larg-welling hence numbered 414. Ningpo Read. occupied by the compradore of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and his family. No cause is yet assigned for the outbreak of the conflagration, which omnpletely gutted the house, doing damage to of the house escaped unhurt, a cook and a coolie who are missing being supposed to have run away and hidden th. selves from sheer fright. Possitly they may be able to throw seme light om the origin of the fire. An old lady, a relation of the compradore, who was very sick, had to be removed to a house clove by, and kho died later on in the day. - The burnt property, we understand, ws not insured. The hehaviour of s: veral foreigners, who ref sed to keep outside the fire lives as bidlen by the police, was mesh diszracoful, and resulted in the arrest of one man belonging toa Danish steamer, now in harbour,
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