The alarm was rung at 11.35 p.m. on Thursday (the 10th), and the Hongkew and was rung at 11.35, and the Hongkew and Central Bell-towers rang out different. districts, so that some of the reels went careering away into Hongkew. The Victorias got to the scene of the outbreak first, and at once got on a stream from a distant hydrant. The fire, the cause of which is not known broke out at 248, Amoy Koad, the Yur Lung Cotton Mill, and was' extremely dificult to get at. There was a hydrant on so. the Mih-be-loonge took the hydrant premises, but only one length of hose, coupled on their hose and got inside the mill, All the streams were, however, very feeble, and simply served to raise dense columns of suffocating smoke from the burning cotton, and did not do much good. 'The mills were' built very close together, and the only access to the centre block was from a day. They were amidst tons of half burt cotton, which from a distance looked like huge snowdrifts. The fire float was taken off at 4 p.m. yesterday, but three coolies were to be left on all night with hydrant streams to play on the smoking dé- bris, The Municipal Council has been trying for some time past to get the burnt buildings moved back so as to give a wider bund on the Creek, so that it will now probably get its desire. The burnt property was owned by Messrs. E. D. Sassoon & Ca.
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