One of the largest fires known in Shanghai for " considerable time occarred on Monday morning, and before it was extinguished it bad consumed sixty-two houses, and damaged eight more, besides ati he gear of great an extent was it that at one time it threatened to reach the dimensions of a confisgration, and it was only after many hours' work by the Brigade of the International Settlement, assisted by that of the French Concession, that it was extinguished. The damage which has, for the time being rained the great Ohinese thoroughfare of the
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