Canton, Sept. 29.
Everybody knows that the means which the Chinese oan command for extinction of fires in their cities are not pecially modern, been little or tivo fire brigades. For some time, however, the splendid fire engine on the Shameen, or foreign Concession, has been 8 source of admiration to gaping crowds when firemen and engine are taken out for practice, The natives {tod io phalanxes and wonder at the eet of general rales and working. It is proposed to ersire speed and acoaracy with which things fare done. law. may not be possible to give all the questions fall consideration daring the first conference. The outline of procedure has beea drafted, and forwarded to each railway, "jin order that delegates may be prepared with written opinions apon the matters, At last this object lesson is telling open inds of the more advanced natives, days ago the cativo brigades swore ordered forth thet they might prac-rise, and a good many of the wards sent engines. The occasion was one of the greatest excitement, and crowds gathered to look on and applaud of a o fi T can remember the time when fires in it direction.
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