Referring to the sinking of the steamers Hsin Chi and Hsin Kong, hho dismisses. these as the "act of God." He calls himself an "unlucky person" because he was appointe: 'a time when the Company had lost most of its good steamers, which were manned by' officers long with the Company—Kuo Wen.
One Thousand Coolies Rendered Homeless by Blaze More than 800 huts, constructed of bamboo, straw and' mud, wore atted by 'a disastrous five which broke out in the Tai Yang Mino Koad, Chapel, at about 9.30. o'clock Thursday morning. Though several slight injuries were reported Ly various. people, no deaths were recorded. As a result of the outbreak, approximately 1,000 persons, mostly of the coolie and." beggar class, have been rendered homeless.
The Chinese police, however, have ade arrangements (o quarter them temporarily in the Tai Yang Miao Temple.
The outbreak was caused through the huming of paper money bya coolie whose son was ill, This money' was offered to the spirits to purchase good health for the Ind. A strong wind happened to be lowing at the time and some of the "money was blown about, alighting ay some straw which the coolie used 28 fuel, This at once caught alight and the fire quickly spread to the surrounding houses. i An alarm was raised and the Chapel Fire Brigade responded, but, for some reason, they did not appear the scene until about 20 minutes later, Meanwhile, all the huts the locality were involved. Added. to the delay, the firemen wore greatly handicapped through lack of water, there being no hydrants in the ity, the only water available coming from a small, On account of this, the to work for several hours beters they succeeded in. checking ' the flames, which were not, finally extinguished until eight o'clock the evening.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.