Working late, being tired and falling asleep, or becoming careless too near fires and lights. Unprotected and swinging gasbrackets. Crinolines coming in contact with fire in open fire-places. Light, pendent goods being blown, by the opening and shutting of doors or by concussions or drafts, into unprotected lights. Goods hung on lines increase the risk in various ways,

Such as conveying the flame from one end of a room to the other, and, when the line breaks down, making three separate fires, one at each end and one in the middle at the same time, thus originating three distinct fires for each line. Cuttings left carelessly about. Using lights while intoxicated, especially by tailors' work-people. Ironing-stoves, hot plates, smoothing-irons, etc., too near and sometimes on timber and goods. Smoking-to-bacco, and matches for lighting it. Engineering works, and workers in metal of all descriptions.Sparks from striking hot metal, hot metal castings, etc., left too near timber, Heat from furnaces, forges, and smiths' hearths and flues. Friction of machinery . Japanners' stoves overheated or defective. Accidents with melted or hot metal. Explosions of blast furnaces. Spontaneous ignition of oilv waste, moulders' lamp, and other blacks; sawdust or sweepings and oil; spontaneous heating of iron turnings, etc., when mixed with water and oil.