A feature of Hongkong streets is the verandahs over the sidewalks. In a spacious city possessing wide roads, it is conceivable that this soldiers, and honoured residents. We have Des Vooux Road Central May Road, Chatham Road, Peel Street, Wellington Street, Chater Road and Mody Road, for instance.
The Joys of Chairs.
Chairs are an essential part of Iocomotion in Hongkong. The streets that run up and down are an ever present source of interest, and speculation as to their effect fon one's physique, to one who has been used to and brought up on the flatness of Shanghai, It is an the lately retired 'Chief Justice, was entertained by the Chinese community toa farewell West Point, but the crack the. singing' were omitted on occasion.
Hongkong people are nice and hospitable, once they get to know you. They have their good points and their faults, like everybody else; but they do think' a. treiendous lot of their little island, and can't understand one longing. for "dear old Shanghai" after a sojourn in their Isle of Eden:
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