Hongkong, Sept. 4.
'The "stock-brokers of "Brokers? Alley," in other words Toe 'House Street, "apparently. must' "keep walking" in the future if an order just issued by the Inspector-General Police is strictly enforced.
The order, which is. published in the local papers this morning, is to the effect' that Ice House Street is public thoroughfare and. not Place for the transaction of private business, The police have therefore been ordered to move on all persons doing such business on this road.
The announcement has caused consternation in the ranks of the bowler-hatted fraternity, who point out that the street used by them has been "Hongkong's equivalent Mincing Lane or Wall Street for time immemorial.. Representations to the Inspector-General of Police are. being considered,—Reuter, announced that the population of Japan during the past Year increased by 900,000. Births totalled 2,000,000, deaths a little over 1,000,000 and marriages 500,- 000. Divorces, too, showed an in-ing 56,000, peraery crease, the number granted total-
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