"Hongkong, May 10, Hongkong is about to have a celebrated "No. 10" in a street of her own. 'The local Stock Exchange is just on' the eve of taking possession of and moving into its new permanent home, No. 10 Ice House Street, having had to move about from building to building since the day of its foundation more. than two score years ago.
Tt is recalled this week, when locat residents are beginning to grow accustomed to the handsome new nine-storey structure in Ice House Street, so recently stripped of its protect ing sheath of matting, that the Hong-Kong Stock Exchange has had a variety of homes, all of them tran-story. There have been headquarters in the old City Hall, Beaconsfield Arcade, Alexandra ' Building, the old Bank of Canton, Tce House Street, and lastly in the basement of Exchange Building. diary, as for instance when she wanted opinion on anything. It is extremely outspoken."
So Hongkong is wondering what light will be thrown on the mentality of people in the Colony, some day halt f century hence, when the tin trunk, now deposited ina London bank, yields up its Ieather-bound treasure.
At any rate, Miss Benson's plan quite different from that of Mr. Somerset Maugham, who wrote about Hongkong personalities so specifically after his brief visit to the Colony that everyone knew with whom he had dined at Government House.
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