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HONGKONG

as opened in 1895. The building of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank is large, andsome, and massive, and would do credit to any city. It occupies a fine site next > the City Hall, and has frontages on Queen's Road and Des Voeux Road. The xterior walls and elegant fluted pillars are of dressed granite, and the offices on he Queen's Road frontage are crowned with a large dome. An extensive reclama- on along the city water frontage from West Point to Murray Road is now Imost completed, and the various sections as they are ready are being rapidly uilt upon. On the eastern section a handsome building for the Hongkong Club was nished in 1897, and was occupied in July of that year. Near the Club stands the ubilee statue of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the erection of which was postponed until this ite became available; it was unveiled on the 28th May, 1896. The statue represents Queen Victoria in a sitting posture and is of bronze under a stone canopy. The lock Tower, near Pedder's Wharf, was erected by public subscription in 1862, and the luminated clock was presented to the Colony by the firm of Messrs. Douglas Lapraik Co. It is proposed to re-erect it some day on a new design at the head of the new Pier t the foot of Pedder's Street, which was opened on the 29th December, 1900, and amed Blake Pier in honour of Governor Sir Henry Blake.

The chief religious buildings are: St. John's Cathedral (Anglican), which was erected 1 the year 1842, occupies a commanding site above the Parade Ground, and is a Gothic hurch of considerable size but with few pretensions to architecture. It has a square ower, with pinnacles, over the western porch, and possesses a peal of bells.

A new hancel was built in 1869-70, the foundation stone of which was laid by the late Duke f Edinburgh on the 16th November, 1869. A handsome stained window in the east nd, over the altar, to the memory of the late Mr. Douglas Lapraik, another the north transept erected in 1892 to the memory of the late Dr. F. Stewart, ormerly Colonial Secretary, one in the south transept to the memory of those ho perished in the wreck of the P. & O. str. Bokhara, another to the memory of the Hospital Sisters who died in 1898 while in execution of their duty during an utbreak of plague, and the stained clerestory windows of the chancel, presented by ady Jackson in 1900, are the chief adornments of the interior. The choir stalls, pulpit, nd Bishop's throne are fine samples of native carving.

It also possesses

fine three-manual organ containing 47 stops erected in 1887. St. Peter's Seamen's) Church, at West Point, close to the Sailors' Home, is a small brick lothic erection with a spire. It also has a stained glass window, presented in 1878. t. Stephen's Church, for Chinese, was built in 1892. It is a neat building in red brick ith white facings, with a tower and spire about 80 feet high, standing on the Pokfo- am Road side of the Church Mission compound. Union Church, a rather pleasing edifice a the Italian style of architecture, with a spire, and containing accommodation for bout 500 persons, formerly stood in Staunton Street, but was rebuilt, in 1890, on the lan of the old building, on a new site above the Kennedy Road, together with a arsonage adjoining. This church possesses an organ, and the three rose windows are lled with stained glass. A small Wesleyan chapel stands at the junction of Queen's Road and Kennedy Road. The Roman Catholic Cathedral is situated in Hlenealy ravine, near the Botanic Gardens, and is a large structure in the Gothic tyle; when completed it will be a rather imposing building. It was opened for wor- hip in 1888. St. Joseph's Church, in Garden Road, is a neat edifice erected in 1876 on he site of one destroyed by the great typhoon of 1874; St. Anthony's Church on the Bonham Road, near West Point, is an ugly structure, erected in 1892 by the muni- cence of a late Portuguese resident; St. Francis' Church, at Wanchai, and the Church of the Sacred Heart, at West Point, are small and unattractive structures. The Jewish Synagogue is a new building, erected in 1901, on the northern side of the Robinson Road. It is a plain but roomy edifice with two squat towers surmounted y spirets. The entire cost of the Church was borne by Mr. Jacob Sassoon. There are wo Mahomedan Mosques, one in Shelley Street and the other at Kowloon, the latter eing for the accommodation of the men of the Indian Mahomedan regiments quartered n the peninsula. A Sikh temple was, in 1902, erected near the Wanchai Road approach o the Happy Valley. There are also several Protestant mission chapels. St. Joseph's College, a school for boys managed by the Christian Brothers (Roman Catholic), occu- ies a large and handsome building on a prominent site below Robinson Road. The talian Convent, in Caine Road, educates a large number of girls, and brings up many rphans gratuitously. The Asile de la Sainte Enfance, in Queen's Road East, is in the ands of French Sisters, who receive and train up numbers of Chinese foundlings. Other denominations likewise support charitable establishments, conspicuous among which are the Diocesan Home and Orphanage, the Berlin Foundling Hospital on

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