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EXPANDED METAL

OR PLASTER WORK AND REINFORCED CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION

AS

USED IN

NUMEROUS

IMPORTANT

WORKS

IN

FOR

FLOORS,

ROOFS,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1914.

FOUNDATIONS,

WALLS,

&c.

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Ho promoted the Cooal Govern- ment Bill for the Counties, the Allotments and Small Holdings | Bill

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in Hongkong subscribed, met with striking success: The gulf between Mr. Chamberlain and. bis "first love," the Liberal par

ha

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Daily Pres.

Destruction of City Walls. The fung-shui argument—thet the wallsand gate-towers influence in some way the myatariops geomantic force that determine the prosperity or decline of the city would no doubt still find many adherenis among the un- educated glasses, but even among these it will vanish in dan course before the advance of education, while it is scarcely to › be 'antici pated that the argument would Dit be adduced by anyone of, position. Bat for the total absence of vital statistics in China, it would probably be easy to des monstrate from the case of Tient sin that so far from the removal of the walls being prejudicial in this respect, it has been a positive boon. To a greater or less degree proportionate to their height and the area of the enclosed space, the walls must exert an evil influence on the health of the dity, for by obstructing the free. passage of the winds of heaven they facilitate the development and endurance of breeding spot 1 disease, while they are also to same extent responsible for the cramped and unhealthy lines on which Chinese cities are laid out,

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The Drama In England. Reviewing the drama in En- gland, and especially in London, daring the past year some inter esting facts are revealed. The pessimists who declare that the public care only for valgarity

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