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MAIN PICTURE:

The French Mission Building (foreground) and St John's

Cathedral (left, at rear) are two of Hong Kong's notable old buildings. The French Mission Building was completely rebuilt in its current form in 1919.

The site had been the home of the first governor, Sir Henry Pottinger; the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank's junior staff mess; the Russian Consulate: and the property of leading businessman, ER Belilios, who sold it to the Mission d'Etrangeres of Paris in 1915. It is being refurbished to house

Hong Kong's future Court

of Final Appeal. St John's

Cathedral is the second-oldest surviving western building in Hong Kong. It was built in 1846 in a style adopted from the 13th century Early English and Decorated Gothic Style. RIGHT: The old clock tower and the Loke Yew Hall at the University of Hong Kong. The clock tower is part of the university's oldest structure, the Main Building, begun

in 1910 with a donation

from prominent Parsee

businessman Sir Hormusjee Mody. At the end of 1947,

the university had 288 students

enrolled; in the 1994-95

academic year it had 9 015 undergraduates.

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