Hong Kong Telegraph - 2 February 1911
"Mr. H.R. Cochrane, accountant of Mercantile Bank of India, fell from the verandah of the bank mess into Queen's Road, opposite the Grand Hotel."
Sadly, Mr. Cochrane died.
Address: 19-21 Nathan Road
Address: 4 Middle Road. Notable Restaurants: Caliph Room, Sung Lounge and Dynasty Room. There was also the Coffee Shop, Lobby Bar, Cellar Bar and The Point After (Cocktail Lounge).
A giant mosaic measuring 143 feet long and 15 feet wide was put up on the side of the hotel facing Nathan Road.
Closed down in 1994. See: https://www.hkha.org/60th/photo-gallery-hotel/
Manchu dynasty imperial commissioner, Ch'i-ying.
The foreign community's regard for Ch'i-ying as their patron made him a temporary vogue. A few months later the spacious and commodious premises" of a new British hotel on Queen's Road were christened "Keying House".
This original section of the Hotel was rebuilt several times, but the "Hongkong Hotel" was started, and remained, in this location for almost 85 years.
The original business plan of the Hongkong Hotel Company was to take over and refurbish the Oriental Hotel on Wellington Street.
Enter Baron Gustav von Overbeck, Consul for Prussia and Austria-Hungary - and listed as an "assistant" at Dent's & Co.
In photos of Hong Kong from the 1890s, this building is hard to miss - it towers over its neighbours on the seafront.
As Moddsey guessed, this was built where the Metropole Building stands today. The site was bigger then, stretching from King's Road (then the seafront) back to today's Ming Yuen mansions on Peacock Rd.
The notice of the sale gives the lot as IL 1705, which fortunately can still be found on map.gov.hk.
