Noonday Gun

East Point was the first plot of land in Hong Kong to be sold by the colonial government by public auction in 1841, and was purchased by Jardine Matheson.

On one occasion, a senior British naval officer became annoyed by this practice because he was new to Hong Kong and did not know of such a tradition.

[2] Although British rule ended in Hong Kong in 1997, the tradition of the noonday gun is continued by Jardine Matheson.

The guard rings a bell to signal the end of the fore-noon watch, a practice which dates from the time when Jardines' main offices and warehouses were located at East Point.

[3] The firing of the gun was famously mentioned in Noël Coward's humorous song "Mad Dogs and Englishmen".