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On the 31st March, at the Hotel des Col
CHING MING FESTIVAL,
OPENING DAY IN HONGKONG.
"A GLIMPSE OF THE CHINESE RITUAL.
The Ching Ming Foniyal-when all good Chinese are prostrating themselves in worship of their ancestors-began to day, and there are
ed it. For days past the Chinese servants have been making ready for the Festival, In Chin ese houses, the entire household has been at wark preparing to participate in the national A COLLISION occurred in the harbour last religion of China. In European houses, the evening between the Chinese owned steam-
tervants have been mysteriously disappearing launch Ping On and a small sampan, as to Canton and Swatow--all having the same result of which the sampan sank near the Can-object in view-ancestral worship. ton wharf. It is understood there was no loss of life, but the sampan people lost all of their possessions.
wrought-up nerves. It is there," and that is about all that can be said of it.
AFTER THE CEREMONY.
The ceremonies at the burial ground ended, then comes the time for cutting up the pig distributing the sugar-cane and the rice and all that has been brought on the tables A | glorious feast ensues and the worship of unces- tors has finished for a year. The sugar-cane, it should be observed, issupposed to be permeated
eating it the worshippers are made, in the words of a Chinese gentleman, "swees and happy." At Caroline Hill burial ground, there were over 500 worshippers this morning, and doubtless there will be a good many others during the month,
EXIUMING THE DOSES,
which have been made to enforce registration, A CHINAMAN chose the wrong place to an or, at least, to draft such a measure as would dulge in a smoke, for regardless of the presence meet the requirements of trade. At various of Mr. F. A. Hazeland on the bench at the times since 1885 the subject has been beMagismey he is a cigarette and commenced fore the Government, but as yet nothing has to enjoy a quiet whift. He was arrested, Onlinary business comidentenlions aboujú bendāround | been done. Correspondence has taken charged, and fined $5.
place with the Hongkong Chamber THE str. Industrie reponed as captured by the The Editor will not undertake to be responsible for the question, but it was learned that Japanese is a small salvage steamer, which the local members were averse top was lately engaged in the attempt to salve the gistration on three', grounds-the diff Chinese cruiser fallien, wrecked on Elliot few people in Hongkong who have fist realis- with the best qualities of (he spirits, and bud culty of getting the true nanies of the part island. It is supposed she carried dispatches
trade would be hampered. It might be considered that a body of business, men assisted by legal advice could successfully surmount these obstacles, but when it is
problem remains unsolved the peculiar diff stated that even in England and India. the
In Things Chinate, Mr. J. Dyer Ball says cuities of the situation will be recognised.
hat "Ancestral worship is filial piety gone mad" In the course of an article on the sub What is wanted is a law that will penalise
ject he states: "This religion is the only the partner who knowingly sets out to de Ar the request of many people the operatiae that is entitled to the name of the fraud his creditors. At present, a firm mày
"Beauty and the Beast," is to be repeated, by National Religion of China,, as, the dead be composed of two or more partners who the Kowloon Dock Amateurs to-morrow night, are the objects of worship of nuor and rich, alone benefit when business is flourishing, and, apart from the attraction of the perform young and old, throughout the length and But in the event of failure the partners disate itself, as the procee's are to be given to breadth of this immense empire." The whole appear in the direction of Canton or Shang the funds of the Ministering Children's Lengue, idea is that the spirits ofthe deaf stand in need bai, and the poor manager or clerk, who has a very full attendance should greet the clever of propitiation, comforts and necessaries to
chil amateurs.
which they were accustomed in this life, and been a mere tool in the hands of his more
money with which to charm the heart astule masters, is left to bear the brunt. No-
of the monarch of the nether regions. The body can really say who are the partners in the firm. Surely such a condition of things
money, houses, boats, clothes, etc, which are carried to the burini-place of the departed 'an- is more likely to hamper trade--besides
cestor are all spurious, and they are sent along A very important question, affecting the affording special facilities for the clever
to the other world by being hurnt-a wireless interests of a large number of Chinese in rascal-than any measure passed by the
telegraphic invention which has been lost sight Hongkong, came before the Sanitary Board Government. It seems to be the idea of the
of by western nations.. The fond, however, is yesterday, on a minute from the Hon, the commercial representatives in this quarter of
decidedly real. There is no question about Registrar-General. It appears that it has the world to wait until others have experi-
the fine fat quarters of the roast sucking pig been the practice when notices were issuedimented with a registration law. Meanwhile the damave done was slight. The premises or the succulency of the sugar cane; or the the devout Chinaman. by the Board, to publish, at the same time, the uncertainty which prevails in trade when of te Brigade returned to their quarters which all adorn the tables, spread before the juicy sharks' fins or the first quality rice
Chinese translations for the benefit of those credits are asked exerts an unfavourable in when another alarni of an outbreak of fire in a 1 burial-place. The ancestors' admittedly get a who are not acquainted with English. On fuence-the hongst trader suffering at the building near the Western Market was given whiff of the odour from all these 'delicacies, but
onies, the wife of J. M. Tavarus, of a son.
DEATH.
At the Government Civil Hospital, on the 4th April, HAROLD F, PIPER. Aged 36 years.
The Hongkong Celegraph.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1905,
CHINESE NOTICES.
expense of the suspected. It is high time that such a state of things was abolished, but the remedy has not yet been discovered, and so far as we can see, no active exertions are being made to find even a modified solution of the problem.
BUILDING STAGNATION IN
JAPAN.
Ar about half past two this morning a message was turned in the Central Station that a fire had braken out in the family house. of Fung In, No. 313 Queen's Roa, Central The Fire Brigade, under Chief Inspector Baker, fourd that the police in the disret and the inmates themselves had extinguished the flames. The fire, it appears, brake but in the conk house on the first for, and as it did not sprend were sol insured carcely had the members
and again they turned out, and were upon the paint of proceeding to the scene when a mssage was telephoned through that the fire was already exti guished, and their services in this case also would not be required. The firemen are wondering if the latter alarm was a practical "joke" on the part of some irres ponsible person since no trace of any fire. in thai distret could be found when inquiries were made later in the day.
THE STOLEN RING,
these translations there was also a stamped statement to the effect that if further parti culars were required, or if any Chinese MELLOW desired a fuller explanation of the terms of the order,, application should be made at the office of the Sanitary Board in Hong kong. The Registrar-General, in his minute, remarked that he had never yet seen the stamp in question affixed, nor was it clear that it appeared on every letter to Chinese' householders. He therefore recommended that the notice should be printed on the According to Mr. Alexander MacLean, documents issued by the Board, and, what the Canadian commercial agent at Yoko
The case in which Gunner Gilchrist, R.G.A., is more important, the explanations as to hanta, the war has had a disastrous effect
was charged with the theft of a ring belonging the meaning and object of the orders on building operations in Japan. There is
to the wife of Sergeant 13rdsley, was resumed should be furnished-not at the Sanitary general stagnation in building and real before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Magistracy Board office in the city-but at any
estate improvements generally, and although this morning, when Mrs. Hardsley testified that district office, and by district inspec the volume of trade is encouraging, and the defendant came to the house on Monday night tors. The recommendations of the Re- accumulated wealth of the country is beat o'clock and told her husband he had gistrar-General. were adopted by the Board
sees the stolen ring in a jeweller's shop at and thus a much-needed reform has been coming more and more conspicuous, there
Wanchai. The jeweller wanted $5 for it, is nothing to show that the importation of
and he said he had been to the palice and told quietly carried through. It is manifest that
lumber from Canada is likely to increase in them. The ring was original y bought by her an illiterate Chinaman residing at West
the immediate future. Mr. MacLean, in husband at Chatham, when she was present, Point, Shau-ki-wan. or Aberdeen, who re- ceived a notice which he failed to under the course of his report, states that he has and 3 were paid for i'.hen she left her stand, would think twice before he decided travelled from Tokio to Kobe for the pur-sit-rg-room on the isih ut, she placed her rings on top of the ch st of drawers, and locked the to tramp all the way to the office of the Sanit-pose of personally investigating the existing door. She opened the door at about quarter. ary Board for the necessary explanation. conditions, and he remarks that "one The majority of the Chinese community in would think that everything in the way of the Colony are by no means inclined to building had been finished, and that the evade the law on the contrary, they are
work going on would make nothing more than good wear and tear." The fact seems entirely amenable to the official orders
to be that, pending the result of the war, issued by the Government, and only seck to
the Japanese business community is dis-
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lend quiet and respectable lives. But when
inclined to embark in ventures which mean
past one to let her husband in. A door leading to the back verandals was open. The accused came to the hous about two o'clock.
Yu Shun, jeweller, said that the defendant came in with the ring which he sold for $4. || He next saw him on the 3rd inst. Witness re- cognized defendant at once; defendant simply asked for the gold ring, and asked how much money witness wanted for it, and witness said
as
an order arrived-written in that archaic style which distinguishes official notices the laying out of money without the pos$15." Defendant then produced some money, calling upon the recipient to either do what bibility of any immediate return Up to the Winess simply bought the ring as old gald, he was told or apply to the Sanitary Board prevent time the war has had no visible was broken, but he repaired it, and then ask for particulars, it is quite comprehensible effect on the importing and exporting houses ed for $15. He did not think it strange that a that the Chinaman might put off the journey at
man who sold the ring for $4 one day should the chief ports. *The banks are
be willing to pay $15, a few days later, for the to Victoria from one day to another till it shown to be in a flourishing condi- same ring. The defendant did not come to was too late, and he found himself in the lion, and financial concerns whose business the shop in plain clothes, toils. As Mr. Lau Chu Pak remarked, in it is to deal with the rapid turn-over of PREMIER CIGAR majority of cases people are prosecuted capital furnish reports which can only be and fined more for ignorance and want of characterised as eminently satisfactory. It explanation than for wilful negligence or non- would appear, "then, that the only sections compliance. The hardships entailed on the of the Japanese people who are holding
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being satisfied with immaterial airy flavours, the worshippers c nsume the more material flesh and bones, so that everybody is happy.
IN HONGKONG.
The impatiance which the Chinese place in the religion of ancestral worship is best evidenced by the reverence with which they treat the bones of the dead. In former days, in Hongkong, a society called the Tez had the care of those bones which were exhumed in order to be set to the home of the relatives. Now the exhumation and cars of the bones is in charge of the Tong Wa Hosp tut, who take every precaution to ensure that the bones are handed over to the proper parties. So impor fant is this question of having the remains properly cared for, that the spirit of the dead? is.eves supposed to be affected by the ground. in which the remains are in erred. In other. words, if a family has an unlucky year, it would not be considered strange to attributa the mis- fortunes to the ground where the spirit lay, tind in that case the bones would be exhumed and removed to a lucky spot with good fangshui.
It all seenis very grotesque and bizarre to the stranger this Ching Ming Festival, but it is invested with the most solemn significance for
OBITUARY;
MR. HAROLD E. PIPER,
It is with regret that we have in record the death, which occured at the Gevers ment Civil Hospital, Hongkong, last night, of Mr. Harold The Ching Ming Festival begins 16 days F. Fiper, who, for some months, was contribut from the Chinese Christmas, if the term can being to the columns of this journal. Mr. Piper adequately applied, and extends over a month had been ailing for some weeks, suffering from so that a person who has ancestors buried in
abscess of the liver. An operation was per- different places has plenty of time to go from formed at the Hospital and although it was one to the other and perform his devotions
successful, the patient died from exhaustion. But perhaps the best way to show the proce- Mr. Piper, who was only 16 years of age, was dure of those now engaged in ancestral wor the son of a Church of England clergyman, and ship is to give a description of the day's life of gained bis knowledge of journalism in the a Chinaman in Hongkong. Caroline Hill has Midlands. Some years ago he came to the been set apart as a Chiness burial ground, and East and was, for a time, connected with the that is the rendezvous of all whose ancestors North China Daily News. During the Boxer have died and have been buried in tongkong. troubles he went to Tientsin and Peking in the Io a Chinese household in Hongkong, every interests of an American newspaper. He had thing was in readiness for the dawning of Ching a varied experience in China, and on the start- Ming to-day. The pig had been roasted, the ing of the trails Ecke in Penting, he was felicacies and viands for which the departed appointed sub-editor of that paper, a post which had expressed favour in his sublunary life were he filled for several months. Later on, he pro taid out in plates on tables, and at 5 am. there ceeded to Bangkok where he was associated was nothing left to do but pracee to the cemes with the Stam Oburver. About August last tery. The coolies accordingly shouldered ast year he came to Hongkong, and until the time this display of refreshments and wandered off of his death he was a contributor to this paper. to Caroline Hill. One wonders if their mouths Mr. Piper had the true sport of the Bohemian; watared at the thought of the good things which his roving disposition led him into many strange they were escorting to the burial-ground, and corners, and being gifted with a versatile naturo
if
they had any fear that the spirits would appear
in bodily shape and grab the plethora of chow. Whether they did or not, they must certainly would carry the eatables to the cemetery, for every Chinaman has a heart above the terrestial on Ching Ming day,'
AT THE CEMETERY, About an hour after the conlies have gone,
and facile pea he turned his experience to ac
count in the ephemeral columns of the daily - press. He was well-known in newspaper circles in the East from the Malacca Straits to the Yellow Sea, and many will regrel his early death. The funeral will take place to-morrow morning.
THE WEATHER,
The following report is from M. F G Figg, First Assistant if the Hringkong Oliserva torv
On the 5th at 11.55 The barometer has risen over China and Japan,
when all is ready at the tomb, the tables laid out as temptingly as possible, the paper silver oil rs rolled up in neat little bundles, and the joss-sticks ready to be lighted, the Chinese gentleman of the househoid, accompanied by his sons, his wives and concubines, and his entire list of relatives, marches to the scene of operations. In some parts of China women are not supposed to attend these ceremonies, Gradients continue slight on the China coast, but here in Hongkong, following Hakka | and fresh NE. winds will prevail in the Formosa fashion, the women turn out in their numbers, Channel. Over the part of the China Sex
winds may be expected over that area, and it is they who do the praying. The men-gradients are rather steep and strong NE. folks light the foss-sticks and the candles, and'
Forecast-Moderate NE, winds; fair. indulge in half-an-hour's medication.
A Chinaman who has been born in Hong
The high pressure, now, covering› China is: spreading Eastwards over Japan,
Chinese who live at a distance from Victoria back are those who are engaged in tradesing in a jeweller's shop in Wanchai. Defend kang will probably have a great grand-father, City Hall Library and Museum for the week
will be relieved by the passing of the Registrar- General's resolution at yesterday's meeting of the Sanitary Board. and its immediate effect should be seen in the decreased number of prosecutions for failure to comply with the sanitary regulations. In this con- nection, it is satisfactory to know that the Chinese community have in the Registrar General an official who has the interests of This charges at heart, and who is not bound by the soul-killing trammels of red-tape when the consideration of the ignorant and poor
is in question.
No. 1 - $2.75 - per 100 REGISTRATION OF PARTNERSHIPS. The question of the registration of part nerships crops up with unfailing regularity at
No. 2 - $2.50 per 100 periodic intervals. The Courts, finding
No. 3 - $2.25 per
100
it
W. Murison, detective inspector, made in quiries about a ring reported stolen from Block 24 on the 15th ult. On the 3rd inst. defendant came to the station with Mrs, Bard ley, and said he had seen the stolen ant said he had been there the night before and which mean the investment of money for in-negotiated for the purchase of the ring for $15. definite periods before returns are apparent. Witness went with him to the shop, and on Hongkong is not greatly affected by such a
the way hinded accused $15. Defendant state of affairs, but a new era may arise on entered the shop first, and two minutes later witness entered and found defendant with the 1st July when the extraordinary import ring in one hand and the $15 in the other. The tariff, which forms one of the war tax items, jeweller produced a book showing the entry comes into effect. So far as Canada is gold refuse purchased 54." aflected there will be increased duties on tinned provisions, flour, butter, etc. But that does not lead to the belief that there portation of these articles. According to will be any perceptible decrease in the im-
Ping Min, a fakt of the jeweller, said he re Mr. Maclean, who should be in a position membered the defendant coming to the shop on to know, "the reasonable expectations would the 16th March. He brought a gold ring and seem to be that if peace should be restored laid it on the counter, and asked the master to the resources of the country become serious buy it, and he did so paying $t for it. On the ly impaired and the trade and industries and it defendant went back to the shop and paralyzed, a time of great activity and pro-
sperity may be assured."
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
P. S. Fenton said that defendant came to the station on Sunday night and reported that he knew where the stolen ring was to be found. That was the day before he went to the shop
with Inspector Murison.
his master showed him the ring. He did not
hear what was said, then, but his master and
defendant went to the Station.
a
Library Museum Non-Chinese.. 309 ... 29 Chinese
1.586
Total...... 419
1,675
The following is the return of visitors to the great grand-mother, a grand-father and grand-ending the 2nd Ap it, 1905. mother, and, it may be, a father and mother, besides wives and concubines to whom he must sacrifice. Provided they are all buried in the same cemete y his duties might presum ably be completed in a few hours; "otherwise he might be occupied days in fulfiling the rites of his religion. It is for this reason, preTHE case of armed robbery in the New Terri sumably, that the Ching Ming Festival ex-] tory in which a Chinainan and an accomplice, entered a house, and after gagging a party of tends over a month.
defenceless women, ransacked the premises, making off with jewellery to the value of Stop, was again before Mr. Kemp at the Magistracy to day. After the Identification of the accused the case was further remanded.
One feature of the ancestral worship is the tiles due to those who depicted this life be- tween the Ching Ming Festival of last year and this year's festival. It is laid down that the worship of these spirits must be offered be fore the coming of the festival this year, but
the reason for that rule is hidden in obscurity. SHIPPING AND MAILS.
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A STRANGE FEATURE. ... The most noteworthy fact about the cere
monies, however, is the intense devotion of the Chinese to the worship of their ancestors and
their relatives. An apparently foolish and
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hard-hearted coolie, whose concubine Jeft Chi Wan, house boy to the complainant, his world thirty years ago, might have said that on Sunday last defendant came to been seen at Caroline Hill burial-ground him at about three o'clock, and told wit- to-day weeping his heart out
over the ness that the other boy had stolen a gold ring few bones that remained of his erstwhile and run away. Witness answered "no, the spouse. The Chinese nation is commonly sup other boy did not stent anything." Both the posed to be devoid of emotion: they are pic tured as bland, expressionless, and callous. master and mistress were put at the time.
Inspector Gourley said that when defendant See them, then; at the burial-ground. See
mert, which was taken down in writing. never saw, the men prostrate for wives they of merchants without hampering trade or A-CHINAMAN who had just arrived from the Defendant said he was innocent of the crime perhaps ignored. It is a curious spectacle, and preventing the introduction of capital into United States was placed before Mr. Hazeland with which he was charged.
quita-beyond the "ave a westerner. Even established businesses, has been almost this morning, charged with being in unlawful His Worship said the charge against the de. when they are least emo Mal, it would appear given up as hopeless. The Chamber of possession of a revolver, and ammunition with feed int had not been proved sufficiently to that they are kiding aching hearts, and when
conviction and he must be at the burial-ground they may be chatting The C. P. R. Co.'s sa. Empress of India Commerce in Singapore has again had the out a licence for same. His Worship said that warrant a
about something entirely foreign to the wor arrived at Kobe at 6p m, on Tuesday, 4th înst, subject under consideration, and at the as the man was a new arrival, and possibly discharged.
unacquainted with the law of this Colony, he The case against the jeweller, Yu Shup, for ship they are in the deepest grief. A spasm of at mid-night same day via Nagasaki for Shang annual meeting held the other day, the would not fine him, but the revolver and receiving the stolen ring was adjourned until emotion apparently overwhelms them-adhal where she is due to arrive at a pm, on (33 Chairman alluded to the many attempts ammunition would be confecated,
to-morrow morning.
it is not brought on by a courag of asceticism or Sajurday, 8th inst
Gregor & Co.,
SOLE AGENTS.
Hongkong, 7th March, 1905.
able measure, which would meet the objects
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