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SENSATIONAL REPORT FROM CHINESE CEREMONIES

SAN FRANCISCO. MACHINE GUNS FOUND ON THE 8.ENILERE

AND

STREE PROOFS

SOME

INNER MEANINGS EXPLAINED.

LOCAL TRAFFIC CONTROL, MANY INNOVATIONS BEING TRIED.

Our trafic polics at busy junctions in Astartling rumour is currant that a

There is no time when one feels such a the City were yesterday for the first tund large consignment of nithine guns and stranger in a strange land as when a armed with traffic staves to be used for ammunition on the sa, Nile (the China group of coollès indulges in incomprehen, signalling traffic. The staves are similar Mail Steamship Company) was discovered, atbly gibes and laughter at one's expense and paired prior to the ship leaving San or whan a stroes, procession passes, and Francisco for the Orient at the beginning is all abous ang what the charneters on of November.

ANOTHER SENSATIONAL. SEIZURE OF ARMS. FURTHER PACKAGES FOR THE

her large cities. They are about two- to those used in Shanghai and many and-a-half feet in length, rather stoutly the barbers mean, and the most highly made and painted black and white. These. Enquiries made yesterday by a Daily educated foreigner is for this purpour an colours are very noticable and mutor-car Press representative elicited the informa illiterate. No doubt desirous of lighten. drivers should have no difficulty in seeing tion that a brief American broadcasting ing their darkness on these matters, the signal, wireless mesange had been received in the large audience assembled at the Helena The policeman on point duty has to hold Colony which in a measure confirmed thia May Institute, on Monday afternoon, to the stick in his left hand and when he Fifteen machine guns and 10,000 rounds hear the Rev: E Dewato, Principal of wishes to stop any particular section of of ammunition are stated to have been Haugh College, Fatshan, lecture on truffle he holds out the stick at a right-

Chinese Street Processions The Hon. angle from his left side and all trafo Mr. Blaud Severn, CM.G, presided. behind the stick has to stop. The core-- Mr. Dewston provided a wealth of stables have been well schooled in the use interesting material in the course of of the atave though one has always to take- lecture of over an hour. The discreet into considration that practice as well as Pressman will treasure the information given regarding certain well-observed theory is essential before perfection entr festivals and bring it forth in due to gained

The police authorities have also in band senson, to the discomfiture of his rivals, and (it is to be hopedy with due acknow scheme for ensuring safe traffic on the Further serious restlations regarding ledgment, to Mr. Dewstoe. The lecturer Caine Road. A system of warning lights, the illicit traffic in arms into the Colony advanced the proposition that a proces not quite the same as that at the bottom. bare Been made by Government offers sign is any trail of people going on a of Garden Road, are to be installed. One During the hst week-end the Revenue somewhat termal march. He had seen a of those warning lights has already been Officers seized on the Kowloon wharf good many processions in the United installed at Breezy Point Corner and is number of packages containing 68 re- States but he still thought China had working successfully. It is proposed to volvers and 1,400 rounds of ammunition, them beat as an American (not the place similar lights at the corner of The sensational feature of this case is lecturer) would put it. After describing Albert Road and Garden, Road: the junc that the arms were to be delivered to the an official's procession of Pre-Revolution time of Arbuthnot, Road and Caine Road: King Edward Hoel, which figured in the days, and the paper representations of and at the University Corner. recent big arms case at the Magistracy luggage always included (symbole of the when two Australiane named Smyth and official's uncertain tenure of office), „Mr. Pitts were sentenced on Monday last to Dunston mentioned students... and un- one year's hard labour each for smuggling employed processions; also processions

that had to do with strikes-he thought GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIP FOR. arms into the Colony,

KING EDWARD HOTEL

The now Two building at Shanghai was formally opened, by HLM.'s Cousul General (Mr. Sidney Barton, C.M.G.).

Mr. Barton in a speech said it would be superatous for her, he thought, to speak to an audience of people resident in China on the history of the hong." That history, as they all knew, eaytrel | and was practically the history of British trade in Chiga since the in Faugurtion of free trade and the disap- pearanes, of the old East India Co. A direct descendant of the East India Comized. was a founder, or an employe, of the old Jaribio Company The firm of Jardins was started in Canton in the first place, and over since had followed the development of the country and the axtension of foreign and friendly rela tions with Chinese, with operations in new centres of trade, as they were gradually opened up, during a purial of 80 years, until their operations were c spread from Harbin in the north to Chengtu in the west. Those relations were written in the history of the hong.

With regard to the magnificent new. building in which they were gathered, Mr. Barton said that there were two things which struck him when he entered the building, One was not including of bourve, its essentially rugged and ganite appearance, which was typical of the founders the cost of arms over the door and the Chinese inscription at the side of the door. These two things, ho [reatured to think, were not merely for the two fatores that bened to stand for the two features that had distinguish ed the firm in its past history out here The firm essentially carried on a tradi tion, and all would admit that without tradition, it was very difficult to carry on any enterprise. The tradition which that coat of arms implied had been exemplified in the dealings of the firm, especially, he thought, in its sense of public service. The firm had always been willing to produce men who have taken some, if not more than their fair share of the burden of public, work in China, and that was one of the mainstays of the whole British position out here. So long as they had firms willing to take a share in the public work, they could face the future, without them they would be in a bad way. The Chinees inscrip- tion indicated another trait, and that THIS TIME FROM THE PRESIDENT MCKINLEY" was one of sympathy with the people

CHINESE MARRIAGE CUSTOMS.

HONGKONG UNIVERSITY.

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The seizure on the present occasion was people in Hongkong knew more about made by Revenue Officer Lanigan. The them than he did.

We learn that, on the recommendation are president Cleveland what from th sa. President Cleveland. The packages An account of a wedding procession of the Board of Education, H.E. the had been placed on the wharf and were necessarily included much information Governor has approved of the granting awaiting the arrival of the hotel launch about Chinese marriage customs and be of a Scholarship in Education at the to take them to the hotel, where appar liefs. Marriage in China was a matter, University, to be competed for at the catly they were to be delivered to some not of sentiment, but of business, and Matriculation examination now proceed- person staying at the Hotel.

go-between arranged the preliminaries,

In connection with the seizure two for a fee. Courtship did not entering, limited to girl candidates only. The scholarship is worth $1,000 a year for Chinese have been arrested-Shek Cheung into it at all. Marriage, with the Chinese four years, and is open to any girl who Tak, said to be unemployed, and Lam Pia, was not for the individual but for the has been educated for at least three years a seaman, They were brought before the family; the individual was the last person Magistracy on Monday and remanded to concerned: he married for the family's at any school in this Colony

An announcement on the subject appears the 24th inst., at 2.15 p.m. Both defend- sako; to carry on the name, to have des anty were allowed bail of 85,000 each.

cendants to carry on ancestral worship, among to-day's advertisements, Mr. Job Witchell, Manager of the King and to provide his mother with a dutiful Edward Hotel, was present in Court when daughter-in-law. Nowadays," added the case was called.

STILL ANOTHER SEIZURE.

the lecturer, "we find young people CHINA NAVIGATION STEAMER

falling in love and wishing to marry

DAMAGED, despite betrothal vows elsewhere. It is very difficult, sometimes to deal with the

THE KUET OHOW problems that arise.

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The China Navigation Company's steamer Kues Chow arrived in Hongkong on Monday and as the result of some North she is going into dock for repairs, damage received on her Tast trip to the The Buck Chow it appears, went

If horoscopes proved favourable the with whom they lived. That had a dis- Another seizure of importance was proceed alliance proceeded to a betro- tinct meaning and value to the persons made at the beginning of the week by more so than the marriage contract in thal, which was absolutely binding--much there that day the representatives of Detective Sergeant Andrew of the Water the Chinese amongst whom they lived. Police, who discovered eight revolvers some countries. When, at last, the cere It was not an empty one, or was not and a thousand rounds of ammunition on groom went to fetch the bride who, mony drew near, the friend of the bride mere form, but the words were indicativo of that sympathy with the Chinese board the se. President McKinley when according to correct deportment, had people," Whatever they might have to his arrived in Hongkong. A Chinese been weeping steadily and copiously for aground in the Tisntain river at Toomb's, fear in the future-and they had a hard Passenger on board the vessel was arrested the last three or four days. She was Bend. Her stern frame was broken as the harder and charged before Mr. J. R. Wood, at dressed in wedding garments and, closely result of the grounding. She reached. row to hoc, and there was one perhaps in the future than in the Magistracy, yesterday, with being veiled, she entered in decorated sedan Hongkong under her own steem. the past those two things were essential, in illegal possession of one revolver. The chair, often padlocked until her arrivelThe skipper of the vessel is Captain a sense of tradition and

revolver was found by a Chinese detec at her future husband's house. Before senso of sympathy with the people amongst tive hidden in a thermos flask Accord this, the bridegroom's friend delivered to whom they dwelt. He felt certain that, ing to the detective the man admitted that the bride a letter urging ber to come to equipped with these virtues and qualities, the task was his, but later denied all her new home. This letter was very the firm would continue to succeed in knowledge of the article. On the ground carefully kept

oaly marriage lines sho future as it had in the past and help on of insufficient evidence his Worship (Mr. furnished the by the bride as it often British tradition out here.

J. B. Wood) ordered the passenger to be could show discharged. The revolver was confiscated.

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SCATTERING MALIGN INFLUENCES... Crackers, of course, formed an indis" pensable part of the procession to the in the match against the 94th Co., R.G.A, at Happy Valley this evening at bridegroom's house. It was not merely that the noise was appreciated by the Chinese but crackers were chicacious in scattering malign influences. Chinese, romsted Mr. Dewstoes the world in the terms of Luther's hymn

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Describing the All Souls Festival,

Mr. JOHN JOHNSTONE, in the course of Esperch said: When I left China last year I did not expect to be back so soon, nor did I anticipate having to assist in the opening of this building. It gives me very great pleasure, however, to occupy the position 1 do to-day for many reasons, gad two in particular. The Modern gardeners bas much do the first, because I take full credit for the explorer Wilson, for he has introduced fact that this building now adorns the many fine exotic plants, trees, and, Shanghai Bund not that I architected shrubs, but if in his wanderings in West And, were the world all devils o'er, it, but because I turned down the plane ern China he had never found anything All secking to devour us that had been prepared in London at except the lily so happily named regale, About half way to the bridegroom's considerable expense for a building which, the horticultural world would still be his house itse was made while the friend celebrated in the seventh moon, the in my opinion, would neither have looked debtor. Of the thousands of new plants of the bridegroom and the younger brother lecturer remarked that, for centuries, ro so well nor been as suitable as this one, sent home from China by one collector of the bride exchanged, officially, cards presentations of various familiar objects. Local talent is responsible for this office, or another, few can have taken more bearing the family names. It was sup had entered, with unfailing regularity, readily than this to their surroundings posed that, at that moment, the bride into the rites observed on this annual and I take nh ́ early opportunity to con gratulate Messrs. Stewardson and Spenen in this country, although in the case off to her wane and ceased to have occasion This year he noticed, the on the erection of a building which, IL regale these surroundings are the any further part or lot in her own paper models included representations of think you will all agree with me, is a opposite of those prevailing in the family. motor cars and aeroplanos, indicative of credit to them and to the Bund. The natural home of the plant-the Min According to plan, the bridegroom bid the growing receptivity of the Chinese second reason why I am glad to be here valley, on the borders of China and himself as the bride approached and had to Western idens

to be searched for by the bridegroom's Mr. Dewstee told a quaint story of to-day is, because I think that for senti-Tibet, a foral paradise, piatt

In late Jans and July it is possible friend. On being found, the bridegroom official who, weary of praying for rain- mental reasons-it for no, other Tam best fitted of all the recent partners ju the to walk for days through a veritable wild unlocked the hair and received his without rahul put a rope round the dominated by beautiful lilies In the Min bride, In Canton and Taishan it was an neck of the god and dragged it into the firm to play a leading part in this open- Valley Legale inxariates in rocky old custom to kick the chaly at this field, saying to it,Come find see for ing ceremony. An explanation involver ancient history, but with your permission crevices, sunbaked throughout the greater stage, to symbolise that the husband bad yourself how greatly we need rain in we will go back a small matter of 85 party of the year. It grows 3ft. to bit. authority over the wife. In Heungshan, your cool temple you do not realise how tall, and has slender leaves crowded on this was not done, but the bridegroom severe is the drough(Laughter.)---- Reference to the Canton Garetle of stems bearing several large funnel tapped the bride on the head with a fau, Legend had it that these vigorous mes

shaped flowers, red purple without, ivory instead (laughter.) Within the house, surea had the desired effect, and rain May, 1835, which one of the earliest white suffused with canary yellow within, the bridegroom mounted a high stool and full. Since then, gods had often been partners of this firm (Mr. James Mathe son) was instrumental in starting will often with the red purple reflected the bride prostrated herself before him, placed where they could see the fields through, and a deliciously fragrant.” He then lifted her veil and got his first whilst prayers for rain were being reveal the fact that Andrew Johnstone There are no Min Valleys in Great glimpse of the features of his fature offered, and Robert Jardine were admitted to Britain, nor rocky stevices sun-baked wife. The wedding ceremonies were THE IDEAL AND THE HEAL partnership in that year. Andrew John for more than a fraction of the year, yet then proceeded with The lecturer des Mr. De stoe gave an account of other stone was my great, undle, so you will see such the adaptability of this lily that cribed another quaint custom in this con processions associated with the Chinese that my connection with the Mackle it is found flourishing in places so nection. In some parts of China, he said Calendar and said, in conclusion Hoose goes back to very early days, diyor the limestone hills of Derby the bride and bridegroom sat on a bed and for this reason for no other, tshire, and the Wealden elays, the sands together in the presence of the wedding another milestone" to mark the pro- the South Downs, and rich red loam of of the other's gown Whoever succeeded is Biting that I should assist in raising of Hampshire, the arid chalk barrens of guests and each tried to sit on a portion gress of time-

Somerset Peat alone is poison to it would be the real bead of the household After some amusing allusions to his No more than any other lily will L. great uncle Mr. Johnstone said the new regole give of its best pleas tended, hat building had been built with a view to it suffers much, and in a family whose the future and opened fresh possibilities members are capricious to a degree, quoted a in the firm's business relationship with stands all but alone in constitutiones favour the Chinese and in spite of the troublous rigour. In this country we are singular life is to beg time which the country was experiencing, ly lucky in that the original stock of monies boge

ntly, for the great number of them were optimists bulbs came straight from the nati and had no doubt but that things would home of the lily, where we may

just before the settle down at some time or other. Mr.assume that the diseases of culti Joanstone thanked everyone for attending plans ara unknown, so that the strain islota the ceremony and said it gave him much sound, and not tainted by plesaure to find so many Chiness friends common to the Eastern nursery, garde present. It was a sign of mutual under, from which so many lilies come ill standing, which led him to hope and ex. nurserymen are wise, they will raise, pect that the house of Evo might con-1spemes by thousands, and though tinue to be regarded in the future as-16

had been in the past with esteem not only | noor; by doir Chinese friends but also by their the

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KING-IN LIFT

Chinese bave a wonderful imag

processions we very often criticise thei

is the idea they are getting at, not the thing itself. In looking at

dry and undignified character

abe beautiful robes on rage and dirt, the watoa most lovely things side by side with the an Irish most tawdry things in very bad taste. I thing in do not think the Chinese ses these in the cere same way as we do their imagination bofore death, appar- takes the symbol for a particular idea; it turer) mentioned what goes for the essence and the ideal rather moment of death the body than for the material fact. I deplore the and give grave changing times it is good that idolatry squil should 18, but I do not like to see the

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