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JAPANESE RITES CONCLUDE.

ANCIENT RITUAL AT KYOTO.

HIGHER BEINGS.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY

SEQUEL.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPĖ,

ARRESTED MAN CHARGED

AT KOWLOON.

A man named Tee Lan-fuk, 31 years of age, has been. arrested in connexion with the highway EMPEROR PAYS HOMAGE TO robbery in Prince Edward Read on Monday last, when a Chinese, after being relieved of a quantity of personal property, was stabbed by one of the mon.

The arrested man was formally charged before Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning with rob. hery and wounding.

STRANGE CEREMONIES.

Kyoto, Nov. 16. Last night were enacted scenes such as could be witnessed in no country in the world other than. Inspector Fallon, who had chargo Japan, and only once in a genora of the case, asked for, a week's tion even there. the dead of formal remand, intimating that It night, alone except for the service was hoped to apprehend the other of two female attendants, the Em- poror, as the High Priest of the two men who took part... Japanese nation, performed solemn The defendant was romanded till rites that had their origin in the next Thursday morning, very beginnings of Japanese his- tory, rites so old that the very rea- sons for their performance have long since been forgotten.

MACAO FAIR.

STILL CONTINUES TO ATTRACT.

For several days previously, his Imperial Majesty had been prepar- dag himself for this solemin all- night vigil with the Invisible. Pre- sence by prayer and purification. On the night before last, he per- The Macao Fair continues to formed the sacred rites known as attract exceptionally large crowds, Chinkonani, or Spirit Pacification The entertainment section of Ceremony, the primary object of the Fair is now in full swing and which was to tranquilise his spirit will satisfy the most exacting. and co-ordinate diverse psycholog-The Ferris Wheel, Caterpillar, cal elements within himself pre-Merry-go-round, atc., of paratory to entering into commun lon with the goda.

Manila Show Company are draw- the Ing big crowds, and Maxime's Palais de Danes is an attraction for many. The various small gumos of chance are also very popular.

In Primitive Building. For the purpose of last night's solemn rites, two small buildings of the most primitive architecture and of exactly the same design,

The commercial part of the Fair known as the Yuki Den and Suki is also complete and gives an excellent iden' of the merchandise

ed.

Macao from the hinterland of reproduction of 21 Japanese dwelling of the remote paat nnd, Cheung Shan. standing as they did on piles. seemed to bear silent witness to

LATEST TROOPING

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NOTABLE SUCCESS OF

BRITISH PROCESS.

A remarkable new success for the production of motion pictures in natural colours was demonstrated in London recently,

The transport Somersetshire ar

This process, called Polychromide, rived in Hongkong at about eight is a British invention, whereby o'clock this morning on her home-every colour in the spectrum can be ward trip. The vessel paid her faithfully reproduced. This is ec- first call to Hongkong during the hieved by having a patented camera present trooping season on Ne-with two negatives and one lens. vember 8 when she had on board its colours are divided according to As the image reaches the camera the 1st Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment brought out from Egypt. the upper and lower halves of the spectrum. One negative is en- The battalion was disembarked atsitive to the red to yellow range and Shanghai last week and the 2nd the other to the green to violet Welch Regiment embarked.

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NOVEMBER 15, 1929.

SOLICITOR IN A DILEMMA.

OWING TO DEFENDANT BEING IN JAVA.

PLAINTIFF SUCCEEDS.

Because his client had gone to Java, Mr. P. M. Hodgson was un- able to proceed with his defence to an action in the Summary Court this morning, before Mr. Justice Jacks. After the plaintiff had case his Lordship gave judz- given evidenco in proof of his.

the plaintiff with ment for costs. Mr. Hodgson said his client could take action when he returned to the Colony in regard to a set-off which was to have been put up for the defence.

The case was one in which Yuen Kam-chuen, No. 302, Praya East, Bued Mok Ting-fong, of the Union Pacific Trading Company, No. 6, Duddell Street, for $953.86, boing the principal and interest due under two promissory notes dated April 12, 1928,

Unlike the first transport, the These two negatives are then Doraotahire, the Somersetshire printed on a double-sided positive finished her journey at Bhangbai, film, which can bo projected in the having no detalls on board for ordinary way. further North. The Welch Regi-

Polychromide claims to be the ment is bound for Singaporo, the cheapest and the simplest direct transport being due to sail from colour process yet Invented. Even Hongkong to-morrow, arriving at in the short films 'shown recently | Singapore on November 21. there is no trace of "fringing" and She also has on board various nothing in the nature of eye strain. details from Shanghai destined for in England under the direction Home and while hero she is pick-of Arthur Maude, an Englishman

The plaintiff said to lent the ing up other units for whom re-who has had exceptional experi liefs have arrived. From Singaence of colour work In America. sum of $1,500 on February 4, this pore the vessel will go on to Bon-11e intends to make full-length year, to the defendant, paying the bay, and then to Southampton, Alm dramas of English life, begin-money over by means of a cheque. Boxing Day. being due at the latter port on ring with romance by Jeffery The defendant agreed to repay the

She will make another trip to the Far East during the present England again on January b. pick- trooping season, being due to leave

ing up the 2nd Wilts at Bombay and bringing out the battalion to Shanghai. According to present arrangements, on this trip the Somersetshire will embark the 1st Beds, and Herts at Hongkong for Bombay on February 26.

Mr. C.E.L. Grist was for the

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THE WOODLARK.

FEARS FOR THE VESSEL'S SAFETY AT BEA

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Shanghai, Nov. 14. Anxiety is felt here for the Bafety of the former H. M. S. The transport Neuralla, the Woodlark, now named the Cassum,

Eust on Tuesday, secording to

plaintiff, and Mr. P.M. Hodgson de- fended.

money within 14 days. Ho had re-

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paid 1600 on account and after HONGKONG REALTY & TRUST

wards gave two promissory notes for $500 each in respect of the re- maining $1,000. At the end of April, plaintiff had $120.22 in hand, belonging to the defendant, which money he kept and credited to the defendant. Including interest the money owing amounted to $953.86.

Given An 1.0.U;

Replying to Mr. Hodgson, plaf tiff explained he was told by the money to pay for some flour which he had bought from an American

Den respectively, had been erect which is on sale at Macao. Large third of the troopships for the which left for Hongkong on No. defendant that he required the!

In form and size ench was a crowds are reported to be visiting East, left Southampton for the Farvamber 6.

cable advices received in Hong- She spoke the steamer Sinking, firm. At the time of the borrowing, kong. The Neuralla has on board proceeding northward to Wen-he (plaintiff) was given an I. O. U. the 2nd Battalion of the South chow, on November 10, when ex temporarily as the money was to be the Malayan origin of the Palace and passed in state pre-Staffordshire Regiment, destined periencing rough weather and repaid in a fortnight. The promis Japanese people:

sory notes were given on April 12 cossion between lines of troops for Shanghai. She is due here on making only three knots. Each was made of unplaned guarding the approach to the December 20 and at Shanghai will wood and was thatched with reeds. Tongu, a temporary palace where embark the 2nd Suffolks who will Knight, asked to be reported to

The master, Captain W. C. H. when the I..O. U. was returned.

In answer to further questions,

alated. that The pine timbers which served as he was joined by the Empress and go on to India, and half the bat-11. t. Consul at Shanghai, and plaintiff

the pillars were unbarked. Coarse members of the Imperial Family. talion of the Northamptonshires added that he intended puting defendant was the agent of a matting formed the walls and cell-

French Insurance Company. Ho bound for Malta. Inge, and no malls or metal of any

into Wenchow for better coal.

(plaintiff) was engaged by the de- kind were used in their construe

The as. Taming, with the re- Since then, there has been no fendant in connexion with the of the ship. Captain agency for the purpose of canvas- Lon. The floors were covered

mainder of the Beds and Herts on newe with soft grass, over which were

board, left Chinwangtao on Wed-Knight, apart, from one Lettish sing for insurance, at a wage of $30 employed spread mats.

nesday and has arrived at Shang- officer, is the only foreigner a month. He was 80 hal. The transport 'is sailing onaboard.

until April 30. Plaintiff denied for that he had ever been loaned any The Woodlark has been Friday for Hongkong where tha men will be disembarked and will

thirty-one years A shallow-draft money by the defendant. He also said it was not true that the defen- join the rest of the battalion at gunboat on the Yangtaze, and was dant offered to pay if the promis- the Shamshuipo camp..

recently sold for service on theory notes were returned. It is interesting to note that the West River at Canton. She was

Mr. Hodgson put it to plaintif 2nd Wetch Regiment, which is on shored up here for the journey that between April 12 and August the Somersetshire arriving to-day, southward, but found the greatest 30 he mislaid the promissory notes, spent a considerable time in Hong-difculty in getting insured, 4 but the reply was in the negative. kong last year, being among the Chinese company eventually un- Explaining the money he had of first troops to be billeted in, the dertaking the risk at ten per cent. the defendant's, plaintiff said that Mrs. Knight states that she he had $178 odd with which to make Peninsula Hotel.

received a cable from her husband disbursements, including telephone from Wenchow on Sunday, atating charges, rent and sundries. After that ho was bunkering there. making payments, he had a balance The Rev. J. Benson, rector of a There has been no word sluce. | of $120.22. He asserted that the Sydney church, home from a holiday camp, with along the South China coast on

was motoring It is known that bad weather broke defendant verbally agreed to thint amount being credited to his ac- his wife and four children, who Monday.-Reuter.

count in respect of the debt. were all asleep. He mistook a | danger signal at an approach to All being now ready, the Emperor the River Clyde, and drove the proceeded to the Kairyu Den, a car into the river. The car Building set aside for his abultion overturned and Mr. Benson and purification prior to his solemn alone escaped. He dived into the midnight vigil.

water many Umes, despite the

Guards of honour, dressed in ceremonial robes that reproduced in elaborate detail of form. and colour the costumes of old Japan, took their places soon after at the four gateways of the inner en- Equally simple structures and covered galleries stood near by for closure where the ceremony wa the accommodation of the Empress to take place, while others took and members of the Imperial up their stand at other gates. Family, as well as for the Minis- Following this, the invited guests ters of State and other high func-began to arrive and were conducted tlonarien.

to two outer places of attendance, All these plain but dignified while Court ritualists busted them- structures were but temporary and selves putting the finishing touches had been improvised solely for this to the Yuki Den and Suki Den, the one great event, To add to the two brush-wood structures wherein impressiveness of the scene, all the Emperor was to pass the night was in darkness, except for the in prayer and communion with the weird flickering light shed by gods: Larches and watch fires, and silence brooded over all.

By this time night had descended on the ancient city of Kyoto, and watch fires were kindled at the four gates, while lanterns were lit with in the two simple edifices,

Royal Ablutions.

AN EXPENSIVE SEAT.

New York, Nov. 14.

Distant Past Recalled. Nor was it only in the form and construction of these simple) edifices that the Japan of the dis- tant past W18 seen. In the furnishings and in the various ceremonial utensils appearing in these solemn rites there were re vealed the materials of everyday Japanese life, not of n few cen

Wearing a simple garment of darkness, in an endeavour to re- A seat on the Curb Market of the turies ago but of remotor ages; that must be reckoned by at least hemp, he entered a square-shaped lease his imprisoned family, but New York Stock Exchange has bath of primitive construction and, failed to get any of them out of been sold for $150,000, which is a Even. the Throne, if Throne. it having completed his ablutions, the car. could be called, was no more than donned ceremonial robes of pure a rough couch of straw matting white silk. Final hand-cleansing So hallowed were these objects by rites having been administered, a Court ritualist handed him his time and so sacred were they by virtue of their association with royal baton, and thus were com- the emperors and gode of the die-picted all the high and ancient pre- tant past that an atmosphere of paratory Shinto rites enabling him mystery and awe seemed to sur-to enter as High Priest of the na- round their very presence.

2,000 years.

In their details, the ceremonies enacted in this solemn actting partook of the nature of a primi tive harvest festival, with which were merged survivals of the original Japanese Enthronement rites. They were, morever, the culmination of months of elaborate

preparation and ritual designed ensure absolute purification, both spiritual and material,

to

Purification Riles,

tion into communion with the gods.

to

The Empress having undergone similar purification, ancient music was played by Court musicians while ritualists began cook the offerings to be presented by the Emperor. to the gods, and female attendants went through the motions of pounding rice.

While these and other forms of

procedure were taking place, the Chief Ritualist entered the outer chamber of the Yuki Den and, after reading a prayer, took up his posi tion, in company with two torch bearers, near the northern entrance, there to await the arrival of the Emperor.

Impressive Scene.

The ground on which the various structures stood had been purified by special rites before the commence ment of their erection. The brush- wood enclosure, the piles and cross- beams, the posts and other timbers

Then followed one of the most im- (all of rough unbarked pine), the pressive sights of the whole cere- thatch of the roof, the walls and mony, the progress of the Emperor cefling of matting, the rush mat- from the Ablution Hall to the Yuki ting covering the bamboo floors of Den. Leading the solemn proces- the surrounding verandahs, the ston came the Minister of the Im inner curtains of cloth-these and perial Household and the Grand all other materials employed in Master of Ceremonies, walking one construction had been through on either side of the corridor. Be- series of elaborato purificationhind them came ritualists bearing rites before being put to use, while flaming torches shedding a weird the sacred rice and sake used by flickering light on all around. Fol. the Emperor in the solemn service lowing them camo two more ritua of communion with the gods had liste, one bearing the Sacred Sword, been grown and harvested, to the the other the Sacred Jewels,

Then came the Emperor himself, accompaniment of Shinto cere barefooted and clad in his cere- monies, in fields selected by monial robes of pure white silk, process of divination."

bungi holding in his right hand the priest Late yesterday afternoon the Emperor set out from the Imperial : (Continued on page 8.)

record. Reuter's American Service.

Landlady (to boy from the country); "Of course we have to charge a little extra for much a view,”

Defendant in Java.

Mr. Hodgson said he was in an unfortunate position as the defen- dant was in Java, having gone thero a day or two after the writ was Is- sued. There was no question about his going to avoid the writ, as he was returning, but he might not be back for some time. When the hearing of case was fixed he (Mr. Hodgson) thought he might have returned.

Mr. Justice Jacks pointed out that the sum ff $53 had been paid into Court.

Mr. Hodgson agreed, remarking it was the intention of the defence to put in a set-off, but, in the ab. sence of the defendant, it was im- possible to do so. The best courne would be to give judgment for the plaintiff, and the defendant could take action when he returned,

His Lordship remarked that It would have been better to have ap plied for an adjournment,

Mr. Hodgson replied that it was

a curious position. He considered he had a perfect set-off and he had not the least idea that it was going to be disputed. The set-off was in respect of an I, O. U. and it was only at the last moment that he re- ceived a letter from Mr. Grist say- Ing they were going to dispute the validity of the 1.0.U. Therefore he could not go on, in the absence of his client.

His Lordship gave judgment for the plaintiff on the claim with.costs, Mr. Hodgson pointing out that it. was not judgment by consent.

When the Archdeacon' of Mac- clesfield, Canon Thorp, presented a report on dilapidations in the diocese, at the Chester Diocesan Conference, ho said that out of £21,000 spent within the last four years in the diocese on "dilapida- tions. more than £5,000 was due to dry rot. Allusions to dry rot he said, usually caused laughter, but was it a subject for laughter, that the diocese should be im poverished owing to dry rot, which had also led four, vicarages"}, to be condemned?

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