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CHESTER MORRIS

IN

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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SUSSEX HANGING ON

TEN WICKETS WIN AT TAUNTON

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1932.

ORPHAN SPIRITS'

FEAST

UNREGISTERED MUI-TSAI

CHINESE PACIFY THE TROUBLED DEAD

CHILD WHO WAS PART

ANCIENT CUSTOM

OF DOWRY

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un- woman

Charged before Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon Magistracy this Scasex are keeping close on the

morning with keeping an heels of Yorkshire in the county

Last evening, as the shades of registered mui-tsai, cricket championship race-they gained their thirteenth victory yes-night were falling fast, Penk resi- named Ng Kwai-yung pleaded terday and it becomes more and dents homeward bound noticed guilty and was fined $50.

Inspector Fraser, of the S.C.A., more likely that the issue will not that the zig-zag pathway leading! be decided until they meet at Hove from the upper tram terminus to said his department got to know a small shrine off Penk Road was of the case through the girl re- on Augusts 27.

lit up na for a procession by can-porting that she had been beaten dies, and that votive offeringa were by the defendant's husband, but lying anund in profusion; also on inquiries being made, it was

Sussex's victory over Somerset was by a margin of ten wickets,

A great struggle between Hamp-that there was unusual excitement found that she was not ill-treated shire and Kent for the first innings amongst the ricksha and chair by the defendant. lend saw the apolls go to Hanta by coolics who foregather in the vi

The girl, he said, had been sold a margin of three runs. They hit cinity.

the defendunt's mother in up 408 and Kent 405. Kent got on The Peak Hotel just now has a to top in the second innings but the considerable leavening of its mi-Malaya when she was four years heavy scoring prevented a finish. litaristic and commercial "tamp" of age, and had been given to Six centuries were scored in the by missionaries on vacation from the defendant on her narriage as six matches which went into the the interior of China; one of them part of the dowry. third day, including 180 by the kindly gave the writer the clue to England wicket-keeper, Ames, and the mystery, 148 by Paynter who has claims to

Last night

the was inclusion in the M.C.C. Australia"Feast of the Orphan Spirits." side. Details on Page Eight. According to Chinese ideas of an-

cestor worship, the annual grove-I worship festivala provide for most of the departed, but last night's ceremonies were on behalf of the less fortunate disembodied spirits whe have no kith and kin make offerings for them.

CAR CLEANER'S AMBITION

COMES TO GRIEF WHEN DRIVING LORRY

given by

Inspector Fraser described the annual case as a "formal prosecution."

THE ORPHAN SPIRITS.

nise included those who have died

!

BRITISH WOMEN AT TENNIS

EASY WIN IN U. S. TOURNAMENT

New York, Aur. 16.

Amongst orphan spirits" are In the second round of the wo- "I wanted to learn how to drive by beheading, or those who have men's doubles, in the eastern grass the lorry." was the explanation lost an Arm or a leg: for the courts tournament, Miss Joan Rid- spiritler and Mrs. Pittman (Britain). Chinese who was Chinese idea is that the A charged before Mr. Schofield this suffers with the body in these beat Miss Hawk and Miss Smith, morning with driving the vehicle eventualities, and camiot find true 6-2, 6-0.--Renter, without a licence,

Ipeace in the Shades. It transpires that he had a job At certain times the orphæramel j with the Sang Lee Company as a spirits emerge from Hados; they pond; often the offerings are put ear cleaner. Yesterday, while the have malignant powers and in little boats and boated down the lorry was parked in High Street they are dissatisfied or unhappy stream. Sometimes cannon rockets and the driver was away, he took they may cause plague, pestilence, are fired to notify the spirits that the wheel, and started The lorry. political troubles, typhoons, at-the feast is spread." Nothing happened until he reached faeks by handits, ete. The Feast The Chinese bave a feeling that Eastern Street, when he appeared therefore, though partly inspired when the orphan spirits have been to experience difficulty in turning by good feeling, is also placatory well cared for, there is less likeli the vehicle, and finally backed it In the interior the people pro hood of calamity overtaking the into an electric fuse box. causing vide all kinds of offerings for the community in the coming year. damage estimated at over $100. spirits, towards night setting The sceptical foreign observer, "You cannot teach yourself" re-lighted candles along the wonds to however, will he inclined to say marked Mr. Schofield as he ordered guide the spirits to the shrines that something must have gone the would-be driver to make goorl; where the offerings are placed, wrong with these observances of the damage, or to go to prison for Where possible. this lighted late. Perhaps the spirits crave a six weeks in default.

pathway begins at a stream or change of diet!---M. P. K.

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