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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 229, 27 September 1877, Page 4

The Chinese camp at Ballarat (relates the Ballarat Star) resembles a vast beehive more than anything, for it waa crowded from dusk until dawn by larrikins, Chinese, and sight-seers — male and female. The annual oaremony of providing food, raiment, and flriug for the souls of those Chinese who have died of violence or accident waa performed, a priest coming from Dunolly to officiate. About £30 was collected to pay expenses, and was laid out in firewood, food, and paper patterns of clothing. At dusk a lurge fire waa lit in the open air, and tom-toms, kettledrums, and pipes were used to produce an ear-splitting chorus. The music, unearthly, though not very spiritual, was kept up until midnight to attract the attention of (he spirits for whose benefit the good things were provided. Spirit etiquette Beema to be the same bII the world over, and it is not "the thiDg " for even Chinese ghosts to walk before midnight. At that witching hour gin and wine were spilt upon the eartl), nnd dishes wherein rice, fowlp, fruit, vegetables, and pudding formed an olla podrida were placed round the fire. Wheu ihe spirits were supposed to have eaten enough to last them for nnother twelve months, and warmed themselves thoroughly, the paper clothes were burnt amid many quaint ceremonies. The food was then distributed araon^ the paupers of the camp

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