The funeral of the Into Mr. Zee Tee-san, at one time silk compradore to Messrs, Jardine, Matheson and Ca, and Inter the proprietor of the well-known Zee Gardens, took place yesterday, Nanking Road and the vicinity of Sinza showed the usual waiting crowds, agog for any happening which might interest, from an ently hour until nearly midday. The procession, a long one, was to atart from Paiwan Road—in which Mr. Zee lived—at 10.30 a.m, and it was fairly punctual, From there i passed into Tientsin Road, along Kinngse Rond to Nanking Road and so through Hupeh Road, Canton Road, Shantuog Rond, Foochow Road, Kwangse Road, Chefoo Road, and then back to Sinza. Preceded by the two great demon-figures whose duty it is to guard the soul of the dead from the machinations of the evil spirits about it, the procession passed everywhere through of curious people, 'There were the variable and time-honoured tablets, banners, flags, embroidery-<decked priests, mourners, the' nodding mud figures of servants who are to company the sou! to ite home, and there to serve iis needs, and the hundred and one tawdry symbols with which we are so familiar, and of which we are so ignorant, A number of foreigners took more than a passing interest in the funeral, for M Pee-sun was very well known, and hnd always commanded a great deal of respect.
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