MYSTERIOUS STONE THROWING AT KAIAPOI.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2094, 9 November 1880, Page 2

MYSTERIOUS STONE THROWING AT KAIAPOI.

Since Thursday night last, tho inmates of Mr W. Ayres’ and Mr James Harper’s houses on tho North road have been disturbed from time to time by stones falling on the roof. This strange occurrence attracted during Saturday, Sunday and Monday a large number of persons to witness this apparently mysterious affair. The believers in ghost stories revived old tales, while others suggested that spring guns were being employed in the assaults on. tho houses. The members of the police force in plain clothes have been kept watching the place and, with volunteers, examining the locality for the cause of all the unpleasantness. On Monday, a crowd of about forty persons had assembled, and while no doubt soma of the stones seemed to fall in a peculiarly unseen manner straight on the roof, others seemed to bo thrown from tho onlookers. The throwing had been kept up almost continuously day and night. About 5 p.m. yesterday, however, one of those who were watching detected a daughter of Mr Ayres in the act of throwing a stone on to the roof out of a small upstairs window, and informed Constable Johnston of tho discovery. The constable took the girl, who is about eleven years old, to task, and challenged her with being tho causa of the annoyance. The constable states that she admitted she hod thrown stones. As the houses closely adjoin within a few yards, it would be an easy matter for a girl to throw the stones which fell on Mr Harper’s house. Neither Mr Ayres nor the rest of his family entertain any idea that the child is to blame, but the police consider the whole affair solved.