A GHOST STORY.

Kumara Times, Issue 1135, 19 May 1880, Page 3

A GHOST STORY.

A correspondent of the Geelong Ad* Vertiaer” is responsible for the follow* ing “ ghost” story “As I know you feel interested in such circumstances, I ■write in case you have not heard it, to tell you of a very remarkable circumstance connected with the death, at Hamilton, of the late Archdeacon Innes. The archdeacon, as you know, died of diphtheria, and though perfectly Sensible to the last, was unable to articulate a syllable, and was, therefore, compelled to have recourse to writing* This lends, additional value to the circumstance which I have to tell you. For some months the archdeacon had been assisted as lay-reader by a young man recently arrived from home named jLisscrman, who, though not remarkably either for culture'of natural ablity, yet endeared himself to the archdeacon and allwhp knew- him by his thoroughgoing earnestness and goodness. After working for a few mouths he fell a ■yictim'to 'prostrated energy, and died at tbe paraonSge, at Hamilton, a few .weeks before the archdeacon. ‘ Just before his death'the archdeacon, who, as I have told you, expressed all he had to say in writing, and was compos mentis to the last, wrote that going into his study one evening, after Lisserman’s death, he saw him standing at the study table, and involuntarily exclaimed, ‘Holloa! are you here!’ * Yea, 1 replied the apparition, ‘and were 1 am now there will .you soon he!’ Mr Junes was not a* man of fancies, or impaired physique; and when he saw the apparition was in the enjoyment of robust health.”