A GHOST STORY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 27, 31 January 1880, Page 5

A GHOST STORY.

: The Whangarei corroeptfndettt of the Auckland Sta? writeti ■ r?: t , Q-reat sena'atipn? Has hero daring the' past week ty c'eftam authetiticated, gbokji stpries., "it' gentleman who ; latel^' boug% u an- yestatjb near Whangarei, has frequeiiti^ fflsfi& diutuirbecl kt mghtbyaHflqiw^of" strange noises in the house after everybody had retired to rest. At;&at he todk no notice of it, thinking the noise wits caused by rats, wind, or from aome other ordinary orgin* but it 1 was remarked that the horaea in the 'stockyard "were found in the morning 'trembling and shaking most vioteiitly as if. frightened ; y^fc.ther^was lip' way of accounting for it. Mr i — - said npthing about the matter till, a fresh manifeatation was made known. This Happened at the residence of the late P* '. ' ~ » 9 in "Whangarei. -'./Mr, ! 'and Mr Ed. P-rr— , jun.,;were sleeping alone in the house one night last week, when suddenly' the bed clothes were pulled off the bed. Mr TB^~r' : , pulled them on again,' thinking Mr W_ ;,"'■' had pulled them off -but next time they were puU^ i .off^,Mjc''^r T -^.'.Bangf l out to Bit R-^ to desist^ when the latter said he was not doing it. They both tyatched, and; the clothes //itjrere- again pulled off,' and both savr the chost of ? th^ late rMr pass; through, the room. He wa3 dressed in grey clothes, . ttiei; samie as of old. ' $li ', W-7 —^knd his hair stood pn end, and he was 'transfixed to the spot,' andjMr'' l ßr~-~; waa also powerless tp mpve. ? ihe , iiouse was formeriy, occupied but his wife always complained that there „ was somipthirig wrong about the house, ■as noises ," .we' re" freqaen.tly '! heard fop whi(jh theie yras s nip a'pcpunting. ' Mr jytrrT-'s death/was .a sab! 1 one, and there are many things connected with his life that lead superstitious people to think it only natural that his " ghost is doomed, for a certain, time to walk the , earth." And there is another, singular feature about the matter, and that is this — that it is only since the death of the late Mr - — (at the Thames) that these disturbances have taken place. Dr. and Mr ■ were intimate friends in "Whangarei, and the doctor made out ,Mr 's r w.ill, which some people say troubled the deceased: The connection here is this: The late Mr -^—^ - r thbuga a modt respected and estimable ifian: in' every (other] yf&j? was addicted. to liquor, and, in .fact, killed himself with ib; iHiB : ' was fought into Whangarei} for burial, but the resident clergyman; refused it the rites of buriai,' 'add -theC (corpse was taken back and burie£ on the estate, not far from the house which is now said to be haunted. The doctor afterwards committed suicide. He was a very " clever man, 6ut eccentric, and lunacy ran in his family., and there was something the' matter with Mr — — 's will which hab never, bee^ explained, though no blame is cast on Dr. ■■, who was a most honorable man. Both their deaths were tragic, and both had led remarkable lives, and the ghost stories are fully believed and testified to by the" parties alluded to? ; Mf intends, building another House in? consequence of the one he occupies being haunted. , r