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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 34, 1 October 1886, Page 3

“ Puff" >n tlie curious discovery at lbVillage Settle lent: —Myitcrioui find ..: I‘aliintua I !mcn heard iioim s m night like f< Iliac tree*, and next day found a skeleton Ln a hollow mta uni a swag in the bush near by I Hew gaihly 1 Heats the Newtown ghost into tit*=! I should like to get ful’er partirtilars, e-p • cially about the r, due of men felling trees in the bu*h at ntgl t ! That ■ -i 1 1< improbable 1 Ah. they were q-n • r fellers, I know 1 But it’s a very old ghost story ? Theru’g an island in thn West Indies where tho pirates murdered a man a hundred years ago or so, and he comes overy night and chops down a tree 1 You can hear the blows of an axe. an l then tho cr-r-r a*h exactly at 12 o'clock 1 Bit nobody over saw him »nd no tree is cut down when daylight conies I I gh—dpn't! I shall lay awake to night listening for the sound of tire axe! Never fear! It'll bo like tlie other knight! Nobody axe'd you, sir. she said !

For raiu&iu ier news see fourth page.