A TOKIO GHOST STORY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 231, 1 December 1916, Page 8 (Supplement)

A TOKIO GHOST STORY.

WANDERING SPIRIT OF AN UNHAPPY JAPANESE BRIDE. Japan, like other lands, boasts ot haunted houses. They are tearing down a houaa in Tokio because no tenant can stay in it longer than a week, so full of parading ghosts is it aftar the midnight hour. Th s is the storv told the "East and West News" by the neighbours of the latest tenant, a man named Kashio: — Some years ago a family lived who had a daughter just married. From some cause or other, the'fatlser forced her to divorce in spite of the love between the couple. She was overwhelmed with grief and asked her father to send her back lo her husband, but he refused. He even forbade hor leaving the house. She had nothing else to do but to saunter around the rooms of her home. At last in sorrow and mortification she resorted to the final thing. Wearing her white wedding robe in memory of her happiest day, in the six mit room, she plunged a dagger into her throat, which ended her life. Now the house is being torn down and a new one is to be built in order to abolish the haunts of the spirite.^^ TO FLY ACROSS ATLANTIC. YOUNG OFFICER * PREPARING FOR BOLD VENTURE. From Copenhagen, the correspondent of the New York "Times" sends ttoa following Marconigram: — Young Ensign Pollner is quite serious about his project to fly across the Atlantic. I nave seen him, and find him disinclined to disclose his plans too early. Pollner authorises me to,state that the hydroplane in which he intends to cross the ocean will be built in Denmark by engineers from the Polytechnic Academy, Copenhagen, and will have two motors of 160 horse-powr each. The hydroplane will carry a benzine supply of two and a half tons. The young officer means to start flying directly to the Faroe Islands, from Copenhagen early in July, 191", and waiting his chance there to take the trip across the sea. Saverinsen, a mechanical engineer, will accompary Pollner, who is already busy on his preparations. SIR F. BENSON'S SON KILLED A RKACHED RANK OF COLONEL AT TWENTY-NINE. Among the officers who have falLen at the front is Lieut.-Col. Enc William Benson, the only son of Sir Frank Benson, the well-known actor. He was one of tha youngest men of that'rank in the Army, for he was only 29 years of age. A captain in the K.R.R.C., lie got his majority last January, and was gazetted temporary lieutenant-col-onel in May. Lieut.Coi. Benson has seen much service, and last June, while on short leave, was married to a daughte of the late Mr. Richard Taylor and Mrs. Taylor, of Berkeley Square. He returned to the front a day or two later. Just a month before, his father. Sir Frank, received the honour of knighthood at Drury Lane, when the and Queen witnessed the Shakespea-e Tercentenary commemoration performance of "Julius Caesar," in aid of the British Red Cross.