A GHOST STORY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2232, 13 May 1880, Page 2

A GHOST STORY.

A correspondent of _ the “ Geelong Advertiser ” is responsible for the following “ ghost” story : —“As I know you feel interested in such circumstances, I write, in case you may 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 articnlato a syllable, and was, therefore, compelled to have recourse to writing. This lends additional value to the circumstance which I (have to toll you. For some months the archdeacon had been assisted as lay reader by a young man recently arrived from home, named Lisscrman, who, though not remarkable cither for cultural or natural ability, yet endeared himself to the archdeacon and all who knew him by his thorough going earnestness and goodness. After working a few months ho fell a victim to prostrated energy, and died at the parsonage, at Hamilton, a few weeks before the archdeacon. Just before his death tho 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, ho saw him standing at the study table, and involuntarily exclaimed, ‘Holloa! are you here?’ ‘ Yes,’replied the apparition, ‘ and whore I am now there will you soon bo!’ Mr Junes was not a man of fancies, or of impaired physique; and he saw the apparition was in the enjoyment of robust health.”