A Te Aroha Mystery.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2070, 25 January 1898, Page 3

A Te Aroha Mystery.

A cor-respondent writes :—Late on Saturday night while smoking a pipe in the seclusion of a balcony which overlooks the Domain, and by daylight commands, perhaps as delightful a landscape as a lover of such things could wishfor —especially towards sunset—my eye Was caugac by a d-t.iyi-.-g light within a handbreadtli, according to the perspective in which it was ■' viewed, of x the summit of the Bald / -Spur. A heavy' local shower was falling at the time and the inky black outline of the mountain silhouetted against the wild sky was barely discernible. At first I deemed myself the victim of a hallucination. Closing ray eyes I counted twelve. Sure enough when I re-opened them the light had ■disappeared. Imagine ray consternation when a moment later the light reappeared, shining with greater liancy than ever. While one might count a hundred, the unearthly glow swung . to hud ..ftp. with so dong a pendulous sweep as to convey to the spectator the impression that the bearer was a being-of gigantic proportions. Nearer and. nearer the summit the ghostly visitant drew until at last the light became stationary. At that H&oment there came a lulljin the storm and a solemn expectant hush fell like a mantle upon nature. Then a strange thing happened, the light which had so longremainedfixed became violently agitated as if shaken in the grasp of a giant, and clear and shrill, through the silence of the night, came a skirl of, such unearthly import as to freeze the marrow in our hones. When we looked again the light had disappeared; I may add I was not the only person who saw the strange light 6n the hill on Saturday night, lam thinking of sending the particulars to Mr' Stead, tho brilliant editor of the Knglish Beview of Beviews, who is a firm-believer iu spooks, spirit m&ni- ■'/ eetations. -