MISCELLANEOUS.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 377, 13 October 1874, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

From time to time we {Shoalhaven News) have received startling intelligence from Bainerang anent a ghost, or rather ghosts, that have been seen bymany persons, some of whom are persons not likely to be carried away by idle fancies. Mr Robert Williams, who has but recently gone to reside at Bamerang, has been terrified, his faithful watch-dog drive^| mad, and his whole household routed and thrown into the greatest consternation by the appearance of an apparition. On Tuesday night Williams's family was startled by what seemed to be a man wolking up and down the verandah with heavynailed boots. The dog, who appears to have heard the noise, and it would seem also saw the cause of it, was rushing about in a most frantic manner, and would every now and then make a desperate spring at, the intruder, but finally gave up the contest in sullen silence. The ghost, in defiance of all " locks, bolts, and bars," entered the house, and Williams then saw the figure of a man, dressed apparently in the garb of a bushman. It went to the bed where Mr and Mrs Williams were lying, and pulled the bed clothes off the bed, and lay down beside Williams, who, however, could feel nothing when he put his hand out to touch it. After a while the apparition went to where thei'e was a crosscut saw standing, which it sounded several times as if beating time to music. After keeping Williams and his family in a terrified state for some time his ghostship departed. Williams avers that he has heard and seen this strange visitor several times since his location at Bamerang, and challenges all unbelievers to go and stop at his house and judge for themselves. Other persons, as we have before stated, have reported to haA r e seen similar apparitions in the locality, and one gentleman, well known in this district, who lesided at one time at Bamerang, saw, or will swear that he saw, a low-set man, witli a manilla hat on, dre&sed in moleskin trousers, and W blue guernsey bhirt, carrying an axe over his shoulder, enter his bed-room, and when the party referred to attempted to ascertain who he was and what he wanted, found that the faupposed man was only a shadow. It is a&scrted by the very old hands of the district that one or two sawyers had been found murdered in the locality many yeais ago. An editor ghts a biolJirrquiH-diiver this first -rate notice : — " Tlie pimple-headed, blister-brained, oul-fact-d, , spike-nosed, weasel eyed, web-fooled, peg-legged, lillipution, fiypvprHifopgcr docs not like our personal rppenrnncc. Unl il this Anil mouthed, brazen delayer lins been run through a sieve, filtered, tecured, sciubbed, sjvnbbod,.Bponped, tmd disinfected; uiitil the snarling Intelligent Vac/rant is a lit object to enter decent society, wo will foibcar baling unjthing to fay about him."

" How much batter it would have been to have shaken hands and allow it was all a mistake ! " said a Detroit judge. " Then the lion and the lam!> would have lain down together, and while-robed peace would have fanned you with her wings and elevated you with her smiles of approbation. But no ; you went to clowing and biting and rolling in the mud, and here you are. It's five dollars apiece." Ti c London Covrt Journal gets the following, story from Scotland : A parish in the kingdom of Fife hud for a minister a good man, remarkable for hit benevolent disposition. Meeting one of his parishioner! one day, he suid " Jeanie, what way do I never see ye in the kirk ? " " Weel Sir," said Jeanie, •• to be plain wi ye, I haena, a pair o' thoon to gang vri." •• A pair o' thoon, Jeanie] I'll no let ye stay at hjime for that. ..What would a pair oo«t ? " "About four shillin', Sir." Putting hii hand into bis pocket, he gave Jeanie the money and went away. Some time after, meeting her again, bt 3aid, " Dear me, Jeanie, I've never seen ye in the kirk yet ; what way it that ?" " Weel, «ir," said Jeauie, "to be plain mi' ye, when the weather's quid, and Ihae time, I prefer jjaun to Duufarlin', to hear Mr Gillespie," , "Oh! indeed, Jeanie, lass, tbat'irthe way o't, isjt ? \Ye might hae gi'enme the fiwt dayb' tibe ehwn; ony«rdy,'d'ye'no think? "