THE HAMILTON BRIDGE AND THE MEDIUM.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 634, 13 June 1876, Page 3

THE HAMILTON BRIDGE AND THE MEDIUM.

Sin,- -You know that 1 have written io )oa beforo about the Cambridge and Pukeiiam bridges. 1 am sorry about the H.iiniltonims not getting one. You know llu night is long* and Biddy and me wo called in a few of our neighbours to spend a few hours with us, and they know that our Biddy was one of the mediums that cm -speak to thoso that have gone before us. Well, sir, we sat the table to work. 1 cah'fc tell you more for I am frightened to write. It was rather dark in the %vhare, and the table Logan to shake and jßid'ly siid very slowly " there he is," and I Bnid, " who ?" She pointed to the potatoes that were below the bed, they were vo'ling down on the fljor. Biddy then j b\gin to ask questions. She then said to me, '•' What will I ask him, dear '(" I said, " At>k him or boric the ILiinilLoniaus will get a bridgo built for them the Earns as the other townships ?" and the voice said, "No." The potatoes cunc rolling out, and a gicat big green lizard stood on the floor. 1 did not know one word that Biddy spokp, nor what the lizard said, as they both spoke Maori, but Biddy told the neighbours and me that the Liz ird was the fipuitof a young Maori chief that died in Hamilton broken hearted for the loss of his young wife and child who aro buried besido the willow tree near the •wharf. When he died he was buried at the sctllement near Capt Stoole's, and the Cambridge coach passes over his grave • six days in tho week and disturbs his slumbers. lie was caught one day and ]>ut in a bottle, but all the bottles in Hamilton could not hold him- lie then went io Ngaruawahia and brought back seven spirits and they entered the hearts of the Ilaimlfconians, and thoy sold their church,, nn'l the devil is sc/)n in the building every day since. That is one of the vials. The second i->, they will not got a bridge ; the thud vial is, if tho Town Hoard touches the willow or offer to remove it, the bank •of the rivor will be swept away, and Mo r ,es will bo found among the bull-rubhcs. • — J am, Soa, Black Twifj'. rukeiimu, Ju^p Oth, 187 G.