MYSTERIOUS APPEARANCE ANATUA SEEN BY A NATIVE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 670, 5 September 1876, Page 2

MYSTERIOUS APPEARANCE ANATUA SEEN BY A NATIVE.

It is leldom that we hare accounts now* rv-days, and esp-cia ly in the colonies, of supernatural appearances. The latest sensation of the kind it that supplied to us by a correspondent from Gam bridge, who obtained the particulars from the natire himself who had seen. the appaution. The appearance has caused consider* able commotion amongst the Maorii thennelres. The nurratir* is as follows : — " Last week, one «f the Ngatihuu wat (joing a'ongthe bank of the Waitoa about dusk, when he saw someone coming to* wards him. Thinking it w*s one of the Ngatimaru, who havo feud with his tribe, he tried to get away from him, but the faster ho ran the man, as he thought him at that tinif, applied to get closer to him. fie turned round, and saw something that frightened him a great deal more than any ft gat imam could har« done. What he then saw is described as something like » man, only his teeth were longer than a man's fingers usually are, and in his mouth he had a light, which the Maori thought proceeded from a candle fattened in the lower jaw. Directly be saw what was following him, he said 'It is an Atua,' and took to hit heels and ran for his life. He reached the house of a settler and fell down exhausted, and couicl scarcely «po»k. Aftsr a while he managed to tell what had followed him, and a Maori who happened to be in the house went outti le, and ho siw the rttua standing on a rise a little way from the house. H» want in again and asked the pakehns who were in the house to ooma out and bring n gnu. One took a r.flu and the ether » long pol* 1 . Tho uian with the gun fired, but the t-hot took no effect. 'Iho man iri'h tho polo then went m to stir him with tho pole, but ererytiaie he made a blow tho spi it j impfd round to his side. Af'cr hi lia f » tried five or tix timea to ■trikc, I> is arms seemed to get powerless, and Ihe spirit, with a »ata of his hand, kno kcl the poo about twenty yards atny from tho man thafc wna using it. Tho -Uua then roao slowly up in th« air, hovering ovef tho unfortuate mm, and he'wos pressed down by tho spic.it into tho loose e»rf h. He at last managed to crawl on liii hands and feet to to* house, waie all the other* had locked thcunelres in. They opened the door for him, and it u reprted he i8 still laying ther« rery ill." The natives suppose that this spirit bat come to direct them with rtferen. c to their land and the King. Therefore ntarly all iho natives about Cumbridge havo gone up to Piraui.ui to rectira the message whatever it may be. The namj of the settlor n*tr whoso hou*e tins occurre.i, and who fired at the Atua n mentioned by our correspondent, but if w. woro to publish it our readers might faucy our Waikato gbost, the only one wo believe the district possesses, awd thereforu not lo bo lightly parted with, to bo nothing more than Moon-ihine.