WAIHOHOTU.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1656, 15 February 1883, Page 2

WAIHOHOTU.

Cambiuduk-Rotorua Road. That anything in the shape of mild excitomont would be welcome in this out-of-way dull corner of the world, your readers may well imagine. When it was understood that the Comet Minstrels proposed giving one of their world- famed entertainments all hands were delighted. The appointed hour of half-past seven found a large and expectant audience congregated in the Waihohotu billiardroom, admiring the elegant drop scene, the work of a local artist, nor had they long to wait before the fun commenced by the full strength of the company singing the soul-inspiring chorus oi "Down do Ribber." Had I unlimited claims on your space, columns would only suffice in which to do full justice to the several artistes who earned such well merited applause at the hands of a pleased and highly critical audience. " Where all," &c, &c, &c. Mr Mayson without doubt, was the life and soul of the affair as orchestra and corner-man, and would be haul to excell in any professional entertainment of the sort, NLv Morris as the other corner-man was also very good iudaed, and to the success of his management much was due. Mr Tribs as interlocutor was simply inimitable, while Professor Smith's stump speech and local song created roars of laughter. Messrs Home, Col man, Barratt, and Lynch possess good voices, and sang their songs with much taste. The duet, "The Minute Gun at Sea," hy Messrs Home and Morris, was a fcreat. The whole ccinoludod with an original farce "The Railway Explosion," the curtaiu falling on the ghastly scene of mangled lemains and human suffering. May the " Comet Minstrels " soon entertain their friends again. — (Correspondent).

x\ VEiw cli'cum&tantial ghost story is disturbing the mind of New York. The editor of theiVue York World vouches for the good faith of his informant— a professional man of high repute. The house in which the manifestations occur is a new one, and is let out in flats. The following are a few occurrences as ' told by 'an eya witneaa who, went sceptical, ' but soon, found, that something more than ordinary was up, First of all there was much knocking at the front door, it was watched, open and closed, before and behind, but the knocking still came, always in four strokes, sounding like blows struck wHh billets of wood. Then came bell-ringers tv all parts of the house. Tappings , were heard on the glass of, the windows, the coats of the boarders fell down from the hat-rack, each falling a yard apart. The plush cover of a round table standing in the hall gracefully floated : on to the floor." f A clothes-pvop was lmyled over the top of a portiere jthewalking-atickastaqdinginthe hall were flung up in different directions, and, before the scared residents had, recovered, a leaf frdni'an oak'diningtable was hurled through the hall for 20 feet, striking the -wa}i,and coming £o the ground with a fearful crash. Andther table tgqk a sgriesi of aqmeraau.}ts, Suoh >vio,len.t ggin^-,9n^h.a^. sijch^a bad. effect upon' some ot the farituy'that they hegan, to think of^reiiripg, a frightful shriek ■ echoed^ , throughout, the wtyoje dwelling, piercing, and WidentlyjComirig; from no Human throat, followed by *' soft, ! insinuating " \v ( histleg. - In the eyening, "if'trledafeW notes' in' 'arp'eg^io, and was successful, in keeping tjme and tune ' with' the piauo.' ' The" tone of the thistle was aometimoa' that -qf a fog-nqpn j $ other times sounding^like the " blowing in the neck- of ?ai Bottle." v Allthis is said to be a " plain, • truthful statement of* facts,," substantiated.^b^^fiye witnepses., < JBeyijepfiqf ' .policenien have" .searched^inj /aiu^^'^.cu!^ d^leijtiye; has