THE GUYRA MYSTERY

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 92, 19 April 1921, Page 3

THE GUYRA MYSTERY

In connection with the cable messages relating to mysterious happenings at a house m G-uyra, New South Wales, Mr. A. Feldwick writes to The Post :— Guyra, in New England. New South Wales, is a small place, situate about 323 miles to the north of Sydney, on the Sydney to Brisbane railway lime. It has had excitement in many ways. At one time it had 1 a lake called Nincoola, situate oil top of high, hilly larid, and here a "biuiyip''—that mysterious creation of the Australian blacks—was credited to live. This lake, on which a small steamer used to ply, is now dry, and stock browse over the area. Guyra had a mysterious stone-throwing "episode somewhere between 1890-95. Then it had its sensationaj bank-shooting tragedy. Tho inmates of the bank premises comprised the manager, his wife, and wife's sister. Someone thought burglars wore on t.he premises, and' th© manager went to investigate, and his sister-in-law started to look round' from another direction-, and the manager, seeing someone approaching, challenged, and, getting no respoirso, fired, killing his sister-in-law. This same bank manager, at the time of the Ooolgardi© gold rush, equipped 1 two brothers with cash, etc., for prospecting purposes, a signed condition being thai, if anything was struck ho was to got a half share. Tho sequel came in payable gold being found, and a, son wrote to the father about their find, and', in the letta, urged his father not to show the contents bo thel bank manager; but the old man, being no scholar, took the letter to the managier to read for him, and when the tetter camo to the vita' part about the gold strike, ho skipped it, and, keeping possession of the original letter, gave the old man a- "duplicate," lit- used the original letter later in a law action, and woe his case.