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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7175, 29 May 1885, Page 4

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Bra! ilii^$ ter recentl y appeared :— Sir, — If yon Hkl IlllflS^?P* aco in tlie Standard ex .*' raofc fr° rn a ' ette . r Hraffig||j||By::this mail, perhaps it BllwPioihe valuable opinion on this HSoiliil elation. —l am, Sir, your November 7. thing has haptho last few days that For some time here have been holding of those who attended Matr avers, who jhere in Tauranga, but |^^^§E?|labri wife he goes every twenty miles off, I A few days ago, | ||K^was!:at Mab-etu, some of the § he "would give them a aid at his house, and I certain ceremonies I rod with the I any spirits appeared tbem if they were good refused to have anyp^tt|jp^riih' bad spirits. After that it was decided by all another meeting on. the When Mr Matrathat day he saw some of ; asked if they were they,oD6 and all refused to more to do with it. This him, but at last he got that on the Monday, two seance, those a|| maii'lbeen' , at it thought that they themselveg ; bo on Monday R|lUl|metsin Mr Butt's house. Mr 1 [^^I'a^strorig, powerful man, six feet also Mr Oarnachan, gllp^jltlie 'steamer, and some others I should say, would have all met, and everysatisfactorily till they rod with the alphabet. |^pi|i[G!arhachan had hold of the rod, |jp^tn.j:itv began to sway about they was a spirit. Answer, W^ffisofcp ';M8 you V 'I am asolttilwhQjldied in India, at Maraten ,*' thinking of the formula always used about being : Dad, ; asked the question, and ||||ra&w;er7 -'iv.as '■' An evil spirit.' Butt don't want the like of .your chief. 1 After wait||||fj^?minutos both Butt and Oar- , electric shock going when the rod began to ifilyißatfc". "'.asked, 'Ib there a spirit V Bffip^^P?*''.' ?utt then Baid, • Who ' I am the Father of ; Butt laughed outright at the said, 'If you are the show some manifeata|||&n^inev -^Direotly he said the words on the shoulder, thrown j'aod then sent headlong under the others recovered |i|||!t'CKed!hiai up, finding he was in mootj!-|an;d.' all twisted up. After a succeeded in recovering a good deal of water. consciousness Butt something was gripping |Pl||n&&, and when they took off his OTSis|im|y;f oiind ' the marks] of three and where he had l^|trouSh&3 there were great walec, the marks on bis present received such a |p|]^Kat they refuse to have anything ||f|ftofdp.;with it, and still shudder at Bj|pnention\of it. ' question is, how could ucbJi^ppw o ''ful: man be swung up in thrown as if he were a Mw3j\|ivhave heard the story from and have sifted it, and at the conclusion that it is particular as I have given I^^Uy^nd'L'wioh you would ask I metof^thQ learned men about it > and opinion,"