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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1678, 27 April 1904, Page 63

On the estate of Stora Steriby, on Adeiso, an island in Lake Malar, Sweden, there stands an eld fir-tree stump which is considered by the natives to be a spirit tree. Small coins and trinkets are always to be found in a hale in the stump, and for years no one has been known to> find the hole empty. A writer in the “Wide World. Magazine” has been there three times, and has found a few coins each time. The tree stands far from any dwelling, and there is no village on the island. £Jow li-e-i deep round the tree all whiter, and no footmarks are To be seen in it and yet one finds the coins there, apparently without human agency. No one on the island can explain the mystery. 7 7 There is in existence an exact iripfieii of St. Mark’s Campanile, fiheughoni,* smalle r scale. It wag built 130 years ago by the Empress Catherine 11. at Naredu ta, ill the nrrwmoi* nf Kttofiranva.