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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10207, 18 February 1919, Page 6

Katharine Tynan talks about hauntoi houses in the weekly "The Now Witness." "The haunted house which gives you due warning is one thins. The haunted house which hides itself under a drab, every-day exterior is in a *ens< more sinister. X know a little suburban two-storeyed house among cheerful com, monplace neighbours, which has a weird ghost—a ghost that walks by daylight, and preferably in the early morning. A new servant going downstare very early in the morning after her arrival will seo going before Tier a lady in her nightgown, so palpable, so actual that she can describe the very lace which trims u't. She thinks it is her mistress going down in the grey dusk of the morning for something she requires, when—eom<s where in the lower regions the figure fades into mist—is gone. The house is stuccoed and rather sad of a summer evening when the rain streaks the walla like green tears; it is probably a hundred years old, and it is reputed to have a well fifty feet deep below the house. Hut in the companion houses cheerful young clerks and shopmen and their wives and families life after their manner. In the dusk of the evening as a man -comes from town he may see the lady of the nightgown, or the neglii gee, sitting by the window of an upper 1 room* shadowy'as the dusk itself. -