THE KINGSLAND GHOST.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10407, 22 July 1912, Page 7

THE KINGSLAND GHOST.

Per Press Association. Auckland, July 20, The police investigation, says the Star, has very effectually exploded the K*ngslaßd “ghost” story. Considerable publicity was given to the affair, two special oases being cited, In one instance it was stated that a voting lady had 'been awakened in her bad by the flashing of a light outside her window, and on looking out had beheld an aws-inspiring spectacle in white, whereupon she had rushed bacs to her bed and •hidden her terror under the bedclothes. The seoond’oase quoted was one in which two young women were scared by a mysterious figure in white which confronted them as they wended their way homewards late at night. Constable Wainhonse, who has charge of the Kingsland district, has made thorough inquiry into the affair, and states that he has failed absolutely to find any person living in tbe district who had the experience first mentioned, in the second case, it transpires that |on Monday evening a taxi-cab, white in colour, had taken a passenger down Third Avenue, When returning, it was necessary to traverse a road which is in process of formation, and the ear was so much bmaped about ihat both acetylene lamps went out. The driver, who was wearing a white motor coat, got ont of the oar, and in tbe rain had some difficulty in relighting the lamps. As the illumination was effected, two young women on the other side of she street screamed, running up the street quickly and not wasting to investigate. The police report from Kingsland further states that nothing in the shape of a “ghost” has been discovered, though the streets have bean patrolled nightly and investigations made of the complaint. On the evening of Monday a constable saw two Fijians, one dressed in white and the other with a loincloth surmounted by a dark jacket. It is pointed out in the report that at the time mentioned in the first complaint there is a constant stream of people on the street coming from business, and it is certain that somebody else would have ■seen “it,” had it been an apparition of the character stated. Yet from no source can corroboration or substantiation of the complaint be obtained.