LAYING A “GHOST.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3581, 22 July 1912, Page 6

LAYING A “GHOST.”

THE KINCSLAND MYSTERY SOLVED. THE STORY OF A WHITE-DRES-SED CHAUFFEUR. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, July 21. Police investigation, says the “Star,” has very effectually exploded the Kingsland ghost story. Considerable publicity was given to tjie affair, two special cases being cited. In one instance it was stated that a voung lady had been awakened in her bed by tho flashing of a light outside her .window, and on looking out had beheld an awe-inspiring spectacle in white, whereupon she had rushed back to her bed and hidden in terror under the bedclothes. 'Phe second case 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 Wainhouse, who has charge of the Kingsland district, lias made a thorough inquiry into the affair, and states that he has failed absolutely to find anv person living in the district who had the experience first-mentioned. In tlie second case it transpires that o:i 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 car was so much humped about that both the acetylene lamps went out. The driver, who was wearing a white coat, got out of the ca” and in the rain had difficulty m relighting his lamps. As the illumination was effected two young women on vie other side of tlie stiect screamed and appeared to he badly frightened, running up the street quickly and not waiting to investigate. , j The police report from Kingsland further states that nothing m the shape of a “ghost” has been discovered though the streets have been 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 picket. It is.pointed out in the report that a* the time mentioned in the first complaint there is a constant stream of people on the streets coming from business, and it is certain that somebody else would have seen “it had it been an apparition of the character Hated Yet from no source can corroboration or substantiation of complaint be obtained.