A GHOST STORY FROM THE PACIFC.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1484, 17 December 1884, Page 2

A GHOST STORY FROM THE PACIFC.

A correspondent in Canton sends the following story for the Spiritualists from the Marshall Islands : — " The end of last, year, or the beginning of this, an American ship, the Ra<iicr, was wrecked on those islands, and abont twenty men found refuge on them. But th«ir number being too large, for their supply of provisions, it was agreed that the party should separate. The captain caused a small twenty-ton schooner to be built of the wreck, and talcing ten of the crew and a share of the provisions sailed away for another island of the group, about three hundred miles off. The vest of the crew were left in charge of th« first mate, a son in-law of the captai .. The fcecond mate was sent off to mako his way to Saigon and appeal for aid. This he did, finally reaching Hong Kong, when the U.S. corvette Essex was depatched to the rescue, carrying the second mate as a guide. Meanwhile, the king of the island on which the shipwrecked num were, who was kind and friendly to them, was full of forebodings as to the fate of the cap • tain's party and .the second naate"; said

they would novei- s.p t, ten i^v i, mJ so on. But one day he came with different tidings. It see.nt ii w.s in the habit of holding sji:;;i;.. . mi inn i don with his dead wife, ._>■ , j:l aOhva. In one of these 3i*a.iei^ ik; had, I suppose, asked her if she c>jm! _,'ivt him any tidings, any \\sj ■< :■.->.■ ! us shipwrecked friends. She* sai.l .hat ou a Sunday a sail would b.: s.::?.i, a_id they would he resciu-d. T^ A..i£ h oijlit t.iis news w.^'i j •<■• o the ivfugues, and wiur some «m .v-ty tlh-y awaited uhe result. T.'i::i iiu*.", have baeu so ne four mouths a,La *.icy vvki-i* wrecked. Sure > •>•. infill wi.i^ Su ulay a sdi. n. s.? but in spiLe of their i-iTorts to attract attention, the ship passed on .'i^r Cj irse. But the Sil flay at't^r '.\i it the rescuing .ship, the Ess.-x, ap^-i-ed in si^i.t, and eventually rook th .n all off. Tii.s story Was related by in officer ot the Essex to a f; f ie id or 'iui-u, w.io at once came tjld it uit». I wiil add, ; that for tlie bßuelit of any anjLut I Spiritualists o. 1 newspaper corivspondents wh i may desire to go at once to t'ue Marshall Islands in sea/eh of lations from savage m.diurns, or to j interview the King, th.it these islands , are. in the North Pajiti; Jce , x, to oiu j S.W. of the Sandwich Isles, and there !is very little communication witU ; .them."