{233b} In Mr.Niu's case "strange noises and rappings were frequently heard about the house.

The buildings were also set on fire in different places in some mysterious way." The Christians tried to convert Mr.
Niu, but as the devil now possessed his female slave, whose success in fortune-telling was extremely lucrative, Mr.Niu said that he preferred to leave well alone, and remained wedded to his idols.

{234} We next offer a recent colonial case, in which the symptoms, as Mr.
Pecksniff said, were "chronic".
THE GREAT AMHERST MYSTERY On 13th February, 1888, Mr.Walter Hubbell, an actor by profession, "being duly sworn" before a Notary Public in New York, testified to the following story:-- In 1879 he was acting with a strolling company, and came to Amherst, in Nova Scotia.

Here he heard of a haunted house, known to the local newspapers as "The Great Amherst Mystery".

Having previously succeeded in exposing the frauds of spiritualism Mr.Hubbell determined to investigate the affair of Amherst.