A SAD DREAM REALISED.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 11 September 1880, Page 2

A SAD DREAM REALISED.

The Manawatu Times (Wellington) Mis: a singular story of a sad dream being realised, for which, it states, it is prepared to vouch. A few days ago, it may bo romembered, Mr. James Armstrong, the owner of Akiteo Station, and his nephew were drowned in the river. A telegram conveying the news of the sad event was. sent to Mr. Robert Linton, of Karere,. Mr. Armstrong being Mrs. Linton's brother. Some friends took the telegram from Palmeraton, and gave it to Mr; Linton. As might have been expected, he was terribly shocked, but after trying to calm himself, the party proceeded towards the house. No sooner did Mrs. Linton see them entering the door than she said, u Oh, you have bad news, I know; two men have been drowned." This was before the telegram had been handed to her, but after reading it she calmly exclaimed, " Ah, it's poor Jamesi and Archie." She then related howthe night before she had dreamt that she. | saw two men crossing a river in a boat,, I when it was upset. Her husband, who,, ! she thought, was standing by, w»8 about, to rush into the water, when she dragged, him back, saying, " Don't go in; there, are plenty of poles about, and we can get them out that way." Just then Bhei caught sight of one of the faces deep under the water, and it shot across her mind that it was one she had seen befoafe„ but could not recollect where. When handed the telegram, and having read its contents, she exclaimed, "Ah.!, the face I saw was poor Archie's." The difficulty of the recollection may be accounted! for by the change which years had mado. in him since she saw him.. A day before receiving the telegram she told her husband about the dream, and stated tftatt she felt quite convinced there wowTdl Ika bad news 5 indeed, such a hold diidi tho conviotion obtain on her mind that tho bitterness of ihe calamity had been forestalled before the receipt of the news.