Knew Death Was Coming

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 640, 17 April 1929, Page 1

Knew Death Was Coming

SPIRITS FORETELL DEATH

Letter Reveals Prophecy

(From Our Own Correspondent)

THAT spirits had sent him a direct message that death was close at hand is the statement made in a letter just received in Hamilton from Mr. S. G. Fetherston, of Hamilton, who died on the Tofua on March 31 and was buried at sea.

r jpHE letter states that he was in fair health, but that he had been informed by spirits that his end was near. Mr - . Fetherston previously published in his magazine, “The Motorist,” that spirits had predicted his death. He did not die on January 10, the date specified, neither at the later date set out in the spirit communication. The letter written on the eve of his death to the local paper reads; “Permit me to add my quota to the recent debate in your columns with respect to the reality of spiritualistic phenomena. Publicity was some time ago given to predictions of my death, which were not verified by the event. To these predictions X did not myself give any great credence, owing to their evident lack of authority, but now at the moment of writing, and while in fair health, I am in receipt of a direct spirit message to myself, that the time of passing is at hand. I await the outcome with interest. The message seems to be from a high authority, and I confess to it with confidence that it affords a fair test. I pen this at sea between Suva and Nukualofa. —Yours truly, S. G. Fetherston.”

Tlie late Mr. Fetherston was an Irishman by birth and was 68 years of age. He was a much-travelled and widely-read man and of a very genial and versatile disposition. Before the war he had large timber forest interests in British Columbia, his home being at Vancouver. After the war he took up residence in the South Sea Islands and later settled at Hamilton, where he established "The Motorist,” a monthly journal. Although he did not possess a literary training, he had quite a literary bent, and had written and published quite a number of stories. _ For some time his health had been failing.

Owing to failing health, he disposed of his interest in “The Motorist,” and left on the Tcfua for a trip to the Islands. While in Hamilton Mr. Fetherston was a regular atf.enddent, Mr. Fetherston said that none Though not connected with the spiritualist movement in any way, he took a keen interest in it and attended several seances. At ono of these he was greatly thrilled to receive a spirit message from his only son who was killed in an airplane accident in Canada. Relating the incident, Mr. Fetherston said that some of those at the seance had ever met his son, yet the message was received in his son's voice, and the voice spoke of incidents of which no one but his son could possibly be cognisant of.