A FAR-DRAWN EXCUSE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 369, 2 April 1881, Page 3

A FAR-DRAWN EXCUSE.

A Napier contemporary had a paragraph in a recent issue respecting a man in Waipawa having been tarred end feathered. Mr C, Colder of Waipawa, writes to the local paper “owning up” that he was the man who was subjected to that unpleasant process, the cause being that he had written some anonymous letters to a young lady. He states that he wrote those letters while in a state of trance “ I have been,” he says for years past continually falling into trance and clairvoyance states, and during which periods I write letters to bishops, priests, ministers, doctors, and editors but rarely to others. After I come out of those states I forget what wrote until I return into clairvoyancy again. Unfortunately, what I wrote.jon those occasions is far too, much in advance of the age. I have tried all manner *of ways to prevent going into those states, but without avail. Though it does not injure, but enriches my natural faculties, still it exposes me to false and erroneous impressions, and ideas of others I have no business w^th. 1 ’ The way in which he accounts for writing to the young lady is really curious, tie states that in 1873 she was represented to him in a trance vision, and it was promised that they would meet in seven years. When at the end o.f that term he saw her he recognised her, and was afterwards warned in a vision that if he failed to write to her he would repent of it all the days of, his life, speaking of the tar and . feathering, he says that if the “ scoundrels and villains,” who grossly assaulted him will refund the damage done to his clothes-—3os at least—he will forgive the rest and refrain from taking proceed-: ings.