A REMARKABLE DREAM.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3685, 16 October 1880, Page 4

A REMARKABLE DREAM.

Those who have scoffed at the belief that events which take place at a distance are made known by the agency of dreams —and we confess ourselves have hitherto been among the number—will pause in tkeir scepticism after hearing the following facts, for the truth of which we are prepared to vouch. On Thursday morning Mr James Linton, the Mayor of this town (says the Manawatu Times of September 4), received a telegram* for Mr Robert Linton, of Karere, and upon opening it it contained the sad intelligence that Mr James Armstrong, the owner of Akatelo Station, and his nephew had been drowned in Akatelo Eiver. As Mr Armstrong was Mrs Robert Linton's brother, Mr J. Linton took a buggy and proceeded in company with Captain John Mowlem to Karere to tell the sad news. Oil arriving at Burnside they saw Mr Robert Linton in the grounds and gave him the telegram. As might have been expected he was terribly shocked, but after trying to calm himself the party proceeded toward the house. - No-sooner did Mrs Linton see them entering,the door than she said, " 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 James and Archie." She then related how the night before she had dreamt that she saw two men crossing a river in a boat,, when it upset. Her husband, whom she thought was standing by, was abont 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." Juet then she caught sight of one of the faces deep under the water, and it shot across her mind that it wag one that she had seen before, but could not recollect where. When handed the telegram, and having read its contents the exclaimed "Ah, the face I saw was poor Archie's." The difficulty of recollection may be accounted for by the change which years had made in him since she saw him. A day before receiving the telegram she told her husband about the dream, and stated that she felt quite convinced that there would be bad news; indeed, such a hold did the conviction obtain upon her mind, that the bitterness of the calamity bad been forestalled before the receipt of the sews. The above is a plain relation of what took place, and we have purposely given the names of those having any connection with the sad affair, so that there could be no possible doubt of their accuracy.