SCULLING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3075, 21 December 1908, Page 5

SCULLING.

By Telegraph—Press Association. WANGANUI, December 20. R. Arnst, the champion sculler,, will leave for the South on Monday. Webb intends visiting Rotorua, after which it is said he intends to resume training. A STRANGE VISION. According to a Waihi resident and a member of the local branch of the Association of Spiritualists, the result of the Webb-Arnst sculling match veiifiea a remarkable vision, which, to investigators of psychophenomena, is known as a demonstration of spiritual subjective clairvoyance, proving (as it is held by students jf the same) the existence of unseen intelligences around us. On the night of April 7th of this year, eight months ago, the resident alleges that he saw the following scenes m the waking hours of the morning:—

The first scene represented a large town. The streets were thronged with people, all surging about in great excitement. On the top front of a large stone building was erected the following word in large capitals, "Arnst." The name was fixed in an iron frame, and stood out distinctly. Excited people rushed about placing their hand on one another's shoulders, exclaiming "Arnst! Arnst!" The whole scene showed that something unexpected had happened.

The next scene showed a portion of a river near a bend. The ripples and blue tint of the water could clearly be seen. Nothing else could be noticed, but the senses became conscious that something extraordinary was happening, and that Arnst had the advantage and rowed in the winner. The impression was most vivid, and a remarkable point was that nothing but the water and the bank of the river could ba seen. This passed. The final scene showed in white outline the shorthand tracing of the name "Arnst." This concluded the vision, a description of which was written down and certified to by an officer of the Waihi Magistrate's Court next day (April Bth).

It may he mentioned that at the time the match between Arnst and Webb had hot been definitely arranged, nor had the man who experienced the vision been thinking of the match. During the last two scenes he was practically awake.

The bona-fides of the occurrence may be tested, as the signed and certified document is now in the hands of the clerk of the Court