A STRANGE COINCIDENCE.
8 '.:".■■ t A strange coincidence, which c Mr W. T. Stead would probably y dignify by a longer name, is ree ported in connection with the fatal " accident to Sir William Jervois. A few days before the catastrophe Q an eminently practical New Zea- » lander, with no leanings whatever c towards occultism, called on the £ Hon. W. P. Reaves, and, that j gentleman being abroad on a holiday, had a chat with Mr Kennaway, C.M.G. In the course of conversation the visitor res marked : 'So you have lost t another of your old Governors ?' b ' Indeed. Who is that V asked 9 Mr Kennaway, surprised. 'Why, " Sir William Jervois, of course.' ' Nonsense ; Sir William Jervois 6 is not dead.' ' Indeed he in ; I j saw it in ' The Times.' ' 'I am B sure you must be mistaken. We s should certainly have heard of it ' ; here had anything occurred.' f ' My dear sir, I tell you I saw it 8 in ' The Times.' Sir William met with an accident and died almost \at once.' ' Impossible. You 4 must have dreamt you saw it.' 1 The visitor shook his head. Three 1 days later came the news of the 1 ex-Governor's accidental death, I and Mr Kennaway read in ' The I Times ' the very notice which his 5 friend thought he had seen some ' time previously.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3624, 15 November 1897, Page 2
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A STRANGE COINCIDENCE.
Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3624, 15 November 1897, Page 2
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