HOW HUMAN PATHWAYS CROSS

Evening Star, Issue 20422, 1 March 1930, Page 11

HOW HUMAN PATHWAYS CROSS

The astrologers of the middle ages had a theory that the paths of friends crossed at certain periods over a cycle of years. They supported their theory •with Elaborate calculations, and Mr o. F, A. Coles, a world-wide traveller, sugfests that, after all,. there might be something in it. Writing in the Daily Chronicle’ recently, he said: In Collins street, Melbourne, I encountered in the autumn of 1926 a friend with whom I had worked in a Kingsway office towards the end of the war, and on a * sheep station in the heart of Queensland I ran across a jackeroo from Sittinghourne, Kent, who had gone to Aus- ' tralia as the result of an interview with the secretary of a city company to which my own brother was accountant. I distinctly recollect the words uttered to his companion by the son of the Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm MacDonald, when he passed by me in Pitt street, Sydney, three years ago with a fellow-member of the Oxford;debating team, which was travelling in' Australasia opposing teams from the dominions’ universities. It was in Sydney, too, that I ran into Sir Harry Lauder smoking a very long pipe outside the Hotel Australia in. Castlereagh street; and the last time but one that I saw Mr Kennerley Rumford, the singer, he was walking up Shortlands street, Auckland; gazing out upon the glittering waters, of the magnificent harbour of the Waitcmata. “ My most recent encounter happened in this way; I was on the top of a bus proceeding up Church street, Kensing ton, when I suddenly caught a glimpse of two people walking in the opposite direction, whose features seemed at once familiar. Hurriedly alighting from the bus, I hastened after them, to find an Adelaide solicitor and his wife, whom I had last seen in. the Mount Lofty hills. South* Australia. " Clearly, those old astrologers knew what they were talking about!”