A REMARKABLE DREAM.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5545, 24 November 1879, Page 3

A REMARKABLE DREAM.

The Dunedin Star narrates a rather curious circumstance which has been reported to it on the authority of two persons whose veracity is unquestionable : — On the evening of Oct. 30, a man working at Seacliff dreamed that he heard a firebell strike four tolls distinctly ; that he rushed off to the scene of the fire, but arrived rather late ; that he went inside the building and saw a man moving charred remains ; and that he wa<s told by this man that that they were the two bodies that had been burned in the house. This happened shortly after eight o'clock. He retired to rest at that hour in the evening, and it was about half an hour afterwards that he dreamed as above narrated. Being an ex-fireman, it naturally impressed itself on his mind ; and on waking at 5.30 next morning, he aroused his two mates, who slept in the same room, and told them very circumstantially what he had dreamed. Such a firm hold did it appear to have taken of him that his mates made a note of the matter there and then. The surprise of all three may be imagined when, at 12.30 p.m., that day, one of them heard particulars of the King-street fire, and he, thinking to shake his mate's belief, told him what he had heard, but added that the fire had taken place on the 29th. But the man who had dreamed persistently declared that the occurrence, as he had seen it, happened on the 30th. These are the facts, narrated by a trustworthy person and endorsed by two reliable witnesses, which we give for what they are worth.