WARMED IN TIME.

Mataura Ensign, 26 January 1911, Page 5

WARMED IN TIME.

The most sensational evidence <Jveti .at the Waratah inquiry was .Mr Clavdc; Sawyer's account of the warning vi>i■ j*>s ; that led "i-i 1-i-- leaving the ve--i-; ;:t Durban. Early in the voyage Mr S:«w- ' ycr began to be anxious about ti.<• vessel, noticing that she rolled a gr. at d a! • and in- recovering came up \w:h -. -n<|den jerk. She would fall into tie- t - '.'J; of a wave, and then oi -'--iiicr to the next would p'ov.gli tiirouuh it. One day when three or four davs !Yoai : Durban, as he watched from the burr'-, cane the ves.vl phuurhing through : it was impressed umoii him that it a j wave (>roke over her forward well ! would fill and she would go down. Early : next morning lie had the f« !!•■:»• jug l dream: "I sa.-.v a man dressed in a .vry | peculiar di-css. v.hich T had :.i■ s -en 1 before, with a long .->>\on! in hi- !%•:!.-: I hand, which lie m-cmci {o b,- hi Wing i between us. In the o*b< r hand he b<-ld ! a rag covered with Mood. 1 : a-., thatj three times in sueeesHc lapidly the 1 same morning. The set . till1■ ■it an- 1 pea rod I was very annoyed. On the! third occasion, so clearly did I s»e it that I could even new draw the design | of the sword and the dro<s of tl<f« ( man—in fact, every detail of the vision." He mentioned the dream to a 1 fellow-passenger, who regarded it a-, a I warning, and the idea he had formed j some time- prevoiusly of leaving the! ship at Durban came ba.ek to 1 -int. Even! then, however, it is doubtful if he j would have left it had it not been for another vision. He was not keen to leave, for he had become used to the life on shipboard and other passengers whom he tried to persuade to leave would nor consent to do so. But just before they got to Durban he dreamed that the .ship was in a heavy sea. that a big wave cam- over the bous and that she rolled over to starboard and disappeared. He seemed to be some distance from the vessel. That decided it ; Inleft a* Dn -b-rn and theveb' preserved his rl'o. What he dreamt was, of course, what he had had in his mind a few days before, and if the Waratah had come safeh- to nort wo would have j heard nothing of the dream: but the i two visions make a very remarkable case of a warning borne out by events.