Prophetic Dreams.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8053, 3 April 1905, Page 7

Prophetic Dreams.

(To tiM Editor^

"! Ste, —In my last letter upon the above subject I mentioned having gone to Gisborne: some years ago in an old sreaiier call-d v tho " Boomerang.'' While staying at Gisborne I had a peculiar dream about ibe same boat. It was the custom of its master. Captain Crisp, lo call at Gisborne en his way down from Auckland to Napier, again calling-on his return trip. One tuae wiien the boat was expected at Gisborne from Auckland way she did not turn j up, bul as the weather was just then unusually boisterous all we Gisoorneiles came to the coacutdon that Captain Crisp was either unable to leave Auckland, cr hud gone into shelter some-, where nonh as nothing had bten seen of the boat passing on to Napier I may mention that m those days there was no telegraphic communication with Gisborne from any place. One night alter much discussion as to the position of the " Boomerang," amongst a number of gentlemen whs boarded at the hotel. I returned to th<* Bank where I i-lep'. The same night I dreamt ih-it I s».w the '■Boomerang-' coniinein frdmtheNaoier direction- I also vividly saw in my dream a small two-rx.asted crafc sailing close io tront of lhe steamer. Upon Rci<ig next uio-ning to the hotel to breakfast I touod Captain Crisp a5 the taho and asked him from sflrieh direction h9 had come. He replied " Irom Napier, ju«t about daylight.' • I ntxt asked him if there was any kind if a boat coming in in irons of him. Be aaid ' ye*, a small schooner ran ia close in front oi ua. bn«,'' be added, " tiow did you come to know this ? Surely you wtre not up at the time we came in ?" I then toid hiai of my dream in which he appeared muou interested after I had assured him that 1 hud not got up for several hours after the st.-amer arrived, and that even if I bad looked out oi the bank window I would have seen nothing, as the sea was not in view from the bank. Wby this dream came to mo I don't know. Tbeie was no fear abjut ths Bafety of the boat at the time and her position was really a m*tter of indifference to me. Now a-days it v only ihe uninformed who try to explain away such experiences as tbe abov?. The educated are everywhere realising tbat there i* sometbiug in man— c-dl it soul or whan you will—which can see without tbe aid of the eyes and hear without the help of the ears.—l am, etc.,

O. N. Roberts