BAD TIME COMING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13583, 12 September 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

BAD TIME COMING.

" OLD MOORE" UTTERS DIREFUL PROPHECIES FOR 1909. There is no falling-off in the number of disasters predicted by " Old Moore" in his Almanack for 1909. \ The sudden striking down of a statesman, a veiy destructive city fire, a most terrible railway disaster, and a "violent storm in the offices of a great city newspaper" are some cheerful happenings predicted for January, but no hint is given as to the nature of the last-mentioned eruption. February is earmarked for a dreadful theatre or public building catastrophe" in the Manchester district; 'March will be a bad month for rulers; April will bring di ß grace and death to a prominent financier- , a tube accident in New York is predicted for May and .discovery of mounSsof silver ore in Mexico will upset the bullion market in June, a month which will w£ sees alarming riots in Liverpool, v * ; In July an earth tremor will shake Birmingham, there will be a railway dt aster and an excursion boat calamity in the Irish, Sea. Ma ny members of Slia ment will pass away 'in August, "cIS much election excitement," and there tvlg be a terrible disaster in Hull or GrinX and "fashions will run very eccent.- r?♦«': month-with the ladies." In quake in the West Indies is wSseTfor September, and explosions may beSect ed in the north during this month P rt «& is expected to scream loud ly n "November, but otherwise SwTwSv will be comparatively E a J'+k ° ntb will end vvitrLd timcTo^^^