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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 963, 29 November 1879, Page 2

An extraordinary statement is made by the Chief Government Engineer of the Province of Liege m his trade report for 1878. He alleges that daring last year a good deal of hardware manufactured m Belgium was exported to England, whenoe it was shipped to British colonies after the Belgium trade mark had been obliterated and replaced by spurious English ones. 1878 was the worst commercial year which Belgium has known since 1830. * A very extraordinary fact is just now the talk of one of our West End hotels, says a London correspondent. A lady who has lately arrived from Australia, had a dream about six weeks ago that her halfsister, who was still m the colonies, had been accidentally killed. The dream impressed itself upon her so strongly that she made a note of it m her diary, telling her husband about it at the time. A day or two since she received the sad intelligence that the lady m question had been accidentally killed by being thrown from a carriage, and consulting her diary found that, allowing for the difference between London and the colony, her sister had been killed about the time of the dream. The story is not fiction. The facts can be vouched for. It reveals a very strange coincidence, if nothing more.