REMARKABLE CASE
PREMONITION OF DEATH
MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM SPIRITS
JOURNALIST DIES AT SEA (Per United Press Association.) Hamilton, April 17. Mr S. G. Fetherston, of Hamilton, a journalist, spiritualist, who died aboard the Tofua, between Suva and Nukualofa, on April 1, wrote on the eve of his death a letter to the Times, stating that he was in fair health, but that spirits informed him that his passing was near. His letter states: “Permit me to add my quota to the recent debate in your columns with respect to the reality of spiritualistic phenomena. Publicity was some time ago given to the predictions of my death, which were not verified by the event. To these predictions I did not myself give any great credence because of the evident lack of authority’, but now, at the moment of writing, while in fair health, I am in receipt of a spirit message direct to myself that the time of passing is at hand. I await the outcome with interest. The message seems of high authority and I confess to accepting it with confidence, It affords a fair test. I pen this at sea between Suva and Nukualofa.—S. G. Fetherston.”
Mr Fetherston had previously published in his magazine, The Motorist, an alleged spirit prediction that he would end his earthly labours on January 10 last.
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Southland Times, Issue 20662, 18 April 1929, Page 8
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222REMARKABLE CASE Southland Times, Issue 20662, 18 April 1929, Page 8
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