A DISASTROUS DREAM.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13204, 30 June 1906, Page 3

A DISASTROUS DREAM.

The night staff, of the Victoria Colfec Palace, Melbourne, were star tie .t in the early hours of a recent morning (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph) by hearing a 'disturbance ia a bedroom occupied by a genbletmm who 'had arrived from Sydney on thO previous day. They opened the door and found the occupant in a state at collapse, the. furniture in a heap of ruins, the window broken, and a hole knocked in the wall plaster. Unable to ftnd any sign of an intruder, axrfailing to get a satisfactory explanation, they sent for the police, who took the Sydney , gentlemwn # to tni watch-house, and charged him with wilfully damaging £2 10/- worth ol property. The explanation he gavi the City Court Bench later on, how over, showed that it was a cafie foi sympathy rather than punoslunent The visitor was a dealer in gems, a George street, v Sydney. H-e had suffered from insomnia for thre« or foui months past, and, tired out foy t train joximey, he consulted a doctor this particular evening, and gjot 'soin medicine. Before going to bed h took two -doses. '-'It had such an et feet on me," said the victim, nut ray dream was so vivid, that in try in* to avert the crushing of my oxn oll^, c I "At tliis stage of the c* planation he broke down. Hv prorr iserl to pay for the -damage, ura was discharged, __