LUCKY WILLIAMS.

Observer, Volume XL, Issue 8, 25 October 1919, Page 8

LUCKY WILLIAMS.

Hugh Williams would seem to be a very lucky name, judging by the story of the most extraordinary name coincidence on record. On December 5, 1664, a boat crossing the Menai Strait, with 81 passengers, sajnk. One man only escaped, and his name was Hugh Williams. One hundred and twenty-one years afterwards, on exactly the same date, another boat sank in exactly the same place, and of the sixty passengers only one, named Hugh Williams, was saved; while on August 5, 1820, yet anot%er Hugh Williams was the only survivor of twenty-five passengers who went down with a wreck on the same spot. © ®' © Mr. Massey has plainly opened the way for the formation of a National Party. He hesitated to suggest the name, but we hope the thing will become an accomplished fact at the elections.—Carterton "News."