A DREAM WHICH CAME TRUE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2122, 13 February 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

A DREAM WHICH CAME TRUE.

We may, perhaps, be pardoned for hers introducing an amusing anecdote concern* ing a former Lord Mayor of London, whose early life was conuected with tho town of Uxbridge, namely Sir William Staiuec, who wus London* chief magistrate in 1801. He started in life %* a bricklayer's labourer, and nt city banquets, with great glee, he used to in. troduce the following anecdote : When he was a youngster, he was employed in repairing the parsonage house at Uxbridge. One day, going up the ladder with hia hod of mortar, he was accosted by the parson's wife, who told him that she had had a very extraordinary dream. She told him she hud dreamed that he would one day become Lord Mayor of London. Astonished at suuh a prophecy, young Stuines could only scratch his head and thank her for such a vast promotion. He paid he had neither money uor friends. Tho parsou's wife, however, wan not to be turned from 4 ier prognostication, and this dream had evidently left a great impren* Hion. Her mind was bent on young Staines, and Lord Major he ahould be. The same dream occurred -gain, and the same coramuoicutiou was repeated to him that ho was to be Lord Mayor. The matter passed off, and young Staiue* left the purtioiiagc house at Uxbridge with no other impression than the kiudueiu which had been »hr>wn ,md thu notice that hwl been taken of him. It was not until he became Bh<'iift th it this dream cavie fcohe talked übout, though the dream made a lasting impression upon hin own mind, and was .in incentive to laudable industry through life. The Uxbridge parson had by thin time become old, but he lived long enough to be chaplain to Stained when Sheriff, nnd he died during hia Shrievalty.—- tfi eater London.