LOSS OF THE REPUBLIC.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2479, 19 April 1909, Page 4

LOSS OF THE REPUBLIC.

TOLD IN A DREAM. Tlio Now York correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph"’ relates an extraordinary story in connection with the lo;:s of the White f/.ar liner Republic. Shortly alter live o'clock on Friday atternoou. ho says, when the liner had put out to sea. a well-dressed man, appnr-er'-’y of good education. called at the Vgrnph” office in New York, and des.i.-’d me to “cable to London about the shipwreck." 1 asked hat shipwreck?” and lie replied “The White .star liner Republic will be run down before daybreak to-morrow.” I to’d my visitor that newspapers dealt chiefly in ascertained facts, and that prophecies were not worth much attention. “Why don't you go to <the New York offices of the American papers?” L queried. “They are chiefly interested.” “That is the' first place where 1 have been,” he said. “They won’t take any notiw. and 1 want you to send a line to London.” I was about to dismiss my visitor as a crank, but 1 first asked him (continues the .correspondent) whether he knew anybody on the Republic. He replied that he had some dear friends aboard. His only reason for his gloomy prediction, he admitted, was a dream. I told him that a dream was often very unreliable, to which he answered :* “Yes. I agree that one dream means nothing, but 1 dreamt this tiling two nights in succession. Tho details were the same each time, and I awoke in a fright on each occasion in the early hours of -Hie morning.” On my asking the man if he expected to be paid for his information, ho replied: “No, II merely want it to go on record. I don’t even want niv name mentioned, and you won't hear from me again.”