"HyTHE VlCARAGE,

"Southampton, 16th April, 1889. "Dear Mr. Fryer,

"On referring to the only notes I have, I find that I cannot fix the exact date of the occurrence of which you want particulars. It was, however, during the latter half of June, 1886, as I find it was then that the man arrived whose coming I dreamt about

"I was then in charge of a divison, of consignment and it was a part of my duties to visit the various coastguard stations within the limits of that division of the coast The dream, as nearly as I can remember it, was as follows: That I was visiting an outlying station where there were several coasting vessels moored, their heads out seaward, and sterns secured to the shore with hawsers. Two navy bluejackets landed from one of the crafts, quite to my surprise, and on asking where they were from, one of them said he had been sent from Wick for duty at Sandhaven (a village in my division).

"The details of the dream were so vividly impressed on my mind on waking, which is quite unusual with me, that I told my housekeeper about it at or about breakfast time - as far as I know the only time I ever told her any dream at all - and for the time thought no more of it, but soon after, I think the same day. when the post came I received an official letter appointing a man from Wick for duty at Sandhaven.

"I was so astonished at this coincidence that I at once said to my housekeeper: 'You remember the dream I told you about a man coming from Wick for Sandhaven? Here is his official appointment

"A further curious coincidence with the above is that in the ordinary course of events this man would have proceeded from Wick to Aberdeen by steamer, and from thence north by rail, and in fact that was how he was ordered to go; but on this occasion, which sometimes happened, the steamer stopped off Fraserburgh and landed the man there without my knowledge at the time, until I found a strange blue jacket at my quarters, and on asking who it was and where he had come from, he told me he had landed from the steamer from Wick, and was sent for duty at Sandhaven. At that moment all the details of the dream again came to my mind, and the fact of the man landing on the coast instead of coming by rail was also in accordance with the details of the dream. It is hardly necessary for me to remark that nothing occurred beforehand that would lead me to expect a man being sent from Wick, or I should not have thought that the dream was curious or worth a moment's thought

"I have no doubt my housekeeper remembers something of this occurrence, as she has a better memory than I have for most things. I have not written to her on the subject, as I thought you might prefer to have her evidence without any reminder from me to her about it.

"Y. H. F. Parker."

The following is from Captain Parkers housekeeper. If her recollection is exact, there was more coincidence in the man's aspect than Captain Parker has described.

"Fraserburgh, "18thApril, 1889.

"In answer to your inquiry about Captain Parker's dream, I remember him telling me about it. He said in his dream he left the house, and soon after met the coastguardsman, and asked him if he was the man that was come to Sandhaven from Wick, and he said, '1 am'. Mr. Parker said, when telling me about it next morning, 'How I wish to see that man He saw him soon, to his astonishment, the exact image and likeness as in his dream.

"Elizabeth MacDonald."

" Upper Melbourne, "Quebec, 14M December, 1891.

"Dr. Richard Hodgson,

"Sir,

"Yours of nth December received, and I beg to hand the premonition referred to in my former letter. I have made it as short and concise as possible.

" Newlands Coburn."

A Peculiar Dream or Premonition.

"In the year 1875, I think, one night I dreamed that my wife had gone to a friend's, who lived just across the River St Francis (which here is about 750 feet wide) at 11 o clock a.m., and was going to stay for dinner. But on getting there,' she having walked down the river and across the public bridge, and up again to her friends, she found the house open, but nobody at home. So she went down to the river bank, and called to me from the other side to swim across to her and bring some refreshment in a tin can, which I immediately undertook to do; but just as I was nearing a gravel bar in the middle of the river, and while just on the deepest place, the can, which was in my left hand, would continually keep drawing me under, and I would keep swallowing some water. So I was obliged to strike back for the home shore, which I reached in safety, amid great anxiety of my wife, who was watching me from the shore. The dream was so vivid that it woke me, and my stomach was sore from the supposed swallowing and belching out again of the water.

"I turned over and went to sleep, but in the morning I still felt the effect of the dream on the muscles of the stomach, and I told my wife then and there of it, and how my stomach felt. And after breakfast I went to business, and was just telling a customer whom I was serving of the peculiar dream, when a neighbour rushed into the store and said he was afraid that there was trouble down at the river, as a boy on the other side (just where my wife was in the dream), was running up and down, yelling and gesticulating, and another naked one on this side was crying and calling for help.

"It was just ii am. I started at once for the river, throwing off my coat and vest as I ran, secured a boat and a young man to help me run it out, and after the boy pointed out where a companion had sunk for the last time a few minutes before, I dived down in 12 to 15 feet of water just off the gravel bar, and grasped the arm of the drowned young man with my left hand, and brought him to the surface, only to find that my companion had allowed the boat I had dived off to drift quite a distance from me. I then had the same struggle to get the body and myself to another boat that had just put out from the shore that I had in my dream, swallowing and then belching out a lot of water; and nothing but the encouraging shouts from those on shore, who had hastily gathered (my wife among them) nerved me to the struggle. I then in reality suffered the same pain which I felt in my dream, and the spot where the young man was drowned was just where the "can ' troubled me in my dream, and where I turned.