SPIRIT MANIFESTATION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 568, 24 July 1909, Page 13

SPIRIT MANIFESTATION.

MISS OLA HUMPHREY'S EXPERIENCE. '

■Wellington is shortly, to bo visited by Mr; Charles Bailoy, said to be ono of the most remarkable; spiritualistic ; mediums / in . the world, ; and ono. whoso soanoea held in Melbourne'ior: nine years past have been attended by. thousands. , He .created..- a- sen'sation; some time ago by producing ..from' "nowhere" curious living things and articles said to bo; quite unprocurable in Australia/: Bo tHat;a« it may, a Wellington lady received as a. preseut a few days ago a tiny bird in a., cagesent 'her from .Melbourne: by hor friend, Aliss Ola Jano Humphrey, tho Amoriiian. actress who recently visited Wellington, - 1$ .explaining lior "present," Miss; Humphrey wrote that she 1 . Lad been persuaded to attend ono of Mr. • Baileyis seaiioea in Melbourne, at which 'he was to produce materialistic phenomena. There were • present at tho scanoe, beside herself and ; others, tforoo lawyers and two medical men,' 1 who, "to prove there ; waa:iio: deoeption," saw the medium disrobe completely arid don ji suit of pyjamas. So attired he was. led into the room, and' the lights. were ■turned down. AVithin two or threeseconds Bailey-was telling Miss Hiimplirey that she would receive, a foreign bird. Hardly were th<v words /uttered when she. felt a, live bird in her hands; ■ When the lights 'went' up, the \"spirit .gift'l-was examined. It waa a small brown bird,, slightly smaller than a full'sized canary,' with tho: feathers merging into a dovo-groy tint at ..tho neck and continuing 'all over its .rather ;shorfc, head. . It' has black beady. eyes, and n rathor large (not long) beak. 1 -I'liis is the' history and description: of'tho bird tliat' is now in -Wellington. It is said that, tho bird was submitted to''Several ornithological authorities in -Melbourne,..'but- none could classify it. Where did it come- from,;and iiow? , None' could venture even a guo£6. 'la higher spiiitualism. this. is known :as tho act -of passing ! matter throu'gh'mattor—a' work saitf to be done by tho 'inhabitants of the spirit world at the. behest of somo proper;, mcdiuniiatic authority;- ■' - ; 'r. i