SPIRITUALISM IN DUNEDIN.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1139, 22 March 1872, Page 4

SPIRITUALISM IN DUNEDIN.

A Dunedin correspondent of one of the provincial papers says :— One novel circumstance, however, has occurred in Dunedin during the week^ which will be variously regarded by various men as indicating a more or less favorable state of the public morale. On Tuesday evening about one hundred ladies and gentlemen met in the Odd Fellows Hall to do honor to Mr and Mrs Meers, who are leaving Dunedin for Auckland. Mr Meers is known to Dnnedin as an earnest believer in Spiritualism, and it was because of the interest he had taken in the enquiries which have beeu made here into this occult subject that he was entertained at the meeting on Thursday. Tea was provided, followed by speeches, music, and dancing. During the evening Mr Stout, in the name of the subscribers, presented Mr Meers with an address, and Mrs Meers with a silver salver, in token-of the high estimation in which they are personally held, and of the appreciation of the services they have rendered to the cause of spiritualism in Dunedin. This meeting, and the number of persona present, has taken many people by surprise as indicating the extent to which the public mind is being influenced by the new faith, shall I call it. I have often heard it said, " Spiritualism has died put in Dunedin." The holding of the meeting on Thursday evening proves the contrary. I have recently been informed that there are several circles regularly sitting in Dtinedin, and that some very extraordinary phenomena have been witnessed at some of them. I have, for instance, been told of Gne man who was raised by unseen agency from the floor so high as to leave the marks of his fingers on the ceiliug ; of a table being raised while a man sat on each end ; of written communications having been received ; of spirits having been seen ; and of addresses of an unusually excellent character having been -delivered by one of those present while in a sort of trance state.