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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 69, 20 March 1880, Page 2

„ '.; We! clip. th^ fbljo^ng &om the", JtVieio .Zealand l iff era Id :-^.Mre Emma Hkr<J jnge f ; Britten, ! the '* inspjratioiaal ..^eater,"; .recently announced in jPranQisco jibliat . she wpuiil ,make seine ( ptartling reyelatjlons of. spirit life 'in the .^spirit threshold/ ani *.jbhe. result \iras that a large gathering .of*, the faitbiful and curiousf was. drawn together to htear .'tier. She tool for, the subject;, of her clipcourse " The P-w"^ellerßon ; the f Threi3h- , old," and tjbe. as' reported, appears to be' simpl^ & -rechauffe ,pf, one delivered 1 " in". 'the Lprne street "" Hiall, .flavoured with one or two. aneccldtes which would have made too great aiax upon the credulity of Aucklanders, and 1 w«re' therefore j usdieiou i sly-pruned frjotn the local lecture, Among other re'vei latioh'a she' staged -ttiit' Jshe 'was 'acquainted with 1 aWe^who, «ob Ifche j thft'Bhbla, w haa : sWen lu hi4 s -'tefc !i (in the :i flb'sh ; a bbafttifiitlady)/b ; u^WhpV'for her yduthfulfdllie^, •'bad baen^traftsforched M' { thei v w6rld : df spjfite into a ! widened did frag. : ; Th'6 'speaker 'failed ; t6;^ive 'the- : n'a'nie <-6r -residence- of- the £cci or his ■unfbrtunfate 'aunt,- but 1 ; that 'little , pmissibii; was considered of 'ho* 'moment •"by the audience, who thought the 4tiory db'uld/ not ; be- matched. Mrs Britiien, however^ was equal to the occasion; hrid " proceeded to give an i interview sh e had 'with ! ahbtfier spirit;- whose 'condition is sad indeed. Imprisoned- in " a darkiiess which maj- : be^tasted," and isolated frPm all fellowship -and society, '• he longed 'evenfor the company 6f a 'worm' or "an insect. 1 ' But aMr Kiddle, of -New Ybrt,'^divides' the honors !for notoriety J ftitfh Wrs Brititen. He kad recently been dismissed from; hia post of principal in a .public school by the We w York Education 1 Board oh account of his* 'Bpiiritualiytic 'utterances. ;He : has, it a^p^ars/ become -the ' " of ( fehe i aefunct ; 'Sh ; akes*p'e^re r^nd writes soliloquies o'/d'Hitaile't^'amdhg' othjers, one which commences, "To be or not f fco be is nbt the j qiii=!stli ! on -"and which 'pbfetical effort the New 'York Herald ekpfeVseis its fears is not likely to ; supplant the original. Mr Kiddle is also Occasionally tenanted by the spirit 6f a defunct- New York 'journalist, who, from 'his complaintSj'expVeJased^ throlugh Mr Eiiddle, ajipeia'ri to be- in a bad way in the next- ; world, : and^ holds oiit a father doleful prospect for; members of the journalistic 'profession- generally. The New York to! the dpioion that iti g'dtfeing" the public to accept his theories, atid; labove all, his " facts," Mr Kiddle 'has a long and trying mission before him.