AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1920, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

WORK AT BROKEN HILL. By Telegraph.—Press Assn— Copyright. Sydney, Nov. 1(1. The employees of the Broken Hill mines are gradually returning to work. At a conference with the engineers, carpenters and boiler-makers, the employers offered a 43-hour week provided they hud not to carry a fortnight's holiday annually on full pay.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CONAN DOYLE'S LECTURE. Sydney, Nov. lfi. Sir A. C'onan Doyle, in a lecture dealing with his thirty-four years' investigations of spiritualism, declared that his title, any little savings he had made, any literary reputation, anything on earth, save his honour and hifi family, were all as mud in a gutter compared to the importance of this question. In support of the claims of spiritualism he quoted the names of leading scientific men who supported it, and they think these scientists were in a conspiracy to delude the public. There was no question of mistake; it was either that they were mad, or, in the other alternative, that the thing was true.

Dealing with the opposition of churches, he said that, instead of being met by vituperation from the pulpits, spiritualists should have the right hand of Christianity given to them.

He caused a deep impression by describing bis own experience, especially a meeting with the spirit of his dead