GOOD INNINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 68, 21 March 1934, Page 7

GOOD INNINGS.

SIR O. LODGE'S "FAREWELL." LONDON, March 15. "Sir Oliver Lodge feels he has had a good innings and has nearly finished his work on earth," says his secretary, explaining why Sir Oliver broadcast a "farewell." "But when Sir Oliver Lodge passes over he will return because he wants to finish his work," he said. He is confident he will be able to tell a message at present sealed and deposited in a most complicated manner. Nobody else knows the message." Sir Oliver Lodge gave a radio broadcast on "Do We Survive?" This may possibly prove to be my last talk to you. If it may happen that my work down here is done, or nearly done, let me take an affectionate farewell. Good-bye, said Sir Oliver, in a low voice, charged with emotion, as he concluded the broadcast. . , . tt~ Ra id ho had been convinced of survival after death since 1889. "I then had a communication from deceased members of my family, which unmistakably showed that they were just as living and active as ever. He added that the veil between the two worlds was wearing thin. It was possible, given the right conditions, to communicate with those we call dead. "They do not think themselves as dead but, as now, fully alive, yet free of the clogging body." All evidence obtained over a period of 50 years showed, fully and unmis " takably, he said, that the spiritual world was a great reality* STAVISKYITIS.

FRENCH LAWYER'S ATTACK. LONDON, March 16. Violent echoes of the Stavisky affair divided into hostile camps. ne D cUou with the inquiry, and demanded the arrest of several people. Then he rushed out and embraced and insulted numerous bystanders, and was ar 2 e stripped himself naked at the poHce statin, from where he was taken to hospital on a stretcher. A doctor diagnosed his f co»dit.°n as due to over excitement about the Stavisky, case.