A CONVINCING TEST.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 599, 30 August 1909, Page 5

A CONVINCING TEST.

• Sir,—l notice that fully half an' acre of printer's ink and a small fortuno in good gold are being Jourish'ed wildly in the face of the multitude»''•■with/ reference to the • doings ' and claims ,9f- Mr. Chariea Bailey, the - alleged medium.', I venture- to. suggest that, searches by tlio medical fraternity, sacks, pocketless suits,'' and- glass cases. are quite unnecessary. If ; Mr. Bailey possesses the power to which he lays.claim, ho'can convert every sceptic-.in' the world ,by holding;' a seance on Friday evening and producing, in any manner that' pleases him, a copy of."The Calcutta Times", of August I-27,-490!). . Birds', nest's and foreign, birds. cun 'be'imported,.'and; imitation birds' eggs made from 'rubber use by conjurers, can bo pur-chased.-.in, Sydney,: so'their use; only feeds the ;.fires,,ofv.scepticism..v' : {rhe : production 'of - anvlndian,. or any overseas' newspaper in New Zealand, on the : same day as.it ivas'printed would, however, prove Mr. Bailey's claims beyond all . doubt.—l am, etc., i / ' ;\/ JOIIN PATEICK. /Christchurch,'^ August 25, 1909, ' ■ [Bailey.'has; been'- asked on, previous occasions to perform 'the feat here suggested, but has evaded it/ /The- nearest lie. has got to meeting the lyishes.of.-the,, sceptics is.to state,that lie (or his control) has promised to carry out this test'for Mr. Stanford, of Melbourne, at no distant date.] ' ■ • '■ ' .v, ; ~ ■*7— -'