HASTINGS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7197, 24 June 1885, Page 4

HASTINGS.

H ffiP^i^s^ OOKREBPONDBNT.V ■811116%^ ' June 23, 1885. ■ s?W*B°r opened here last night H which was well filled. Hi | fWi^|i6rforioancQ was thought-road-ie I ottrlweU-known residents going on aß#|"to^eat hia powerß in that line. that the person whose B : to be read must think of 1 position of some object. K the first gentleman by the H I^ 3^ 6^ *° *' ie P ru^ essor * a^ J^pS^|sancl then holding that hand l|pmlloffn pressed his other hand to his then led the way down ||^^|epßy'and with scarcely any hesita. ound his way to a Maori lad and 1 charm hanging to the mjpH&baiti of the latter. The second l^^tlonian' thought of the eighth bass piano which stood on the ffiK^^^At/farsi Mr Bice descended into he stopped short, again SPi^lliJft^lu? head the gentleman's PMndiv^scehded the steps, and making ||||rafght for the piano, placed the hand middle keys. Then obis not the right sound " gpiiraißedihe hand and placed it on one ppf;ilie basa keys, whioh on being counted to! be the eighth. In the he found his way to a gentlea pin of whioh the third had thought. In the fourth |^|i|he; failed to find aroae in a young V onne *« nu '' am inolined to this [failure was caused by concentration of thought on the J of his companion, and I look failure itself as a proof genuine . nature of the perforas (collusion here being oat had there been a iljuggTe of any other kind the same dodge p^hichsucoeeded in one case would snoothers. At the conclusion of the professor was loudly IJntil recently I^.believed to be humbug, clever but humbug .tout le Wo%i&'-'^y impression now is that it is g^speoial power with whioh Borne men by nature, but which is of 'culti ration, that it is the retha , mind o? the thinker acting ;mind of the thought- reader, and taenaure the success of the experlonly must the mind of the receptive, but the mind of the lie fixed with clearness and oh the object thought of. PM^ißieei fiUo oxposol Borne of the tricks _. Having regard, how0 .' ;\; spiritualistic manifestations ;-havo witnessed in private the hona fides of which were I oannot concur in Mr of the wholo thing although there are a g«»od connected with it. A aoa« -Riw, And some very clever au'.i 'conjuring, concluded a pleaiani. i enttirtavrjmont.