A WOMAN OF THE BORDERLAND.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11805, 16 September 1916, Page 5

A WOMAN OF THE BORDERLAND.

• (■'■' The Queen.") I The recent death of Mrs Terr nil, -ii I Cambridge, removes an interesting : sonality, round, weom at one ume theic i arose a controversy which excited mucn I interest in spiritualist circles. _ She was j one of the trio of ladies to whom sou;e ■ rather remarkable r-1 red. The other two were a lady in India, who passed under the name en 1 " Mrs Holland.'" ai.d the well-known j Mrs Piper, of Boston. To each 0: : these three ladies, who were adepts at. an tone a tie writing, 'thers- came atone tune messages from an unknown source, sui);>o.-ed ie all three'eases _io be the same and by many to be tho spirit of the -late I* redei ick Mver:,. Although the conimmrleution:" wnich came to each recipient., were fragmentj ary and incomplete, there were some | curious references in each o v ihe comi rnunications made to the other two. I The comparison of the three cornmunt- : cations revcalec; vert are called . " cross-correspondence," and as the ■ three messages, or series of messages, came separately to the three ladies. ; '.tho were, living far apart, .and withou' 1 meaos of communication, the matter i was deemed ol se.ihe.ient i'storesfc t-> ) justify a special investigation ny a ! committee of the Psychological Society. ! Tho result o? that investigation wa-. ; inconclusive to tho'.,e who had not already made up their minds on the subject.* No one could deny that there were between them curious resem- ! hlanccs and interlinking _ reference?, j which could beif be explained by ' suminc; that they all came irom a comI men. source, but there was never any I indication, much less proot. that, the-. 1 common source must have ecou s; t i>i j motion by a disembodied spirit. As in<I identity 'of " M»'* I I'd la.id " -yas uii- ' known: and Mis Pipei's ;:,oed i:.ifu had. ' rieht.lv or wrongly, been oe< attacked, the personality 01 Mr-- \-■!- rail vwis, lb.- strongest b'tn. "» l - it; ! dene.: holding to prove ilia I i here was : serioti-; uried.'i of tbn eioaius 'm en on Mti Vena II lra* an_ excenuonallv cultivated and distinguished lady, srd no one who heard her give her 1 version of all the circumstances in the interesting discussion that took place in the Psychological Society could doubt that she hen-elf was firmly convinced of the genuine authenticity of these messages as coming from the oilier side- of the rriL