  We have used the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope to detect HI 21cm
absorption at $z \sim 0.7645$ in the gravitational lens system towards PMN
J0134-0931. The 21cm profile has two broad components, with peak optical depths
of $0.047 \pm 0.007$ and $0.039 \pm 0.007$, at heliocentric redshifts $0.76470
\pm 0.00006$ and $0.76348 \pm 0.00006$, respectively. The redshift of the
stronger component matches that of CaII H and K absorption detected earlier.
The absorption has a total velocity width of $\sim 500$ km/s (between nulls)
and an equivalent width of $7.1 \pm 0.08$ km/s. This would imply a total HI
column density of $2.6 \pm 0.3 \times 10^{21}$ per cm$^2$, for a spin
temperature of 200 K and a covering factor of unity. The high estimated HI
column density is consistent with the presence of large amounts of dust at the
lens redshift; the intervening dust could be responsible for the extremely red
colour of the background quasar.
