THE APPROACHING PLANETARY PERIHELION.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume v, Issue 419, 27 July 1880, Page 3

THE APPROACHING PLANETARY PERIHELION.

To the Editor bf'tfik MaU. il ' Sia,—For some weather hae been rather good for ike season. On Wednesday laur, however., t|je hills decked themselves in a white cape, giving the air a chilliness at least to troubled with s ~ a too sensitive imagination. Apibpoe of ' the weather, one is apt to wander away' to the conjunction of the planets, po much talked of at present. It is predicted that a month or two hence a conjunction of four planets will take place. ' 1 think, the planets are Mare, Jupiter, • j3atum and Uranus. Some tyo > thpusn'nji , elapsed since the last conjunctjpn of four planets took place. Within tHeicb'pe , of hiatory two or three,haye been in * conjunction, and'the event." is saicj to have been very detrimental to public health in r several countries. J- Can: any .reader of Tub Mail say anything trustworthy on this " interesting subject ? Would it not be as * well to see if *; Government would pueb on the Akaroa railway, leet any emergency might arise demandin^fgr^at^fapiji^jfKol, - locomotion than at present is possessed on the Peninsula?—lain, etei;™ , rr vi;i>!PADE;a., Kahorewai, Jnly 23, 1880.