SUN SPOTS & NEW COMET.
INTERESTING NOTE. (By Taleirrajh.—BDedaJ OorreeDondentJ Wanganui, September 1. Those who accept tho theory that tho climatic conditions on . the earth aro intimately connected with the phenomenon known as sun spots may indulge in comforting expectations of a good: summer. Tho'director of tho Wanganui Observatory (Mr. J. T. Ward) says that the solar surface continues to show no evidenco of disturbance as revealed by tho spots, and; tlirough the past month, not a singlo break in tho long-continued "calm" .has been observed. Reporting with , regard to tho new comet recently picked up at Adelaide, Mr. Ward says that tho weather in Now Zealand has been too cloudy ever since tho arrival of tho news for observers to got a glimpso of tho comet. If the sky eleairs, it-should be picked tip by fairly good telescopes at about nine p.m. in position duo north.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1844, 2 September 1913, Page 3
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146SUN SPOTS & NEW COMET. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1844, 2 September 1913, Page 3
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