SOLAR ECLIPSE.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1922, Page 1

SOLAR ECLIPSE.

■.AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATIONS. AUSTIIALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SYDNEY, Sept 21. The solar eclipse was witnessed in Sydney in almost, .perfectly clear weather. It was a fow minutes after four o’clock when the greatest phase occurred ,only fourteen per cent, of the sun’s disc baing visible. The effect was as of the sun being obscured '.by* heavy clouds.. It became necessary to use lights in many business places, but the darkness quickly lifted. For over.an hour, crowds thronged the parks and streets, gazing at the sky through various devices, the vendors of which did a thriving trade, and the roofs city buildings ware covered with \people similarly engaged. Late advices from the totality zone and from the northern centres stated there was every antiepation that the eclipse would be' viewed in cloudless windy weather. Great crowds have been arriving there by special trains from all parts of the State.

VIEWED FROM WANGANUI. WANGANUI, Sept 21. The eclipse of the. sun was observed under very favourable conditions today. Many people took advantage of the big telescope at the observatory. Mr J. T. Ward, the director, had calculated the time at which the shadow would cross the sun spot, and was less than half a minute out.