NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1923, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

I in. Urakjiun muiib.: in Smtili | Airua were referred u by ,\u- i.a.umi Hobbs, who rtaeutjv r. iurmd to the I i'luniniou. Ai K, if - -,i | i! :i m;, ol men was trying to op. n t!'e -' pan none w imn toe .fritters .• nt rounded them and aft-.r many had n' "died. and wounded, took : ii■ • rein;'; prisoner. Eight of tin ;,i • ia ... behind Mime huilding.-; and most btv• tally lieuK;d. .some being hittiered to death. The peopl.i re-poosible fot the ,'m ilieu were ijiu-e recent iy lefertrd to in a (able from CapeUSwn as itaving liftti reprieved. Tito most suitable locality for t! csta olislimeni of the stellar observau.iry proposed ;.i be elee.ed in New Zealand was discussed by Air .). C. ikigg heiore tiie nsimmuny sectiuu of the Scii-nie t'ongre-s. \'i ellingtou. T’iie Yale observatory authorities have (Jl’ered to assist, in the estabfi-liiiU’iit of tht- observatory, by providing a l.irge

refractory telescope for the pHijn) e oi solar researcii, nud Air .lie :: expirs-vd ihe hope Liiat t.his valuabki offer .should not he allowed to lapse. He had mad. inuqiries as to tiis• most shiiabl.’ 1 aiity tor purposes of obscrv a .mils, a i liad asieriaiued that ov;r a period i