CLEMENT L. WRAGGE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 145, 5 April 1909, Page 2

CLEMENT L. WRAGGE.

A rare treat is in store for the public on Saturday evening next at the Public Hall when Mr Clement Wragge, the world-famed scientific entertainer, will inaugurate a series of grand scientific entertainm?nts. His subjects will be: on Saturda3 r , "A Voyage through the Universe" and on Monday "The Majesty of Creation," both of which will be magnificently illustrated, A contemporary referring to Mr Wragge, says: —"The audience so thoroughly appreciated his lecture that you scarcely heard anything but the lecturer's voice throughout the entire evening. He has a finely modulated voice, which he uses with marvellous effect, which one might almost term "musical emphasis," and enhances his" descriptive powers, which ar.e of no mgan character. He showed a map of the Earth. j on Mercator's projection, showing the j "Colour Zones," expounding the laws j of nature, which he. stated were irrefu- j table. He then started on the "vcy- : age," as he termed it, into the illimit- j able realms of space. The splendid j negatives of photographs taken of the ; heavens, through the agency of gigan- j tic telescopes, and the "sensitive i plate" conveyed to his audience some j idea of the incomprehensible hugeness j of the universal scheme in which our little solar system figures as an infinitesimal group of mere atoms, unnoticeable amongst the countless myriads of suns and planetary systems in which the surrounding immeasurable space os filled. Popular prices are being charged, and a large attendance is anticipated to the unique entertainment, which is ineed an intellectual treat and the opp.ortunity of a lifetime.