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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 296, 15 December 1874, Page 2

(2V. Z. Times.-) The long-looked-for 9th of December is over and gone, with all the hopes and fears that have been for the two last days entertaiued by our astronomers. Monday and Tuesday were all —as we remarked yesterday — that could be desired by gardener a ; soft warra rain falling gladdened their hearts and proportionally dulled those whose souls were above the thoughts of "a market-gardener." On Tuesday night a south-east wind came up, with lain, but at the first of day-break there was every promise of a clear day. Up to teu o'clock all looked well, but then a fatal Dorib-weet air apraog op ; the clouds began to drift southward, and the usual results followed. The observers found an utter absence o( all sharp definition; the edge of the Sun quivered in the unsettled atmosphere j and all expectations of any good observation vanished utterly. There was only the fetliog left, a? a miserable coneolatioo, (bat all who had undertaken to observe the transit had done their best.