HALLEY'S COMET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 395, 21 May 1910, Page 8

HALLEY'S COMET.

' AN ENORMOUS; I!KAM OF LIGHT. &. - i RELIGIOUS FANATICS' ACTION. ft" : CONSTERNATION IN TURKEY. Bj[ Cable —Pre 1 -- association —Copyright. Receive.. liiy 21. 0.30 w.m. L:iidon, May 20. [American oh ervations report that Halley's comet is still seen in the eastern (horizon. iSt. Thtomas, in tihe Danish Wesrt In--35.e5, reports tlhat an enormous beam of light stretched across two-thirds of the firmament. French astronomers saw nothing. Many Parisians were up all night, some feasting., ottos praying in expectation H)f the end: of the world. German observations were negative. Duly Munich caught a glimpse of tihe Comet passing across the sun's disc. French and German astronomers' observed 't)h» sun spots. Religious fanatics at Oklaihook seized St 'girl of sixteen, and, dressing her in clotihie9 of spotless wihite, were about to Baicrifice iher to the comet, iwihen the police intervc i d. Many fami.i* -s iait Constantinople withdrew their ch.;Jren from the schools in order hhait they might die together, believing the end of the world had come. Thousand's spent the night on roofs and terraces at St. Petersburg. NO EVIDENCE OF A COLLISION. BRILLIANT AURORAL DISPLAYS. London, May 19. 'A Reynolds reflecting telescope at the Eeluan Observatory, in Egypt, secured splendid photos of the comet, showing a vivid nucleus enveloped in a tail of parabolic outline. ' The observatory at the Cape reported itliat no indications were found of the jearth traversing the tail. The passage was nowhere observed in the United States, though brilliant auroral displays occurred. The comet, as seen at Aden, resembled a searchlight, but the head JWts invisible.

'* .WELLINGTON OBSERVATION!. j ' " By Telegraph—Press Association. I Wellington, Last Night. Observations taken in Wellington in connection with the transmit of Halley's comet yesterday were of a negative character. OBSERVATIONS AT WANGAMJI. ' Wanganui, iLast Night. A keen watch was kept upon Halley's Comet at Wanganui Observatory (which possesses one of the finest telescopes in the Southern Hemisphere). Though there were intervals of cloudiness during the period when the comet was passing the sun's <ps£ .no trace of it could !be seen. This 'was exactly as predicted Ijy the director-:of the observatory, who expected that the brightness of the sun would outshine the comet.