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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 133, 7 June 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL Mr. 0. J. Westland, Acting New Zea. land Government Astronomer, states that Mellish's Comet has brightened considerably during the last few days, so "that it is now a naked-eye object and of general interest. During the present week it remains within 25 degrees of the South Pole of the heavens, so the simplest directions for finding it at any time of the night are that the observer should look southward, and about midway betwepn horizon and zenith. Last evening the head of the comet was about equal to a third magnitude star, and the tail was 7 degrees long. The increase in size and brilliancy at the present time iis due to the > comet's proximity to the ea.rth. It will probably become less conspicuous after the 10th of the month, but it does not reach its nearest point lo the sun until 17th July, so we may expect to' see it for a few weeks yet. According to the New Zealand Railway Review, the executive of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants has decided to a-sk for an increase of one shilling' a day for all ranks of the i second division 1 . The executive will meet the Minister of Railways just prior to the opening of tho session. j Warm, in spite of winter's blasts, if you wear a nap or blanket cloth overcoat from Goo. Fowlds', dimmers-street;