CLEMENT WRAGGE.

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 September 1917, Page 2

CLEMENT WRAGGE.

AN INTERESTING LECTURE

The. Town Hall was well filled last nig-lit, when Mr Clement Wi'aggo, the well-known astronomer, gave a lecture entitled "The Eternal Universe and the War- 1 Mr Wragge is not only a scientist bufalso an enthusiast, and in his hands the dry-as-dust details ft science are transformed into a romance, and the audience are captivated and held spell-hound as he reveals the great my'sier'us of ihe universe. The entertainment opened with some excedent views of Mr Wragge's gardens in Auckland, where American palms and African bananas were shown in full luxuriance, Mr Wrugge adding some very interesting details as io the life history of the plants that were shown. These views were followed by slides showing photographs of the stellar world token by the famous telescopes at the Lick, Chicago. and Paris universities. Without leaving their seats those present were taken by Mr Wragge on a tour into space, find visited the moon and many of the more important planets- Mr Wragge gave a most interesting account of the "Milky Way," of which our solar system is part. lie showed that that matter is never lost; everywhere there is chemical change going on. Even Death, the Grim. Terror, was only an illustration of change, and those who had left this world of care and sorrow were now in sonic brighter stage of the astral world- Mr Wrayg-e supported the tenets of Sir Oliver Lodge regarding' life after death, and stated that he (Mr Wragge) had communications with those in the astral world. The great flaw in modern education was the attention paid to the abstract instead of to the concrete- This led to oreed and artificial knowledge. The present war.was a scourge of God and would in the end prove a blessing in disguise Mr Wragge. dealt _ at length with the sun and its influence on climate. Red-coloured stars were old suns, and the blue-white light denoted youth. The moon's temperature, in the absence of all moisture and atmosphere varied between sunlight and shade by as much as 500 degrees. The sun was our dynamo and in this regard he introduced radium, which was a dynamic substance, _ the most marvellous of all. Exhibits of the metal were handed round for inspection, and its curative properties in cancer and other diseases explained. Mr Wrugge, in. conclusion, stated that to-night he would take for his subject, meterology, and be will forecast local and genera I. climate for some years to come-