HALLEY'S COMET.
WHY ASTRONOMERS MISSED THE TRANSIT.
Ipeebb association.] CHRISTCHURCH, May 24.
A farmer in the Amuri district writes to the Lyttelton Times saying that the reason astronomers missed jfche transit of Halley's comet was that they were out in their calculations.
About 7.25 a.m. on Thursday he and others saw peculiar rays projected from the sun.
Five minutes latsr something appeared in front of the sun which flickered and blazed with a blinding light. Then it settled over the sun in the form of a white opaque shade. The air grew cold, and there were peculiar rainbow ligllfcs on the hills .
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, 24 May 1910, Page 7
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102HALLEY'S COMET. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, 24 May 1910, Page 7
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