GOLF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13187, 21 January 1905, Page 3

GOLF.

The Olago Ladies' Golf Club lield their monthly competition for the junior medal on lliursday. Tho following are the leading SOOICS:—

Gross. Hp. Not. Miss Roberta .... 89 SI G5 Miss Mill SI 1G 07 Miss V. Reynolds .. 3G 20 7G Miss Denniston .... 100 - 20 SO Miss M. Sise .' IQS oj 8t Mrs Barclay 112 24 S3 — How largo is the universe? "Infinite," answers a certain German theorist. But an infinite space is inooncoivablc, and no science or philosophy can lw based 011 tho inconccivabk'. Professor Simon Ncwcomb reverts to this fascinating topic in Harper's Monthly, and ho comas to tho conclusion that there arc probably 125,000,000 stars in the heavens; that they possibly lie within a sphcro having a radius ZOO million times tho distances of the sun; nn outer distance from which light would travel in 3300 years at Hie rntoof 186,000 miles per sworn!. This view soenis, at anyrato, admissible for all the stars that are visible. "Were the universe infinite, and the stars scattered equaJly throueh.all'space," the heav-ens would blaze with the light of count-less millions of stars" -for light is; never lost. "But the dark bodies may int-eraerit their light," it is argued. Professoi' iScwcomb shows that the dark bodies are not numerous enough for tho purpose, else wo should not see (lis Milky Way as well as we do. The region of visible stars seemingly (observes tho Daily Telegraph) has a boundary, though 0110 hard to draw.