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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16916, 31 January 1917, Page 8

A meeting of the Winton Earlv Settler* , Committee was held on the 25th inst to consider what form the summer picnic should take. It was decided to hold a reunion of immigrants who landed in Otago or Southland previous to 1878, the year of the biff flood, and that it be held on the show or games ground about the end of February Another meeting will be held to arrange details. Those T.ho wish to be present may eond in their names, th" ship, and the year they arrived, to tho secretary (Mr James Welsh). Three stages of colour—yellow-white green, and deep red—have been noted m meteors nearly or quite reaching the earth's surface, and Dr Alfred Wegener attributes the changes to passage through the differ ent layers of the ■ atmosphere. It is now . bcLcvedl th. . the chief K as of the air up Z ahout 45 miles is nitrogen; beyond that to LS mite, hydrogen- and still higher, 'the' very thin gas called "geocoronium S Meteors entering only the outer layer of very rare gas are not sufficiently heated co become luminous. The first light of "shoo™ ing stars '—■whste, yellow, or rarely red dish—k thought to be ihe glow of thn meteor substance itself; fte E feen that fofirws, the incandescence of hydrogen m tho second air stratum; and the charfge to red