The Transit of Venus.
Shortly after midnight yesterday a steady descent of the barometer, with ominous gusts of wind that shook the window sashes, dashed the hopes of those who had intended rising betimes to see what the mortal eyes of no present denizen of this globe will ever witness again — the transit of the planet Venus across the bup. About 2 a.m. thickly packed clouds, surcharged with Tain, came up from the westward, and all hope of a clear morning was extinguished. Dawn broke dense, gray, and la!e ; and with light rain ; and the only transit visible in these parts was a hurried one, on the part of the sundry sightseers, out of bed and back again, after diegusfed peeps out of doors or windows. Fortunately, the calculation of the sun's distance from this mote dancng in his beams, was not dependent on the atmospheric condition of Southland on that eventful morn, and it is gratifying to find that in several other parts of tlic colonies the observers of the transit were successful. Tli« (ek£iamH from various observatories we are unable to find space for in this issue.
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Southland Times, Issue 4497, 8 December 1882, Page 2
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189The Transit of Venus. Southland Times, Issue 4497, 8 December 1882, Page 2
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