A TRIP THROUGH THE UNIVERSE.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXX, Issue 12351, 19 April 1904, Page 3

A TRIP THROUGH THE UNIVERSE.

;mK CLEMENT.T^e6E^:I^CTtaiB. : Mr Clement L.Wragge;ths.famous late chief of the Queensland IMw a%i»ntinue'd; Jeliveridt thafirstjpf two* '.lectures'' in Timarif, in- the Theatre Koyal pia&t >e3fenjngV: TirfartL'i»- ; fi«juently said*£o be s a'*po<>r plaetf'fof lecturlrs to visit, but Mr Wraggedld not find it so, for he r had (< a good audienqe. ■.- At. ih6,outset: and for a*timei a somewhat peculiar.*nd uneven; delivery threatened to spoil the leotMe, but. ;the- peculiarity, was found-to be due to the speaker's, enthusiasin, and. this \ proved; catching, and the lecturer's fnijuent exclt »mations of surprise;aid deligßt at the. fine; pictures' served to excite the attention ,tbey; deserved. -A. large riuhiber of tanterh»viewß v of the- heavens were ihown; of starTclusters, nebulae, sun: spte. eclipses,-phases v aud fragments -of'the%oon,. et|, far surr passing anything of thS kind shown in Timaru Before'. They wete from paotdgraphs'taken' by the largestii telescop'te in the: ; world; and the dissections of stair.-clusters tand of fragments bf-thS Milky Way into myriads of starsjthe cumulative; effect of i long •; exposures ofphotographic' plates to_j .nebulae; and the magnified views of por-1 i_tions of the moon,~were a revelation. .Asv; tronomy pursued, whetherfas a-spience or, ! as: a* recreation, is .calculated »to'develop the sentiments of wonder \and iawe; Mr Wragge is a living instance, of this, effect, • and his lectuie is .as much an expfaitioii of. this as oT the subjects, he dealt with. ture and pictures together proved; most interesting, and the ; audience wquldiwillingly have listened longer, though l , the lecture, lasted nearly two hours arid-ia-half. Tonight he treats of weather-forecasting, and i; the planets,- and was promise'•: to repeat the splendid pictures of the moon. He advised those who attend" to brhig'Opera glasses, as the light .available Jdpes not;; 'ljring out all L the detail of the photographs as electric light would do. .;To-night's lee-' ; ture will ha::e'some'practical bearings, as IMr i-Wragge" said he would" impart'some simple weather wisdom, and it should be; cwell attended-'~on that' account. ;Nor waslast night's: lecture without practicaijbear-: in'gs either; for a due sense of the S i immecsity of .the universe has an important, upon one's idea of one's self,; in other words—upon charaoter. ...... W