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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19270, 6 January 1931, Page 7

The deepest English lake is Wastwater, Cumberland. It is 270 feet in its deepest part. On account of this great depth it has never been known to be iced, even in the severest winter. The lake is three and a half miles in length, and about half a mile broad. Its height above the sea is 204 feet.

The Loyal Benevolent Lodge, M.U., 1.0.0. F., met on Monday night in thj? Canon Street Oddfellows’ Hall, N.G. Brother H. C. Le Page presiding. A brother in distress wrote thanking the lodge for a donation granted to him. A maternity claim for £6 was passed for payment. It was decided that in future the whole of the management committee shall meet at seven o’clock. The lodge closed early and members had tournaments in dart, ping-pong and quoit games.

The extent of the visible surface of the moon is about 8,165,000 square miles, or SS-100ths of her entire surface. The moon always turns the same half towards the earth, but, owing to what are called the librations (or swayings) in longitude and latitude, slightly more than half the extent of its surface becomes visible. What we see are millions of miles of scoriaceous plains, volcanic craters, and rugged mountain ranges, with not so much as a sprig of moss anywhere over the whole ol' it—a desolate, region, without a ripple of water or a motion of air.