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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 44, 19 August 1892, Page 11

Doctor Gill, an astronomer, recently photographed the stars visible at the Cape of Good Hope. Ooly a small portion of the sky was represented. It would take 10,000 plates to produce a picture of the whole ; and if the Bky were generally as rich as the part on tbe plate in question, it appears that the number of stars in the heavens cannot be less than 300,000,000. Excavations are being made of some Aztec ruins in tbe Chace Canyon, New Mexico, and the other day twenty stone idols, different from all others previously discovered, were unearthed. They are circular in shape, forming sizes varying from six to fifteen inches ia diameter, the upper half containing a deeply-carved face and the lower half rudimentary arms in relief,