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STAR-GAZING.

By the Astronomer-Royal.

HUNDRED years ago, when of times fainter, A model of the the selences of heat and clee-stars in our vicinity (on the seate tricity were LA their babyhood, uf 214 inches to a million miles) astronomy was already a young would be 40 or 50 ball varying giant.

in aize from peau to cricket balls

of the highest praise. The boya arc instructed in scamanship, signalling, first-ald, gymnastics, physical drill and swimming. In this connexion it may be mentioned

HE ALONE 18 AN ACUTE OBSERVER that during the Great War, the

WHO CAN OBSERVE MINUTELY WITII. naval units and training ships of our BEING OBSERVED.-Lavater, Alinted to the League sept 164 of- Beers and over 3,000 boys to Join H.M. sea and land forces and the Merchant Navy. There are at pre- sent over twenty Sen Cadet Corps and eight other naval units, the number of boys in training, being

The great diacovery of the Solar inside the Earth, the Sun's diame well over'sixteen hundred. Consider-rity Arts Association, the Rev. Fr. Syetein had been made, and the tor being about two inches on this able aums are required annually to Byrne, S., gave a most illuminating planets were no longer more poluta Bente.

Many stars, though only a small University Union of light wanderton among the fixed address at tho equip these organisations and to Assembly Room last evening on "The stare, but bodies like the Earth proportion, are much larger than The Sun. This has been inferred pay for the annual camps, and for City of Ranie: Where Histories circling round the central Sun

The main features of their move from their lumingaltion, but recent- this reason ni assistance possible

mente were deduced from the law the diameter of a few of the

the largest have bean me

measured and Because her follow-tenants had re-of gravitation, and gradually is desired, so that this branch of the League's work may be expand-used to lend her money, it is stated. minstest details were found to be are found to be 200 or 300 times

n Chinese woman living at de, Holly conquences of that law. The as large as the Sun. wood Hond topic opiura in an attempt Nautical Almanac can now predict on her life yesterday. She was on the positions of Sun, Moon, and Muzeum show this very vividly, as veyed to hospital in an unconsciousplanets for many years ahead with well as the differences of colour in- condition,

Menting temperature near the sur- face.

Our Star Galaxy.

el.

people. The Jornl branch has a recoril of which it may well AT OUR STUBBS ROAD GARAGE feel proud, and one which is fully

realised at the Headquarters

and the League. It has again again taken the feel in raising

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In the interval 1831-1991 two

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modela in the Science

Hongkong Telegraph sympathise with the League's aims Chesing Leung as a grent "eronk." The temperature of its surface water, and one at least is believed

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 193).

NELSON DAY.

any,

The Lengue should make a big appeal to residents of Hongkong, one of the Empire's naval stations,

A thiri-class Chinese passenger for as has been shown, it is engagtravelling on the Yaumati ferry Man large new planets, Neptune and

It is impossible in this short ed on a task which must command Ches a believed to have lost his ife Pluto, have been found, and also the general approval of nii loyal after jumping from the craft in mid-more than a thousand amall planeta article to explain how the results obtained, and I can but atate harbour yesterday. The greurreneal and a dozen new moons. has been reported to Sergeant Mackay discoveries have followed from the them. The galactic system to In charge of a Water Police lunch.

increased power of telescopes and which we belong, contains probably the application of photography. 100,000 million stare.. Chan Pikeyan, aged 18, employed; During this centory the greatest as is shots in a shop at Des Voeux astronomical discoveries have con- shape of a watch in the plane of They are aprend out in the Rond Central, who was rescued from cerned the nature and countitution the Milky Way, and the the harbor pesterday after throwing of the Sun and stars and the ex-diameter something like 50,000 Tong hinwelf from a Yauninu ferry launch tent of the Sidereal Universo. has been sent to the Secretariat of Tunda för the dependents of men Chinese Aftales for his case to be

We Sum Up the Sun.

Speaking roughly we may Pay 10 par cent, of these stars are more who have lost their lives in naval investigated.

The Sun has been found to contuminous than the Sun, and a small mishaps, and has also raised con- The Sessions trial of Cheung Leung tain 57 of the 92 chemical elements, proportion of these are more than siderable sums for the general pur-and Yip Po, charged with assalting Including all those most common 1,000 times as luminous.

sable Ko, a womda, No. 12, Catchick on the Earth, such as Hydrogen, the League. The

They vary to a great extent in Street, with Intent to rub, was con- Oxygen, Nitragen, Carbon, Alu-size and in density. Some of the seription, five dollars annually, la tinued before the Chief Justice this ninium, Iron, und there is to

very

largest have a density thous so small that everyone enti altoril it.

morning evidence of a

Am reason to suppose that there ads of times lesя than atmo8- arrest being given by Chinese con anything in the Sun not in It is

the pheric air, while many have densi therefore up to all who stables. One of them described Farth

fes like the San, a little more than nearly to have a density of 20,000 times and charitable activities to associate Lieut. Col. Robertson, Hongkong been determined an

6,000 degrees C, and theoretical that of platinum. will be glad to receive themselves with the local branch | Club,

arttele which may be given to he researches indicate that this in..

But in spite of this tho masser and make it mor: fully representa-auctioned on Armistice Day for the creases towards the centre to 40

of stars do not vary greatly. Most tive than it la at present of the benefit of Earl Haig's Fund, and million degrees at last.

of them are not far from the Sum The Earth has celved heat earnestly hopes that a good response loyal sentiments of the British

to this appeal may be made. He is in it at about the present raten ninge, some are only one tenth as few have been community of the Colony.

encouraged to appeal again this year for at least 1,500 million years, as massive, and a owing to the very generous gifts sent this is known to be the age of stra-found with massen 50 or 100 times

as great. Selam Day, the anniversary of

The only way in which this grent The stars are all in motion. For the Battle of Trafalgar, which

The coxswain of the steam launch supply can be maintained is by example our Sun is moving with a falls to-ding, is being observed in

Chung Shan was charged before the energy from sub-atomic sources, velocity of 12 miles a second re- Comdr. Hole, at the Marine but the nature of these is notatively to the stars in Its neigh- one form or another in all parts

marning, with having understood. A very interesting bourhood. The stars all appear to the Empire where the Navy

Court this towed three or four junka alirezat

feature

be moving In the plane of the

and change in the political atmosphere. through the Southern entrance of the in the Sun is the periodic be Lengne is represented. The object The allegations regarding a Ma-yauminti typluson shelter on the night growth and gradual disappearance ] 21Uks Way, Our Sun

not only to keep alive the ehiavellian scheme for the resusci-of October 19. The neensed admiste of the spots every eleven years, sa-i stars near it take about 250 million

sociated with Aurorac

and years to make a complete revolu- memory of a great naval vielery, tation of the Conservative Party the charge and was fined $10 or one magnetic changes on the Earth. tion and are shutt 30,000 parsees' but also to perpetuate sound ideas appear to be borne out by the Misie week's imprisonment.

19 Mon Millions Equals One jon nuval polley and to direct attenter of Health's admissions. Ap- A gambling deht is stated to have

l'arger. tion to the splendid work which the parently he repents the thought of brought about an assault incident

The genius of Herschel, with his Longue is doing in charitable carrying it through entirely, right-yesterday, when So Chang, an

Pmployed labourer living At 13, great telescopes, bad discovered the number of nebulac. Some of these, activity and in training lads for regarding as a doubtful gain Temple Street. Yaumati, was struck vastness and the general form of like the one in Orion, consist of gas the prospects of the Conservatios with a chopper and suffered a wound the Sidereal Universe. He made in an extremely tenuous condition. service on the sea. For reasons

returned to power under false pre- in the left shoulder. He was rentoved the reasonable assumption that the Others, like the nebula in An- which have been explained, the

tences.

It is just as well that Mr. to hospital in Kok, differences in magnitude of the dromeda, consist of multitudes of

whose name was given na Lam Komrkong branch is somewhat Neville Chamberlain, as controller

stars were mainly caused by dif-star-leland universes---Repurated a youth of 17, has disappeared.

ferences in distance, and that from our Milky Way group by (curtailing itu celebration this of the party machine, should make

A parallax of Captain E. Hannevig, master of the Sirlus had

one great distances. The nearest, that year, but at the same time it himself perfectly clear on tariffs

distance in Andromeda, is distant 300.000 anxions that the public shall not before Polting Day. In quarrells. tiram, was charged before the second of are, or was at forget the existence of the Lenguning with the assertion of Mr. Phi-Hon. Comdr. fiule, at the Marine of 19 million million miles, a dis-parsecs. It contains millions

which astronomers for con- stars and its diameter is 6.000 par- Court this morning, with having given lip Snowden, he challenges false particulars

secs. We may take it as 10 the Harbour venience call one parace. or the beneficent work which it breach with the Prime Minister. Master on Table K (a) Form un But it was not till a few years model of our own galactic system.

stated that the after 1831 that the distance of does.

There are many nebuise in the It is true that the Navy Hle contends that a National Gov- October 14. It was

accused did not enter particulars of star was actually measured. No aky which are undoubtedly collec- League has always taken a firm ernment majority would confer a damage to his ship. The defendant star has been found nearer than Hons of very distant stars. The starul on maintaining the efficiency mandate for a general system of pleaded guilty, but and he was under one parsec, and within five parsece distances of the nearer ones have about 35 stars have been discovered been determined with an accuracy of the Senior Service, but its aims Protection, and declares that any the impression that casualties to

persons were only to be entered under and probably there are not many of about 10 per cent, and it has are not by any manner of means other view would be inconsistent the beading "casualties", and that was more within this limit, an extensive been possible to conjecture the dis

why he did not enter the details of dimmage

"[

jingoistic. Realising that the Em-!

.. Political Portents. if Mr. Neville Chamberlain's

menns any Birmingham speech thing at all, it portends a distinct

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with the Prime Minister's nwn pronouncements. In what part of pire stands for a policy of peace, the Premier's manifesto he finds it believes that the British Navy support for this assertion, it is | is the most effective Instrument en impossible to discover. Mr. Ram- suring it, for which reason it urges Bay MacDonald mentioned tariffs the utmost vigilance in the main- once- one of the measures tenance of adequate sen-power.

which would have to be considered by the new Government among There are, however, other as-

those likely to help in the task of pects of the League's activities

nation's rectifying the

trade which are not so well known as

balannee, the primary duty of the they should be. For example, it government. Even Mr.. Baldwin carries on a vast charity known as shied at the word "Protection." the Navy Longue Overseas Relief The official Conservative leader Fund, by which close on four suggested that the best means of thousand children have already meeting the crisis was a "tariff been educated and placed in peal-carefully designed and adjusted to tions all children of officers and meet the present situation."

in a vastly different matter. In no men of the Royal Navy and Mor-pronouncement of members of the chant Navy whose fathers were kill- Natiount Government hitherto has or died of wounds during the Great there been any suggestion that a War. It also assists anyone con- mandate to impose a general sys- protection Was sought. nected with the sen services with tum of

Lenders have been extremely care- Information

naval regarding

ful to restrict themselves to a re charities and naval employment

quent for a free hand to impose agencies, and maintains numerous || tariffs if they should be deemed clubs and reading-room for sai-necessary A great many people lors. Of much value Is the bellove that Britain should at this which ís donc con-Juncture take control of her im- nexion with the Lengue's Sea Cadet porte, and put an end to promis- cuous and unregulated business. Corps and Naval Units. The ob

Among these are people who ar- ject of this work is to continue the dently ballove in the principle of training of boys just before and free trade, but who would be pre- after school-leaving age in habits pared to grant Mr. Ramsay Mac- of discipline, duty and self-respect, Donald's administration liberty to and to help boys desirous of join apply a restrictive tariff, as op- ing the Royal Navy or Mercantile opposed to a Protection tariff. To Morino to attain their ambition, this no small section of the elec torsto, Mr. Noville Chamberlain's The officers and instructors of the declaration will come as a heavy Corps give their services voluntarily dampener of enthusiasm for the with a zeal and devotion worthy National Government.

work

in

last year.

un-

tifed rocks.

to the vessel. Remarking search has been made with large that this was a mistake that had been photographic telescopes. made before, Conide. Hole discharged Sonic of these stars are like the the accused with a caation.

Sun in brightness, others thousands

"O.K, folles, I'll play one more rubber, but what'll I say If the boss comes up and sees them windows aren't washed?"

the

1rom the ceulia.

Millions of Millions of Milliona!

Besides stars the sky contains a

smaller

taneus of those further away on reasonable grounds of their size and brightness.

Recently the velocitice of a num ber of them have been detertained. and it is found that all are moving from us with immense velocities. and the more distant they are the faster they are moving. The most distant one whose velocity has been determined is 50 million parseca away and moving at the rate of 12.- 000 miles a accond.

Things We Have to Learn.

This extraordinary phenomenon of an expanding universe is in con- with Einstein's theory of the curvature of space and was pre- dicted by the Sitter

I am asked by the Editor to venture on a prediction of what astronomers wHI discover in the next 100 years, but they have in truth not yet digested the wondere of the last ten years,

Probably in a few years we shall know more exactly the extent of the Milky Way and our relation to it.

The nature of the sub-atomic processes by which the heat of the Sun

and stora is maintained ja still unknown,

and

we may expect some farther light on this subject.

Apparently the Universe is run- ning down. We know it has been in existence for 2,000 million yours. For earlier dates than this results are contradictory and we know very little.

ers

Finally, 60 years ago astronomi- thought that most of the stars had panels circulating r round them. Now the general view is taken- - that planets are very rare excep

and some think it not im- probable

tions,

that our Earth is the only, abode of thinking beings. Perhaps

In a hundred years though hardly expect itwe shall be more curtain.