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MALANPA NOTTS. |(For (he Post end Herald.”)Drizzle, drizzle all day long, day In and day out, going well lo beat any re* cord 60 far, as a moist year. Occa-aioual cold snaps, with strong Easterly winds arc aide issues which check the(rowth of feed, wich otherwise would e certain to tret awav nicelv. However. some yood is coming out of it, as tliir year’s strong growth of ink-weed on the new grassed areas is being checked also, giving the under grass a chance to stabilise.The remarkable chanae of the season al round; cold and wet here, with droughts, hush fires, and other features peculiar to Australian conditions. surprising the EngUph and Continental settlers, have been subject of deep consideration by the recently formed Malanda Astronomical and Research Society, which lately hied its first convention at the Socltey’a rooms, at the Malanda Hotel. Professor A.Hohl presided, and after the first preliminary three or four refreshers, called on Professor Heron to explain his calculation as to how Poas VVinnecke, like a lost soul, came to take the wrong track in its heavenly wanderings. Professor Heron on rising, wss well received, and said he was pleased to tee the representative of ike Astronomical department of that scientific journal the Cairns Post present, as without publication, his views were as pearls cast before swine. This statement met with a mixed reception, and raised the Question of pig raising on the Tableland. The learned Professor went on to explain that Pont Winnccke, travelling at 8 miles per second, would by the superior travelling apeed, 18! miles per second, of the Earth in ita orbit •round the sun, be attracted within the influence of the present northern lerrestial atmosphere, and cause a canting of the poles, which would completely alter climatic conditions, so that places like Cairne, Thirsty Island ana Darwin, would in the near, comparatively near future, say by his deductions in the year 2303; be piled up with the deep snows and glaciers now peculiar to the north and south extremities of tbs Hemispheres. In aoing to further explain the possibilities and how it would occur, the Professor found that someone had absent-mindedly taken and drank his beer, which he said had cartainly disappeared at a greater pace than Pons Wannecke. Noticing tne press wiping ita whiskers in an appreciative, but suspicious manner, the Professor glared, and said he would have to collect hit thoughts before proceeding at another date. The president adjourned the meeting, Miss English, the Society's principal tadv observer, moving a hearty vote of thanks. Thst is how the seasons are slowly but surely changing.Complaints from TarMli bay make it clear that the railway service is anything hut satisfactory. Senile de-
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Cairns Post
Cairns, Queensland, AU
Fri, Sep 16, 1921
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