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Show TO VISIT LABRADOR TO OBSERVE ECLIPSE OTTAWA, t)nt., Jan. 2. Arrangements Arrange-ments are now being made through the Newfoundland Government for the conveyance con-veyance of British and American as-tromlal as-tromlal expeditions to Labrador and Hudson bay next summer for the purpose pur-pose of observing the total eclipse of the sun on Auguat 30,' 1905. . The matter has . to be .arranged in advance for the coast is now blockaded with Ice and will not be free until July, leaving only a few week in whlch-to transport the parties to the far northern north-ern region and enable them to Install all the observation points selected with their telescopes and other instruments. The eclipse can be observed most ad vantageously in Labrador, because the' period of eclipse will last longer there (a little over two minutes) than' any other place on this continent. |