* Astronomy

THE KARKH METEORITE (No. 230).
The first indication that a meteoric fall had taken place in the Jhálawán Agency, Baluchistán, was an extract from the diary of Major H. L. Showers, Political Agent, Kalat, forwarded to the Geological Survey Office by the First Assistant to the Agent to the Governor-General and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistán. This extract contained an extract from the diary of the Native Assistant, Jhálawán, relating to phenomena noticed on the 27th April, 1905. The Native Assistant was passing near the Nar spring in the Mula Pass about 1 P.M. when he heard what he thought was the report of a gun on the adjacent hills. This was followed by another "echo" of the same sort, soon followed by a " thundering noise." The sky was cloudless. This noise resembling thunder is reported to have been heard all round the Mula Pass up to Naulang and several people are said to have seen "a flaming star like a ball running about during the middle of the day. Before the thundering noise ended the ball became extinguished and left clouds of smoke after it. The flaming ball is said to have had a long tail of smoke."
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