! Accordirisf to the Wellington; press the local inventor of a flying machine had an interview with the Minister fop Defence, when he explained to Mr Seddon the scope of his proposals. :The Minister promised: to submit the matter to the judgment of Captain Fox, the commandant. The- inventor claims that, as an engine of war, his machine is of extraordinary merit; and the Minister regards it as worthy of rery careful and close inspection. ' The inventor has undertaken, if indemnified, to giver bcnlar demonstration of- the working of the .machine. The report of the commandant will be looked for with interest. . .G -T :- );., . J. M. Beresford, a nephew -of Lord Charles Beresford, recently arrived in San Francisco", and all theclnbmen of that city fell over each other in a frantic effort to do-him honour. .'When they discovered that the ."nephew of; hii ancle" worked for a' living, and wa» a drummer for a Chicago glove boaae, the attentions ceased at suddenly as th»y had began.
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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 28, 25 June 1892, Page 2
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