THE LATEST FLYING MACHINE

Otago Witness, Issue 35, 17 January 1852, Page 4

THE LATEST FLYING MACHINE

The "Patrie" states that the Academy of Sciences is just now examining a flying machine, invented by one Don Di^o Salamanca, who declares that he can make his way through the air as fast as a carrier pigeon. The experiment, which will be made at Paris, will be held' on a small scale, and the flights of Don Diego " will not extend beyond the department of the Seine," but at a later period he proposes to go to Lyons, to Bordeaux, Tolouse, Marseilles, and Tourse, and to take the lines of railway. The price of each machine will not exceed 1200fr. for men, and lOOOfr. for women. If the experiment succeed, Don Diego will take out a patent, and will make the sale of the machines a branch of commerce. Although greatly astonished at this invention, several members of the Academy have pointed out the inconvenience of bringing it into general use, In point of fact, there will be no security for any one, if by the aid of such a machine all bur usages and customs he overthrown, and if male-, factors can fly on the roofs of houses, and afte^ wards get into apartments and commit all softs of depredations. "It will be very curious," says the " Patrie," " to see policemen in France or England pursuing thieves in the air, in order to lock them up."— Dublin World.

Progress of Emigration. — Notwithstanding the prospect of an abundant harvest, the tide of emigration continues to roll on as unceasingly as in the spring months. Day after day hundreds of emigrants were departing for America, the most of them with sufficient capital to purchase land on their arrival. The " Monaghan Standard" says, that " the most of those who are now emigrating are men who, with capital varying from £100 to £300, have been in the habit of conducting, with the aid of their families, the cultivation of their lands."