NEWS ITEMS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12483, 9 March 1909, Page 1

NEWS ITEMS.

_■ — '"****"* - Says the "Scientific American": — The military aeroplane of thei future will find its greatest field of usefulness in the important work of scouting. The - military scout will carry two men ; one to operate the machine, aiid tho other to take photographs and make reconnaisance sketches. of* the coun.ry. It would be-entirely. possible. for Wilbur Wright tp take up with him an officer and rise to a height of ICOO or 1500 feet, sweep: oyer 25 or 30 milos of an enemy's country, and secure a thoroughly accurate sketch of-the lay of the land, the disposition and strength of the-enemy, the various roads by whiqh he might attack or be attacked and. all the other information which it would be the duty of the reconrioitering officer to secure. Because of the height at which .the aeroplane could travel and the uncertainty as. to its speecland direction of flight, it would be an extremely difficult object to hit. and it would be possible for several shells of the small calibre which would be used in an attack to pass through the canvas of the aeroplane without impairing its stability. A picturesque wedding, took place recently at Walton-on-Thames, London, between Mr Earnest Edward Rosewell, of Walton Fire Brigade, and Miss Beatrice Heather. The hapoy pair drove. to the church. on .a fire" engine, which was adorned with white rosettes and ribbohs. On arrival they were received by a guard of honour furnished by the Walton and neighbouring fire brigades, the firemen;, in their brass helmets and with drawn axes, making an imposing picture. After the ceremony the bride and bridegroom passed, under nn arch of* firemen's axes, formed by the firemen present. A New Zealander (states the "Press"), writes from Utah:— "For . any person wanting to get along this is a place where he can* easily do it. Of course, it was kind of hard, at first, but as soon as we got into the jvays' of the people we found it all right. Our place cost us nine hundred dollars, but we find that ono acre of land here will grow more than four out there; We have about six apple trees, and we got over 100 bushels of apples from them; and off an acre we got 350 bushels of potatoes. The lucerne we have here, is good hay. You cut it once, then turn the water on it, and pretty quickly it will ,be ready to cut again. We get two tons to the acre per cut, and we get three and four cuts a year. There are two colleges in town; one ib the B. Y.C. (Brigham Young College) and the other is the Agriculture College. j The latter is on the' hill side arid you 1 can stand there and see all over the valley. In the summer it crops cither . , sugar or beet fol* the factory or grain. We have a condensed milk factory a little way from here, and a' racecourse and recreation grounds. We can see about teii different towns from here. There are two electric plants in Logan .and every house and street is lit up by electricity.-' There are some ffood people here, and some not so good."