The Art of Flying.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 409, 9 April 1909, Page 2

The Art of Flying.

Lt would appear from the April number of Life magazine, whb.u has just reached u«, that the flying machine has been so far ad- ■\ au I that we may consider flying as a sport. Wilbtr Wright, the most s iccessfn’ exf arimenter, who has broken all recor Js . as.oplane flight, te''s frankly of the dirficul tics to be encountered, but spiakf enthusiast! .Uy of the joys and exhilarating sen sat ions of aviation. His article, which ii> freely fllustrabad, is one of the mtnb inte- - os-'ng and most informative that we hav ( j seon. Another excellent contribution to April Life, and a useful one, is the nrst of a eeii. of article by Miss Beatrice Grims aw, the well-known authoress who vrrites on the beau »s of New Guinea, and promise? next month to tell how big money may be mule in that island. Charles Nuttall, an Australian artist, has a dig at \me~icaa ideas of sport, and de iar 5 that Amari 3., the boasted bind of the Free w nor h»’f so free as his own country down under tie Southern Cross. Dr Fitchett begins whi.t promises Lo be a most giaphic and picrur et jue series of sketches of the lives and the crime* of the bush-angers of Au a t a''a. He begins with an escaped convict nam?d Whii ehead who in 1810 organise! a gang, and tor some three yeaia made a’ ; the roiul* that lead to Hobart perilous; and carries the at >iy forward to the time of 1832, when a white thug, named Lynch, enacted a string of barbarities that have rarely besn equalled in the dendar of crime. Gf other a tides perhans the most; st.iking is the story of James L mb, one of the few Minivors of the famous Six Hundred, who srives a modest yet stirring k -ount of the 1 e that lives in hute . lotion in th ; s nr .liber is strong. i. k H.! Spearman 1 Hates one of h’s »nimit? e railway stones ; there is a humourou«love story entitled “ On Cupid’s Bebi’*;” ?-d, b- way of contrast, a timely and uather’c 1 e of service in ludia, callpd “ Rides for the Swazis.’” Meantime, Professor Van Du m continues to ngv.re in the succession of stirring detective stories that be?- Lis n? ne. The above » r e, of onree, only the outstanding feature? 01! a magazine that is c.immed full of entertainment and useful information on an amazing variety of topics.