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Lyttelton Times, Volume XII, Issue 712, 3 September 1859, Page 5

Night Lights in the Camp.—On Monday night, the 13th, the camp at Aldershott was surprised by a brilliant illumination with the Hon. Major Fitzmaurice's lights, he having been sent there by General Peel to test their qualities and application to military purposes, and nothing could be more brilliant or effective than the demonstration that took place. Major-General Knollys and all the officers present expressed themselves highly gratified with the extreme simplicity, portability, and great power of the lights, and their value for military purposes. Guards were turned out many hundred yards from where the general and his staff were stationed, and each man stood as if the sun was shining oh him. Eveiy kind of signal was carried out an immense distance; bodies of men were marched in and out, and were distinctly visible at 1,000 yards, and the whole camp around was illuminated in a most beautiful manner by sweeping the horizon with a single light. At the spring show of the London Horticultural Society much interest was created by the exhibition of a tray of oranges from South Australia. They are considerably larger than any we get from Southern Europe, and their flavour is said to be far beyond that of any oranges hitherto known to English palates. They were shipped at Adelaide, without any unusual precaution, andyet.notwithshinding the extreme length of the voyage, were landed in England in a high state of preservation. The neighbourhood of Adelaide is specially ;idaptcd for the cultivation of oranges.