Untitled

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1452, 11 September 1885, Page 4

A "fashionable" Maori wedding 1 took place at Kaiapoi Pah on Wednesday fsays the Lyttelton Times) between Miss Reuben, a Maori lady from the West.Coaßt, and a Kaiapoi native, known as "Captain Cook." At 11.30 a.m., a procession was formed at the bride's residence. The bride, accompanied by four bridesmaids, who carried her train, led the van, followed by the bridegroom and four groomsmen. When the procession roached the church, they found some little difficulty in gaining admission ,nwing to the number of visitors. The bride, an interesting and handsome young lady, was dressed in a cream Batin with a long train, lace veil, and wreath of oransre blossoms. The bridesmaids wore white muslin and Watteaii hats. The bridegroom and his assistants were dressed in European fashion. The group were afterwards photographed, fciid a series of sports and merrymaking indulged in. With wings of any moderate spread a horse power is able, to lift, about twen-ty-five pounds. To lift 150 pounds, the average weight of a man, calls for sixhorse power, while man's power is estimated to be about one-fifth of a horse power when exerted to the greatest advantage. In otlier words, if the machinery for the purpose weighed nothing, man's strength must be increased thirty times at least before he can sustain himself in the air. Even then he could fly only in a calm. It has been stated that the average velocity of air currents at a distance above the e.vth is twenty miles per hour. Tlies.- must b« met and overcome by anj' (lying apparatus before it can be successful. Tin-He facts oujjht to be enough to s^ ttle one t»ide of the question, at least. Men cannot hope to fly by muscular exertion. Any living apparatus must weigh less than twenty- fiv pounds jk r horse power in order to sustain its-lr, and, if supported by a balloon, must be iven lighter.