A NOVEL WEDDING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 262, 15 March 1911, Page 6

A NOVEL WEDDING.

Yet another novel wedding. The other day Mr. Alfred U. Scott, a New York merchant, was married on board a tug in the Firth of Forth to Miss Stella Peatling, also of Xew York, the bridegroom being twenty-four and the bride twentyone. With friends they had been touring the Continent, mid on proceeding to Edinburgh found that a certain length of residence was necessary before a Scots marriage before the sheriff could (be solemnised, so a tug was chartered at Leitli, and they proceeded four miles outside the fortified Isle of Inchkeith, where the Rev. Professor Cameron performed the marriage ceremony, two Edinburgh lawyers being present to make declarations that the wedding was duly solemnised. WOMAN'S AVIATION RECORD. On December 21 all world records for sustained aviation flights by women were '.broken at KLimpes (France) by Mdlle. Delrieu, who flew 103 miles in 2 hours 33min. She used a small Demoiselle monoplane, the invention of M. Santos Dumont. the Brazilian aviator. She was the lii-t woman to drive a monoplanu alone, and this is the first attempt by a won "i to make a cross-country flight. It will be remembered that on September 2 last year she Hew from Ostend (Belgium) to Bruges and returned—a distance of twenty-eight miles—but on that occasion she carried a male passenger.