Show correspondent of tho London Telegraph Tele-graph tells about a new invention a steam intrcncher a huge plough that will throw up a fourfoot inlrenchtncnt at the rate of three miles an hour It Is invention of Col Tcmplcr director direc-tor of military ballooning and steam transport now on his way to South Africa in charge or tho new steam transport company and balloonlslH oft of-t Royal Engineer A trial of thp plough was recently made A traction engine was attached to It and It cut deep Into the very rough ground It was tried on throwing the excavated earth upon up-on one aide forming a very serviceable sheltered trench It han a heavy horizontal hori-zontal framework mounted on wheels At each extremity Is 1 an inimenoo plouffhshear fronted < by a sixinch steel pick These ploughsheara point ono each Avay so that by bringing down tho end required the earth Is thrown either to the right or to tho left l It Is guided I I by means of cogwheels it is I expected I that tho machines two of which arc going to the Cape will follow u line of flklrnilshera at right angles protect I pro-tect t1 by artillery and make a trench behind them for the purpose of occupation I occu-pation and carrying an treadled po altlon The question id what lie I WT4f 7TT Boers would be doing while they were making that trench And again while the machine workn successfully in a valley In England what would It do on a mountain side seamed by gulle sIn I In South Africa |