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Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 34, 28 March 1844, Page 3

English Extracts.

The ascent of the Aero diphroson the 24th of October, as well a* subsequent experiments, having .illy proved the practicability and successful accomplishments of arial navigation. An ‘Aerial Comier Company’ has been started on the following regulations, namely, the nominal capital of the Company to be £500,C00, in «£&,000 shares ot £IOO. A deposit of £ 1 per share to be paid on application for shares ; a payment of £l per share to be made within ten days after the exhibition of the first model; £3 per share to be paid within ten days after the performance of an experimental trip with the second model—a carriage constructed to carry two persons ; £5 per share to be paid within ten days after the completion of the first grand carriage, to carry ten oi twelve persons, and fuel, &c., for a voyage of 1,000 miles ; and the remaining £OO per share to be ealled in success sively. Applicants for shares to be at liberty to withdraw ibeir application on forfeiting then deposits, which, however, will entitle them to witness ihat-xpemnenfs with die models, &t\ A person in Loudon lias proposed the formation of an iron balloon of 2122 tons weight, terming an endre shell ot wrought iron, which, having the air exhausted from i , would, he contend*, tise fr. m • lie earth with the rapidity of an arrow ! The sunvt nee of this shell would be five pounds to ibr square foot. This would kideed, be a rara avis to 11. through the air. before which the Aerial Machiue would have to hide its diminished head.

At Bury, St. Edmunds, in October last, a heavy storm of hail was succeeded by a shower of leeches They were examined by a medical gentleman aud a chemist, who prououoced them to be ditch or horse leecees ; and it became a matter ot curious specu* latiou in wlut raau.ier, or from what region, they could have been taken up in the cloud. Instance* are on record of a fall of small frogs or fishes ; but we never before heard of such a visitation from these creatures, bo great was the fall of hailstones that they were swept up in bushels ; and the noise of them on ‘.be roof's of the places of worship completely diownediheministeiVvoiees.