MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 571, 28 July 1909, Page 8

MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS.

■■:-~ ——° — ; • ARE: THEY AIRSHIPS ? , (By, Telegraph.—Press Association.) :•';-:.'■/■'■•"" ' -Auckland, July "27: Dunedm is not the only placo boasting a mysterious airship.; Residents of some of tho highest'points-in Auckland suburbs have been mystified during the last few nights by tho appearance of'a peculiar light liovering in the sky, in the direction of East Tamaki. people have noticed tho' mysterious illumination between, the hours of 10 and 11 o'clock, and,'tho only solution is that a trial is being made of ari airship. One person, who has. seen the strange.light is a young engineer, and he says that it has been visible on two nights. , "It could not have been a light attached to a; kite," ho declared, "because it moved too quickly. The only explanation is that ani eifort is being made to perfect an airship.' As : is already known, a couple of local inventors have constructed a flying machine, .with which they tried several flights, arid there is also at present' ,in Auckland: a Christchurch gentleman who claims. to have perfected a • machine which has made soveral successful trials. • It is not 'known; where they, are carrying out their experiments, but possibly; they have selected the sparsely settled district' of .East Tamaki for the purpose. :, This seems to bo the; only explanation of/ the'mystery '.'■'■'' ';; ' THE GERMANS. AGAINv/:'::,',..... Inverba'rglll, July 27. There is, muclr .local;speculation in regard to,a.mysterious "light"that^has"been seen in the sky. Tho "Southland News" reports that .thqiiliahtawasuiconi'ilicrovboth on'. Saturday'! and Sunday nights, 'and' the: paper published a' column story 'suggesting-,that the 'light -waS'that'-of 'an, airship sent to Veconuoitre.by the German yacht Seestern, which has aiot boon heard of recently. )" [The latest; theory regarding the Seestern .is',:that' may;';haye:,fen; .. She took on board a large quantity of explosives a,t Brisbane.] '.'-..-.. : . • [ ■-, ..- ■'■-,_■■ .''. .