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Dunstan Times, Issue 582, 13 June 1873, Page 3

At Buangor, Victoria, a man named Peter Grady dropped dead while in the act of lighting his pipe. A Ballarat correspondent writes that a child, about five years old, Had six-pence given him to run an errand on the City Oval on Satui'day, and the young rascal got drunk with beer purchased with the sixpence. This is precocity with a vengeance; hut how about the publican who served the drink to such an infant ? An adventurous American aeronaut, Professor Donaldson, intends this summer to cross the Atlantic to Ireland in a large balloon. The machine will weigh about 2,0001b., will contain 208,000 feet of gas, with two small reservoirs to provide against leakage, and an electrical arrangement for light. The professor calculates to accomplish his trip in from seventeen hours to two days and a half, and intends, if the experiment proves successful, to establish a balloon mail and passenger line round the World,