Sensational Balloon Ascent.
{Per Press Association.] Auckland, March 7, Miss L. Adair, parachutist, made an - ascent this afternoon in a balloon at Takapuna racecourse. She had on a life-belt in case she was carried seaward. The balloon, on attaining a height of five hundred feet, got into a southerly current and she was taken away towards Narrow Neck. Finding she would not obtain a height which would admit of her safely making a jump from the balloon with the parachute, she kept her seat on the trapeze and ultimately fell with the balloon in Rangitoto mid* channel. She was picked up by the steamer Nautilus.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 258, 8 March 1894, Page 2
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105Sensational Balloon Ascent. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 258, 8 March 1894, Page 2
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