AN AERONAUT'S FAILURE.
HIS ASSISTANT ASPHYXIATED
Press Association
INVERCARGILL, Jan. 29.
Tho Invercargill people have been looking forward with curiosity to the projected balloon ascent by Air. R. Alime, the well-known cycle 'dealer of this town, which was to havo taken place- to-day. Air. Murie has had some experience of ballooning in the Old Country. He made his balloon. and was having it filled ’ with coal gas preparatory to ascending in the afternoon, when the feed pipe from tho gas works leaked. In endeavoring to repair tho defect a man named Gilchrist was partially asphyxiated, and had to go to the hospital, where he is recovering. A further attempt to inflate it resulted in the splitting of the balloon and the abandonment of the ascent. Mr. Alurie, however, is prepared to try again. '■
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2102, 30 January 1908, Page 3
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133AN AERONAUT'S FAILURE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2102, 30 January 1908, Page 3
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