ADVENTURES IN MID AIR.
BALLOON ON THE HOUSETOrS. [Br FLEOTRIO TKLEORAPn-COPYIUGHT.] [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received This. Day, !U5 ii.ni.) LONDON*. April 17. Mr Maitland's balloon, with a lady passenger, ascended at the Crystal Palace, Willi wlien it was 2000 feet high, n hailstorm prevented its reaching mi open space, ft was driven on to the housetops of Tsliugton, but the occupants wei'e not injured. [The distance from Mm Crystal Palni'B to Islington is-.ns the crow flies— about twelve miles. Islington is the largest of the. twentyeight London boroughs, and lias a pr.piilntion of over 300.000.1
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 April 1910, Page 3
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95ADVENTURES IN MID AIR. Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 April 1910, Page 3
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