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Kumara Times, Issue 417, 26 January 1878, Page 4

sfix the aeronauts began to descend and, sweeping; gently down, struck, when About fifty yards from earth, a rather strong" current of air, which swayed th»%ar~ about a good deal. The flying .grapnel struck the earth and gripped, and the swayifig balloon was brought to a standstill at a spot about four miles this side of Chines, near the waterworks bridge. The travellers stepped out, fhe valves, and the huge bag sighed, wrinkled up, and collapsed ihto, a contused (heap of "netting and silk. It -was packed into the car safely/ and a cqijple of farmers, who rode furiously;'up to see what the strange, object was, were asked what they at first thought *he. balloon was. One said " a crow," and the other " a beagle," bujfc both agreed that they couldn't think of lending a cart to take it to the railway station. A party of jnoknickers, however, did this, and balloon/and aeronants {arrived in Ballarat safely and without a scratch shor4||r ,after ten- o'clock, having travelled about eighteen miles through the air.