A BALOON POST.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 279, 29 October 1883, Page 2

A BALOON POST.

V}:\:\ ;:--:\ vyjj 7,!'7;' :y,:.*A ... , is ■'■■■ ',... .fi Some interesting information 1 of the work done by tnp^renim ; _^t Office ; durmg.the Gwinan.w^w'^^Bub^ liehed •t^,lato 3^^ t_i:i^enaoher, a fnendjrf M. Gambetta, who ;^OStoaster T Greneral by fense ; '.and organised the 'baifoonHea*, jpatch service , after, the. investment of J?wis. , Thp cars, in many caieKarried ,aB much as, halfa; toi bi^kere, 1 'tp r gay i*°fom .of'two.or;.three Vpajjengeniand left Paris ou jhVM of 1 ie»er! and the-lastr.on $he s 28.th.pf^January, i and during, thg mtei^a^of ipStt 'Jaonths ; sixty-five ..^lfTO^'^r^n^'i^pag. 7»r ; ngers, 381 pigeons, five dogs ' a_ul ten vtons of lette^ana.newspanersjielt the city. Seyen of, these, wpre paptMed by tlie enemy and ,two y have /neverl'since been heard pf. One of 4es^ the Jac. >W**s> -feft; W^^^hejiSfchio^No. vember and was aem above^iymouth the following Jajr. '11l fcra<£ ft? bs ?qH^ti7 ; ,hwt. Out, of .the 381 Eigepns.s^artsd ifrom'tiie Apartments . all .but 61 rpached; ri Ui% "ptgsripajion, ..wi: one of them macta e t^eir. ; voyage four times, . 'H.f^^^"duoab» m some detail^the efforts made to 'steer .balloons, aU : of^ which were ; . entirely unsuccessful. . ':';., ' Z"" l Z ;•i" -