A DARING AERONAUT. INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR BALDWIN. Auckland, January 26.
Arrangements have been made tor a balloon ascent and subsequent drop, from *the clouds by Professor Baldwin ab Potter's Paddock next Saturday. The Professor is at present in the South, and is expected here by Thursday's boat. The Professor was recently interviewed in England by a press reporter, and in reply to questions by that gentleman, he said :—: — "I was born at Quincey, Illinois, on the 30th June, 1860, so that I am just a month past my twenty-eighth birthday. • lam an American citizen who has lived all his life v under the stars and stripes until I came to your grand old country three weeks aero. I began life, after leaving school, iD a newspaper office, and stuck to itior about three years. Then I gradually took to the acrobatic business, beginning in a small sort of way as a ground-tumbler, and steadily pushing myself on — Americans, you know, believe in that — to the position of a gymnast."
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 338, 30 January 1889, Page 5
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169A DARING AERONAUT. INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR BALDWIN. Auckland, January 26. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 338, 30 January 1889, Page 5
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