BALLOON RACING.
Brussels, September 17. Twenty-nine balloons left Brussels for a long-distance race. Professor Huntington's balloon .Zephyr descended -«t Cazanbon, in the South of France. The balloon "Britannia," belonging to the Hon. C. S. Rolls (England) did not travel quite so far. It descended it Arrachon, on the west coast of France.
GERMANY FIRST. Received Sept. 18, 0.51 p.m. Brussels, September 18. The German balloon "Pommcrn" descended at Bayonne, winning the international contest. It travelled 1000 kilometres from Brussels. The Swiss balloon "Cognac" and the British ''Zephyr" are bracketed second.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19070919.2.25.25
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 19 September 1907, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
90BALLOON RACING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 19 September 1907, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in