UP IN A BALLOON
Miss Maw Ascends,
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
Wbuinotox, Wednesday, About seven hundred people visited the Show Grounds at Petono to-day on tho chance of seeing Miss Leila Adair go up in her balloon, and do a parachute descent. This time everything went off satisfactorily enough, The day was perfectly fine, with almost no wind, and tho balloon rose to a height of five or six hundred feet, and quickly travelled towards Wellington. Its career was, howover, of short limit, and before it had gono half a mile it gradually descended, and reached the ground in safety. Miss Adair, who had taken a life belt with her incase of a descent in the upper harbour or in the Hutt River, came down with tho balloon, without detaching her parachute. Tho drop was such a short one that the latter would havo had no timo for expansion. Prom tho time the balloon rose towhonitfellwas barely three minutes, so itwasall quickly ovor.
The sight was a pleasant enough one, and thoassembled crowd seemed satisfied with what they had seen. The large balloon which I believe is made of calico at a cost of S2O, was a graceful object as it rapidly but gently rose in the air, and its motion was so steady that at the slight altitude attained there seemed to be no danger to tho fair wronaut. Miss Adairwas garbed in what are commonly called "tights "—resplendent ones in silk of a delicato tint—and as the balloon is without a car she ascends on a trapezium bar,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4747, 14 June 1894, Page 2
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259UP IN A BALLOON Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4747, 14 June 1894, Page 2
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