MYSTERIOUS AERIAL VISITOR.

SEEN IN CEIUSTCHURCH

What appeared to be an aeroplane with lights was seen by several people in the city yesterday evening between 7 o'clock • and 7.15. (says Wednesday's Christchurch "Press"). It seemed to be travelling in a south-westerly direction, at a rate estimated at something like 90 miles an hour, and was at a considerable height. To some, at first sight, it looked like a planet, but its fairly rapid movement dispelled that idea. Others surmised that it was ;% fire balloon, bn,t to other observers it looked like an aircraft t.nder control. It seemed to pass along the edge of a dark bank of cloud in the southern sky, and was finally lost to sight. <A telephone enquiry elicited from the Aviation School at Sockburn the information that it was not one of the machines from the school; il was also ttated that none of the machines is used at night-time for flights.