MYSTERIOUS AERIAL VISITOR

SEEN AT GREAT HEIGHT.

Says Wednesday's Ohristchuroh Press: ' What appeared 'to be an. aeroplane -with lights was seen by several peoplfe in the city yesterday evening between 7 o'clock and 7.15. It seemed to be travelling in a sout#i-westerly direction, at a rate estimated at something iike 20 miles an hour, and was at a considerabte height. To some, at first sight, it looked like a planet, but its Snarly rapid movement dispelled that idea. Others surmised that it was afire balloon, but to other observers'- it looked like an aircrafti under* control. It' seemed to pass along tEo 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 on© of machines from the school; it was also stated that none of the machines is used ,at night-time for" flights.