A BALLOONIST,S ADVENTURE
DROP OF NINE HUNDRED FEET. [BT TELEGRAPH. — TC!ES3 ASSOOIVTION.] DUNEDIN, 25th January. Professor Barnes, one of the balloonists now in Dunedin, had a merciful cecape from death this afternoon. fiis balloon would not rise more than about 900 feet, •"and the paraohitfp tiki not act properly in the short descent Ho landed on the telegraph wived on Aniimon's Bay-road. They made a fino clastic lighting place. Some of the v \virei ■nero broken If Barnas had lift the post instead, he muet have been killed.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1908, Page 2
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88A BALLOONIST,S ADVENTURE Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1908, Page 2
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