ANOTHER SUPPOSED AIRSHIP

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2565, 28 July 1909, Page 5

ANOTHER SUPPOSED AIRSHIP

MYSTERIOUS LIGHT SEEN AT AUCKLAND.

[Per Press Assouiation.)

AUCKLAND, July 27. Dunedin is not the only place boasting mysterious airships. Residents of some of the higliest points in the Auckland suburbs have been mystified daring tho last few nights by the appearance of a peculiar light hovering in the sky ill the direction of East Tamaki. Several people have noticed the' mysterious illumination between the hours of 10 and 11 o’clock, and the only solution is that a trial is being made of an airship. One person who has. seen the strange light is a young engineer, and he says that it has been visible on two nights. “It could not have been a light attached to a kite,” he declared, “because it moved too quickly. The only explanation is that an effort is being made to perfect an airsliip.V As is already known, a couple of local inventors have constructed a flying machine with which they tried several flights; and there is also at present in Auckland a Christchurch gentleman who claims to have perfected a machine which has made several successful trials. It is not known where they are carrying out their experiments, but possibly they have selected the sparsely settled districts of East Tamaki for tho purpose. This seems to bo the only explanation of tho mystery.