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MYSTERIOUS FLIGHT.
AIR-SHIP OVER BALLARAT.
BALLARAT Monday - A circumstan- tial story is related by the household of Mr T. Edwards proprietor of the Sebasto- pol pyrites works of the passage of a mys terious air-ship over Ballarat on Saturday evening. Seven different people are said to have seen the air ship, which Miss Ed- wards states was in view at half past 6. She secured her fathers marine glasses, and through them the body and framework of the machine could be distinguished. It passed over Ballarat in an easterly direc tion, and in its course circled and made a sweep, as if the occupants intended to land.
It then swept up into the air, and was watched as it disappeared in the direction of Mount Warrenheip. A second pair of glasses also was in use by members of the party, and the discription given by each out of them substantially agreed.
Mr McLean, an English visitor, who has made flights in England, had the machine discribed to him later in the evening by those who had seen it, and he expressed the opinion that it was a bi plane.