The article below was published in the daily newspaper Wanganui Herald, New Zealand, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12834, page 7, July 29, 1909.
(Per United Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, July 29.
The airship mystery is exciting tremendous interest. Several Dunedin people assert they saw a moving light in the sky last night. Several persons at Mosgiel saw it about seven o'clock last evening. They saw a bright light like that of a railway engine with a dark body attached. The Star's Tapanui correspondent wires that the police and others are searching at Kelso. The ship has been seen in that district by scores of reliable people.