LONG DISTANCE WALKING.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2146, 11 January 1881, Page 3

LONG DISTANCE WALKING.

Edwards, the pedestrian, concluded his forty-eight hours’ walk in the Garrison Hall on Saturday night, January Bth, at 10 o’clock. There were about 150 persons precent to witness the finish. It was apparent during the afternoon that he would complete the task he hod set himself to do—lßo miles, namely—with some ease, as at four o’clock he had walked 160 miles, and before 7.30 had gone 170. At 9.32 the 180th mile wau accomplished, and the audience applauded very heartily. He was quite fresh at the close and continued walking till 10 o’clock, when he had totalled 182 miles 10 laps. Contrary to the usual custom at such exhibitions, Edwards did not come out after concluding his walk, nor did .anyone in his stead address these present. The performance, remarks a Dunedin paper, is not one of any significance compared with others of a like nature. So long ago as 1847, at Maitland, in New South Wales, J. F. Ring, the “ Flying Pieman,” walking on the racecourse, did 192 miles in 46| hours. The latest feat at Homo is that of a pedestrian named Rowell, who, in a six days’ contest, travelled 400 miles in 90i hours, which is at the rate of 200 miles in 45 hours. Beside a performance like this, 180 miles in 48 hours is poor, and Mr Edwards will have to do something better ere he can excite the public here to any degree.