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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2352, 30 September 1880, Page 3

Bicyclists will bo interested in knowing that on July 12 JI Blackwell subcaptain of tiio Canonbury Club, and Charles A. Hannan, of the Canterbury Club, left Landsend “with the intention of riding to (ho other corner [John o’ Groats, Caithness] per byciclc.” They reached their journey's end on July 24, having completed the journey of 900 miles under thirteen days, aval making an average per day of seventy miles. They write to the ‘Times’ that " this is the first time this journey has been accomplished.’’ The feat is an extraordinary one. The " Plying Scotchman,” on winch an accident recently happened is one of the four fastest trains run on the English railways. The distance from London to Edinburgh is 397 miles, and imade in 9 hours and 30 min., or at the rate of 42 miles per hour including stops. Over the portion of the road between London and Peterborough the distance of 7u[ miles is made in 92 minutes, or at the rate of 50 miles per hour. Another we'l-known fast train is the ” dying Dutchman.""!! the London and Southwestern Bail way. which makes the distance from London to Plymouth, 24G. 1 , miles, in u hours and lo minutes, or at the rate of 42 miles an hour, the These are the three longest routes over which fast trains are run in Great Britain. There arc several shorter routes over which much better time is made, notably the route from London to Swindon, on the Great TV estern Bailwavy a distance of 7r\ miles, which is made in 1 hour and 27 minutes, or at the rate of 53.1 miles per hour. This is the fastest time made on any of the .English, railways.

Our Tcmuka correspondent writ os ; —At the conclusion of the Ternuka Court yesterday, Mr Guinness, it.M., look occasion to remark that it was the last occasion on which ho would preside. This intimation will he received with universal regret, as Mr Guinness has won golden opinions since he came amongst us, for Ins fair and impartial decisions. T)rs Hoag and Murdoch have been appointed lodge surgeons for the Loyal Star of Canterbury Lodge, 1.0.0. F. Attention is called to the announcement of a cheap sale of watches and jewellery now taking place opposite the old post ohice. It is notified that the articles must be sold at any price.

A Dreadful Prospect. —They arc so precocious in the neighborhood of Worcester, Massachusetts ! "My little seven-year-old girl,” writes a gentleman “was in the sittingroom alone with her uncle, and dreamily looking from the window. Without turning her head, she said, “Uncle Horace, 10and seven make 17, don’t they ?'’ He replied that she was right. “ Then said she, in half solilquy, “it is only ton year before I shall have a beau —ami, oh, I dread it.”