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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7078, 25 February 1893, Page 3

“ All the hugest wiii belle being made of a trailing design outlined in silver threat. Id the body to pry for it ? ■Further details to hand con Ruraey of the two young America. 3Ulen and Schachtleben, across Asia to Pekin, shew that the feat i exaggerated by the earlier accounts, it far ahead of any bicycle trip on second to very few journeys of any kim the baggage they carried to start with twenty-four pounds, and this of course wore out. First they had to fall back ll P‘ Russian stockings, and then upon Chine: 1 oboes, riding with bare legs. With no im: partant exceptions tho only annoyances they mot with consisted in being obliged to give performances of riding before the chief official of every place they came to. The money-lender ia an indestructible parasite of society. He is exposed again and again, and tho law courts do all they can to thwart him, yet the borrower turns up regularly all the while. The latest is a curate, who borrowed £SO, as ho was going to be married, from Mr John Ault, of 27, Konwyn-road, High-street, Olapham. The latter denied that he was a money-lender, and described himself by the elastic word “ gentleman.” This, however, did not prevent him from charging 60 per cent interest, or save the foolish curate from paying back £7B in five years as interest on £ls. This, at least, is what the curate said, while the defendant admitted the charge of 60per cent.