Citizen Train’s Trip Round the World.
Mr George Francis Train, the American lecturer, who left Tacoma, Washington Territory, on March IS, under engagement with the ‘Tacoma Ledger’ to travel round the world in sixty days, left Queenstown on Sunday, at 1 p.m., on board tho Cunard steamer Etruria for New York, at which port the vessel is due to arrive on Saturday next, when Mr Train will have been 59 days doing the journey to that point. Ho has travelled from Tacoma, via Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki, Hongkong, Singapore, Colombo, Aden, Port Said, Brindisi, Calais, London,and Queenstown. From New York be will take a special train to Tacoma. The shortest time heretofore occupied in travelling round the world from America is 72 days nine hours,— ‘ Pall Mall Budget.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 488, 12 July 1890, Page 5
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127Citizen Train’s Trip Round the World. Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 488, 12 July 1890, Page 5
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