Untitled

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3894, 22 June 1881, Page 3

'— -Jm Julyrlß77,« carrier pigeon tried con elusions with a railway train. The bird was a Belgian voyaireur, bred afc Woolwich i'ifcd *fehomerl " to » house in Cannon-street . City. v The train was the Continental - ' jbtil>expres3i timed not to stop betveeen Do^flir'.tnd/Cannon- street Station. The pigeon, conTevinif an urgent message from-tho/French police was tossed through the r^lwiaycarriage window as the train nio*ed from the? Admiralty Pier; the wind cjkgjng west, the atmosphere hazy, but the mn shining. For more than a, minute the bird circled round till it attained" an about half ft mile, and then it sailed away Londonwgrd*. By this time the engine had pot full steam on, -- i and the train was tearing away at the rate of sixty miles an honr ; but the carrier V tetfc more thnin a match for it. Taking a line midway between Maidstone and 1 Sittingbonrne, it reached home twenty minutes before the express dashed into "the Station ; the train having accomplished ■erehty-six and a half miles to the ' pigeon's seventy, but being badly beaten for allthat."