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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 4278, 9 February 1884, Page 4 (Supplement)

A young English bicyclist, now in San Francisco, proposes to make a trip round the world on his bicycle, starting in the Spring. He will start from San Francisco eastward by way of Ogden, Omaha, and Chicago, and, crossing the Atlantic from New York, will ride from Liverpool to Dover. He will cross the English Channel to France, and ride through Europe into Asiatic Turkey, thence through Persia and Turkestan into the Chinese Empire, and make his way down the valley of the Yang-tso-Kiang to Shanghai, and thence by vessel to San Francisco, consuming a year in the travelling. Lately at Now Plymouth an amusing exam pie of esprit de corps was given while a number of volunteer recruits were engaged trying on theirnowuniforms. Anoldcavalry officer of the late Mounted Kiflos was present, when he saw a late member of the Mounted Rifles step forward and don the new infantry uniform. With an exclamaj tion of surprise, the former said ; "What You have left the cavalry and joined the ! beetle-crushers. What bad taste." It j need hardly be said that the officers of the I infantry corps -who were present felt their dignity touched, and a challenge to hot coffee and pistols was likely to nave even- ■ ; tuated, but the cavalry officer hastened to ■ I explain that for the moment he had been ; I carried away by the old feelings of jealousy r ! cherished between the infantry and cavalry 1 regiments of the line.