MOUNTED RIFLES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18150, 13 August 1924, Page 12

MOUNTED RIFLES.

ANNUAL REUNION. Ex-service members of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles held their annual re-union in tho Cadcna Tearooms last night, Colonel John Findlay, C.8., D.5.0., presiding over a large and enthusiastic attendance. After the loyal toast had . been honoured, the Padre, the Rev. C. H. Isaacson, paid the "Tribute to Fallen Comrades." Toasts honoured wcro:—-"Tho Regiment,' proposed bv Colonel E. J. Hulberb, D.5.0., and Capt. Orbell, and replied to by Colonel Findlay and Major P. C. Acton Adams; "Other Units," proposed by Major H. C. Hurst, D.5.0., M.C., and Colonel J. Studholme, and replied to bv Colonel J. Stafford; and "The Press," proposed by fcsgt.-Major W. Smith. Musical and elocutionary items were provided by Mr T. Cooper, Mr W. Cla"rk, Mr A. Aitken, Lieut. A. Owen, Lieut. W. Korner and Mr J. Tennant.

The highest train speed, 120 miles an hour, is s;'id to liavo been made between Fleming find Jacksonville, in th<* United States, over a distance of five miles in 2 minutes and 30 seconds. This 'was in March, 1901. In July, 1904, a train on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad is said to have run 4.8 miles in 2 minutes 30 seronds, representing a speed of over 115 miles an hour. The record speed for a British railway was a run on the Great Western, in May, 1904,' when tho Plymouth to Paddington mail train for a time run at a speed of 102.3 miles an hour. This run was recorded by an expert taking tho tinio with a. splitsecond chronometer.