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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8988, 28 February 1888, Page 6

The Exors. of the late Thomas Short seem determined to make a clearance of their stock. Men's and boys' felt hats are being sold as low as 9d each, Gent's latest fashions, high crowns, from 5s 6d. Tweed fisher caps, or Is each. Pedestrianism is rapidly becoming an American hobby, that, like all of Its crotchets, will lie ridden to death. It is, however, absorbing public attention and exciting scientific interest by developing the force of muscular power, and demonstrating the scope of human physical endurance. Great as is the recorded capacity of such heroes as the Westons, O'Learys, Hugneses, and others, much more can be accomplished in the way of peripatetic exercise, and if such distances have been overcome in incredibly short periods of time, What may not ie achieved after the system has been invigorated Lb yUdopho Wolfe's Schiedam Schnapps.