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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 14, 24 July 1885, Page 7

Archdeacon Farrar (Anglican) speaks of over-pressure in the public schools as " the Juggernaut car of Cram, before which the English nation is throwing its children by thousands, to have all their qualities crushed out before its ponderous wheels." Mr. Thomas Stevens, a well-known bicyclist, has passed through England on his great bicycle ride from San Francisco round the world, as correspondent of an enterprising American magazine. Mr. Stevens rode quietly into Birmingham en route from Liverpool, but a* none of the local bicyclists kuew when or where to expect him, none of them turned out to meet him AEtar a st*y of a few hours he left for Coventry at the bsginning of the month. 11 is intention' was t > take boat from JTewbaven to Dieppe, thence t> Paris and Vienna, reaching Constantinople at the end of June. He will then proceed through Asiatic Turkey and Persia into Northern India, and on to China. From Shanghai he will take ship to Japan, and embarking' from Yokohama, will return via the Sandwich Isles by steamer to San Francisco. It is estimated that the distance covered by the rider on his machine will be about 11,000 miles, including those done acres? America. It is to be hoped that the adventurous bicyclist will not find his passage through Central Asia obstructed.