ADVENTUROUS PEDESTRIANS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2370, 10 December 1908, Page 5

ADVENTUROUS PEDESTRIANS.

WALKING ROUND THE EARTH

[Press Association.]

WELLINGTON, Dec. 9

Tji Wellington to-dav are two young .men wlio are “globe trotters’'' in earenst. They are -walking round the earth wherever there is earth to walk on. Their names are 1?. 10. Phillips and J. E. McCancc. They both come from Victoria and their starting place was Bendigo. They left on the 3rd October and walked to Sydney, and then came over here by the Ulimaroa. At present they are feeling a trifle seedy after a rough passage, but if they have lost weight their muscles are in excellent trim. They are out to do the trip in live years. Picture postcards displaying photographs of the world walkers and their performances are the talismans by the sale of which they hope to pay their way; and pay their way they mean to do. Both young men (their ages.are 20 and 29 respectively) are fortified with references from the Bendigo Walkers’ Association and others. A subs tion list opened in Sydney for them was headed by Mr. Thomas Burns, of pugilistic* renown. The adventurous pair, who are dressed for the occasion, will linger some days in Wellington before resuming their travels. They will then proceed to Vancouver, ziggag through the. States to Gaiveston, and hack to New York, across the Atlantic to the United Kingdom, to Paris, and on to Pekin, via .Russia and Siberia. This part of their initerary they claim to ho novel, and they are to he back in Bendigo within five years. Meanwhile they arc in Wellington under the wing of the Amateur Athletic Association.