23 JULY 1910, Page 3

An interesting experiment in despatch-running was carried out by Boy

Scouts last Saturday. At 9.10 in the morning the Lord Mayor of London handed a letter to a Boy Scout addressed to the Mayor of Brighton. The boy ran to another boy who was stationed half-a-mile away, and he in his turn carried the letter half-a-mile. Thus it travelled the whole way to Brighton. The Mayor of Brighton wrote an answer which was carried back in stages of hall-a-mile, and reached the Mansion House at 8.32 in the evening, the speed for the journey (including the unstated time which the Mayor of Brighton took to compose a suitable answer) being nearly seven miles an hour.