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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 29, 3 August 1897, Page 1

W. S. HART, GUNMAKER, Main Stbket Wbst, Palmbbston Nobtb IMPORTER OF GUNS, &c, and erery sporting Requisite, from the best English makers. W. S. H., being a Practical Gun< maker, can be relied on as being capable of dome sound work of anylkind promptly and reasonably. All Cartridges are loaded on the premises, and the best 12 G guaranteed. The " Field " trial loading of 3 drams of Curtis and Harvey's ' Diamond Grain ' gunpowder No 6, l}oz of shot, and 4 wads. My best cartridges cannot be beaten. Try them against others. Also, cartridges filled with bmokeless Gunpowders ; Schultze, S. 8., and E.C. cartridges filled to order with any special loading. Repairs promptly executed. Guns re browned, re-stocked, &c. Every description of Guns and Sporting Requisite at Lowest Prices. Second-hand Guns bought and ez« changed. TTCIWS nASTT. H. F. WORSPOLD^ Hairdresser and Tobacconist, Manchester Street, Feildins. WHILE sincerely thanking the public for the very liberal patronsga bestowed upon me since starting business n Feilding, I beg to inform them that I hare made extensive improvements in my premises. The Shop and Saloon are now fitted up in first-class style, and to keep pace with (he times I have reduced the price of Haircuttiag to sixpence. A first- class stock of Tobaccos and Cigars, Snuff (scented, Scotch, Princess Mixture, and best Brown Kapee), Tobacco Pouches, Perfumery, Violin Strings, Bows, &c, &c. The following is an extract from the Boston Herald, U.S. A :— "8£ MILES OF BICYCLE. " fTIHE Herald Bicycle Parade has _|_ proved to be not the hit of a day, but the hit of the season, and no better proof of this can be had than the tact that there is not a single devotee of the wheel, man or woman, who is not eager for a repetition of it, and another chance to compete for prizes. " Then, too, the great display which went to make up THE 83 MILES OF BEAUTIFUL, interesting and instructive pageant had an educational effect on many thousands. Among people who did not appreciate the force that cycledom had become, the Herald parade is discussed, and the basis of discussion ia very largely made up of expressions- of wonder at the size of it all. Thousands never imagined the extent or the force or the yalue of cycling, and in quarters where once existed only dis« paragement there is now nothing bnt praise. " It is not amiss to say that wheeldom is all agog, and wherever cyclists get to* gether, whether between the heats of excitmg races on the road or in the club rooms, which are so comfortable these cool nights, the Herald's two big feasts are, if not the sole, the principal topics of discussion. " The contest for bicycle popularity to decide which wheel of them all should bear the stamp 'THE MOST POFCLAB BICTOLI,' the last of the two battles to come to an end, was a battle royal, with a royal victory as a final. Weeks and months did this contest go on, followed and participated m with an interest and a seat that surpassed expectations. To every rider his particular wheel is the only wheel on earth, and in comparison 1 with his wheel all others are as twinkling stars to the sun. " The riders' name is legion, and when the test of popularity was begun the legion got to work. Ballots came in in bundles, in bags, in crates and in all ways, until those whose duty it was to receive them were buried under the avalanche. The cyclists rallied loyally about the standards of the wheels which they had chosen. It soon became a record-breaking contest, both in point of interest and in number of ballots. It was not a matter of thousands, bnt to the leaders it grew into a matter of nundreds of thousands, and for the first 10 wheels in the list, those having a poll of 70,000 or over, more than 2,000,000 Ba T .LOis webe cast. " The contest went on tor months and when the end came THE WABWICK WAS THE WINNBB, The victory of the Warwick had nothing uncertain about it ; it was as emphatic as a vote of 671,589 and A HAD OF ALMOST 200,000 over its nearest competitor. " The winning machine ia one that is well and favorably known to all cyclists, and nothing can better prove this than the big vote and final result of the bak lotting. It is manufactured by the Wari wick Cycle Company of Springfield, of which Mr F. J. W. Feab is Sole Agent for New Zealand." HOW THE VOTES STOOD ON THE 27th AUGUST. NINETY-EIGHT COMPETITORS. The following are those of the 98 Competitors best known to N.Z. Cyclists:— WARWICK 386,960 Columbia 235,365 Waverley 85,379 Union 81,996 Stearns 40,490 Spalding , 10,613 Sterling 9,315 Dayton 8,327 Barnes 4,307 Cleveland") White [ ...Under 2,000 World ) » The WARWICK subsequently won with 671,589 votes, and a lead of almost 200,000 over its nearest competitor." SOLK ABBNT, F. J. W. FEAR, WILLIS STREET The oldest-established practical Cycle Expert in Wbllinqtow FwldiDg Agent-G. W. Fqwim