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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 31, 5 August 1897, Page 1

W. S. HART, GUNMAKKB, Main Steeet West, Palmebston North IMPOETEE OF GUNS, Ac, and eyery Sporting Beqaisite, from the best English makers. W. S. H., being a Practical Gun* maker, can be relied on as being capable of doing sound work of anj/kind 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 Gram ' gunpowder No 6, Hoz of shot, nnd 4 wads. My best cartridges cannot be beateu. Try them against others. Also, cartridges filled with bmokcless Gunpowders ; £chultze, S. 8., and EC. cartridges filled to order with any special loading. Bepairs promptly executed, Guns re browned, re-stocked, <fee. Evpry description of Guns and Sporting Bequisite at Lowest Prices. Second hand Guas bought and exchanged. TTTRMS OASTT. h7 p. worsfold, Hairdresser and Tobacconist, Manchester Street, Feildiko. WHITjF, since.-ely lhankingthe public for the Tc-ry liberal patron*g e bestowed upon me since starting business in 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 the tirae^ I have reduced (he price of Haircutttag to sixpence. A first class stock of Tobaccos and Cigars, Snuff (scented, Scotch, Princess Mixture, and best Brown Kapee), Tobaoco Pouches, Perfumery, Violin Strings. Bovrs, &c , &c. The Foliowmg is an extract from the Boston Herald, U.S. A :— "8£ MILES OF BICYCLE. "fXIHE Herald Bicycle Parade has _|_ proved to be not the hit of a day, but the hit of the season, and no bettor proof of this can be hud 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 8£ MILEB OF BEATTTIFUI,, 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 is Tery largely made up of expressions of wonder at the size of it all. Thousands nerer imagined the extent or the force or the yalue of cycling, and in quarters where once existed only dis* piiragement there is now nothing but praise. '■ It is not amiss to say that wheeldom is all agog, and wherever cyclists get to* gether, whether between the heats of excit'.ng races on the road or m the club rooms, which are so comfortable these cool nights, tho Herald's two big feasts are, if not the sole, the principal topica of discussion. " The contest for bicycle popularity to decide which wheel of them all should bear the stamp 'THE MO3T POPUIAB BICTCLB, 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, in with an interest and a zest that surpassed expectations. To every rider his particular wheel is the only wheel on earth, and in comparison with his wheel all others are as twinkling atars 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 nbout the standards of the wheels which they had chosen. It soon becarae_ a record-breaking contest, both in point of interest and in number of ballots. It was not a matter of thousands, but to the leaders it grew into a matter of nun* dreds 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 Bailors week cast. " The contest went- on tor montha and when the end came THE WABWICK WAS THE WIKNKB, The victory of the Warwick had nothing uncertain aboul it ; it was as emphatio as a vote of 671,589 and A IBAD OF ALMOST 200,000 over its nearest competitor. " The winning machine ia one th&t 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. Fbab is Sole Agent HOW^THE 1 VOTES STOOD ON THE 27th AUGUST. NINETY-EIGHT COMPETITOBS. The following are those of the 98 Competitors best known to N.Z. Cyclists: — WAEWICK. 326,960 Columbia ... ... 235,365 Waverley 85,379 Union 81,996 Steams 40,490 Spalding , 10,613 ' Sterling 9,315 Dayton 8,827 Barnes 4,307 Cleveland") White > ...Under 2,000 World ) » The WABWICK subsequently won with 671,589 votes, and a lead of almost 200,000 over its nearest competitor." Sole Agent, F. J. W. FEAR, WILLIS STBEET The oldesNestablished practical Cycl« Expert in Wemihoton Feilding Agent-G. W. Fomuw