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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 34, 9 August 1897, Page 1

James Spiers Freeman, LAND AGENT ASHUBST. THE Largest List of Farms in tbe District to select from. CAMERON'S NEW VRNTJB TOBACCO EW VENUS TOBACCO Facile Princeps, because it is manufactured entirely from the finest growfhs ef ' Old Virginia.' All smokers endorse tbe verdict that there is no Tobacco like CAMERON'S NEW VENUS. Sold by all Tobacconists and Storekeepers H. P. WORSFOLD, Hairdresser and Tobacconist, Manchester Street, Feilding. WHILE sincerely thanking the public for the very liberal patronage bestowed upon me since starting business in Feilding, X beg to inform them that I have made extensive improvements in my premises. The Shop and Saloon are now fitted up in first-class stylo, and to keep pace with (lie times I have reduced (he price of Haircattißg to sixpence. A first class stock of Tobaccos and Cigars, Snuff (scented, Scotch, Princess Mixture, and best Brown Kapee), Tobacco Poucbes, Perfumery, Violin Strings, Bows, &c, &c. MANAWATU CARRIAGE FACTORY. THE Firm having imported th latest suitable machinery, is prepared to execute work in all the branches oi the tiade with despatch. Every variety of Vehicles made to order. Repairs, Painting, etc., done on most reasonable terms. HEARSE on Hire. Funerals undertaken. JOHN BETT, Proprietor. The following is an extract From the Boston Herald, U.S. A :— "8£ MILES OP BICYCLE. •TpHE Herald Bicycla Parade has _|_ proved to be not the hit of a daj, but the hit of the season, and no better proof of this can be hud than the tact (hat there is not a single devotee of j I 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 %\ 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 is very largely made up of expressions of wonder at the size of it all. Thousands never imagined the extent or the force or the value of cycling, and in quarters where once existed only dis> paragement there is now nothing but praise, j '• It is not amiss to say that wheeldom is all agog, and wherever cyclists get to» gether, whether between the heats of exciting laces on tbe 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 host popular bicycle,' 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 panicular wheel is the only wheel oe earth, and in comparison with his wheel all others are as twinkling •tars 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, m 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, but to the leaders it grew into a matter of hun» 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 Ba^xors webe cast. " The contest weut on tor months and when the end came THE WAttWICK WAS THE WINHEB, The victory of the Warwick had nothing uncertain about it ; it was as emphatic as a vote of 671,5*9 and A LEAD OF ALMOST 200,000 over its nearest competitor. " The winning machine \» 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 baU lotting. It is manufactured by the Wai*> wick Cycle Company of Springfield, of which Mr F. J. W. Fear is Sole Agent how stood on the 27th AUGUST. NINETY-EIGHT COMPETITOBS. The following are those of the 98 Competitors best known to N.Z. Cyclists: — WARWICK 336,960 Columbia 235,365 Waverley 85,378 Union 81,996 Steams 40,490 Spalding , 10,613 Sterling 9,315 Dayton 8,327 Barnes 4,307 Cleveland ~) Wtiito [ ...Uudcr 2,W0 World ) " The WARWICK 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 oldest^established practical Cycls Expert in Wbllihotow Feilding Agent-G. W. ttnrui