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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 80, 1 October 1897, Page 4

A GOOD BICYCLE MKANB GOOD HEALTH! MANY People imagine they are are Cycling by pushing about 801bs or 401bs of gaspipe and bad rubber. A Mistake! Oar heaviest Roadsters weigh only 241 b, and we guarantee them to carry a 20-stone man for two years. CONFIDENCE, We want your Confidence, and will not deceive you. We are not offering you something without a name, but offer machines that have stood their trial both on road and track — a machine that agents are proud to sell for us. REPUTATION. That's what we have ! Ask any of our Customers how we treat them. Ask them how much it costs them for repairs. WE PLEASE THEM ALL! The "White Flier" And a dozen other makes to choose from Exc&ptioiud Terms to Respectable Person*. S. E. WRIGHT, 88, Lambton Quay, Wkllington. G. H. Goodam,, Travelling Representative. The following is an extract from the Boston Herald, U.S.A. : — "$i MILES OF BICYCLE. "fTIHE Hcraltl Bicycle Parade has _|_ proved to be not the hit of a day, but tl»o Kit of the season, and no bettor proof of this can be hud than the tart that then; is not a single devotee of the wheel, man or woman, who is not aager for a repetition of it, and another chance to compete for prizes. " Then, too, the groat display whioh went to make up THB 8* 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 lnrgelj made up of expressions of wonder i\t the size of it all. Thousands iiever imngincd the extent or the force or the value of cycling, and in quarters where once existed only disparagement there is now nothing but praise. " It is not cmisfl to say that wheeldom is all agog, and wherever cyclists get to* gether, whether between the heats of t-xcit'.ng 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 POPULAK BICYCLI,' 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 bis 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, 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 whioh they had chosen. It soon became a record-breaking contest, both in point of interest aud in number of ballots. It way not a matter of thousands, but to the leaders it grew into a matter of Hundreds of thousands, aDd for the first 10 wheels in the list, those having a poll of 70,000 or over, more than 2,000,000 Bailors wkbk cast. " The contest went on tor months aad when the end came THE WAHWICK WAS TWE WINKKB, The victory of the Warwick had nothing uncertain about it ; it was as emphatic as a vote of 671 ,589 and A LBAD OF ALMOST 200,000 over its nearest competitor. "The winning machine id 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 he Wart wick Cycle Company of Springfield, of which Mr F. J. W. Fear is Sole Agent for New Zealand." HOW THE VOTES STOOD ON THB 27th AUGUST. NINKTY-EIGHT COMPETITORS. The following are those of the 98 Competitors best known to N.Z. Cyclists: — WAEWICK 386,980 Columbia 235,366 Waver? ey 85,370 Union 81,996 Steams 40,490 Spaldiog 10,813 Sterling 9,315 Dayton 8,327 Barnes 4.307 Cleveland*) White > ...Under 2,000 World ) " The WARWICK subsequently woa with 671,589 votes, and a lead of almost 200,000 over its nearest competitor." Sclk Aoent, F. J. W. FEAR, WILLIS STREET The oldest-established practical Cycle Expert in Wkllington F«»ildiTip Aprtnt — O W. powT.K _ MONEY ! ~™ I AM prepared to advance lo Farmers and otherti having good security anj sum, lartre or small. I offer — Very lowest current rates of interest. Special terms for repayment if re> quired. Prompt settlement. Reasonable charges. The rate of interest is ruled by the money luirjiet, aud it is absurd for any* lone' to advertise ttiat they can lend at lower than'curfch£ rates' The present current Tftte js from 4fc per cent , according to the amount re< Muirpd and security offered. f I a?*} prepared f o infest money fpr Trustees anfl others upon the best freettdid fP0 ar »ty. BAKKE, Barrister and bffltor - 1 PAUiutsioir Noßia.