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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 86, 8 October 1897, Page 4

A GOOD BICYCLE MEANS GOOD HEALTH! MANY People imagine they are are Cycling by pushing about BOlbs or 4Olbe of gaspipe and bad rubber. A Mistake! Our 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 havk I Ask any of our Customers how we treat them. Ask them how much it costs them for repairs. WE PLEASE THEM ALL I The "White Flier" And a dozen other makes to choose from. Exceptional Terms to Respectable Person*. S. E, WRIGHT, 88, Lahbton Quay, Wellington. G. H. Good all, Travelling Representative. The following is an extract fiom the Boston Herald, U.S.A. :— "8i MILES OP BICYCLE. " rriHE Herald Bicycle Parade has JL proved to be not the hit of ■ 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 whioh went to make up THB 8$ MILES OF BEAUTIFUL, interesting and instructive pageant had an educatioual effect on many thousands. Among people who did not appreciate the force that cycledom had become, the Herald parade is discussed, and the btsis 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 yalue of cycling, and in quarters where once existed only disparagement 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 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 discusuon. " The contest for bicycle popularity to decide which wheel of them all should bear the stamp 'THB MOST POPCLAB BIOTOII,' 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 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 whioh 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 nun* dreds of thousands, and for the first 10 wheels in the list, those haying a poll of 70,000 or over, more than 2,000,000 BaM.ors win cast. " The contest went on tor months and when the end came THB WABWICX WAS THE WIKKIB, The victory of the Warwick had nothing uncertain about it ; it was as emphatic as a vote of 671,689 and A LEAD Or ALMOST 200,000 over its nearest competitor. " The wipaing 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 baN lotting. It is manufactured by he War* wick Cycle Company of Springfield, of whioh Mr F. J. W. Fkar is Sole Agent for New Zealand." HOW THE VOTES STOOD ON THE 27th AUGUST. NINETY-EIGHT COMPETITOES. The following are those of the 98 Com* petitors best known to N.Z. Cyclists:— WARWICK 386,960 Columbia 236,366 Waverley 85,379 Union 81,996 Steams 40,490 Spalding < 10,613 Sterling 9,316 Dayton ... ... 8,327 Barnes ... ... 4*307, Cleveland") White > ...Under 9,000 World 3 " The WARWICK subsequently wot with 671,689 votes, and a lead of almost 200,000 over itH nearest competitor." Sou AexHT, F. J. W. FEAR, WILLIS STREET The oldest^estabHahed practical Cycle Expert in WiLUvoTotr Vfliidinc A«ent — G. W. Fowut MONEY! I AM prepared to advance to Farmers and others haying good security any sum, lapre or small. I offerVery 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 market, and it is absurd for any* one to advertise that they oan lend at lower than current rates. The present current rate is from \\ per cent , according to the amount re* quired and security offered.' J am prepared *o in rest money for Trust 098 and others upon the best free* bold security. A. BOUTHEY BAKER, Barrister and Solicitor, pAUIIWTOJf NofiXS.