CYCLING.

Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 109, 29 August 1902, Page 4

CYCLING.

Ite League; of , men held the Dunlop test road,race on the 2fisfch rUto to decide the, Tasmanian representative > for the forthcoming WaFnambool iso Melbourne road race.. The event was a handicap one—the rider putting;,lip fastest.time to represent Tasmania. .The,course - was from LiHmieestm to Latrobe an d back, a dist t-ance of lil miles. Eighteen riders faced the starter, and eight finished, the winner turning up in the, .limit man A. Hardman, with B. Carswell second and G. third,. Carswell established fastest time, riding the distance in T hpurs 11 minutes 16 seconds a fine perforrnance considering the course was an . out and home one., Carswell’s ride is a Tasmanian record, being 7 minutes faster than F. Beauchamp’s record, established ,in 1897 over the same course, Carswell will act as representative of Tasmania in the Warnambool event, and will be accompanied by A. Hardman, the winner, who also intends competing.

The following list of home lesions was recently given in a Dunedin school to a tot of seven and a half years old, one year out of the infant room : “Geography : licain the capital cities of Italy 7 , Austria, Hungary, Set-via,., llnuxnania 4 Bulgaria and Turkey, and the 'cality of each. Spelling: France, Spain, Portugal, interest, supposed, expected, cottages, sufficient, moderate, December, cousins, regulai-ly, although, welcome, good-bye, pleasure. Arithmetic : Two sums of six figures, written in ink, as an exercise. Meanings of interest, supposed, moderate, sufficient, Bearn three verses of poetry.” Poor child. How it must envy the uncivilised babies of Patagonia or New Guinea.

During the hearing of the “ bread cases” at Dunedin, one of the wit nesses said that when bread was placed in the oven each loaf weighed 21b 3oz, but those loaves which were near the aide of the oven.got harder baked than the others. This caused the loaves over-baked to be. of less than "21b weight in nearly every .case. “ Don’t you make any allowance for that ?” “ Oh, no,” was the naive reply. “ It’s not been the custom in the trade to do it since I joined it, any way!” The magis. ate did not thin.; this sufficient exou-e, a id the offender was fined 40s. Other buce:s-in the court went into the box and confirmed the first witness’s statements. Speaking at Wellington Mr David Nathan declared it to be his convictiou that w.thin ascertain number of years there would be a mighty change in the world’s commerce, and that unless soruet.ting happened in the meantime to upset his predictions, tne great body of trade w hill be practically transferred loom Great Britain and Europe to America and those countries borderdering upon the Pacific Ocean. At the annual meeting of shareholders of the Aparina i .Dairy Factory, held at Riverton 1 s week, a motion was p.is-el prphi nt-ing. the use of turnips sid »ape for feed for daily cat t