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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7762, 14 March 1905, Page 2

E. REYNOLDS & CO., LTD.

Full'of i.\cite:neut, full u( UiK-icsl, full i;f s;range events Is bicycle Ins- ( lory, ~ud Coventry can U.-I1 « t..lc of ini-iiy daring deeds and breathless 1 iSCii,<--i on the wheel. . ! jMm . how, nftor any great war, 1 iiny crisis [iin a nalion's liisti.rv, tliere conxts with peace a rush i.f invention, a leap forward in iiulusH'.v, a new life in science, and » yrcat expansion of all thai is yoo.l in a nation. In 10U5 we hail" ihe ' livst, glimmer .of the '.wheel, when h\Li\n u-it-s us in his "Pjai,* ' that lie found "Dr. Wilkins, Kir Win. I'oU\ and Mr Huoke contriving cn.n iot>, new rigging for whips, a wlitvi mechanical inventions." ;tn tinI aim of 1815 there was a «ie..t n* vival ot industry, men's imentlve 'powers mure busily catering for ihiI requirements of Tuir,,pi> after lik- war. land tliere came over to I'jig'laml I from I''ranee what may lie cunskieiel Ito be the lirst attempt at a twowheeled machine—the Dandy Horse, lit is curious how exactly we can j punctuate the progress ol the bicycle iin tens of years—'7-1, 'B*l. 'ft. 'II'! — ; | they are like stepping stones stand-' I ing out boldly in the river ol time. In 1874 Dan IHidge's name was in every mouth, and his famous bicycle 1 caused an immense sensation. In the same year the Annual Itegister tells us—as a national event—that a member of the Pickwick Bicycle Club "accomplished a journe,\l'on the bicycle from London to Bath and back . in thirty-seven hours, having been on tli(f, saddle two whole days and one night, with short intervals for | 'meals and one hour for sleep." ■ J'nc year 1884 saw tho first at- 1 tempt at a safety, the Uutlge Cycle Company bringing out their various kinds',of rear-driving safely bicycles, and this date really heralded the large popularity of the safe form of riding, and of Dan lludge, from whom; 1 after a lapse of over thirty years, has .grown *t ; he huge manufacturing company known as the Hudge-Whit worth Cycle Company, so well known throughout the British Empire.

A A. PIKETT, BUILDER, CONTRACTOR, AND UNDERTAKER. Addresn : DEVON STREET. Telephone No. 170. Estimates given for all classes of work in connection with the building wade. S. Clark & Co. FUNERAL FURNISHERS AND UNDERTAKERS. DeTom-Btreet i.ast ... New l'l>iuouth. Charges Moderate.

A large sea-lion recently t«>oU up its (iuarit'i"3 near Jacks, Point. 'liui'nni3 and provided iiu object ui' •»- it/ivs/- fpr dwellers in ihe locality, its pirangc appearance and liu-nanny; attitude when 'd'is/.grbed put to sudden flight a party of young men wh<> came across it unexpectedly while it *vos ,a sun bath on the beach, hi the tnalti't of a dcriural jou oil trust made by Henry l.uxioa February ~7, JNHt), unvoting pari of section- 1-7, and \W Wajlar;, WeM, ami In I lie nmltrr of Krnest laixton, mi infant, .Mr Koy (.Messrs Hoy and Wilson) appeared iu Chiim*hers before .Mr Justice Kdwurds in .Midori oi' a motion on petiLion by Jumcfe Jsa.U<mbur«r Tor leave to join in selling tei'taj}) lamls. Jlis honour granted an order i/iiiJOTerjng the trustees that day appointed, MVs; rs }\, !•'. Newberry and Win. P. Smi'l. of SVuiWtro, to exercise the powers oj' a tenant for Ifr*/ nnder tit- Settled Lands .Vci in re,Vpe(.:t f }l' thecstajle, under such authority (o join in tjje sale ami execute all sWth'menlb necessary for c;i rr\ iai» such sale into effect : the capital monies arising from lj»i' sale of I in* proven ,\ aid Interest of Krnrsl Luxton to be (»;ii;l to the trustee* by them in the manner