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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 December 1925, Page 9

A Rome message says that the Queen Mother spent a quiet night, but the local symptoms are unchanged, and her temperature is high. It. is understood that the ipri.ee paid for lamb by the works in Gisborne -i<s Bd, .as against 9)d to 93d on this coast. This i.s an indication of the value of the co-operative works in .competition for the benefit of the farmers. Fifty-six years ago the first cycle race in New 7 Zealand was ridden in Christchurch. This race, which/Would have amused the “speed kings” of the present day, w r as recalled by Mr T. Hyde, a visitor from Napier, who built one of the cycles used- in the race. The machine was the first liigli-whee’ed ,e in Christchurch, and its rivals in the race were a tricycle and some oldityle cycles, with pedals on the front ’ '‘el hubs. Mr Hyde’s new model was ridden by his brother, Mr George hycle, blit the o'd order prevailed, for the Hyde machine collapsed near the winning post. race was ridden on December IG, 1869, and a start was made at Latimer Square, the course no; round several of the city blocks. No liberties are being taken with the ground that is being traversed in the excavation of the Lake Coleridge tunnel at the outlet and near where the disaster occurred on October 2 (states the Lyttelton Times). As a result of the accident a deviation of the tunnel was necessary, and since the w r ork was resumed at the outlet end fair progress has been maintained. At the intake end and the two centre shaft working faces the rate of progress has been satisfactory. The work in these sections of the tunnel w 7 as delayed w 7 hile the search for the bodies of the three men who were killed was carried out. fill the drives which w 7 ere put in for the rescue of men and bodies at the time of the accident have been packed with tunnel, spoil, and the packing of the length of tunnel which' had to be sacrificed on account of the deviation is in hand. A marked diminution in the quantity of water in the ground at the outlet end is apparent. This is attributed to the lesser rainfall experienced since the end of September.