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Otago Witness, Issue 2842, 2 September 1908, Page 60

125 BICYCLES to be Given Away FOR NEXT TO NOTHING. FIIHESE Bicycles are just as good as New. Every one has been thoroughly overhauled JL and in most ca«es Re-enamelled, Nickle-plated, New Tyres, New Saddle, New Chain, etc. Our next season's Cycles will be here in a few weeks, and we shall require all ou space for the New Goods. We are therefore ccmpelled to clear our present stock regard JaJsofcost. Every Machine is Guaranteed in First-class Order. •' Freight paid to "any railway station. On receipt of £1 deposit, Bicycle sent on approval. Write for Price List, and secure an Up-to-date Bicycle -valued at, say £8, for £4. Sample Specification.— No. 20, Record: 23iS frame, 80 gear; free wheel, Bowden back rim brake, front roller brake, dropped handlebars, Middlemore saddle, new Bunlop lyres. Sale Price, £5. Bicycles to Suit Everyone from £2 upwards ! Cycle Sundries at Reduced Prices. COOKE, HOWLISON, ft CO., Great King and Princes Streets, Dnnedin. CONTINENTAL TYRES. MOTORISTS ft CYCLISTS, NOTE THIS MARK. IT STANDS FOX / ALL THAT IS BEST in Motor and Cycle Tyres. It is the mark of "CONTINE3STALB," WHICH HAVE COME TO NEW ZEALAND WITH A BIG REPUTATION AND A WORLDWIDE POPULARITY. AUSTRALIA USES THEM ON 85 PE*R CENT. OF HER OARS. For Booklet and particulars apply CONTINENTAL C. & G. RUBBER CO. PTY., LIMITED, Bedford Row, CHRISTCHURCH ; Albert Street, AUCKLAND. ————..— — j— — — i, H-'UlUJIunn ■"' at— — — — — a— mu»'" 1 ■»— *■ -j«»wii«i^..i»jij»»«c«»hjwi» i j ■ The Most Reliable Cartridges in me w orici. Experienced Sportsmen know hoNv important it is that they should have the right kind of Ammunition for rifle," shotgun, or revolver. The best results are always obtained when ELEY'S Cartridges are used. . And, after all, its Results that count. 8 Always see that you get Eley's Smokeless Cerise Cartridge, And you will get a maximum of pleasure from your shooting excursions. These splendid Cartridges are fitted with the best and cheapest Smokeless Powder that ELEY'S experience could procure, and the Shells, Wads, and Shot are tested by experienced ; workmen betore using. OBTAINABLE ALL DEALERS-

It is said, ia not so apt to splinter as Oregon. STEERED BY DEAD MAN. In reesnt American files appears an account of the 6udd,en death of a young man nam«d Andereon, of Brooklyn, 24 years old, while out in his 45 h.p. Mcrcede3 on Ooean Park way, New York, with two fri«nde. He acted as chauffeur, and as be s»t up straight with his hands, on the steering wheel, the young woman by his Bjde, and the man in the rear seat did not know he wes dead as the car sped along. A mounted patrolman of the Coney Isknd station ordered the car to stop, as it -waa going 30 miles an hour, and when J4he order was not obeyed the policeman followed in pursuit. Anderson's friends told him to slow up. He did not answer, and then, on shaking prim, they saw blood . trickling from his fciouth. He had been attacked with a fatal hemorrhage. The other mail in the automobile took the wheel, and stopped the oar. Th*t. a bad accident did not occur is considered miraculous. AERONAUTICS. The Wrigh^ machine is reported to be astounding the French experts. It has been declared by M. Delagrange to be far

' lighter and safer tluin the French makes. In one test it covered eight miles in eight minutes, but> owing to a wrong lever being touched, oame to earth too quickly, and wae elightly damaged. Major Parsival's airship has flown round Berlin in 2hr 40min. Colonel J. E. Capper, C.E., superintendent of the Tjalloon factory at Aldershot, with the new British dirigible airship, made a 20-minutes' flight at Aldershot, at a height of 1000 ft, and succeeded in describing the figure 8 evolution. CYCLING RECORD PARIS, August 26. Major Taylor cycled a mile, in Paris, motor paced, in. lmin 33 2-ssec — a recoid. LONG DISTANCE CYCLING. ADELAIDE, August 31. The cyclist Birtles has arrived from Port Darwin. He has cycled about 12,000 miles since he kft Perth about two years ago- ' A veteran skipper, Capiain Farquhar, has ju^t completed his fortieth year of continuous service on the Thamea-Auck-j laud run. „