CYCLING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6129, 16 March 1898, Page 3

CYCLING.

♦ Last evoning a road race took place, starting from tho Beach Eoad, Kaiapoi, to a little past Mr W. Moody's farm on the North Eoad and back again to the starting post. Messrs Humo and P. Hester were the handicavpors, and the judges were Messrs Hester, sen., and J. H. Evans. The following wore the starters and their handicaps : — E. Wright scr, Sansom 50yds, Cook 50yds, Evans 50yds, W. Blackwell 75yds, Anderson 100 yds, Gray 100 yds, Rocke 150 yds, Power 300 yds. Brockelbank 250 yds, Templeton 300 yds and Lindstrom 400 yds had entered, but did not compete. Great interest was taken in the race. The ; following was the result : — W- Blackwell, 1 ; E. Wright, 2 ; Rocke, 3. A distance of their handicaps divided the placed men.

In Japan the feast of the dolls takes place on the third day of the third month, when all the dolls of the family, some of them centuries old, are brought out. They dress some liko the Mikado and his wife, othors in antique Court, costumes, daimios, samurais, and so on down the social scale, oacli grade being represented with great nicety and precision. All the household furnituroin miniature is brought out, and the trays, bowls, cups, and rice-baskets are filled with tiny scraps of food, so that the dolls faro sumptuously during the three days of the feast. It seems there is a distinguished lady bagpiper. Inverary Pipe Band (the distinguished combination of bagpipes which recently created a sensation by promenading Glencoe in charge of Lord Archibald Campbell) walked abroad in Inyerary the other day, headed by a young lady, who blew the piob. mohr with all the dexterity and success oS a prize > bagpiper a< jOban Highland games. This was Lady Elspeth Campbell, Lord Archibald's 'handsome dauAtev She is an expert payer, and has done a good deal to make the instrument popular in fashionable circles. other a blind man's watch. Both 01 inese I piece, and have siWw dials,