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The following Rumours, of which the Press Bureau has no Confirmation, but to the Publication of which, we imagine, it will take no exception.
Nothing at night time at Newcastle.
" What am I going to have, old chap ? "
Of more and more farms without horses.
That Tuesday of last week was Wyles's day out.
Good reports of the Lothian from Covent Garden.
That it's enlightening to go to Glasgow nowadays.
The opening chords of the Campaign Comforts Concerts.
That you can no longer send rail-borne goods " under mark."
That we shall hear more of ice-cream by motorvan next summer.
That, the UndergrounD use of capitals is being generally adopted.
That all London bus conductors are to be provided with electric torches.
That bus passengers in Edinburgh must always " try sideways, mum!"
That they packed and despatched 2:1tons of Campaign Comforts last week.
That it's worse to solidify the bottom of a furrow than the unploughed land.
That the surplus of drivers is going to be a considerable post-helium difficulty.
That further enliitments have created fresh vacancies on several T.P. editorial staffs.
Some racket, when an American ploughman tries to explain to a North Scottish farmer.
That the whitening of the kerbs should, to he effectual, be sufficiently durable not to fade with the first shower of rain.
That under the new Treatotal Order, the invitations are likely to be worded, "Come and watch me drink" or"What's mine's yours."
That it takes on the averwrt'e six months to get an American horse to the firing line, and seven days to kill him once he gets there.
That it is high time those Continental Tire signs were taken down all over the country, and that. the M.T.A. ought to see to it.
That one of the latest commissions in the A.S.C. has been given to a son of Mr. A. Findlay, the cleansing superintendent at Aberdeen.
That "Damaged by a W.D. lorry—Business as Usual" is the intimation which appears on the remains of a shop front at Richmond.
That clover hay is up 105 per cent., and maize, oats, beans and bran by an average of more than 33 per cent., compared with prices when war broke out. Of some very free-hand drawings.
£244; £559—. In 1914: £32; £185.
That the Comforts Fund is en route to five figures. 0 That that 300 per cent. was rather like King Charles's head.
That users of private-hire cars can obtain the petrol-tax rebate, when hirings do not exceed 48 hours.
That "more than 60,000, with a lot of ambulance men added," is enough to keep any voluntary staff busy.
That the C.M.T7.A. ease was in Mr. McKenna's hands before he made his speech in the House of Commons on the MI) ii It.
No explanation why a second secretary from the Embassy at Petrograd was pitted by Britain against princes, barons and generals from the Kaiser.
That the L.G.B. is now more favourably inclined towards loans for the purchase of motor fire-engines, but a bit difficult when new fire-stations are concerned.
That motor-ambulance men, through their closer and closer association with the A.S.C., MT., organization, are increasingly sharing the comforts from the C.C. Fund.