This testimony to the smooth running of the Dennis vehicles
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thoroughly substantiates the claim of the construe_ tors in that connection. Seaton Burn, near Gosforth, wants a motorbus service, and the directors of the N.E.R. have been approached.
Temporary Withdrawals.
The withdrawal of the Star Omnibus Company's motorbuses is for the pur_ pose of a complete overhaul, and the chassis will be converted in certain respects. The company expects, in the result, to give a more acceptable motor service to its patrons after the necessery interval has elapsed, and other companies are in similar positions. Long-distance Journeys.
The Cabs and Stage Carriages (London) Bill, as we announced would be the case in our issue of the 17th January last (page 23), contains a section which will remove any risk of presumption upon the exemption in the 1869 Act :- • ' The Secretary of State rnay, by general or special order, apply to stage carriages which on every journey go to or come from some town or place beyond London, or any class of such stage carriages, any provisions of the Acts relating to stage carriages in London, from which those stage carriages are exempted by virtue of section two of the London Hackney Carriages Act, 1843, or section five of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act, 1869, subject to any exceptions contained in the order."