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The following Rumours, of which the Press Bureau has no Confirmation, hut to the PublicAlicra of which, we imagine, it will take no exception.
No more Zepps. before Xmas.
That steam men continue happy.
That to-night's the night—at the R.A.C.
'Let their mates subscribe their mites."
That it only wants another 22500 to make g,10,000.
That lorry wastage in the Balkans balks all calculation.
That the Fund has not impaired this journal's usefulness.
That raaway-recruiting is multiplying railway miscarriages.
That the implement side of Smithfield Show will be strong, " Have you get your table and your tickets for to ight 2 "
That picked driviirs of 16 or 17 -should be as goc.r.1 as the best at 1S.
That an agritnoter pays hest on a _farm of more than 300 acres.
That inter-freight exchangini; is comnarable to the iriphs as a lure.
That " W.D. .contractor or sub-contractor " has Li one more elastic.
That absence of benzene from the gas-supply of the country has hardly been seen.
That it will be a case of "Hello " in Hull if they don't get their fire-engine loan.
That there are many worse Christmas cards than flu:se which the Fund offers free.
—0 That " The Motor " wants the minimum-age limit for driving-licences dropped from 17 to 16 or 15.
That peirple who rely on railways are enjoying (sic) the interchangeable use of one another's empties.
That Serbia's unfathomable mud is causing unmenlionable expletives to fall from the lips of dismayed Gi.'r mans.
That the Agent-General for Nova Scotia last week received 1458 from that Province's school children to buy a motor ambulance.
That the W.D. may appoint an expert to revise existing haulage contracts, and that there's not a little perturbation in consequence. Of a six-cylinder truck.
" Come or go, motors show."
Of Quakers' studying worms.
That drivers, at present, mostly go.
That a non-skid should Turk in turning.
That the Lacre motor-sweeper takes hold. That McCurd's front name is not " Euen."
That many a steam lorry is young when a dog is old.
That the Star people are very much in the public eye.
That the case of words and not deeds is a pressing one.
That the C.M. test hill is at present undergoing repairs.
Of mysteriously-poor tire results on some electric vehicles.
That. no maker is made until his old sales make new ones for him.
That some MT., drivers will be known as Montenegrobanks.
That the London Coke Committee has taken a hatch of the big Christmas cards.
That Mr. Henry Ford will ford the Atlantic at great ultimate expense, not to say loss.
That Alley and MacLellans are rousing Shrewsbury to-a state of mechanical enthusiasTo.
That there will be no C. C. Concert this year, after the T.-S. one a week before Xmas Day.
Of Tillings trllings about their concert4or the 18th, and that they'll squeeze most of Maidstone into the Corn Exchange.
That the display in the R.A.C. front :hall has attracted many a new supporter to the caitSe of our men at the Fronts.
That it's not the fault of the A.S.C., MT., that one battalion in Flanders where the trenches are always flooded has only 70 pairs of thigh-boots for the, 545 men that are left.