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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1496, 19 July 1912, Page 3

Tho special rating area in the Hutt County, over which a special ra'te of l-16d. is to bo struck for the purpose, of providing principal and interest on a loan of d£1350 to erect a bridge across the Hurt River, on the Upper Hutf-Pa-haiitanui Road, is set out in this week's Gazette.

A motor museum has just been opened in Oxford Street, London, and although motoring is a pastime or science hardly twenty years' old the two floors of the building , avo covered with the wierdest veliicles. Included in the collection is tho famous lien/, car, built in 1811). which was foiind in a. wood by a policeman, its owner having suddenly given up motoring. There is tho John Henry Knight car, built in 189'), which brought _ its owner into trouble with (he authorities for exceeding the spjpd limit of four miles an hour. Tliis car look , ; like a cross .between an old-time bone-shaker -and a donkcy-carfc, yet in those 'days it was considered a 'great turn-out. The , first London motor-cab is among the exhibits. It was l.uilt in IKli, ami the larn Kin? was driven in. this vehicle frnm'Marlboroush House (o liiickingham Palace.-

Plcadin? guilty to obtaining £2 from the Mayors Titanic I'niid by fal« iirelcnces. Florence Searlc, laundress, who appeared in Court dressed in deep black, was sentenced to three months' hard labour at Southampton Police Court. It was stated thiit. .apparently in great• dis-trcss, she represented herself n-s the lridnw of i Iriniiner nninetl White, wlm, lion - »rpr. survived (he. Titanic 'disaster, nnd (old thi> Court he was a. jingle man.