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Wrecked motor vehicles were arranged on the roadside as a warning to motorists recently near a busy English township. The speed of motor-cars in the Vatican City is to be restricted owing to the danger of vibration causing damage in the Borgia rooms and the Belvedere courtyard generally. An" old, disused canal, which runs through the American town of Syracuse, has become the graveyard of so many worn-out cars that the local authorities have ordered the arrest of anyone caught damping machines into it. Although the retail distribution of motor spirit im the larger cities of Mexico is by pumps, it is customary to meter the petrol -from the pump into a 5 or 10-litre measure, the container then being shown to the customer, -Vf-ho is thus assured of receiving the proper amount. As a result of the increasing number of accidents, the municipal authorities of Constantinople have, issued a regulation that no one under the age of twenty-five years may drive a motorvehicle. Being uncertain of the horn to fit to a Kolls-Royce for Prince Alexis Midivani, who lives in Paris, the coaclibuilders, a London firm, rang him up on the telephone and "demonstrated.'' Eventually a four-note horn 'was chosen.