REMARKABLE AUTOCAR RACE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1290, 19 November 1896, Page 37

REMARKABLE AUTOCAR RACE.

London, November 15. Thirty moto-cars, fitted with all sorts of tyres, started on a race from London to Brighton yesterday, the distance being 50 miles, Immense crowds watched the vehicles at various points, and unbounded interest "was displayed in the novel spectacle. Both the roads and weather were unfavourable to such an experiment, and 17 of the machines were disabled. The rest were fairly successful. Two of the “ Bollee ” type coeupi ed, four hours on the journey, At a banquet field; afterwards, Lord Winchilsea claimed that this was the beginning of a great national industry. One autocar occasionally ran 25, miles an hour. Hundreds of cyclists accompanied the machines. CAhei’qwx, November 11. The Lion Cecil Rhodes recommends the British South Africa Chartered Company to raise <£750,000 by debentures, in order to complete the railway between Fort Salisbury and Johannesburg. Pretoria, November 15. President Kruger, interviewed on tfio subject of the indemnity, said a, claim will be put in early in December for a reasonable amount, but ifc will be presented to the Imperial Government, not to the Chartered Company. The Transvaal Government is “ commandeering'” the Outlanders to prevent the rinderpest, but wealthy people are allowed to engage substitutes.