CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 280, 4 December 1907, Page 7

CABLE NEWS.

Per Press Association. —Copyright

London, December 2.

The Manchester Guardian, referring to the Privy Council decision, says that it would Le disastrous if the possibilities of Imperial jurisprudence common to the whole Empire should perish. A fire at Bishop's Stortford, Herefordshire, destroyed eight buildings connected with the Anchor Malting Company. The damage done was estimated at 200,000.

New York, December 2. An explosion at Naomi Colliery, Pennsylvania, entombed 60. Two shots from a thicket near the Cranghwell railway station were fired at Mrs Ryan, the occupier of an evicted farm on the Clanricarde estate, but she was uninjured. Blake's mother, who was shot at Kilconierin, is still confined to bed, and is in a critical condition.

Mr John Redmond, speaking at Motherwell, said that Ireland was in a state of profound peace since cattle driving was only an offence against the law and not a crime. He denounced the conspiracy of English newspapers to represent Ireland as almost in a state of anarchy.

With regard to the statement that t number of officers of the Fifth Liancers had been placed on half pay wing to the fact that the regiment nras in astataof inefficiency, the War Dffice states that the recent placing )f officers of the Fifth Lancers upon ialf pay was not due to causes detrimental to their character Their services will be utilised elsewhere as the regiment was not inefficient. Seven thousand Asiatics have not yet complied with the terms of the Registration of Asiatics Act.

Mr He wins, Secretary of the Tariff Commission, states that the Franco-Canadian convention materially reduces the margin of British preference. If other Continental countries are given the benefit of the intermediate tariff British trade in the Canadian markets will be subjected to far more strenuous competition than at present. In connection with the naval gunnery experiments, though the battleships made excellent shooting and tne effect was terribly destructive at a distance of 7% miles, yet the armour of the old battleship used as a target was not pierced.