GENERAL CABLES.
Received December 3, W ; .i)a>.mi. LONDON, December 2. The wife of Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Beaumont is dead. PRETORIA, December 2. Seven thousand Asiatics have not yet complied with the terms of regis tration under the Asiatics Act. .LONDON, December 2. The Manchester Guardian, referring to the Privy Council decision in a recent Commonwealth case, says: — "It would be disastrous if possibilities of an Imperial jurisprudence common to the whole Empire should perish." LONDON, December 2. In connection with the naval gunnery experiments, though the ships made excellent shooting and the effect was terribly destructive at a distance of seven and a half miles, yet the armour of, the old battleship used as a target waa not pierced. LONDON, December 2. ' The War Offiee states that the recent placing of officers of the Fifth Lancers upon lialf-pay was not due to' any causes dertimental to their character. Their services will be : utilised elsewhere. The regiment is not inefficient. (It was reported early last month that three majors and two captains of the Fifth Lancers had been placed on half-pay, on the ground that the regiment was unfit for service. The Fifth (Royal Irish) Lancers served in South Africa.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8995, 4 December 1907, Page 5
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