Telegraphic News

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2819, 6 November 1903, Page 2

Telegraphic News

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London, Nov. 4. "' The Right Hon. John Morley, in a speech at Nottingham, said it was time the Ministerial fiscal masquerade was ended. He is confident that the country would reject Mr Chamberlain's revolutionary proposals. The workers, who were most comfortably off in Europe, lived in Great Britain, Denmark and Holland, all practically Free Trade countries. The was no finality

in the policy of retaliation, which was certain to land Great Britain in the bogs and quicksands of Protection. He declined to be misled by the phantasmagoria of Empire. He denied that Cobden desired the disruption of the colonies and states that the policy of the early Radicals saved the Colonies by government on the principle of freedom, instead of on the principles of power and coercion, and the result secured was a nobler and more durable allegiance, based on the spontaneous attachment and national affection of bighearted and los*al men.

Mr Austen Chamberlain, speaking at Aberdeen, said stagnant trade was not due io defective education, but was almost wholly attributable to foreign tririft , . The favoured nation clause was not real defence.

The "Times" says the foreigners have been warned that unless fair play is shown to her, Great Britain will -withdraw her unparalleled hospitality. Mr Marcus Dorman, in a letter to the " Times," says the census revealthat the numbers employed in important industries have decreased by 314,680 in twenty years, principally in agriculture and the silk, nail, and tin plate industries. The rate of progress of others has variously declined in the last decade compared with the previous decade. Constantinople, Nov. 4 The Porte reply to the Austro-Bus-sian Note comments favourably on some of the A ustro-Russian proposals, and lays stress on its sincerity in apply ing for the reforms decreed in February. Capetown, Nov. 4. The employing Secretary of the F. Ekstein Company of Johannesburg having introduced Italian miners, the British workers have threatened to strike.