Telegraphic News

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIII, Issue 2826, 1 December 1903, Page 2

Telegraphic News

FROM OCR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS. (.By Thlegraph]. London, Nov. 29. The Parliamentary Trade Union Congress, replying to Mr Chamberlain's attack, deolared that the Congress resolution, concerning Protection, issued to the trade in June, was before them until September without eliciting amendments, although numerous amendments to other resolutions were received. Soon the organised trades would exercise a stronger condemnation of political hooliganism. The Imperial Labour Federation has issued a circular, in which it explains it is not antagonistic to any other labour, but so-called Free Trade, was not free, except to the foreigner. Lord Stanley, in a speech at Manchester, wished to obtain Free Trade by persuasion, if possible, and if not by compulsion. Some German manufacturers are buying land in England, with a viewto establishing a plant in the event of Mr Chamberlain s policy being adopted. A meeting of 500 miners, at Baillieston, in Lancashire, endorsed Mr Chamberlain's policy practically unanimously, The Hon, G. E. Foster, formerly Canadian Finance Minister, is touring England, strongly advocating Mr Chamberlain's proposals. The " Spectator " has published extracts from a letter, written by Mr Harry Jones, managing editor of the "Western Mail and Mercury," a well-known authority on the Welsh industries, who states that the tin plate trade does not live upon dumped steel, but the latter is a welcome auxiliary. He points out that every ton imported increases the difficulty which Americans and Germans experience in competing with Great Britain in the world's market as sellers of ship loco motives, tin plate machinery and galvanised iron sheets. Mr Jones denies that there is any loss of British wages by the purchase of cheap steel. "We pay Germans," he states, "by sending them goods on which British labour is expended. The iron and steel exported from Germany during the ten months, ending October, is valued at St. Petersburg, Nov. 29, The illness of the Czarina, whom the Czar never leaves, has interrupted the Japanese-Russian negotiations. The Czarina is now free from pain and is improving. Rome, Nov. 29. Students have made Irredentist demonstrations, in Rome, Genoa, Turin, and Palermo, owing to Austria's refusal to establish an Italian State University at Innsbruck, or to permit the opening of a privately supported Italian University: Capetown, Nov. 29. Mr W. J. Quinn and Mr Whitiside, two members of the Johannesburg Labour Commission, have signed a minority report, declaring there is sufficient labour in Central Africa to meet the present and future requirements. The shortage, they say, was due to a preventable cause, and it was possible to supplement or supersede the natives by cheap white labonr. The " Daily Telegraph " states that an offer has been received from a hund red thousand Jews, used to navvy work, to go to South Africa at £2 a week and board and lodgiug. The offer has much perturbed miners on the Rand.