HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXI, Issue 1855, 21 October 1904, Page 1

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

j Mr Chamberlain replying to Mr ■ Lonsdale, M.P., emphatically "denies Mr Russell, M.P.'s statement that he was behind the scene supporting Earl Dunravon's just reform scheme.'• Lord Londonderry, in a speech at Sheffield, denounced Earl Dunraven'o sfcheme which, he said, would le a steppingstone to Home Rule. :• The conference collapsed anil the Free Church of Scotland has appealed to the Court of Session, claiming to I lnive enforced the House of Lords' j judgment. The United Free Church ! has decided to contest the claim inch by inch, involving many law suit&, and has drafted a parliamentary bill to regulate the operation of the Hoiise of Lords'judgment. , ' • Mr John Redmond is going tolAustralia for the benefit of his health. The Irish League has asked hijn to thank the Irish thers for unstinted support and moral sympathy during the past quarter of a century, is Since the adoption of the new rules to encourage emigration to New-Zea-land, Mr lleeves has despatched' |326 persons in months, or fourfold the number sent in the correspondingjperiod of 1903. :i The Princess of Asturias, sisteF of the King of apain, died in childbirth. President Roosevelt has dismissed the chief steam boat inspectors' who' were responsible for the General.Slocum disaster in New York Harbour. There is an increase of 1200 in' the number of whites employed on the Rand since May. Official advices from the Italian Soinaliland state that the Mullah has sent emissaries to negotiate an understanding with Britain. Lord Hugh Cecil, in a letter to The Times, says Mr Balfour's and Mr Chamoerlain's policies fundamentally differ. Mr Chamberlain proposes to erect a general protective tariff on all 1 manufactured goods. Mr Balfour, by way of retaliation, proposes a penalising duty on some imports of a particular country, , which >*•; method ' need have a slight protective effect [ oil the home market' but , might less easily degenerate into a ' protective system than Mr Chamberlain's. The Times, commenting on the letter, says it is significant that the most active free food leader has resumed his confidence in the Premier.