FISCAL QUESTION.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12648, 7 January 1904, Page 3

FISCAL QUESTION.

CABLEGRAMS. [FIB FBISS ASSOCIATION. —COPTBIQHT.]

manifesto by sir e. reed. (Received January 6, 9.56 p.m.j LON DON, January 6. Sir E. Reed, member for Cardiff, has issued a manifesto to his constituents in which ho stales that he will not seek re - election, on account of his age and the state of his health. He also presumes that his fiscal views are not acceptable to the bulk of his supporters. lie had long been unable to understand the reasons for destroying industries for the sake of buying a trifle cheaper than others who are excluding ns from the world’s markets. It would be perilous to continue the present system without examination. It would also be perilous and ungracious to resist such an improvement of the trading system as would encourage the colonies to identify themselves more and mote with the Motherland.

POSITION OF HOME RULE. (Received January 7, 1.17 a.m.) LONDON, January 6. Mr John Redmond, speaking at Waterlord, said that the Nationalists were the only united party. They would not postpone lor an hour the demand lor Home Rule. The majority of the Government were favourable to a satisfactory settlement of the Irish University question, but if they recoiled owing to the feeling in Ulster, they would be struck.

SPEECH BY LORD ROSEBERY. (Received January 7, 1.12 a.m.) LONDON, January 6. Lord Rosebery, speaking at Edinburgh, said the Government were like a dissolving view. Mr Deakin’s telegram proved that the proposals had not emanated from the colonies or from the Government, but that Mr Chamberlain’s whole policy was a triangle resting on its apex —if it had an apex. The Government were in a hollow and untenable position.

COLONIAL PRODUCTS EXHIBITION.

(Received January 7, 1.12 a.m.) LONDON", January 6.

The Duke of .Marlborough, in opening a very representative Colonial Products Exhibition at Liverpool, said he believed and hoped that the Empire would become self-supporting. He suggested that a similar exhibition should be held throughout the country; also that the Motherland’s manufactures should be exhibited in the colo-

IRADFORD'S EXPORT TRADE. LONDON, January 5.

The United States official statistics show that Bradford’s export to the United States in 1903 was £2,048,706, the highest since the Dingley tariff was imposed.

THE COMING SESSION. LONDON, January 5. The Opposition will at the earliest opportunity submit a comprehensive Freetrade amendment to the Address-in-Reply, framed so as to secure the support of Unionist Freetrader*.