PREFERENTIAL TRADE QUESTION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7872, 6 January 1904, Page 3

PREFERENTIAL TRADE QUESTION.

MR CHAMBERLAIN'S POLICY. GROWS IN IMPORTANCE. I (By Telegraph.—Copyri^ht.) Received 6, 1 a.m. LONDON, January 6. Mr Chamberlain, in a letter to Genera] Richard Harrison, Unionist candidate foi mid-Devon, says:— "My proposals insure a moderate preference on corn, and especially on meat and dairy produce, thus helping the earners and improving the value of holders' allotments. Received 6, 1.20 a.m. LONDON, January 5. The President of the Rockhampton Chamber of Commerce, in a. column -letter to The Times, advocates an Imperial scheme of colonisation, to settle young married people in Australia. The Right Hon. Haldane, replying to a correspondent, says the fiscal question must take precedence of the Home Rule' question. He recognises the Government's progressive Irish policy, and hopes perhaps later on to see non-party laws and the gradual devolution of Ireland. This would depend largely on the extent to which ths Irish Leaguers) could gain and keep the confidence r A the people. It would be unwise to revive Mr Gladstone's bills or anything resembling them. Th* Walsair District Chamber of Commerce, by 69 votes to 11, has endorsed Mr Chamberlain's policy.