HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8289, 18 September 1903, Page 1

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

[By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

Per Press Association.

Received September 17, at 10.6 p.m. London, September 17. A Blue Book contains a memorandum it is an established fact that Continental and American tariffs checked Bri-itish-imports, especially manufactured - articles. The excess of imports over exports 'tends to increase. Since the year 185Q the •proportion of exports to protected markets 'has fallen from 56 to 42, while those protected had risen, from 44 to 68. A chapter on food shows that German workmen ■during, tile past five years were able to make . 100 marks go as far as 112 did twenty yeare previously, while corresponding figures in England are 100 and 140. It adds that sta•tistics cannot determine the comparative welfare of workers of the different countries owing to the differences in their wants and tasks. Since 1881 Germany is the country showing the greatest rise in the rate of wages. Received September 17, at 10.30 p.m. St. Petersburg, September 17. A riot occurred in connection with the transfer of the Armenian Umirch property to the civil authorities at Baku. The troops fired, killing three and wounding seventeen among the crowd, who were armed with revolvers and stones. A similar riot on a minor scale occurred at iKars.

Paris, September 16. President.-Loubet,-in : the course of a speech at-a luncheon to foreign officers'• 'attending the .military manoeuvres, declared that the French Republic desired a well-instructed, disciplined;., and. strong, army as.the.best guarantee of peace. The nations willingly' joined the strong, and rarely the. weak, whose friendship and co-operation were useless. '• ' '

Rio de Janeiro, September 17. Several deaths from plague have occurred here. Sixty patients are m the hospital. Received September 17, at 11.36 p.m. London, September 16.

The report of the local Tariff Committee of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce favors preference to the colonies_on the basis of reciprocity, and suggests moderate duties on Britain's foreign products, exclusive of raw material. Paris, September 16. The newspaper Temps, commenting on Mr Balfour's manifesto, says the fears are at seeing Mr Chamberlain resign. He keeps the Cabinet on the brink of irreparable quarrels,. Mr Balfour treats him with circumspection, and finally adopts him. The opinion is .that Mr Chamberlain has become Britain's first politician and practically the Empire's pastor under a new incarnation. If Mr Chamberlain shatters the Unionist party in order to become Premier, Mr Balfour will have wished it.

London, September 16. The German newspapers comment gingerly and cautiously. The American newspapers declare that the manifesto is a statesmanlike document, and a fair method of conserving the national interests.Received September 18, at 0.4 a.m. New York, September 17.

Sir Thomas Liptori is critically ill at Chicago. He is suffering from colitis and catarrhal appendicitis.