HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8291, 21 September 1903, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLES

[By Electric TjajscuiArif.—Cot'Yiught.] Per Press Association. Received September 21, at 8.43 a.m. London, Septmeber 21. •Mr 'Chamberlain, writing to Mr 'Pearson, Chairman of the Tariff Reform League, agrees that sufficient facts and figures have been adduced to enable the formulation of conclusions in favor of a closer union with the colonies. By means of preference he would endeavor to make me Empire selfsufficing as regards food supply, and would also make the utilisation of tbe tariff a weapon to secure greater reciprocity with foreigners or retaliation to prevent the loss of the home and Imperial markets. Tbe Birmingham Tariff Reform League have printed twenty million pamphlets and circulated sixteen millions. They employ fifty hands daily packing, and have arranged for 200 speakers to advocate preference. There lias been an enormous sale of the fiscal Blue Book. Mr Balfour and Lord Lansdowne are at Balmoral. It is understood that the King has approved of Mr Balfour's suggestion as to further changes in the Cabinet, though an announcement is improbable for a day o- two.

.Sir R. 'B. Finlay, Attorney-General, will shortly succeed Lord Halsbury as LoTd High Chancellor, the latter retiring on the ground of old age. Ottawa, September 20.

The Canadian Manufacturers' Association have resolved to urge the (Dominion Government to increase the percentage of preference to British labor by from hve to fifty per cent, cm'the value of the imports; also to appoint Customs agents in London to study means of prevention of foreigners taking advantage of preference by shipping goods to Canada via Britain. Received September 21, at 9.3 a.m. Vienna, September 20. A thief broke through the ceiling of the cavalry headquarters at Llmberg and stole the Austrian mobilisation plans. Received September 21, at 10.50 a.m. New York, September 20. The barque Wemyss Bay, bound from Newcastle, Australia, to Mazattan, Mexico, was stranded on the Mazattan Rocks, and became a total loss. All hands were saved.