N.S.WALES POLITICS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10362, 17 May 1895, Page 2

N.S.WALES POLITICS.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Sydney, May 16. Instructions have been given to the customs authorities that the duties lately reimposed on oils, raw _ coffee, cocoa, sago, tapioca, and rock sain should no longer b3 collected, and any duty paid will be refunded. The customs officials bclievad themselves bound to collect duties on theae articles after the delivery of the Budget. , The Government are receiving; a number of petitions against the abolition of fcha duties on native products and industries. Sic H. Parkes, in moving his hostile motion, said he would not be a party to placing the agricultural classes on a basis of open compatioion^vrith another colony such as Victoria, where farmars were protected. He. was not, and never was a Freetrader ia thatsense; Ha wished Protectionists tounder3tand that he was willing to make ?. trues with them so long as thsy made no effort to restore Protectionist docdices, with a dis- ] tincf. understattdina; that when the great consummation of United Australia arrived they wouid part as generous opponents. Mr Keid and Sir G. B. Dibbs followed. The debate is still proceeding.