IMPERIAL POLITICS.
SPEECH BY LORD LONDONDERRY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 3. (Received Nov. 3, at 10.2 p.m.) Lord Londonderry, speaking at Sunderland, said the Government was prepared for a, defeat at the general election. If the Unionists would sink their fiscal differences there, would lie a sufficiently strong minority to restrain a Liberal Government from carrying Socialistic and Radical schemes into law. MR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN. LONDON, November 3. (Received Nov. 3, at 10.42 p.m.) Mr Austen Chamberlain, speaking at Stirchley, declared that neither Mr Jiiilfoiu- nor the Government wisned to place the fiscal question in a. secondary place at the elections, for they regarded that a-s the greatest issue to be submitted to the electors. Personally, lie could conceive of a very considerable preference being given to the colonies on wines, spirits, meat, dairy produce, market garden produce, and other articles than corn, but he valued the closer union so highly that Jio would be willing to give even a. small tax on corn. CANADA AND TARIFF REFORM. ' OTTAWA, November 3. (Received Nov. 3, at 10.42 p.m.) A manifesto, signed by more than 1500 trade unionists, including officials in favour of Mr Chamberlain's tariff reform, lias been sent to the president of the Dominion Trades and Labour Congress.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13432, 4 November 1905, Page 7
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