THE FEDERAL TARIFF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13996, 31 August 1907, Page 10

THE FEDERAL TARIFF.

THE MINE-OWNERS PROTEST. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. !. . LONDON, August 29. Directors of mining companies representing 11 millions of capital informed Mr Rason (the Agent-general for West Australia) that the new tariff penalised the Kalgoorlie .companies alone to the extent ,of £50,000 a year. . Tiie Council of Went Australian Mineowners • has aequcst«l the Agent-general to transmit its strenuous protest against the duties levied under the new tariff. WESTRALIAN MEMBERS ASKED TO RESIGN. PERTH, August 30. A public meeting held hero passed a protest against tlie tariff, awl called upon all Federal members of the State of Westralia to resign. PRESS OPINION IN ENGLAND. LONDON, August 30. (Received August 31, at 0.2 a.m.) The Daily Chronicle declares that the British manufacturer in the abstract would like preference in the Australian markets, just as the Australian producer would like preference] in the British markets, but the former is hostile to the increased scale of duties, and thinks that on tlie wholo ho is likely to bo worse off than under a non-preferential tariff. This attitude may open the- Australian producers' eyes to an aspect of tho tariff reform movement which t hey have hitherto p°rhap3 not adequately considered. "Our larifliles' scheme," says the paper, " as wo understand it- is not to leave Australian goods untaxed but to tax alt goods alike, and then U\x foreign goods a little more. (.Received August 31, at 1.1 a,m.) The Morning Post, in an energetic article on the value of Australian preference, condemns the illogical position hold by thane who have been expatiating about the expansion of British trado in foreign countries, where the duties of manufactures average 50 per cent., while they represent that the colonial duties of about half that rate constitute an insurnwuntnblo prohibition, CANADA'S DESIRES. MELBOURNE, August 30. (Received August 31, at 0.35 a.m.) The following are the principal lines upon whiish Canada has asked for preference from .the Commonwealth:—Bicycles, limber, furniture, leather, boots, and shoes, chairs, agricultural implements, harvesters' apparel, and cotton pieces and goods,