THE FEDERAL TARIFF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 283, 30 November 1901, Page 3

THE FEDERAL TARIFF.

MB PRESS ABBOOUTIOJT, Mblboobhx, November 20 The sitting concluded at 11 oVlo k Jast night. Good pi-egress was mads in the last few boors, a large number of items being passed unaltered, including linseed meal, fish, poultry, potted and concentrated meat?, potatoes, onions, hops, and malt. Bir George iSirner agreed to special exemptions with regard to frozen meats, And linseed intended to make oil. _ The duties on fruit juices were reduced to niaepance par gallon, and on uoney and j Hies to three halfpence p<i J»and« Special preparations for inputs and invalids were struck out. Sydney, November 29. The Daily Telegraph, dealing with ■the effect of the tariff cn the Island trade, says that after all their prof tssioes about Commonwealth guardiandup whan protesting to Mr. Ghamberagainst New Zealand's desire to •nnex Fiji, the Federal Government is ®Wig the Boat effective thing imagin•Me to cut the Islands ad rife and justify tfceir «oion with New Zealand. Btoeived 30,0,23 a.m. Miisonara, November 29. In the Hoose of Representatives an amendment in -the tariff was carried reducing the duty on silt to 10a per too. The Government accepted the substitution of eighteen-pence per cental on canary, hemp, and rape seed, in place of 15 per o<int. ad valorem. Amongst other items pissed was straw, five shillings per ton. The debate was adjourned.