THE FISCAL ISSUE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7726, 31 January 1905, Page 2

THE FISCAL ISSUE.

i* A ContineDtel Ajwemttt (Received Jan. 30, 11.17 p.tn.) LONDON, Jan. 80. A largely attended conference hold at Ixmriim under the. auspices of Cirivden Club iiuppoi'tod free trade, Willi N|i«iul reference to the sugar conwnuon and sugar lax. Delegates wet'o present from numerous London I and (irovttigiui trades unions, co-ojk wntivfl societies, workmen 1 * club*, uuti i.rogie.swive organisations, Lord Uill.y presiding, who stated teat the effect of Mio convention wan absolutely disastrous, and witfaout any ixform. (Jrcat Britain mirrvnSdcivl iimuenKe manufactory advayjl.iHe. involving u nnl.im.tl low of eight or nine millions ,\eorl.v, Every j workman's fatiJHy sillnroj a low of at lea«t a pound a year, Felix Sohußten vice-president of the Institute of Danker*, declared the convention «n object lasson of what wouid happen If bo caVod Uveal reforms became the law. A resoluWon was un tt niliK)u«ly earned demanding the denunciation of the convention, and the removal of the war tax on nigar. BERLIN, Jan. 80. The ftnulainenUil feature of the new commercial treaties wMch Germany has concluded with AustriaHungary, Russia, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Houmania, and Servia i'h new German minimum duties on foreign grain. The agreement ha* boon accepted by all" the contracting States, with considerable tiecrease the duties on Uennan manufacture*. Russia mates important concessions in the general interest of commercial intercourse.