FEDERAL POLITICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14337, 1 November 1910, Page 5

FEDERAL POLITICS.

-WHITE OCEAN" POLICY. ■Press Associat ; on-By Telegraph-Copyright MELBOFKNE, 31 Mr Hughes, referring to Sir Joseph Ward's advocacy of a. •• white ocean " policy, said the l''ederal Government j certainly approved of it, but Austraj ha was in a different position from New 1 Zealand. Australia had a line of mail j steamers subsidised by the British Goj vernment, carrying coloured crews. [ New Zealand was untrammelled in that 1 ivspecr. He added that the applicai tion of the policy to a multi-coloured ; empire was a matter of dii'ricinty, .: though he would not say the diftieiuty j was i.isnrmoiiniabie. "DICTATOR. RESIGN I" PARIS, Oct. 30. The scene in the Chamber of Deputies over the treatment of the railway strikers by the Government was unparalleled since the crisis over Panama. Boulangism, and the Dreyfus ease. The Deputies struggled with the attendants in their efforts to storm the plattonr.. and there were several ; . case-; or fisticuffs. On resuming on Sunday M. Briand was conciliatory and the Chamber rer jected the r.totion of censure by 334 to 100.

* THE ANTI-TRUST LAW. Received 11.25 p.m., Oct. Slst. 3EELBOTJIINE, Ost. 3'.. , Mr Hughes addressing the Dri-d Fruits Conference, assured the moio- _ hers of the sympathy of thy Govevns ment -with the co-operative iscvcniciiv. It was not against combinations «s . such the Government was v.-arri/ig. f 1 Its intention was to deal with - . combines which, threateaed the com- & munity. 1