POLITICAL NOTES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10119, 22 August 1900, Page 2

POLITICAL NOTES.

(From Our Parliamentary Special.) (By Telegraph.) WELLINGTON, August 22.

THE TABIFP.

Organised opposition, to the tariff began yesterday, with a meeting of the Canterbury members, Mr W. Tanner in the chair. It was a preliminary meeting to prepare for a future and larger meeting to be held in & day or so, by which time information will have been collected. The tone was very sympathetic to tho Government, and there is no idea of .cmbarassing them in. any way. Still the meeting had strong ideas about candles, cocoa, and salt, grinding, the boiler making, and the local industry of drug making, At the fame time preparations ore being made to stand by the new tariff. It is 6aid, for example, that those who are bemoaning the loss on large clearance, forget that when the tariff was suddenly raised they- pocketed large Bums and never even 6aid "thank you." It is, moreover, pointed out that in Sydney a single penny tariff kept the candle industry going many years, that when the duto finally disappeared in 1899, under the sliding scale of Mr Beid'a tariff of 1895, it had been found that three-farthings had been enough to save tho industry from outside competition. If a penny was more than enough there, why should it be less than sufficient here? The candle makers will have to meet this fact.