LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 899, 23 May 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Asst elation—Copyright Received 1.4 a.m., May 2n. London, May 22. A private meeting at \Y« st minster yesterday of members of the House of t om mons' and manufacturers formed a Tar ill' League to organise opinion by means i 1 a local committee, to ignore party, publics, and promote pieieteutiai trade uit mi tinKtnptro. Alter me Bninmgmuu speech the Treasurer of the new L ague secured 3-jOO m*mufacturt-i:'.‘ signal uvea to a petition to re-arrange the fiscal duties. R.ceiled 11.5 pm., May 22. Mr (.'ham'.fr.aiu u.nmg to a constituent. >ays : I ;nu im y eonvlueeii mat tne prosperity ot tiu- country depends largely

on tiade with tne colonies, winch, under a wise >\steiu oi mutual concession, would

indorse by leans and bounds. \\ e bare been apt in tht past to eonsnier 100 mueii the advantage ul buying encapiv, ana not paving sufficient a'.Lentioti to methods whct'eoy we may have tile means ul enabling us to pay at all. Increased wages are even more important to the working class than reduced cost ul living. Sir Cnarles iJilkc. in a letter lo tne Wily Mail, says Unit mere iias always been a divergence oi Australian and Canadian opinion. Sometimes it is assumed from the speeches of a tew leaning Australians tii it tin re exists in Australia a desire for what ts caned eio.-cr relations, hut tt is difficult to shew that any AuMiahun party had ever acci pled tills stannpomt. Received 11.10p.m., May 22.

Lord Rosebery, rep.ymg to a convspoudent, expressed surprise at ins Burnley speech being interpreted as supporting Mr Ghtrmbcrhiu. It would be unseemly and injudicious, in addressing an audience divided on the question, to summarily dismiss any plan, li proposed on tiie responsibility of the Government, to promote closer lies between Gieat Britain and her colonies, especially when the idea was eminently congenial to some colonies. But he adheres to ins previous views that ail inter imperial tariff, to be practicable, must be just and acceptable both to the United Kingdom and the colonies. lie had previously indicated the nature of the objections which ho believed to ho insurmountable.

Received 11.2 d p.m., May 22. Lord Peel, umpire of the South Wales Conciliation Board, decided against fivo per cent, reduction ut wages. Reuter’s Pekin correspondent stales that Britain will accept payment of the indemnity' on a sliver basis lor nine years, thereafter on a gold basis, it postpones tho question of Gnina’e ultimately paying tiie difference, and asks other Powers to join the plan.

Mr Asquith, in a speech til Dcneascastcr, said that Mr (Jluunbcilain s proposals would have the unqualified and united opposition of the Liberal party, abd other Liberal leaders .similarly resist, it. on the ground of the past, sueeess of the policy of free markets and open door.

'l’lie .Standard says that Canada is enlluisiaslie over the zollverein idea. Australia was apparently sceptical ; Britain was expectant. A leaven was working, and the fiscal policy must, he vindicated by adaptability to changing circumstances, and not by, appeal to authority. MELBOURNE, May 22.

In regard to the Maoris brought to Sydney as members of a circus troupe the deeision given was by the Collector of Customs, not, by the Department, of Internal Affairs. li the Maoris had come with the intention of residing in Australia Sir Edmund Barton says that he should have to consider whether they could lie admitted tie had not yet, had to (leal with any application from Maoris.