BRITISH POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1051, 19 November 1903, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE TRADE CAMPAIGN

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

London, Nov. 17,

Sir John Gorst, in a speech at Oxford, said Mr Chamberlain was advocating naked protection, while the proposal to tax food for the consolidation of the Empire was placed in the background. Lord Hugh Cecil, speuking at Oxford, said nothing was contrary to freetrade in the temporary imposition of a duty against a particular country, with a view to obtaining much greater freedom of trade. Tho advocates of retaliation wanted liberty to trade. Advocates of reciprocity wantod double hindrances to trade.

Sir Charles Diike, speaking at Navington, said tho Empire’s danger was not in the absence of trade preference, but the risk of European complications, which Mr Chamberlain’s policy increased. Sir John Cockburn, speaking in South Norwood, applauded Mr Chamberlain's courageous, common-sense policy. Australia’s experience proved that an import duty not necessarily falls on the consumer.

Pei Press Association. Dunedin, last night,

Tho committee of tho Chamber of Commerce, the Hon. T. Fergus being presi dent, regret that no time is allowed for consideration of the tariff proposals. If the Bill is not finished to-night a meoting of the Chamber will bo called to consider the whole question.

THE JEWELLERY,TRADE. By Electric Telegraph—Per PressAssociation—Copyright. Received 0.59 a.m. s Nov a 19.

LONDON, Nov. 18, Mr Chamberlain, in his Birmingham speech, stated that the local jewellery trade was nearly ruined by foreign importationsj especially last year.

Sir John Brunner asserts that a London firm’s agent at Morocco picked up cheap fronT the Sultan and others, owing to the rebellion, £100,01)0 worth of jewellery, hence ,thc heavy Importation, He says that the jewels have been re-cut and reset in Birmingham.,