PREFERENTIAL TARIFFS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9028, 16 December 1907, Page 2

PREFERENTIAL TARIFFS.

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London, December 14. The Daily Express emphasises tho fact of Mr Lloyd George obtaining preferential reduction in favor of British States, and adds that it is Australia's turn to ask what Freetraders will give in return for thoso and similar boons. The paper states that the Commonwealth Parliament lias oi.il} r two possible replies —Preference or nothing. Although the Ottawa Free Press describes the cancelling of tho mail subsidy as an act of retaliation against the Commonwealth, the Times' Ottawa correspondent declares that this opinion is not endorsed, for it would bo absurd for Canada to retaliate on the sister colony wheu Mr Deakin had promised to "negotiate for better trade arrangements after the Commonwealth tariff had bien settled.