FISCAL UNITY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 198, 3 September 1903, Page 3

FISCAL UNITY.

£er Pres.- Axts uiation. Losdos, Bi>p t ember 1. Dr. Jameson, as one of the executors Under the late Cecil Rhodes's will, haß forwarded to thj Times the originals of two letters dated May, 1891, discovered among Mr Rhodes' papers. The first was addressed to tbe late Bir John Mac Donald, then Premier of Canada, asking: " Can we invent s >me tie with the Motherland that will prevent separation ? The curse iB that Bogli&h politicians canco'. sne the future. They think Great Britain wili always be the world's manufacturing mart and fail to understaad what Protection, coupled with reciprocal relations, mains " The second let'er invites the cooperation of Sir Benry Purkes, who at the t'me was Premier of New Sjutb Wales, in securing from the Motherland preferential consideration for colonial products as a means of maintaining the Imperial connection. THE UNIONISTS' POSITION. Beceived 3,1.4 a.m. London, September 2. Commenting upjn the Duke of Devonshire's emphatic denial of the rumour published in the Westminster Gazette that he intended resigning, the Standard says it was wbat everybody, koowing his character and career, would have expected from a statesman enjoying so large a measure of National reputation For steadiness and strength. The Standard procesda to suggest a duty, exclusively for revenue purpose', of Is 6d and 2s on foraigo grain ; also a revenue du"y on fbu-; advises Mr Chamberlain to abandon his Imperial preferential tariff and rele sj the Unionists from a pofi.ion of unendurable embarrassment-. The paper adds that the Government might devis. a curtailment of the operations of foreign trusts and State aided produce: s.