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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 202, 22 September 1903, Page 3

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FISCAL REFORM.

A LETTER FROM MR OHAMBSRLAIN. ORGANISING THE CAMPAIGN. fUBT&EH OA&INET CHANGES ' PROBABLE; Iftß PKXBB ASSOCIATION. London, September 20. Or Ohamb6rla ; i, writing to Mr 0. A, PearsoD, cbaiimui of the Tariff Befo»m League, agrees that sufficient facts and figures hive been adduced to enable the formulation of conclusions in favour of closer union with the colonies by means of preferer.ee. He would endeavour to m ike the Empire Belf-sufficing as regards food t-uppiy, also the utilifition of the tariff as a weapon to f ure greater reciprocity with s or retaliation to prevent the lon of Home atd Imperial markets,

The Birmingham Tariff Reform League haa printed twenty million pamphlets and circulated sixteen million. It employs fifty hands daily in packing. \ It has been arranged for 200 speakers to advooate preference.

There has been an enormous sale of the Fiscal Blue Book. i Mr Balfour and Lord Lansdowne are at Balmoral. It is understood the King has approved of Mr Bilfnur's suggested further changes, though an announcement is improbable for a day or two.

Sir Robert Pinlay, Attorney-General, shortly succeeds Lord Halsbury as Lord High Chancellor, the latter retiring on the ground of old age. Ottawa, September 20. The Canadian Manufacturers Association has resolved to urge the Dominion GovernmeA to increase this percentage of preference for British labour to fifty per cent on tbe value of imports, alio to appoint Customs agents in London to study the means of preventing foreigners from taking advantage of preference by shipping goods to Canada via Britain. LORt) CHANCELLOR REMAINS IN OFFIOE. FURTHER RESIGNATIONS. CONFIDENCE IN MH CHAMBERLAIN. k FBBK-TRADE MANIFESTO. Reoelved si, 10.52 pm. London, September 21. Lord Halsbury, the Lor l Chancellor, denies that he intends resigning. Official.—Lord Balfour nf Burleigh, Becretary for Bco'land, and Hon. Arthur Elliott have resignt-d. Mr Chamberlain is receiving as=urances of unabated confidence from all parts of the Kingdom. A committee of Anglo-Colonials has been formed to support Mr Chamberlain in connection wi>h his tariff reform. The Free Trade Union h«s issued a manifeato declaring that Mr Balfour's rejection of preference is based not on tbe ground of principle but of electoral expediency, and that retaliation is bound to 1 ad to clamours for all round protection. A coherence of Co operative Societies and trade unionists of the Midlands, representing 240,000 m'-mb-rs, held at Birmingham, passed a resolution adversely to Mr Chamberlain. MB CHAMBERLAIN'S BUOOESSOR. Received 21,11.22 p.m Losdok, September 21. The Times foreshadows Lord Miner's succeeding Mr ChamberUin, and ■ayß the appointment will be particularly grateful to colonial opinion, and a Ffrdge that Mr Chamberlain'* traditions will be preserved intact; also a proof that tbe nation has risen to a true conception of the place the colonies filled in the Imperial fabric. We thould be giving tbe colonies the man they know and re6ognise to be our beet. Lord Milner agrees with fkaal retaliation and preference trade. The limes confirms the report that Mr Forater replaces Mr Brodrick, and that Mr Austen Chamberlain replaces Mr Ritchie.

Brisbane, September 21. In response to a telegram from the I Mayor to the Mayors' of the leading j towns in Queensland, it was agreed to ] ■end a cable to Mr Chamberlain approving his action. FOREIGN PRESS OOMMENTS, ! Received 22,1.8 a.m. London, September 21. Austrian newspapers fear that Mr Chamberlain's ultimate victory will render England less impotent to repel foreign fiscal apgi eaion. The Russia.; pr<3B declares Mr Chamberlain's fall rids the world of the principal elements against European peace,