FISCAL REFORM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 210, 1 October 1903, Page 3

FISCAL REFORM.

BUBStAN ACTION. RB PKBSS ASSOCIATION. ' London, September 29. Russia has increased the duty on Indian and Ceylon teis to 33 roubles per pood, differentiating in favour of Ohina. A Departmental conference will ■hortly be held to oonßider the matter at the Foreign Office. Sir Henry Seymour King, a member of the House of Commons, and a well- ■ known Indian merchant, urges the Indian Government to re aliate by increating the duty on Russian oil. ( thb "Daily mail'B" referendum. 1 IHBBB POLICIES SUBMITTED. Received 1,0.58 a.m. London, September 30. The Daily Mail has begun a referendum to ihe electors of the Uoited Kingdom on three policies: Freetrade, ' Preferential trade, and Reciprocity as defined by experts representing each. MB CHAMBERLAIN'S OAMi> IGT ENORMOUS INXKRtfST AT GLASGOW ElB CONFIDENCE IN CO.VV?: RTINif CPPOXETS. 1 Beceiv.d 1, p.l a.m I.oNDO.v, S> pten.bfr 30. Some 50.000 persons applied fir J tickets of admission to the meeting to be addressed by Mr at St. Andrew's Hall, Gli*tow, but the hall will accommodate only 5000. Mr Chamberlain, writing to a cir- ' respondent, said be expects before long bis proposals will be supported by many labour leaders who, under the influence of political prejudice, condemned them before they had been folly explained. Received 1, 0.56 a.m. London, September 30. Mr Chamberlain, in a letter to the Cheshire Conservative Workers' Federation, said that the Cobden Club no authority to represent the workeis on the fiscal qurs'ijn.