FISCAL REFORM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 232, 28 October 1903, Page 3

FISCAL REFORM.

A FAVOURABLE KKBOLUIIOH, ' THK QUHBTION OF COAL. SIGNS OP BUOOE3S APPARBNT. WR PSSBB ASSOCIATION, Received 27, 11.16 p.m. London, October 27. The Congress of the National Free j labour Association, representing a 1 memberAip of half a million, adopted by 24 to 18 a resolution welcoming Mr 1 Chamberlain's proposals as being in the best interests of the wotkers and calculated to ensure prosperity to the Motherland and Colonies. Mr A. B. Markham, M,P. for Mans- , field, although a Freetrader, in a letter published in the Times, predicts that according to the present consumption and rate of export the thick steam coal seams of Britain will be practically exhausted within the present generation. He adds that coal being capital, it ought in the fiscal controversy to be treated differently from other exports, inasmuch as it cannot be replaced. ] Berlin, October 27. * The Kohtitche Zetiung declares there 6 are many signs of the ultimate success 1 of Mr Chamberlain's policy. • EFFECT ON AUSTRALIAN FARMING. 1 Received 28,0 32 a.m. London, October 27. E Tho Times, in a special article deal- » ing with the preferential tariff and ] Australia, declares that on the material t nde preference on Australia's rapidly c (trowing trade in foodstuffs would en- ( courage the hardest worked part of the popnlation in sounder and more scientific, and therefore more prosperous firming. Australia would thus gain a knowledge that the kinsmen in Britain were not so selfish and money grab- f bing as the loan-link policy hitherto I made them appear, i