AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 235, 31 October 1903, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY

Jf'-r IV-1 Ah«ociaticn. M*lbuurs2, October 30. Mr D-o.'c.i', tufh' ing his policy, foreshadow-, d n:u G«iv.?t:a»ent assum--11 control li >!gh:houses and quarantine, establishing a weather bine ui, and the reintroduce ion of the Capital Sites and Ai biti ation Bills next; sfssio.i. State servants would be excluded irom the operation of the latter. Other measures pvom'sed were the I Companies Inters'.Kte Commission, F.deial Bir.kiuptcy, Iron Bonus, Navigation Bills. He strongly suppor e<~ the White Australia policy and hoperi it was now secure, but a vigilirit watd wculd have to be kept on pioposals ti. tamper with it He foreshadowed bounties to assist agricultural exjrors trade of p rish -bl" products. Bounties may a'so be cli'-n ed for extending markets, especially with Great Britain. The issue at the elections Mr Deabin has defined to be national trade against foreign trade, and preferential ferule against trade with the foreigner. He concluded "I hope thi3 will becom. known aa the Ballarat cry of fiscal peace and preferential trade for a White Australia." He had a gonri rec»p*ion, and a resolution of confidence was carried.

Sydney, October 30. The Federal L-ibour party opened the election campaign by issuing a manifesto dealing with the work of the past Parliament. It declares thepirty had a well defined policy for which it had -worked persistently and uni'edly, and which to a considerable extent had been realised.