POLITICAL ADDRESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 59, 28 February 1908, Page 3

POLITICAL ADDRESS.

THE PIiEMJER AT UL'SSELL. Per Press Association. Kussell, Thursday. •Speaking here last night the Premier referred to the exorbitant rates of freight, that fanners and travellers had lo pay on account of the ;U per rent, dividends the French wore makiii" out "I the I'iinamn Canal shares. ||,. ~oii,id'•rnl '• rnl '* ;1 V I stroke policy on the part of Disraeli v.hcn I tainod shares for ilritain, but with (ho revolution that bad gone on in the t.)ld World whit was all right twenty-live years a»o was not all right 10-ihiy. In' a fe«"vears the Panama Canal would I pened by the \ nited States, making the joiirnev Home tor cargo steamers four davs shorter Was it likely that the AineriC.ins were going to drive their trade awav to the Sue/, by excessive terms? Though this fact had been impressed upon the British Covcrnment they had stood at case I'he Premier also referred to wireless telegraph stations. He said when th»se were 111 existence, they would never'be I handed over to any private or public corporation. They would be kept and maintained for the people, and the best system would bo obtained. The system was now at such a stale of perfection mat it could be successfully established to communicate from one" end of the Dominion (,_, the other, or ~-ith intercolonial or cuas':il ships in cas e of accident, lie had tried to get tin.. Australian Government to establish a hi<di power station for the transmission "of messages between t|, e two countries or with steamers. He believed ail installa- | Hon could he effected on good terms and the system could be introduced to the outlying islands 0 f the Pacific. This would prove u great boon to residents of those isolated parts of the world