BRITISH POLITICS.
IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.
LONDON, February 22
One point in the speech of Sir Gilbert Parker (Conservative member for Gravesend) is attracting notice. He pointed out that when in 1859 Mr Gladstone made his commercial treaty with France, preference to Cape Colony was withdrawn. The Cape's export of wine to Britain dropped immediately from an annual value of £200,000 to £17,000, and today is insignificant. Supposing that preference had been maintained, Britain might now be importing from the Cape wine worth a million per annum.
Mr Lloyd-George, President of the Board of Trade, commenting on the suggestions of Messrs Balfour and Hills and Sir Gilbert Parker, asked whether these were seriously restricted to proposals to reduce the duty on Tintara wine, and to founding an empire on pippins. (The commercial treaty of 1859 enabled France to increase her exports of wine to Britain very greatly.) DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER BILL. Received Yesterday, 4.38 p.m. LONDON, February 23. , In the kouse of Commons the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill introduced by Sir W. B. Gurdon, M.P., Norfolk, North Division, was read a second time by 263 to 34.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8367, 25 February 1907, Page 5
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185BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8367, 25 February 1907, Page 5
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