FEDERAL POLITICS

Waikato Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1073, 15 October 1901, Page 2

FEDERAL POLITICS

THE PROPOSED TARIFF,

(Received Oct. 15, 5 42 p.m,) Sydney, October 14. The Sunday Times says the tariff is inadvertently a compliment to New Zealand inasmuch as the producers of the Commonwealth proclaim to the world that they cannot compete with her on level terms. The loss of trade is not likely to cripple her, although it may lead to ill feeling and possibly retaliation.

A CANDID CONFESSION. (Received Oct. 14. 9.12 p.m.) Sydney, Oct oboe M, The Herald says the opinion almost universally expressed amongst tlio commercial men is that tho Federal Tariff means ruin to tbe New Zealand export trade of produce to Australia. It continues that bad New Zealand seen lit to enter tbe federation instead of imagining a south federatian of her own until tbe Don. J. Chamberlain put an end to that Ahiaschar’s daydream, all the Commonwealth ports would have been open to her ducersNew Zealand would have shown a more neighbourly spirit had her public men helped us with the discussion of our financial problem, and it is clear enough that some duties are so high as to prove that the Federal Government did not impose them for revenue-purposes and that Now Zealand critics are quite light in describing these duties as non-revenue raising but as frankly protective. ADELAIDE FACTORIES CLOSED. (Received Oct. 15, 12,40 a m.) Adelaide, October 14. Owing 1.0 tho tariff most of (ho cigar and tobacco factories in tho city have closed, the former permanently,tho latter temporarily, and 300 men, besides women and youths have been discharged. TlitV Adelaide manufacturers claim that they cannot compete against (he cheap Manila and German cimirs.