EMPIRE’S TRADE.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 934, 6 July 1903, Page 2

EMPIRE’S TRADE.

LORD ROSEBERY CHARGES THE MINISTERS WITH LEVITY.

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright.) Received 5.36 p.m., July 4. LONDON, July 4. Lord Rosebery, referring to the fiscal enquiry, charged 'all Ministers excepting Mr Chamberlain with levity.

Received 5.10 p.m., July 5. LONDON, July 1

The Council of the National Union Conservation Association has passed a resolution on the subject of the proposed enquiry into, the preferential tariff resolutions. It states that the Council welcomes an enquiry; into the existing tariff relations and trusts. The outcome will prove the practicability of still closer union between the colonies and the Blotherland.

BIR CHAMBERLAIN’S BELIEF

By, Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright^ Received 5.10 p.m. T July, 5. LONDON, July 4.

Blr Wyndham, speaking at a banquet of the Conservative Associations, declared that the belief of Blr Chamberlain impressed ourselves and our brethren of the colonies with a sense of Imperial responsibility and solidarity, sadly lacking when our opponents were in office. Those resisting enquiry into the commercial relations of the Empire and foreign countries and the question of transit decried an open mind. Speaking for himself, he objected to shut an eye. and boldly advocated the policy of an open eye.

THE CABINET INQUIRY,

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright^ LONDON, July, 3.

Lord Rosebery elicited from the Duke of Devonshire that , the Cabinet is now conducting an inqu ry and that the Cabinet were agreed that the subject of preferential trade .was ripe for inquiry. Lord Onslow, speaking at Peterborough, welcomed the decision of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach’s Committee, That ,was precisely .what the Government asked. Unless the people assented, the new policy, would he withdrawn. The old protectionist principles .were never intended^