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"'-THE TARIFF QUESTION.
THE TARIFF QUESTION. MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S FEARS. Mr Chamberlain, writing to the Sun on "Tariff Reform and Imperial Union," says :— The working people of this country are more deeply concerned in the question than any other class of the community. Their existenoe depends upon their employment, and it is no satisfaction to them to know that the returns form the income tax are constantly increasing if their employment is at the same time diminishing. Other countries are prospering under the one-sided system which leaves us open to their competition while they close their doors to the produots of British industry, and while our investments abroad may provide a sufficient return to the capitalists who make them, tkey tend directly to a transfer of employment from this country to our rivals and competitors. The position can be altered by a change of taxation. which would involve no increase in the cost of liv- ing or additional burden upon the working classes, and I am convinced that the material interests of the majority of the population would be served by such an alteration as that which I have advocated. I do not, however, base by appeal on material interests alone. I believe that the working classes are eminently alive to the importance of Imperial union, so that in the future we may maintain our position in the world, and if we are not to sink into the condition of a fifth-rate State we must co- operate with our kinsmen and fellow-subjects abroad in the effort to unite the Empire by bonds of interest as well as of sentiment. On both grounds I confidently appeal to the working classes, and gratefully acknowledge that my trust in their intellitrence and patriotism has hitherto been amply ustified. I wish all success to the enterprise which is about to develop and axplain the policy on which I firmly believe our future as a nation entirely depends." DUMPING IN THE STEEL TRADE. THE EBBW VALE COMPANY'S EXPERIENCE. Mr Chamberlain forwards to the Times for publication a letter from Mr Joseph Brailsford, chairman of the Ebbw Yale Steel, Iron, and Coal Company, with the remark that 11 it furnishes a practical answer from one of our greatest ezperts to the extraordinary statements of Sir William Harcourt and Mr Asquith on the subject of dumping. Mr Brailsford, says the correspondent of a Lon- don paper correctly states that Newport is at present the port at which the greatest quantity of German steel is imported, nearly 200,000 tons having been discharged since the commencement of the present 3 ear, and that it is used by the manufacturers in South Wales and Monmouthshire as also in South Staffordshire and the Birmingham district, for rolling into sheets and converting into corrugated iron sheeting, tinplates, rivet rods, wire, and other things, the difference in pi ice between German and British steel being from 5s to 7s 6d a ton. Mr Brailsford denies that the steel is sold here at a fair commercial price based on the cost of manufacture. Those who favour the present system scrupulously ignore the fact that the German price is fixed by an enormous number of trusts (independently altogether of cost) composed of Belgian and German makers, who in turn consti- tute a huge ring or 'cartel' to maintain their own home prices; that their home price is enor- mously higher than their English selling price; that a tariff wall of 30s per ton secures them in this home price, and their surplus products can be remuneratively sold in England at less than cost; that an elaborate pooling arrangement exists by which all the German makers contribute from their excessive home profits to a common fund from which a tonnage allowance is made for all eteel sold abroad at less than cost; that the fact of England's trade being unprotected is at once the cause and oblect of the ring's creation and the sole reason for its success; and, finally, that it is only a matter of a few more months (it has already continued for over three years) before the English steel makers will be crushed out of existence and the Edglish market will be at the German's mercy." The Ebbw Yale Company, Mr Brailsford says, are fairly typical of other large South Wales makers. They possess and work their own coal, having their own small coal ready for coking on the spot. They make their own coke; they smelt their own pig iron they convert it directly into steel, and roll their own billets and bars. They have an output of upwards of 3,000 tons of finished steel per week, and employ some 3,000 men in their iron and steel departments alone, exclusively of the collieries. They produce finished steel in the shape of ingots,' billets, and bars, rails, sleepers, channels, angles, &c. Virtually their finished materials re- presents four distinct trades or manufactures. During the last few years the Company have held their own by keeping their mills employed to their utmost capacity, by the variety of their manu- facture, and by the crumbs of busis • B which the foreigner has left them-, but have done so at a profit which would be regarded as an inadequate one upon any one of the four industries carried on to produce the finished eteel. Girders and structural steel of ull kinds are ex- ported from Belgium and Germany to nearly every English town, including such steel centres as Sheffield and Middlesboreugh. Finished steel buildmgs are now being erected by German manu. facturers in Manchester and elsewhere. The Staffordshiie market has been invaded by German light steel plates for galvanising at about- zCl per ton below Staffordshire and North of England prices; large plates 6ft. in length from 14 to 10 gauge selling at £6 5s per ton delivered at Birm- ingham, as against X7 and upwards for Stafford- shire qualities, large contracts being under negotia. tion. Our st« el trade is not only going-aud going rapidly,-but a great deal of it has gone already. It is, however, oisly during the last three and a half years that the German and American competition has developed and become systematised. THE EXPORTS OF CANADA. The 1ast. ocean-going steamship sailed on Saturday, closing the season's navigation from the por,t of Montreal. The statisticB of the shipments of Canadian products, chidly to Great Britain, show large inct eases in cheese, apples, flour, cattle, sheep, and corn, and large decreases in butter and all grains, with the exception of barley, compared with last year.IkThe value of the cheese exported is estimated at upwards of 20,000,000 dollars, and of the butter at 3,750,000 dollars. The cattle exporters declare that their shipments, which amounted to a total value of 9,000,000 dollars, were carried on at a loss. The apple trade this year proved exceptionally remunerative for Canadians, 761,345, packages being shipped to England, or 254,400 more than last year. TRADE RETURNS FOR CANADA. The following offieial trade Returns for Canada for the Fiscal year 1902-1903 were issued on Tuesday :— Increase over 1901-2. Dollars. Dollars. Total exports 225,849,725.15,209,438 Total imports 223,790,516.31,008,921 Dutycollected. 37,110,354. 5,684,822 Exports to Britain 131,202,321.13,882,100 Imports from Britain 58,896,901. 9,690.839 Exports to United States 71,783,924. 586,240 Imports froniunited States 137,605,195.16,790,445 Value of dutiable goods imported under Pre- ferential Tariff treatment 37,614,505. Duty collected on these 7,069,692. Duty collected on dutiable goods from the United States 17,069,881.
PERJURY IN A BREACH OF PROMESE…
PERJURY IN A BREACH OF PROMESE CASE. At Glamorganshire Assizes, at Cardiff, on Monday, the trial was concluded of Hannah Evans, widow, of Pontardulais, Thomas Evans, and Jane Davies. indicted for perjury in a breach of promise case, heard in March last, when Hannah Evans was the Plaintiff, and Edward Thomas, aged 64, the defendant. The prosecution alleged that certain love letters, supposed to have passed between the aged couplewere really written by Jane Davies although each of the three prisoners swore otherwise. The reading of the letters created much amusement in Court. The defendant in the breach of promise case swore that he had never promised to marry Hannah Evans, and that he did not write, or cause to be written, any of the letters attributed to him. Thomas, in the course of his evidence, described a visit which he alleged Mrs Hannah Evans paid te his house in male attire. An expert in hand- writing from the Home Office stated that, in his opinion, all the letters produced in the breach of promise case were written by Jane Davies. Mrs Evans denied the allegations as to the male attire, and said she had no such clothes large enough to fit her. Jane Davies, one of the defendents, said there was no truth in the suggestion that she, Mrs Evans, and Thomas Evans agreed to manufacture evidence, and she denied writing the letters imputed to her. The evidence she gave at the last trial was true. She saw a solicitor at his office, and he told her that if she confessed that she wrote the letters sho would be all right. She told him she did not write the letters, and he replied that he was not pressing her to say anything, but it would be better for her to say she wrote the letters, even if she had not done so. She told him she could not do that. Mr Justice Bruce That means he said it would be better for you to tell a lie. Witness: He said it would be better for me to say I wrote the letters. Mr Evans, Counsel for the prosecution, showed the witness a letter marked D." At first she admitted it was in her handwriting, and then she denied it. Mr Evans: That letter which you have sworn is not in your handwriting is the letter you wrote at the solicitor's table at my dictation. Witness, after looking at the letter again, ad- mitted that it was in her hand-vritiug. The jury were absent nearly three hours, and subsequently found the three prisoners guilty. In passing sentence, the judge said the jury could not properly have given any other verdict. It was a most deliberate attempt on the part of the prisoners to prevent the course of justice. They had had no regard for the laws of God or man, and he intended making an example of them. Hannah Evans was sentenced to 14 months' imprisonment end Thos. Evans and Jane Davies to 6 months each.
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It now appears certain that the various state- ments to the effect that Princess Alice of Schouburg- Waldenburg bad eloped with her coachman were only malicious rumours circulated from Dresden by her enemies for the delectation of the credulous. They gained a certain credence from the fact that during her stay at Sari, in Italy, she had adopted the incognita of Matsrni, which happened to be the same as that of the coachman in question. Her father, Don Carlos, has given his consent to the separation for which the Princess is taking pro- ceedings, and the relations between father and daughter have been continually of the warmest nature. Princess Alice and her brother Don Jaime are reported to have instructed their legal advisers to proceed against the originators of the false rumours. A Polish nobleman, Count Mnich, while looking through his family archives, has discovered a docu- ment, according to a Polish paper published in Lemberg, which sets forth that one of his ancestors lent to King Frederic William I. of Prussia the sum of 312,000 roubles, which the royal debtor omitted to repay. With compound interest, the debt is now calculated to have increased to 400 miilion roubles. Count, Mnich has accordingly forwarded a state- ment setting out the present condition of the account with a request for payment. It is to be feared that the Polish nobleman is either now a very optimistic man or will soon be a very disap- pointed one. His claim in itself, not without interest in a double sense, reminds us of another one which if it were to be settled in full might add consideiably to the British National Debt. That is to say, if it does not already, strictly speaking, form part of it. It is for a debt contracted by our own King Edward III., who, in a tim3 of financial stress, borrowed a large sum from one of the greatest of the great Florentine families of mer- chant princes. Like his Prussian feilow-monarch, he omitted to repay it, as have his descendants to the present day. As is not unusual, the creditors have shown a better memory than the debtosa, and the present representatives of the Florentine family are said to still cherish the hope of some day receiving their due with interest, and to have indeed brought it before the notice of the British Government more than ence in recent years.
THE FUNERAL OF MR. JASPER…
THE FUNERAL OF MR. JASPER MORE, M.P. The funeral of Mr Robert Jasper More, for many years Liberal Unionist member for the Ludlow Division of Shropshire, took place at More, near Bishop's Castle, on Monday afternoon. The body was interred in the family vault in the chapel connected with the estate. Deposited on the coffin were wreaths from the widow, sons, and daughters of the deceased. The church was crowded. The mourners were:—Mrs More (widow), Mr Mytton More (son, who succeeds to the estate), Miss More (daughter), Mr H. More and Mr Jasper More (sons), Mr Maurice Lloyd (nephew), Mrs and Miss White, and Colonel Hope Edwards. The Vicar of Churchstoke, Prebendary White (who is in his 94th year), officiated, assisted by the Rev. R. Belton, Rector of More. Among those who also attended the funeral were Mr II. D. Greene, M.P., Sir Richard Green Price, the Mayors and Town Clerks of Ludlow, Bishop's Castle, and Bridgnorth, representatives of the Salop Chamber of Agriculture and the Central Liberal Unionist Association. MR MORE'S LAST LETTER. Mr Jasper More truly died in harness." On the day prior to his death he had been engaged in drawing up a letter which he forwarded the Fame night to the representatives of the various agri- cultural societies in the Ludlow Division, who will act for Lord Onslow, the Minister of Agriculture. The leter was as follows: The Hotel, Oraven Arms, November 24th, 1903. Dear sir,—We have invited Mr Chamberlain to address a meeting at Craven Arms. If he is unable to oblige us, the publication of the enclosed will justify the invita- tion. Can you interest the labourers and bring them to any meetings ? The following figures will be of use In 1851 there were in England and Wales 1,670,000 farmers, labourers, &c., occupied in agriculture, whereas thenumber has dwindled down at every census up to 1901, when the official figures were 981,633. The land in Great Britain devoted to wheat in 1866 (when the official figures were first available) was 3,350,394 acres, whereas in 1903 the official figures were 1,580,587 acres. In 1866 (when the official figures were first available) the land de- voted in permanent pasture was 11,148,814 acres, whereas in 1903 they had increased to 16,934,495 acres. In 1869 (wien the official figures were first available) the numbe-rofhorsea, clittle, sheep, and pigs on agricultural holdings in Great Britain was 38,243,127, as against 36,568,130 head in 1903, or a decrease of 1,678,997 head, in spite of the great increase of our town population. The amount of agricultural capital, which according to Mulhall in- creased by zC452,000,000 between 1861 and 1880, de- creased by R263,000,000 between 1881 and 1889. As Mr Chamberlain's proposals cannot mean less rural employment than now, but considerably more, it is easy to see that this point appeals forcibly to the labouring men. Wheat and other provisions did not become suddenly cheaper under free imports; prices vary more in the year now than Mr Cham- berlain proposes, and yet they do not sensibly affect the weekly household bill. It should be explained to the labourer that Mr Cham- berlain's proposals mean free food from the Colonies, and if they can get this from the Colonies there is no reason for objecting to tax the foreigner. The working men should know that they can now bake for 3d the loaf for which they now pay 5d or 5d, if they have suitable ovens and cheap coal. In Yorkshire, where coal can be bought for 10s or 12s per ton, bread carts are sbarcelv ever seen, but at Bishop's Castle coal is sold for 30s, and at Clan for more. People living on hills can bake with gorte. Ten gallons of pure beer can be brewed under the regulations which I carried when Sir William Harcourt was Chancellor of the Exchequer for 3s. worth of materials, in consequence of the repeal of the malt tax, in the case of persons living in a house, the yearly renta of which is less than £8 per annum, without paying any duty 6s between L8 and £10 rental; a 9s licence for a farmhouse, which without the buildings, can be brought under £ 15 by an assessment committee, except where a house is near a railway station. They should be cautioned against impure whisky, which is the main cause of drunkenness, none being safe to drink until it has been kept feix years, which however, would raise the price of the very inferior sorts, which are made from German potato spirit and other un. wholesome foreign importations. Mr Chamberlain proposes a duty of 2s on foreign wheat, letting in the wheat from the Colonies free, and reducing the duties on tea, sugar, and tobacco, the duty on which is four times the value of the tobacco." A correspondent forwards a contemporary an interesting personal reminescence of the late Mr Jasper More, M.l*. (with whom he was intimately acquainted in the "Radical" days of the latter) in connection with his Linley Hall estate in Shrop- shire. While on a visit to Mr More (he writes) he showed me a fine bar of lead, bearing the stamp of a Roman emperor, but I now forget which. It had been found during an attempt to reopen a very ancient lead mine on the estate, through a part of which Watling street" still runs, onwards to the great Roman station of Uriconium, a few miles from Shrewsbury. Mr More's strenuous effort to further exploit the old lead mines was not a finan- cial success, as far as I can remember, the Romans having prQbDly "worked out" the deposits. Mr More was a singularly amiable and cultured man, with very democratic views on many subjects and very Tory ones on others; a kind of Disraelian "Democratic Tory "that is to say, he was over 30 years ago.
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— + — Mr. Gwya Holford, who for many years past has been Chairman of the Brecoushire Conserva- tive Association, is about to retire from that posi- tion in which he has rendered great service to the Unionist cause in the county. He is to be succeeded by Colonel T. Wood, who is one of the most prominent Conservatives in the county. SWANSEA AND THE COAL TAX.— Sir George Newnes has arranged with the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Air Austen Chamberlain) for a depu- tion of Swansea coalowners and shippers to wait upon him, with the view of placing before him the grievance arising from the unequal incidence of the coal tax as now imposed. Under the peculiar circumstances of the ccal trade in Swansea the remission of taxation on small coal is not obtained there as it is elsewhere, and it is on this point that the deputation hopes to submit a case and to eecure redress.
COUNTY TIME 3 AGENTS.
COUNTY TIME 3 AGENTS. ABERYSTWYTH.-— County Times Office, Portland Street; Mr Jenkins, Stationer, Great Darkgate Street; Messrs Smith and Son, Railway Bookstall Mr J Roberts, tobacconist, Terrace Road; Messrs Evans Bros., Pier Street; Miss Jones, Thespia Street. ABERDOVEY.—Mr G. Williams, newsagent. ABERGYNOLWYN.—Mr Richie Pugh, Egryn Cottage ABERMULE.—Mr T. W. Jones, signalman. BARMOUTH.—Mrs. Arnfield, Stationer; Messrs Smith & Son. BERRIEW.—Mr J. Gornall; Mr J Williams, Grocer BETTWS.—Mr E. B. Morris, Top Shop. BETHLEHEM, LLANFAIR.-Miss Jane Pryce, The Sho BWLCHYCIBAU.-—Mr Watkin Gittins, smith. BUTTINGTON.-Air T. Leighton, Railway Cottages. CASTLE CAEREINION.—Mr E E Jones, Post Office. CHIRBURY.—Mrs Morris, New Cottages. CHURCHSTOKE.—Mr G Morris, Grocer. CORRIs.-Mr. Evan Edwards, Bookseller, Glanydon CAERSWS.—Mr J. F. Jones, Hawthorne Villa. CEMMAES.—Mr E. Edward. Uwchyrafon. CARNo.-Mr John Owen, Rose Cottage. DOLFOR.—Mr Albert Williams, Post Office. DINAS MAVVDDWY.—Mrs Evans, Post Office. DOLGELLEY.—Mr. E. Y. Williams, Newsagent. ELLESMERE.—Mr V. C. Everett, Stationer. FORDEN.—Mr W Jones, Court House Lane. GLANDOVEY JUNCTION.—Messrs Smith and Son. GARTHMYL.—Mr E. R. Owen, Nag's Head. GUILSFIELD.-Mrs Poston. HYSSINGTON MARSH.—Mr William Perkins. KERRY.—Mr William Bebb. LLANIDLoEs.-Messrs Smith and Son; Sergeant Hughes, Police Station; Mr J. Rogers, London House. LIVE ULPOOL.-MeF!srEt Conlan & Co., 5, Crosshall st. LLANBRYNMAIR.—-Mr W Daniels, Wynnstay Shop. LLANBADARN FAWR.—Mr Simon, Post Office. LLANGURIG.—Mr J. Davies, Blue Bell Inn. LLANDYSILIO-Mr E H Roberts, City House. LLANDYSSIL.-Mr W. Corfield. LLANFAIR.—Mr E. James, butcher, Pool road. LLWYNGWRIL.—Mr W. M. Griffith, Cambrian Stores. LLANERFYL.—Mr Thomas Roberts, Tanllan. LLANFECHAIN. Mr Maurice Edwards, 2, Broo cottage. LLANSANTFFRAID.—Mr E Davies,Cambrian Cottages LLANYMYNECH.—Mr J. Tilsley, Chemist. LLANFYLLIN—Mr'Watkin Lloyd, Temperance; Mr S. Bryan, Bookseller. LEIGHTON.—Mr H. Gwilt, Pantybwch. MACHYNLLETH—Messrs G Parsons & Son, Burcombe House, Maengwyn Street; Messrs Smith and Son. MEIFOD.—Mr J Davies, Post Office. MERTHYR VALE.—Mrs Powell, Post Office. MONTGOMERY.—Mr W. P. Marshall, Post Office. NEWTOWN-Mr Atkinson, Ladywell street; Mr F W Cooke, Stationer; Messrs Park andSon,Stationers; Mr C. J. Newell, Market Street; Messrs Smith and Son, Railway Bookstall; and Mr J. Griffiths, 37, Broad Street. NEW MILLS.—Mrs Jane Thomas. OPENSHAW (MANCHESTER).— Mr H Butterworth, 304, Ashton Old Road. PORTMADoc.-Messrs W. H. Smith and Son. PENYBONTFAWR—Mr J. E. Jackson, School House. RHAYADER.—Mrs Pryce, Wye Cottage. OswEtTBr.—Mr J W Williams, Cross Street Mestra Smith and Son; Messrs Bayley and Co Church Street; Mrs Lewis, Leg Street; Mr Lawrence, Trinity Street, Albert Road Miss Wilson, 67, Church Street Mr G E Evans, Sub-Post Office, Beatrice street. POOL QUAY.—Mrs Pryce, The Shop. SHREWSBURY.—Mrs M A. Rainford, 9, Castle Gates- TowYN.-Mr Lewis Lewis, College Green; Mr It P Jones, 2, National Street; Miss C Jones, Berwyn House; Mr J Wynn Williams, Cambrian Square; Messrs W H Smith and Son, Railway Bookstall. TREFEGLWYS.—Mi-Howard Humphreys,The Smithy TREFNANNEY.— Mr Richard Haigh, Old Shop, Gyford. TREHARRIS.—Mr James Jones, 21, Thomas Street. TREGYNON.—Mr Richard Thomas, Draper. WELSHPOOL.-County Times Office, 21, BerrieW Street; Mr C. H. Gwynne, Broad Street; -Messrs, Smith and Son, Railway Bookstall; Mr A. Jr Blair, Berriew Stret.
THE NEAR EAST.
THE NEAR EAST. It is probable, says a Belgrade corraspondent,, that Servia will form an 'alliance with Bulgaria against Turkey when the revolt in Macedonia Springs into life again next spring, and that both Governments will demand in decided terms the autonomy of Macedonia under a Christian goT ernor. The Servian Minister of War proposes to ask the Skupshtina for an extra credit of ten million dinars for the armament of the military. A telegram received by the London Macedonian Relief Com mittee states that thousands' will die of hunger and exposure in the Kastcria district nnless British aid be given.
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4 On the last call-night Mr David Rees, of the Inner Temple, was called to the Bar. Mr Rees. who is a native of Llanarth, was formerly one ot the masters of the County School, Llanelly, and acted as one of the honorary secretaries of the- National Eisteddfod, held at Llanelly this year Mr Rees intends to join the South Wales circuit.