POLITICAL NOTES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5267, 10 July 1888, Page 2

POLITICAL NOTES.

[PABLIAStENTABY KEI'OBTEB.J

Wellington, Last night. NO CONFIDENCE MOTION.

There is already some talk of accepting tho challenge thrown down by the Premier the other evening, and testing the question whether the House has or haß not oonlideueo in the Government us at present constituted. The ndvisability of bringing on such a motion even at this late stage of tho session in likely to be considered by; the Opposition this week, but it is problehiatioul whether they will determine to do so. If such a motion is proposed, I doubt if it will socuro more than forty votes, and there is little or no chance of it being carried. 'FRISCO MAIL SERVICE. Mr Peacock intends to put a question on the Order Paper with tho object of bringing out tho fact already wired to you, that if the correspondence now sent by the direct service were forwarded by tho 'Frisco service, the result would bo a profit on the latter line of over £14,000. Feeling- is very much divided between tho rival mail services, WINE-GROWERS' DISTILLATION. Sir George Groy's bill to provide for the granting of licenses to wine-growers to distil spirits is circulated. It gives a, commission power to grant to-the proprietor of any vineyard, who shall have in cultivation and actually planted with vines a quantity, of land of not less than two acres, a license to keep and use a still of not loss than twenty-fivo gallons, nor moro than fifty gallons, capacity, for the purpose of dis- ' tilling spirits from wine or tho locs of wino, being tho produco of his own vinoyard, such spirits to bo used only for fortifying the wines produced in tho vineyard or the person obtaining such license. Tho licensee i must furnish returns, and the spirits are to be kept in a special store-room. NATIVE POLICY BILLS. At tho deputation of natives to the Premier relative to the Government native policy bills, tho northern representatives wero strongly opposed to tho bills, and claimed tho observance of tke Treaty of Waitangi, but tho East Coast natives limited their objections to tho taxation clauses. Tho Premier said it was absurd to nsk that there should be eepuratq systems of Government in tho colony for tho Europeans and Maoris. Ho promLsod that tho bills should, aftor their second reading, bo referred to a committee of both Houses, in which the native members should be included, and that tho Government would accept tho committee's roport.