POLITICAL GOSSIP.

Evening Star, Issue 14187, 12 October 1909, Page 5

POLITICAL GOSSIP.

[Fr.OM OCR PMUJASIBNTARY. Reporter.] WELLINGTON, October 12. - OPPOSITION CAUCUS. r Nothing has been allowed to leak out regarding the 'Opposition caucus last night, it which twenty-seven members were present or accounted for. Conjecture credits tile caucus with the formulation of a plan to move an amendment on the" Address-in-Paply. calculated to force tho hands of the Freeholders among the Government supporters, but tide lacks confirmation at present. * There is no word bo far n6 to whether any Government caucus is to 1m summoned. DUNEDIN CENTRAL ACTIVE. Thi6 afternoon Mr J. F. Arnold gave N notice to move for a return showing the number of hotel and accommodation licenses refused as an outcome of each poll since 1894, and showing whether by Reduction Vote or No-license. Mr Arnold is asking-the Government to bring down an amendment to the Slaughtering and Inspection Act making prov:uion for giving local bodips power to enact by-laws for the better regulating am; controlling of the sale of meat which hm been kdled elsewhere than at the public abattoir. He contends that it is necessary in each city to have a clearing-house, to which all carcasses intended for human consumption and not beiirini- the abattoir stamp would be sent for inspection, so that no meat could be sold in the city which did not boar either the abattoir or clearinghouse stamp. The member for Dunedm Central also afiks whether the Government intend offering a prize or bonus for the first person who successfully manufactures and flies an aeroplane within the Dominion, and the amount and conditions under w''ich the prize is to be secured.