POLITICAL NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3115, 2 July 1892, Page 2

POLITICAL NOTES.

(liV TKLKGHAFII—rtI'KCI.U, COUIIKSI"ON'I>KNT). Wixlinuton, Lmt Night. . THE BftYCE EPISODIC. Mil McGuirb's motion for rescinding the vi.to of censure passed lust suasion on Mr Brycu, la to iiiß'/iln.T for Waikato, lias becjn twice talked or.t, ami cannot come mi again till Wednesday n...vt. which is tlia first priv.ite members' d*y. It is confidently iinsiM-te.il that tin! Miction will bo carried ii2.imst the Ministers, and (ii.it is the reason whv they refuse to allow the motion to go to vote, POSTAL CLASSIFICATION. Tlih P(i>t:iiast'-r General informed Mr Jliimlin yesterday that it had been found possible to (trade the officers in the Postil and Ttiliißraph Department, but impossible to grade the employees, Promotion was secured by transferrins , men from smaller to larger offices. There were various anomalies in the iJeparttnent and he hoped to introduce a bill to remove those though it would bs impossible to do si this session. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. The Ministerial supporter* are delighted witli the budget, but the Opposition say that the <>]iprlite.-t accident would make the whole of the financial scheme elaborated by Mr Ballance tumble to piece?. There is certain to be an exhaustive criticism of the statement next week. The Post to-night is very severe on the budget proposals. It concludes its.article as follows :—"lt is an abuse of language to term this policy, so fully elaborated last night, a policy .if selfreliance Th.it term has hitherto been connected in New Zealand history with a really 1 great statesmanlike policy, which was productive of vast benefit to the colony. It is enough to make Sir Frederick Weld and Sir H. Atkinson turn in their honoured graves to have the terms so indelibly and honourably associated with their names prostituted ami perverted by application to ii policy such as that enunciated last night —a policy not of honest self-reliance, but of cant and cadging." THE UREWERA COTjNTP.Y. It id stated thai, the Urewera chiefs have itske'l the Government to take over the recently surveyed blcek in their country and hold it in trust until the inter-tribal dispute respecting the ownership can he settled. The Native Minister has a-"ked the chiefs to let the mattsr stand until the session is over, when he will visit them with the Hon. Mr Carroll and discuss the question of future surveys, and of bringing the dispute before the Nitive Land Court. A meeting of the Standing Orders Committee of the Legislative Council, was held this, morning to dr.-iw up regulations for the election of a Speaker, and a meeting will be held on Mondav.

It is expected that the finaucial debate will begin on Tuesday night.