♦ (from ova own correspondent.) [by telegraph.] Wellington, Friday. The Tobacco Bill is printed. It autho rises 'the Commissioner of Customs to grant licenses for the manufacture of

" tobacco in bond. The licensee has to give a bond with two sureties for £I00Q ; The du{y on tobacco. manufactured ..in ' the colony 'is to be the^ame 'as that on ijn* porVedi bht a bonus of ahtgenCe' pet lb. is to % be given. tobacco grown'; in the colony, ia to be carried; direct by the shortest* route to theMnanufaotory. Raw or leafv tobacco found s '-itT possession "of others than licensed manufacturers may be seized, and retail dealers in sposiiession of it ate to be liable to a fine of ~£so. A penalty of £o"0 is to be imposed for manu facturers using deleterious ingredients!.^ Dealers' stocks of duty-paid tobacco are. to be stamped by the Customs, and any attempt, to evadß tile 4Uty renders, a iJetf jWtt liable to a line of £100, arid to imitate the.,Btampa id ratony 1. The GUil List Act Amendment Bill introduced by the Government proposes to reduce the Premier's salary by MSO, arid the salaries of the other Minister by £200, so as to provide the salary for an additional Minister. There is not likely to be much opposition to this. It is believed Jhat.Mr Reader Wood and Mr, Bairi are likely to fill the two 1 vacant Ministerial Beats'; • Mr Hall's reading the telegram v an : nouncing the. floating of the loan twice over was received with cheers, wiiich, were changed to liiughter wnen Mr Reeves suggested that it was a pity to disappoint the Home capitalists ; the Government had better telegraph Home to them to take the lot. A considerable number of members leave for the North to-morrow. The House will sit to«niorrow, and- the prorogation is probable on Tuesday. The Government have twice tried to get the standing orders suspended in order to take new business after 12.30, but the Opposition defeated this by walking out and reducing the Quorum below two thirds-. 