LATEST, PARLIAMENTARY NEWS. NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION IMPENDING. Wellington, Friday.

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LATEST, PARLIAMENTARY NEWS. NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION IMPENDING. Wellington, Friday.

The Staiv •> reporter, ' telegraphs -r~ An; Atkinson oatrcHsitooKplttcel'ui il o'clock!

agreeing iQ,Ptho;^f^p6^J^ by" , flip Illdor^ |t ' was3jfen^rad'jp^ned til,!, to-morrow trvigive ;;Atkjnsqh a Icfrariceof consulting wifch^Mont^oTH^cy ah*d nOr- , mond; 'Kb to-rnbrrbw% meeting it-'wiir : be decided when the notice of want of confidence 5 is to be given, and, by wliom. The probability now is that tha notice will be given on Monday 1 , and that Ormond will give it* The lenders estimate that they will have a majority of at least five against the Government. Dar^aville, who has boon reckoned as doubtful, is now prepared to vote unreservedly with the Opposition. Auckland members are " ticked off " as follows:— -Opposition J Buckland, Grey, Hamlin, Hobbs, Hurst, Lake, Locke, Mitchelson, Moat, Peacock, Thompson, and White. Government ; Uadman, Fraser, Moss, Tole, and Grace. Authorities on Parliamentary precedents say that if the Governmont are defeated on a direct want of confidence motion they are clearly entitled to a dissolution. I hear on good authority that Government intend proposing to refer the District Railway Purchase Bill to the Public Accounts Committee.