POLITICAL NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2051, 29 August 1885, Page 2

POLITICAL NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]

The No confidence Resolution?. Wrli ivi.iox, Fuday The greatest excitement has been apparent all day on tho no confidence motion, and up to a ceitain hour this afternoon Ministeis weie |beheved to be in an unmistakable mmoiity. Ith is now b>en nospcret for some horns that the issue depended on the vote of Mi S Mackenzie, who is snffei ing from an affection of the eyes, and has been absent fioni the House for a few days. The confidently icckoned on Mr *Maoken/ie's vote, in consequence of the serious attieks he so frequently made on the Government this session, ft was also repoitod tint Mi Cowan, the nieinb'i for Hokoniu, had consented to vote with tho Opposition, which would give them a ma]oiitv of two or tin ee against the Government. The anticipations foi m d of both those gentlemen, how evei, have pi >ved delusive, as Mi Mic kenzie. aftei numcious solicitations, and whipping up fiom both sides, has piiied foi the Government on the noconndenc motion, hut will \ote agunst the vote of £T>o,ooo foi tho East and West Gust Railwiv. Mr Cowan, I understand, his decided to support tho Government on tho question, which will give them a s'nall in.ijonty, piobably not moie than two votes. It was found that theie were n<i less than 84 members present to vote on the no confidence motion. One of the mem b»rs, who acted in a lathei peculiar inannei. was evidently unable to make u» lib mind as to which direction he should vote, and he was urgently solicited b\ mairbois of tho Opposition side, one of them being no less than Sir (I. Grey, who prt lii^ amis around the hon. member and evidently used all his eloquence to induce him to vote in opposition, which ho even ti all}' did. The remaining lesolutions proposed by Major Atkinson will probably bi taken without much debate, owing to the lateness of the session If Government should be successful in defeating Mi Hislop s motion, of which theie is now every probability, the Opposition have no intention of making any further attack on them, except of couise fn the shape ot criticism of the estimates and general measures.