A MESSAGE FROM VICTORIA.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12404, 20 November 1908, Page 3

A MESSAGE FROM VICTORIA.

AN KXt'LANATION. [United Press Association.] Wellington, N0v.19. In reference to toe telegram from Melbourne advising workers to vote for labour candidates, Mr Eeardon explains that h« rpceived a telephone message from the Trades Council informing him that the cable had bßen received. He understood that it was from Mr Fisher, and telegraphed to the other centres. Later, however, hn discovered to bis surprise that the message had come from Mr Prendergast, leader of the Victorian State Labour Party, and not from Mr Fisher, the lnader of the Federal Labour Party and Premier.