TELEGRAMS.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 26 July 1917, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[per press association.] LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Wellington, This Day. Members of tho Legislative Council waited 011 the Governor-General this morning to present an Address-in-Reply. On returning.I*,1*, 'the council ivjsuiiiitid its sitting. Mr lActingSpeaker Carncross conveyed the thanks of His Excellency the Governor to the Council for the Council's address, and Mr Carncross added that His 'Excellency expressed his deep regret at the illness of tllie Speaker of tht Council, ami also Announced that .Air Speaker had arrived safely at Vancouver. % DEATH FROM EATING QUININE TABLOID'S. Auckland, This Day. A little girl, aged 14 months, ti.iaghter of Captain Asa Whitney, di.'d as a result of eating quinine tabloid?, \vh ch the father kept 011 the table in a. bottle for his own use. The doctor stated at the inquest that the tabloids were very sweet and agreeable to the palate; if a child of fourteen months swallowed two or three the result would be fatal. XO-COXiFTDEXOE MOTION. Auckland, This I>ay. s Tlie congress of the Auckland Provisional Labor Unions carried the following refiolu'tion ; —"That this congress of sixty-one labor unions has absolutely no confidence in the National Government, for in the matter of food supplies the Government has not considered public interest, but has also aided and abetted exploiters of food . supplies.