COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 59, 11 March 1913, Page 5

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

HOSPITAL ENQUIRY REPORT. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) (Received 9.35 a.m.) Melbourne, March 11. The police magistrate’s report on the .administration of the Queen’s Memorial Infectious Diseases Hospital finds the charges—that the body was allowed to remain ten days without notifying the relatives; that the relatives were informed that the patient was improving; that another was just the same when both were dead; that children were sent to the hospital clean, and returned vermin-in-fested and allowed to run about imperfectly clad,-—were proved. The other allegations wore disproved.

THE HERESY HUNT REPORT. Melbourne, March 11. The Political Labor League Conference debated last night the report of the so-called Heresy-Hunt Committee. Though the proceeding were conducted behind closed doors, the Herald publishes a lengthy account, which states that tho committee enquired diligently into two specific counts of alleged unfaithfulness concerning the leasehold plank and giving left-handed support to Mr Ueeby during tho Blayney by-election. Tho Committee proposed to ostracise tho following six members of tho New South Wales Labor Party;—Messrs. Carmichael, Griffith, Trefle (ministers), and G. Black, McGarry and Lynch (members of Parliament). The debate was adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS. The Sydney Scott fund has reached £4470. Tho cruiser Melbourne has arrived at Fremantle.