MISCELLANEOUS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 74, 20 November 1912, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

The battleship New Zealand has been commissioned and is completing at Devonport for sea service. Obituary: Norman Shaw, the architect.

Two hundred and fifty delegates to the Medical (Association conferred in secret (says a London cablegram), and declined to render service under the Insurance Act and regulations as at present constituted, declaring that the regulations were unworkable and derogatory to the profession. Schrank, Roosevelt’s assailant, has been declared insane. The doctors’ decision being unanimous, bo lias been committed to an asylum for an indefinite period. Six persons were killed ami six injured by a head-on collision by special trains in North Carolina. The cars were reduced to matchwood. The collision was caused by the engineer confusing orders. During a fire at Los Angelos five hotel guests were killed through leaping from the fourth storey windows to the pavement. Jones, the elevator man, saved many by running the elevator to enable panic stricken men and women to escape.

The Victorian House of Representatives placed a tribute to the late Mr Justice O’Connor on the records after eulogies by Messrs Fisher and Deakin.

Referring to the offer to place the Loyalty Islands under the Commonwealth', Mr Fisher said the islands were comparatively of small importance but New Caledonia was valuable. The Government would further consider their inclusion when a favourable opportunity presented itself. The adbuetion charge against Jack Johnson was dismissed at Chicago.

“Gyp the Blood,” “Lefty” Louis, Frank Cirofici, and “Whitey” Louis were found guilty of Rosenthal’s murder and sentenced to death by electrocution.—New York cablegram.