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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
Steps are being taken to establish a school of mines at Queenstown. 
“ Quack ! Quack !” — Says the Otago Witness — 44 A patent medicine vendor 
has been travelling through the district disposing of an immense quantity of 
his unfailing remedies, or 4 cure-alTs/ The belief of the unsophisticated 
country resident in these nostrums is really surprising. A neighbour troubled 
with that ailment, described by Burns as 4 the hell o' a’ diseases,’ purchased some 
specifics, warranted to cure. He has tried them, and now anathematises that 
‘medicine man’ as a fraud, and his wares a delusion. He has since interviewed 
a qualified practitioner and had his dental economy arranged on correct principles. 
After all, the world grows little wiser in these matters, and the 4 half-rogues 
and half-fools ’ theory still holds good.” 
Mr. A. Kamnitzer has purchased the business of Mr. J. M. Cambridge, 
Ashburton. 
Mr. N. Dodds has started business in Oamaru. 
Mrs. Robinson, of Cashel-street, Christchurch, who has carried on the busi- 
ness of her late husband f >r some years, has sold out to Mr. J. S. Cooke. 
Mr. Jos. Stevens, of Christchurch, is about to dispose of his business in view 
of his departure for England. 
Christchurch is soon to have a class for the study of materia medica, the 
management being the same as that of the pharmaceutical chemistry class of last 
winter. 
In the report for 1885 of the Brisbane Friendly Associated Societies* 
Dispensary, presented on the occasion of the election of office-bearers for the 
current year, there was this satisfactory paragraph : — 44 The management of 
the dispensary is still in the able hands of Mr. W. R. Colledge, A.L.P.S., 
to whose skilful and assiduous attention the prosperous results are largely 
due.” The representatives of the various societies interested gave more 
emphatic expression to their appreciation of Mr. Colledge’s abilities by voting 
him a bonus. 
The annual report of the Townsville Hospital shows the death rate for the 
year to have been one in eleven of the patients treated, or about 9 per cent. 
This only included the in-door patients. The subscribers recommended to the 
new committee the suggestion that some trained nurses should be procured from 
one of the London hospitals. 
An inquiry is to be held upon the mismanagement and extravagance 
alleged against the Maryborough Polynesian Hospital. 
Some trouble has arisen at Ingham in connection with the new hospital, 
In consequence of the planters’ endeavours to get the Asiatic labourers admitted 
into the European quarters. 
Mr. Vaughan has disposed of his Southport business to Mr. Moore, late 
of Mitchell. Mr. Vaughan removes to Rockhampton, where he succeeds Mr. 
Meade. 
Mr. Roland has started business in Maryborough, having sold out of 
Bundaberg to Mr. J. Davidson, late of Stanthorpe. 
Mr. A. Scowen, of Sydney, has purchased Mr. Von Berger’s Minton 
business. 
