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gelatine, lb., Id. ; ginger, dried or green, lb., Id. ; glucose, liquid and syrup, 
cwt, 3s. 4d. ; glucose, solid, cwt., 5s. ; groats, patent, lb., Id. ; honey, lb., Id. ; 
liquorice and liquorice paste, lb., 2d. ; lozenges, of. all kinds, lb., 2d. ; maizena, 
lb., Id. ; mustard, lb., Id. ; macaroni and vermicelli, lb., Id. ; meat extract, 
lb., 2d. ; milk, condensed or preserved, lb., Id. ; milk foods, lb., Id. ; naptha 
and gasoline, gallon, 6d. ; opium, and any preparation or solution thereof, not 
imported for uses known in medicine, lb., 20s. ; oils, except black, cocoanut, 
and sperm, gallon, 6d. ; oils in bottle, except essential oils, reputed 
quarts, dozen, Is. 6d. ; reputed pints, dozen, 9d. ; reputed half-pints 
■and smaller size, dozen, 6d. ; pitch, tar, and resin, barrel, 2s. ; plaster 
and plaster of Paris, barrel, 2s. ; prunes, lb., 2d. ; saltpetre, ton, 20s. ; 
sarsaparilla, if containing not more than 25 per cent, of proof spirit, gallon, 
4s. ; if containing more than 25 per cent, of proof spirit, gallon, 12s. ; 
soda crystals (gross), ton, 20s. ; spices, lb., 2d. ; spirits, on all kinds of spirits 
imported into the colony, the strength of which can be ascertained by Sykes’ 
hydrometer, per proof gallon, 12s. ; no allowance beyond 16*5 shall be made for 
the underproof of any spirits of a less hydrometer strength than 16*5 under 
proof on all spirits and spirituous compounds imported into the colony, the 
strength of which cannot be ascertained by Sykes’ hydrometer, per liquid gallon, 
12s. ; methylated, gallon, 2s. ; starch and starch powder, lb., ljd. ; stearine, lb.. 
Id. ; succades and sweetmeats, lb., 2d. ; salts, Epsom, lb., Id. ; spirits, perfumed 
water, Florida water, and bay rum, per liquid gallon, 15s. ; sherbet, lb., Id. ; 
soap, toilet and scented, lb., Id. ; sugar candy, lb., 2d. ; turpentine, gallon, 
Is. ; tapioca and semolina, lb., Id. ; twine and lines, cwt., 2s. ; tinctures and 
fluid extracts containing spirit, the strength of which cannot be ascertained 
accurately by Sykes’ hydrometer, per liquid gallon, 12s. ; varnish and lithographic 
varnishes, gallon, 2s. ; vinegar other than aromatic or raspberry, gallon, 6d. ; 
wax, Japan, lb., Id.; paraffin, lb., Id.; mineral, lb., Id.; vegetable, lb., 
Id. ; and upon all other articles, goods, wares, and merchandise imported into 
the colony, and not enumerated in Schedule A, for every 100 pounds or the 
value thereof, the sum of £5. 
An action, brought by Ephraim Cross, a brickmaker, of Campbelltown, 
against Dr. Goode, a medical practitioner in the neighbourhood, to recover 
damages for the injuries and expense sustained by the plaintiff, owing to the 
“ careless, negligent, and unskilful” way in which it was alleged Dr. Goode had 
treated him when he met with an accident in May last year, was brought to a 
conclusion on 30th March, after occupying the attention of Mr. Justice 
Wmdeyer and a special jury of twelve for four days. The jury, by a three- 
fourths majority, found for the plaintiff, with damages for the full amount 
claimed, £500. 
A nicely illuminated address was, on 26th March, presented by the medical 
students of the Sydney University to Professor Anderson Stuart, as a mark of 
their sympathy and respect for him in his recent domestic trouble. Mr. D. D. 
Rutledge presented the address, which bore the signatures of thirty-one students. 
Dr. Stuart suitably replied. 
It will be remembered that in April, 1885, a woman named Mary Ann 
Burton, and her daughter, Sarah Keep, tried at Maitland on a charge of 
murdering the husband of the latter by administering poison, were found guilty 
and condemned to death, the sentence being subsequently commuted to imprison- 
ment for life. Mrs. Keep died in Darlinghurst Gaol in September last, and on 
Saturday, 3rd inst., the elder prisoner expired in the gaol hospital, where an 
