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country, they concluded to leave his salary severely alone, and let him R.I.P. 
Again the member of an inquiring turn of mind came to the fore, and wanted 
to know how the finances stood. ‘ One Professor/ said he, £ sent in a requisi- 
tion for £137 worth of specimens or apparatus for his department; another one 
wanted some things at £12, which, when the bill came in, proved to be £23 ; 
while a third Professor wanted a water-wheel. The line was drawn at the 
water-wheel, which, if it illustrated anything, represented that of Professors* 
demands there was no end. So the poor, patient, overburdened colony staggers 
along under a weight of taxation which no other people under heaven would 
endure — like Issachar, an ass crouching between two burden^/’ From the 
above one can gather that here it is evidently deemed sufficient to appoint a 
Professor, give him an inferior barn to lecture in, and half a school is 
established. 
The proprietor of Hitchens Blood Restorer, Mr. H. A. H. Hitchens, is 
about to form his medicine into the Hew Zealand Patent Medicine Company. 
Surely the days of empirical nostrums has gone by. All the best proprietary 
articles that are now brought out make no secret of their composition, but rely 
on their intrinsic value and palatable form, as, for instance, the various malt 
extracts, pipsin, &c. 
Mr. Wm. Bowen, of Melbourne, arrived here by the ’Frisco steamer, but his 
stay was so short a few hours only — that there was no opportunity of showing 
him any civilities, which the Aucklanders — let it be said to their credit — usually 
do in a very gracious and unostentatious manner. 
A pleasant ceremony took place at Wellington on 5th March, when Dr. 
(xrabham was presented with a handsome afternoon tea service, manufactured 
entirely of Thames silver, and beautifully engraved, and an illuminated address. 
The presentation was made on behalf of the officers of the lunatic asylums and 
hospitals throughout the colony, and speaks volumes for the high esteem in 
which the doctor is held. 
It may interest some of our readers to learn that the annual report of 
Messrs. Uempthorne, Prosser and Company, the Hew Zealand Drug Company, 
states that the net profit during the year amounts to £10,067. After providing 
for the dividend declared, and writing off for depreciation £3385, there remains, 
with the balance from last year, £12,154. The directors recommend out of this 
a dividend of seven per cent, on the paid-up capital, carrying forward £9231. 
The following particulars concerning Dr. Frank Ogston, of Aberdeen, who 
has been appointed lecturer on hygiene and medical jurisprudence in the Otago 
University, have been published in the Otago Witness : — “ Graduating at Aberdeen 
University in 1873, with the degrees of M.B. and C.M., Dr. Ogston received 
the degree of M.D. two years later. He spent a winter session at Prague, 
studying hygiene and toxicology, and afterwards proceeded to Paris for the 
purpose of studying hygiene and jurisprudence under Bouchardt and Jardieu. 
For upwards of ten years he was engaged in all the Aberdeen medical legal 
work; and in addition to being assistant to his father— the late Professor 
Francis Ogston — in the office of police surgeon and medical officer of health, 
he was lecturer on practical toxicology in the University for several years. 
Besides being the author of several special medical works, Dr. Ogston is also 
the writer of various treatises on general medicine. He is now on his way to 
the colony, and is expected to commence his duties on the 1st of May.” 
Mr. Wilson, of Otakapo station, Hew Zealand, reports that a flock of 
several hundred' sheep that were badly affected by lung worms got into a 
plantation of young bluegums, and by browsing upon them were all completely 
cured. 
