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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
The following correspondence has been handed to us for publication:— 
Messrs. Rocke, Tompsitt & Co, Melbourne, 
Gentlemen, I am requested by the South Suburban Chemists’ Association to 
inform, you that it was stated at the meeting held on Tuesday, 7th September, that 
a special traveller, professing to represent your firm, has been soliciting orders for a 
preparation made by you (Balm of Solazzi and Aniseed). He has called on chemists 
and also their next-door neighbours, grocers, and storekeepers. Knowing your warm 
sympathy with the retail chemists and their grievances, it was suggested that you 
ought, to be made cognisant of the fact, that you may be able to take means to 
repudiate the connection ; and that we may be allowed to publish this letter, and your 
reply in The Journal of Pharmacy for this month. — I have the honour to be, gentle, 
men, yours obediently, G _ F . CHAMBERLIN. 
9th September, 1886. 
Mr. G. F. Chamberlin, Hon. Secretary South Suburban Chemists Association. 
Hear Sir, We have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your favour of 9th inst. 
ie Balm of Solazzi and Aniseed, and in reply, we beg to say that we have no travellers 
m our employment pushing the sale of the article in question ; that we are neither 
proprietors nor manufacturers of it, and have no more pecuniary interest in it than 
" e have in Cockle’s Pills, Clarke’s Blood Mixture, or any other of the hundred and 
one patent medicines, in connection with which our name is daily advertised in the 
public prints as agents or vendors. You are at liberty to print this correspondence, or 
make whatever use you please of it.— Yours faithfully, 
ROCKE, TOMrSITT AND CO. 
INTERCOLONIAL PHARMACEUTICAL CONFERENCE. 
The following circular has been addressed to the secretaries of the various 
Australasian Pharmaceutical Societies : — 
Melbourne (Victoria), August, 1886. 
Dear Sir, — In the month of April last a preliminary circular on the subject 
of the proposed Intercolonial Pharmaceutical Conference was addressed by a joint 
committee from the Pharmaceutical Society and Pharmacy Board of Victoria 
to the Pharmaceutical Societies and Boards in the Australasian colonies and 
New Zealand, inviting representatives to be present at a Conference to be held 
in Melbourne on the 27th, 28th, and 29th of October, 1886, in order to bring 
about uniformity in the educational qualifications requifed of pharmaceutical 
chemists in the Australasian colonies, and to promote reciprocity in the recogni- 
tion of certificates ; and, further, to discuss any matter that might be brought 
forward on which it is considered that joint legislation or action would be 
desirable. In reply to this invitation, the colonies of New South Wales, New 
Zealand, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania decided to send delegates, 
and it is a source of satisfaction to be able to report that the most cordial 
wishes for the success of the Conference have been expressed by all the colonies 
who are unable to attend. 
The committee have carefully considered the programme, appended, which 
forms the business to be dealt with by the first Intercolonial Conference, and 
are of opinion that, by limiting the number and nature of the resolutions, a 
much greater probability of the general acceptance of the scheme will be 
secured; and it is earnestly hoped that the annexed propramme, to be submitted 
to the Conference, will be thoroughly discussed before the delegates leave their 
respective colonies, so that some finality may be arrived at. — I am, yours faith- 
fully, Harry Shillinglaw, Acting Honorary Secretary. 
First Day, Wednesday, 27th October. 
The business of the first Intercolonial Pharmaceutical Conference will com- 
mence on Wednesday, the 27th October, at 10 o’clock a.m., at the College of 
Pharmacy, Swanston-street, Melbourne, when an “ Address of Welcome” will 
open the proceedings. 
