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Mr. Cooper asked if anything had been done in the way of arranging classes 
for students. The president said that if a sufficient number to form a class 
could be obtained he would like to see such established. At present there were 
classes at the University which would greatly help students, only these were 
held in the morning, which would be somewhat inconvenient. Mr. Young said 
that there were evening classes also. The meeting then terminated. 
Some changes in business have occurred lately. Mr. Dossett has purchased 
the business opposite his premises lately carried on by Barton and Dumas. 
Mr. Le Couteur has opened at Hindmarsh. The business of Mr. Dixon, Park- 
side, has changed hands, Mr. Clayton, late of New Zealand, being the purchaser. 
Mr. Lower, late of Barton and Dumas, has also commenced at Hindmarsh, 
having taken over the business of the late Mr. Wyatt. 
Business in olive oil is likely to look up, for we hear that Messrs. Collis 
and Son, of Gawler-place, some few months ago had inquiries from one of the 
largest druggists’ houses in the United States for samples of South Australian 
olive oil, and by the last Californian mail they received an order for a large 
quantity in bulk. The oil manufactured by Sir Samuel Davenport has been 
selected, and will be shipped to America at once. It is to be hoped that the 
display of colonial resources, which will no doubt form a considerable feature 
in the Jubilee Exhibition of South Australia, will help on the good work of 
developing trade with other countries in colonial products, so worthily begun at 
the Exhibitions held in the other Australian colonies, and notably assisted by 
the Indian and Colonial Exhibition now in progress in Great Britain. 
Some time ago the Faculty of Medicine at the Adelaide University began 
strenuous exertions, which they have continued since, to extend the period of the 
curriculum of the Medical School from the present term of two years to five 
years, so that the students should be able to complete the course. By doing 
this the attractiveness of the school for those proposing to study medicine would 
be greatly enhanced, and the gain to the University and colony would be very 
great. At the last meeting of the council of the University it was determined 
to carry out the proposal. Amongst other things which induced the authorities 
to arrive at this decision were letters from the Minister of Education, expressing 
agreement with the council’s proposal that, after the award of the next South 
Australian Scholarship, the funds appropriated for that scholarship shall be 
devoted to the purposes of the Medical School; and from Sir Thomas Elder, 
offering to pay £500 in 1887 and a similar amount in 1888 towards the addi- 
tional expenditure which will be involved. Arrangements are now being made 
by the Faculty of Medicine to also consider a proposition to admit ladies as 
medical students. 
At a recent meeting of the Central Board of Health, the president said that, 
in consequence of the presence of diphtheria in several parts of the colony, he 
had drawn up plain instructions, which were now in the hands of the Govern- 
ment printer, similar to those already sent out in reference to typhoid fever and 
scarlatina. It was a growing conviction that the chief cause, if not the only one, 
of the spread of diphtheria is direct contagion, and isolation appears to be the 
best preventive. He hoped in a few days to be able to send the printed instruc- 
tions to the places where the disease was known to exist. 
Mr. Crawford, an authority on insect pests, is of opinion that the insect 
found on the pittosporums at the Melbourne Custom House is the leery a Purchasi , 
or Australian bug, and not the Dorthesia. It is found on exotic trees here, but 
does not do much harm. 
