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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
We understand that Messrs. Cornell and King, of Ballarat, have arranged 
with the Benevolent Asylum committee to donate £75 to the funds of the insti- 
tution to settle the unpleasant dispute. It is stated that the business of the firm 
will in future be carried on by Mr. King. 
The last sitting of the Pharmacy Board was almost entirely occupied in 
hearing and determining the evidence in the case of G-. A. Dimock, a number 
of witnesses being examined. The decision will most probably not be made 
public until the next meeting of the board. 
A proposal has been made to establish in Ballarat East a dispensary and 
consulting-room for out-door patients of the Ballarat Hospital, with the view of 
localising their treatment and saving them the necessity of attendance at the 
hospital. The town council favour the proposal, and it is said that some gentlemen 
of means are prepared to pay the expenses of such an outpost. 
We have been requested to state that the meetings of the Intercolonial 
Pharmaceutical Conference will be open to any registered pharmaceutical chemist, 
but that no one but the delegates can be permitted to take part in the 
discussions. The business will commence on the 27th October at 10 a.m., and 
terminate at 1 p.m., and be continued each day at the same hour. 
The following is an abstract from the Government Gazette of Friday, the 
1st October “ The (Imperial) Medical Act 1886 is published, Part II. 
containing the provisions for the registration of colonial and foreign practitioners 
with recognised diplomas. The Act provides for a separate list of the names 
and addresses of the colonial and also the foreign practitioners.” 
A return has been prepared showing the number of inquests held by Dr. 
Youl, the city coroner, from 1st October, 1872, until 30th September, 1886. The 
total number of inquests held since that date has been 3208, or slightly more 
than an average of 229 per year. The highest number was 290, for the year 
ending 30th September last; and the lowest was 191, for the year 1875. 
The Government analyst, Mr. W. Johnson, has been offered an increase of 
£200 per annum on his salary of £400 a year on the condition that he shall 
relinquish his private practice as an analyst and devote the whole of his 
services to the performance of public duties. This proposal is the result of the 
complaints made against Mr. Johnson having, as Government analyst, to occa- 
sionally review his own decisions. Should Parliament approve of the offer, 
the increase will date from the 1st August. Mr. Johnson has for some time 
past been dangerously ill, and has been prohibited by his medical advisers 
from attending to auy duties. 
John Healt, a driver in the employ of Baker Bros., of Preston, was 
summoned before the St. Kilda magistrates on Friday, the 17th September, for 
selling adulterated milk. Mr. Woolf appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Daly 
for the defence. The evidence of Mr. F. Dunn, analyst, disclosed that the 
milk handed to him in a bottle, duly sealed, contained from two to five per 
cent, of added water. Mr. W. Field, who described himself as an analytical 
chemist, on the contrary, testified that a bottle of the same sample of milk, handed 
to him on the same day by the defendant, was upon analysis found to be 
perfectly free from added water, and was of fair quality. In face of this 
contradictory evidence the Bench were unable to come to a decision, and 
dismissed the case. 
At the twenty-third annual meeting of the British Pharmaceutical Conference, 
which was opened at Birmingham on 30th August, the secretary, Mr. Plowman, 
after reading the list of official delegates, added that they had present several 
distinguished colonial and Indian gentlemen, who had come in acceptance of an 
invitation given to them by the executive committee. He announced their 
