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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
of the society’s lectures were delivered at the University it would give the 
students a higher status ; and if the preliminary examination certificate were made 
the University junior examination certificate in certain subjects, it would be a 
step in the direction of that desirable consummation, viz., a College of 
Pharmacy affiliated to the Sydney University. 
Much interest is taken by chemists here in the approaching Intercolonial 
Pharmaceutical Conference. 
Business still continues to improve both in town and country. 
Mr. W. Withers, of Burwood, has opened a branch dispensary on the 
northern side of the railway line, which he has had fitted up very tastefully in 
black and gold. 
Mr. P. M‘Farlane has purchased Mr. Sexty’s business in Oxford -street. 
Mr. W. J. Hobbs has disposed of his business at Orange to Mr. Sexty, late of 
Oxford-street, and has returned to Sydney. 
The first course of lectures delivered by Mr. Edwin Quayle ended on 23rd 
September, after which an examination of the candidates was held. The student 
who obtained the highest number of marks was presented with a book valued 
at £3 3s., and each candidate who had attended seventy-five per cent, of the 
lectures was presented with a certificate. The second course commenced on 30th 
September. The course is to comprise the elementary principles of chemistry, 
chemistry as applied to pharmacy (including the testing of drugs for impurities 
and adulterations), qualitative analysis, and pharmacopceial volumetric analysis, 
to ascertain the strength and purity of chemical salts, &c. 
A largely-attended meeting of the representatives from the various lodges 
in connection with the respective Friendly Societies of Sydney was held on 
24th September, at the Boyal Foresters’ Hall, to consider the report of a sub- 
committee appointed on 13th August to confer and report as to the best means 
of establishing a dispensary in connection with the various Friendly Societies 
in Sydney. Mr. T. Curran presided. Mr. H. J. Peat, the secretary, read the 
report, in which it was stated that from the information that had been 
obtained it was expected that the dispensary would start with not less than 
5000 members. It was intended to obtain suitable premises in as central and 
convenient a place as possible. It was decided that the report be submitted 
to the various lodges and societies for their approval and suggestion, and the 
meeting adjourned until 22nd October. 
A travelling sewing machine agent, named Buckingham, has caused some 
excitement in Deniliquin by reporting the discovery of a mineral substance with 
a resinous odour and a gaseous and highly inflammable nature. The finder is 
very reticent about the locality ; but, from hints given, it would appear to be 
in the Balranald district. Samples have been submitted to Mr. J. Cosmo 
Newbery, to the Sandhurst School of Mines, and to an analyst in Sydney, and 
the reports upon it show that it is valuable for gas-making purposes, and that it 
contains about double the quantity of gas which the same bulk of coal does. 
It is believed to be a mineral resin, and it burns freely when lit by a match. 
Application has been made for a mineral lease, and when this is secured the 
locality will be made known. 
The seizure of an illicit still was made by the officers of the Distillery 
Department at Bankstown one night last month on the premises of Charles 
Biggs. Biggs was brought before the Liverpool Bench, and, pleading guilty, 
was fined £150, or six months’ imprisonment. 
Over 300 sheep belonging to a travelling mob died at Brewarrina through 
eating a poisonous weed, the effect of which was most marked. 
