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will be afforded by the railway authorities and the steam shipping com- 
panies. The sittings will be open to all accredited members of the pro- 
fession throughout the world, and it is considered especially desirable 
that gentlemen resident in, or visiting the neighbouring colonies, should 
be largely represented. The committee cordially invite the contribution of 
papers to initiate discussion, and will be much obliged if intending 
contributors will indicate the particular subjects they propose to treat. As the 
extent and importance of the congress will depend largely on the assistance and 
co-operation offered by the sister colonies, the committee hope they will receive 
early intimation from gentlemen proposing to attend the meetings. In connec- 
tion with this congress and the Exhibition, it is intended to hold a conversazione 
and other entertainments, and conjoint trips to objects of interest in the neigh- 
bourhood of Adelaide will be arranged.” 
At the September meeting of the Royal Society a paper was received 
from Baron F. Von Miieller, giving a description of a new plant ( Cot chorus 
Elderii) discovered in the region north of Macdonnell Range by Lieutenant 
Dittrich during the expedition under Mr. Lindsay. The plant was named by 
the Baron in honour of Sir Thomas Elder. It was the most interesting plant 
in the whole collection made during the expedition. 
An inquest was held at the Melrose Court House last month into the 
cause of death of a girl named Maggie Salmon. Dr. Pickering deposed that 
the cause of death was strychnine poisoning. The jury returned the following 
verdict: — “ The deceased destroyed herself by taking strychnine obtained from 
a bottle belonging to her master, but there is no evidence to show what 
caused her to do it. W e think it was improper on the part of Mr. AVorden 
to leave such a virulent poison accessible to every one in the house. The 
strychnine was kept, it appears, in a bottle on the kitchen mantelshelf. 
Besides the suspicions of foul play in the cases of Captain Cain and Mr. 
Tate, Hall’s father-in-law and late partner, the prisoner’s name is now mentioned 
in connection with the death of a young woman whose body was found at the 
bottom of a well some time ago. 
At Invercargill recently a man named Forrest, formerly a merchant in 
Dunedin, but who had fallen into reduced circumstances, committed suicide by 
drinking a lotion. He was removed to the hospital, where it was found neces- 
sary to perform the operation of tracheotomy to prevent suffocation. He died 
about six hours after taking the poison. 
The Hew Zealand students at home appear to be holding their own. At a 
final examination for the degree of M.B., C.M., held at Edinburgh in July last, 
New Zealand had five representatives— Messrs. King, Jeffcoat, Lindsay, Cunning- 
hame, and Hawkes — all of whom received the much-coveted distinction, in addition 
to the ordinary pass for the degrees. The first-named, Mr. Truby King, of 
Taranaki, has secured the “ blue ribbon” of the medical school for the year, in 
the shape of the Ettles Prize, awarded to the best all-round man of his year. 
The prize lay between Messrs. King and Jeffcoat, the latter being beaten only 
on a record of the earliest professional examination. Both gentlemen secured 
positions as residents in the Edinburgh Infirmary. 
It is announced, apparently on good authority, that a medical examination 
of the remains of Captain Cain, the father-in-law of Thomas Hall, who is 
accused of having attempted to poison his wife, demonstrates conclusively that 
the deceased died from the effects of antimonial poisoning. 
