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pass a bona-fide examination. The Deputy- Speaker said that, as one of the 
clauses of the bill provided for the imposition of fees, the bill had been wrongly 
introduced. It should have been preceded by a message from the Crown. Dr. 
Hose said he had been treated very unfairly in regard to this bill. He did 
not refer to the ruling, but he submitted the bill to the clerk a considerable 
time ago. The Deputy- Speaker said this had been the only opportunity of 
giving a ruling. Now that the ruling had been given, the hon. member could 
obtain all the information required from the clerk, and no time would be lost. 
The bill was discharged. 
Things are much better in Sydney this month than last. Business, which has 
been very quiet for some months past, seems to be reviving again, though there 
is not much to report on in connection with pharmacy. Mr. L. Whittle, son of 
Mr. Whittle, chemist, Sturt-street, Ballarat, has purchased the business of Mr. 
John M'Donald, of Taree, Manning River. 
The adjourned meeting of the Pharmaceutical Council was held on Friday, 
22nd October, when, at the express desire of Messrs. Bozon and Mayne, Mr. 
M‘Carthy, in the absence of Mr. Abraham, proposed that Mr. Bozon be appointed 
an additional delegate to represent New South Wales at the Intercolonial Pharma- 
ceutical Conference. The motion was seconded by Mr. Sadler, no one else being 
present that could well do so. The programme for the Pharmaceutical Conference, 
drawn up by Messrs. Melhuish and Mayne, was then submitted to the council, 
and agreed to. 
The various Friendly Societies are busy making preparations for the opening 
of the dispensary mentioned in last month’s Journal of Pharmacy. 
Owing to Tuesday, 9th November, being the Prince of Wales’ Birthday and 
a public holiday, no meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society took place. 
Mr. P. J. Edmunds delivered a very useful and interesting lecture under 
the auspices of the Technical College, at Technical Hall, Sydney, on Friday 
evening, 22nd October; the subject being — “Lead and its Uses.” 
Mr. Edwin Quayle, the lecturer to the Pharmaceutical Society’s students 
here, has been appointed to the Chair of Chemistry in the University of Sydney 
during the absence on leave of Professor Liversidge, who purposes visiting 
Europe next year, chiefly in order to make himself more practically acquainted 
with the changes which have been taking place in the great European and 
American centres of scientific work and thought, and more especially the radical 
changes which are being made in the methods of teaching practical chemistry. 
We hear that Mr. S. Lester, of Elizabeth-street, is fitting up dispensaries 
for the following : — Mr. MacDonald, at Strathfield ; Mr. T. M. Clements, at 
Newtown ; and Mr. Mills, at North Shore. 
Dr. Le Gay Brereton, the well-known medical practitioner and litterateur, 
late of Gladsville, died on the 28th October. 
Dr. W. F. Mackenzie, one of the principal physicians in Sydney, and the 
chief medical referee for the Australian Mutual Provident Society, died rather 
suddenly on Thursday evening, the 14th October. 
A large number of ladies and gentlemen and pharmacists of Sydney 
assembled at No. 3 Jetty, Circular Quay, on Saturday, the 23rd October, to 
bid bon voyage to Mr. T. B. Melhuish (one of the two delegates specially 
appointed by the Pharmaceutical Society of New South Wales), who left by the 
Orient steamer on that day for Melbourne. 
