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that a cricket club be formed, and that the subscription be 5s. for the coming 
season, and it was also arranged that a match should be played once a fort- 
night, commencing on the 4th January, at one o’clock, on the Richmond 
Cricket Ground. Mr. A. C. Lewis, the hon. secretary, is now arranging for 
the annual cricket match between the wholesale and retail chemists, which will 
be played on a day to be fixed early in the year, and contributions in aid of 
the expenses will be gladly received by him toward defraying the expenses of 
the match. It will be remembered that the gathering last year was a most 
pleasant one, the retail chemists being the guests of the wholesale firms. This 
year the duty of entertaining will fall on the retail. 
At the time of going to press the only nominations for the two 
vacancies in the Pharmacy Board of Victoria were Messrs. H. T. Tompsitt 
and A. J. Owen. The 26th January, 1887, at 4 p.m., is the last day for 
receiving nominations. The returning officer’s announcement appears in our 
advertising columns. 
Us*** 
(From our Special Correspondent ,) 
Sydney, 14th December. 
We regret having to record the resignation of the president of the Pharma- 
ceutical Society of this colony — Mr. W. Larmer, one of our oldest city 
pharmacists. Mr. Larmer was elected president in June, 1884, and re-elected 
to that position at the two succeeding annual meetings. In the early days of 
the society he was then examiner in chemistry, and lately has been discharging 
the duty of examiner in materia medica. Many of. the students who were 
examined under this gentleman will recall with pleasure the kind and 
considerate treatment that they always experienced at his hands, and all with 
whom this gentleman has come in contact speak in the highest terms 
of the consideration and courtesy that they received at his hands. Failing 
health and desire for less conflict and greater quiet seem to be the 
causes of Mr. Farmer’s retirement from office, coupled with, perhaps, the 
thought that a younger man with greater firmness and energy might, 
perchance, succeed better in controlling the affairs of the society in 
the present state of things. We cannot help thinking that the 
cause of Mr. Farmer’s retirement was not from any wish to escape the 
labours of an onerous position, not from a loss of interest in the society’s welfare, 
but rather from a sincere desire to advance the interests of the trade in the 
capacity of an ordinary member of the society, and having enjoyed the somewhat 
doubtful “ sweets ” of office for a considerable time, to allow another to assume 
the reins of government, in order to test the advantages of a change of president. 
The new president, Mr. Sadler, is one well known throughout the trade as a 
gentleman of great energy, of great business ability, and of boundless humour 
He is the life of a picnic, and at a dinner forms a most admirable chairman. 
Mr. Sadler was an apprentice with Mr. Frank Senior, of George-street, and has 
been all his life intimately connected with pharmacy in New South Wales. 
But besides being a gentleman of genial disposition and a successful man of 
business, the new president has proved himself to be one of liberal and advanced 
opinions upon matters dealt with at the late Conference, and will be found to 
be in no way deficient in firmness or decision in dealing with our relationships 
with other colonies. It is to be hoped that with new blood in the council, and 
a change in several offices, a greater spirit of unanimity will prevail, and the 
