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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
Walter Cyril Holland, aged twenty-one, who for several years was clerk on 
the steamer Gem, swallowed a dose of chlorodvne at the Apollo Inn, Melbourne, 
on Thursday night, the 9th December, intending, he said, to commit suicide. 
A constable was called in, and he removed Holland to the Melbourne Hospital. 
The treatment which he received there placed him beyond danger, and the 
constable lodged him in the city watch-house on a charge of having attempted 
•uicide. 
A little boy named E. R. Marks, whose parents reside at Ballarat, ate a 
number of wax matches on Monday, the 24th November, and became so ill that 
he was removed to the hospital for treatment. He died in the institution 
shortly after admittance, and, in a post mortem examination made, Dr. Scott 
found that death resulted from acute inflammation of the stomach, caused 
apparently by phosphorus. 
Information was given to the Geelong police that an infant, Florence Ah 
Wong, aged 17 months, had died early in the morning of the 7th December 
from the poisonous effects of opium. The child, who lived with her parents in 
Bond-street, Chilwell, accidentally swallowed a small quantity of opium on the 
previous afternoon. Serious symptoms were manifested late at night, and a doctor 
was speedily in attendance, but all attempts to save the child’s life were without 
success. 
A fatal case of snakebite occurred at Pastoria (about six miles from Kyneton) 
on Friday, the 3rd December. A boy named Denis Donovan, son of Mr. 
Michael Donovan, a small farmer, was out rabbit hunting. He followed a 
rabbit into a hole, into which he put his hand to pull the rabbit out. He 
quickly withdrew his hand, having been bitten, as he thought, by the rabbit. 
In a short time he manifested symptoms of poisoning, and died before assist- 
ance could be procured. 
The estate of Mr. Carl Klug, of Hamilton, has been compulsorily seques- 
trated. 
Mr. R. J. Fullwood has purchased from Mr. Horace Brown his business 
in Park-street, South Melbourne. 
A new pharmacy is about to be opened at Newport, near Williamstown, 
by Mr. A. Groening, late of Sandhurst. 
Mr. H. London, late of Ballarat, has purchased from Dr. M'Call, of 
Euroa, the pharmacy lately carried on by him. 
Messrs. H. Francis & Co. are the successful tenderers for drugs and 
medicines to be supplied to the Eye and Ear Hospital. 
The business of Mr. J. Thorburn MacGowan in Pickles- street, South Mel- 
bourne, has been sold to Mr. E. L. Halle. We are informed that Mr. 
MacGowan proposes opening a new pharmacy in North Carlton. 
After visiting every town in South Australia, Mr. R. H. Roe (Messrs. F. 
Stearns & Co., Detroit, U.S.) has returned to Victoria, and is well pleased with 
the very satisfactory business relations he has entered into for his firm in that 
colony. Mr. Roe purposes making only a short stay in Melbourne. 
The enterprising firm of Burroughs, Wellcome & Co., Snow Hill, London, have 
just opened offices in Planet Chambers, Collins-street East, Melbourne, under the 
