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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA. 
June 1, 1887 
Law Cases. — The appeal case of Bocke, Tompsitt & Co. 
V, The Ar(jus proprietory will probably be the first heard 
in June. The case of Shillinglaw v. The Federal Store, 
Limited, is eleventh on the special paper and will be heard 
during the first fortnight of the month. 
Mb. Heebebt Bocke, senior member of the firm Bocke, 
Tompsitt and Co., wholesale druggists, Melbourne and Lon- 
don, was found dead in the court-yard of Petty’s Hotel, Syd- 
ney, on May 11, under distressing circumstances. He had 
just returned via San Francisco from a rather long sojourn in 
England. He landed from the s.s. “Alameda” on May 5. 
He wrote to his firm in good spirits, stating that he was not 
feeling quite well, but would stay in Newcastle for a day or 
two. He took rooms at Petty’s Hotel, Sydney, left for a few 
days’ visit to Mount Victoria, and then returned to Sydney. 
On the evening of May 10 he was in conversation with his 
wife and a lady friend till about 9.40 p.m. He had given up 
his bed to this lady, and retired to another room. Early the 
next morning he was found in the court-yard in his night- | 
dress. Dr. Garrett was at once called, and found that his j 
skull was fractured, and he was quite dead. An inquest was 
held at Sydney on May 11, when an open verdict was j 
returned. The deceased gentleman was Avell known and 
much respected in pharmaceutical circles, both in London 
and Australia. He was born at Wrexham, in North Wales, 
and was 41 years of age, but looked younger. He leaves a 
widow and five children. The firm with which he was con- 
nected was founded about ten years ago, and holds a leading 
position in Melbourne. Mr. Bocke was for some years a 
member of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of 
Victoria. The body was conveyed to Melbourne, and was 
buried on May 13 in the Kew Cemetery. The funeral was 
attended by a large concourse of gentlemen. 
Cinchona in Victoeia. — Mr. Bosisto, M.L.A., when visiting 
India as Victorian representative at the Calcutta Exhibition, 
procured for the Dei^artment of Agriculture some seed of the 
Cinchona plant. The seed was sown in the Mount Macedon 
State nursery, and some of the plants thus raised were after- 
wards, for experimental purposes, transferred to several of 
the State forests, but they have not thrived. Mr. Ferguson, 
Inspector of State forests, has since expressed the opinion 
that the plant will never become acclimatised to endure the 
winter frosts of Victoria. 
Customs Decision. — The Commissioner of Customs on May 
9 made the following decisions. Extract of celery beef and iron, 
menthol plasters, and Warner’s pills in bulk, are to pay a duty 
of 25% as proprietary medicines. Ingluvin, formerly charged 
as a patent medicine is to be admitted free, liquor pepticus is 
not to be regarded as a proprietary medicine, and will be ad- 
mitted free; lanoline as fromwoolfat, is to be free as an animal 
oil; inkoleum, a refined mineral oil, igniting under SOdeg. is to 
be free as an essential oil; iodoform, Kui^ecke’s Infants Food, 
cathartic pills, cathartic improved liver pills, all free; Mid- 
lothian oat fiour 20%. 
SiE F. VoN Mueuuek, K.C.M.G., C. B. Blackett, Fitzroy, 
F. S. Grimwade and Chas. Pleasance, Melbourne, have been 
appointed members of the Commission for the Centennial Exhi- 
bition. 
Unusual Case.— Poisoning by Cabbon Bisulphibe. — An old 
resident of the Muroon district named P. MacDermott was 
found, on May 15, in great agonyfrom pains in thestomach. On 
being questioned closely he admitted having taken a quantity 
of bisulphide of carbon. A doctor was summoned but arrived 
too late to be of any avail, the deceased having expired some 
hours before. The evidence showed that deceased came by 
his death through poison self-administered, and a verdict was 
returned to that effect. 
Suicide. — A young man named J. Appleton came to Vic- 
toria about four years ago from Natal, and has been employed 
for a few days by Mr. Doubleday, chemist, of Carlton. On 
May 10 he committed suicide in the Flagstaff Gardens by 
shooting himself with a revolver. 
A SAI.ALL fire took place shortly after midnight, on Saturday, 
on the premises of L. M. Bourdic, chemist and druggist, in 
Spencer-street, opposite the railway station. It originated in 
some goods under the show window, and was discovered by 
some passers-by. Damage to the value of £50 was done, in- 
cluding a plateglass window cracked. The premises and 
stock are insured in the Commercial Unipn Company for £500. 
Mr. Albert Andrews, of High-street, St. Kilda, has dis- 
sed of his business to Mrt S. J. Taylor, and has taken over 
his former business at Beaufort. The St. Kilda busi- 
ness will still be carried on under the title of T. O. Dunstan 
and Co. 
Mr. C, B. Bl.ackett delivered at the Working Men’s College 
on May 21 a very interesting lecture on “ The Air We 
Breathe. ” 
Mr. Oscar Cunningh.am, recently with Mr. C. B. Blackett, is 
about to open a new business at Yarrum, South Gippsland. 
Mr. W, F. Dix, Balaclava, until recently dispenser at the 
Alfred Hospital, but now with Messrs. Atcherly and Dawson, 
suffered from a dislocation of the jaw, and shock, at the Wind- 
sor Bailway accident. 
Mr. Cosmo Newbery, was one of those most seriously in- 
jured and has been confined to the Alfred Hospital for a long 
period, with fractured collarbone, injury to spine and affection 
of the lungs. 
Fletcher and Greenwood, Little-Collins-st., Melbourne, have 
been appointed agents for J. Lionel Ching <& Co.’s dugong oil 
and dugong ointment. The latter firm recently resumed 
dugong fishing near Maryborough. 
Mr. S. H. Henshall, of Seymour and Nagambie, has 
removed from the lower end of Emily-street, to a position 
near the Post Office. The building is new and attractive. 
The shop is finished with much taste by Mr. W. Smowton, 
the architect and builder. The counter is of polished Kauri 
pine, set off with cedar mouldings ; the shelving is composed 
of the same material, relieved at convenient distances by 
shapely mirrors. The shop is one of the prettiest and best 
finished establishments of the sort outside Melbourne. 
Mr. E. V. J. Hughes, 96 Swanston-street, Melbourne, has 
sold out to Mr. Andrew Smith, and has opened a shop at 
Hawksburn. 
Hughes and Gray will shortly open at 117 Malvern-road, 
Toorak. The fittings, which are being executed by Thomp^ 
son and Kell, of Swanston-street, Melbourne, are already 
nearly finished. 
Mr. Joseph, of 12 Bridge-street, Sydney, representing Teo- 
good, of London, and several other English manufacturers, 
also the Pictorial Printing Co. of Chicago, is now in Melbourne 
with full lines of samples. Letters may be addressed “ care 
of The Editor ” of this journal. 
Mr, E, Mortensen, late of Allandale (near Creswick), has 
opened a new pharmacy in Glenferrie-road, Malvern, between 
the Town Hall and the Bailway Station. Mr. G. Barber, of 
Faraday-street, Carlton, executed the contract for fittings, 
Felton, Grimwade, and Co, inform us that during the 
past month the business which formerly belonged to Mr. A. 
T. Best, of Mooroopna, and was sold by him to Dr. Florence, 
has been sold to Dr. Trood, of the same town. 
The business at Bochester lately carried on by Mr. W. H. 
Ford has been sold to Mr. Oliver Davis. 
The tenders of Bocke, Tompsitt and Co. have been accepted 
for the supply of the following goods to the Government for 
the year 1887-88, viz. : — Photo-lithographic chemicals, dis- 
infectants, drugs, medicines, &c., dye ware goods, and drug- 
^ gists’ sundries and instruments. 
Septimus Ludwig was found guilty of obtaining money by 
means of false pretences from several customers of Henry 
Stiles, manufacturing chemist and druggist, of Nicholson- 
street, Fitzroy. The prisoner was sentenced, on April 2, to 
twelve months’ imprisonment, with the first and last week of 
the term in solitary confinement. 
Death of Mr. C. E. Horton.— Mr. C. E. Horton passed 
away on the morning of April 26. The deceased gentleman 
arrived at Port Adelaide, S.A., about eight years ago, and soon 
afterwards established a chemist’s and bookseller’s business in 
St. Vincent-street, which has been carried on ever since. Soon 
after the discovery of the Teetulpa Diggings Mr. Horton visited 
the field and commenced a search for the precious metal. 
Matters ■went along satisfactorily with him until just before 
the Easter holidays, when he became ill and had to return to 
his home. Then it was discovered that he was suffering 
from typhoid fever. Drs. Bollen and Mitchell attended the 
deceased up to the time of his death. At onetime Mr. Horton 
held the position of treasurer in connection with the Port 
Adelaide Congregational Sanday-school. He was of a very re- 
tiring disposition, and took but little interest in public mat- 
ters. He was an authority on botany to a certain extent. 
He leaves a widow and a family of seven children. 
