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Evening Star, Issue 10902, 10 April 1899, Page 3

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Dra Hodges and Borrie will carry on the late Dr Cunnif ghamt’a practice in co-part-nership. General Booth attained the age of seventy to-day. The following inquiries for missing friends in New Zealand are from * Lloyd’s Weekly ’ of February 26 -.—Stephen Oxenham and his brothers were last known to be in Auckland. Sister Phillipa asks.—Mary Ann Askew is sought by her mother, who has only heard from her twice in twenty years. She is in Canterbury.—Mary Ann Bridley left Plymouth about 1868 for Australia or New Zealand. Her child, who was left with Mrs M‘Cartby, inquire?. Professor Black, in a letter to our morning contemporary, rets right Mr J. W. Mellot’a scholastic career. He says:—“ As a matter of fact, Mellor never attended Canterbury College at all. Hia whole course was taken In Osago—first in the Technical School, where ho distinguished himself under Df D »n, taking my priz-J for chemistry in that institution; then in the Otago University, where he was the best of his year both in organic and inorganic chemistry, taking the senior scholarship in chemistry with bis B.So. degree. He then worked his chemistry for honors, and for his thesis on the cyanide process gaining the 1851 exhibition scholarship of £l5O a year and first class honors in chemistry. Had it not been for our Technical School here J. W. Mellor would probably never have been heard of. Having gone as far into chemistry as one can take him, he now goes for a further three years’ course of chemistry at the Victoria University, Manchester, which is at present the foremost scientific school in England. We shall probably hear more of him seme other day.”