HE SAID HE WAS A DOCTOR.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1266, 4 June 1896, Page 38

HE SAID HE WAS A DOCTOR.

A little over a month ago a middlo-agod gentleman, in a good state of preservation, made his appearance in Wellington, and, intimating that he was a doctor attached to tho British Army, and had been in. India, prescribed privately in a few cases, and, among other things, seeuredf roni one of tho city chemists an out of date Materia Medica, and also some medicines, for all of which he forgot to pay. Ho gave out that it was his intention of going up country and revolutionising the medical charges there by treating all patients at a uniform rate of 2s (id. A few days later a strange medical man arrived at Eketahuna, and commenced operations among tho country patients, much to tho alarm and trepidation of tho local medico who has been in practice there for some time past. Tho now practitioner took' up his quarters at Carter's Temperance Hotel, where ho had a consulting room and pharmacy duly fitted up. He is said to havo had a very fair practico. On Tuesday last, on the arrival of the midday train from "Wellington, tin! hamlet was thrown into a state of considerable consternation by the appearance of a lady nurse from the .Empire City, and two detectives, a 1! in quest of tho new medical gentleman. The nurse had been engaged to assist him, and the detectives were armed with a warrant to arrest the medical man on a charge of issuing a valueless cheque .at Christchurch. He was conveyed from Eketahuna by the detectives, leaving behind him a considerable number of creditors, part of his practico apparently having been to pay nobody.