CORRESPONDENCE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 224, 13 June 1873, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor of the Mount Ida Cheonicxe.) _ Mistee Editoe,—l tould you I would give you some account of what we done when Armstrong and Mervyn came to meet us ; but, by the powors, to tell you all about it would fill your paper. We had the great night entirely. A gentleman from Dunedin, wearing first got up, after being introduced as Mr Oliver and said he came to ax us for our sufferings. Faith, its ourselves have any amount of that same : Price is suffering for want of a wife and grass to feed the cows ; others, have been suffering from many causes which our late doctors have hot been able to cure. But, by jabers,.Doctor Oliver to have a good idea of what is wrong, und thinks he can secure us ; so we have made up our minds to engage him and another young doctor, who, rumor says, feels very much for us, and whom we expect soon to examine us. Doctor Oliver praised us very much for some roads we liad made, and said physical difficulties had been surmounted that to him were quite astonishing. I do not know what he meant, or what physic had to do with it, but it pleased the boys. And he said the Provincial Council shop had medicine to cure all our sufferings if we could get anyone to buy what was wanted. He thought he knew what would suit our complaints, and if we gave him <an order on Monday to buy for us he would be happy to execute it: and if not,, from his seeing our wants to be great, he would buy-on his own account from another shop —the Chamber of Commerce (in which he had., credit)—some medicines useful, and.perhaps get some friends to speak for us in the other shop. But he spoke so well, and seemed to understand our complaints so thoroughly, that the boys have agreed to give him an order on Monday to buy what he thinks is nqedful, and afterwards, if the young doctor of the Hogburn is any good, to send orders through him for more supplies, if required. Doctor Armstrong next told us that he had tried to cure us and others for two years, and, although he had extracted a good deal in the district, he had not been able to extract the. medicine required from the Provincial shop, owing to the dispenser being anything but a gentleman, and owing to his mate (Doctor Mervyn) writing prescriptions that were too learned for him or any of his assistants to understand. He admitted he did not understand them himself, but just carried the prescription when asked; and he never doubted the skill of Doctor Mervyn • and if he was wrong, was sorry; and if they thought he was wrong, would give up the profession and turn dentist, however painful that might be to or 'his j hearers, and' allow us to get other doctors j to physic us. •. j Then Doctor Mervyn told us of the j cures he had made—quite equal to that j effected by vinegar bitters—but, although I a very successful practitioner, a disease! had sprung up in your town that was too much for him-—' Chronicle' and Clique.

None of us had heard of it before. He said, however, that the ' Times ' . and 'Witness' Dispensary (the shou that had previously given the Obstructive-School of Medicine their drugs) had refused him the required medicine—in fact, would not give him credit—but preferred an Oliver, or someone else, although they held opinions quite averse to the drugs usually sold there, he might have been able to cure us. In fact, ho told us if we did not stump up his credit would be gone, and that another firm, in Wellington would stop—if they had not already stopped—his credit, if we did not allow him to draw on- our credulity on Monday. Well, the boys decided he was a quack, and have resolved to stop supplies.—ln haste, TT ~ ~ Denny. Hyde, June 11.