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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 239, 8 October 1874, Page 2

A telegraphic message was recently despatched from Adelaide to Bombay, tbe delivery to the person to whom it was sent' and the receipt of an answer in Adelaide occupying |esa than eight minutes. : . ,-• y A kind of craze, says a late number of the Melbourne Argus, seems to have prevailed lately among the people at Ballarat as to the best method of disposing, after death, of their present living bodies, but in nearly all these cases the movers have been afflicted with some natural malformation. One medical gentleman has haa body of well-known deformed individual bequeathed to him for anatomical purposes, and a lady with al singular malformed arm has bequeathed that member to the same gentleman. Another person, a most worthy man, who was struck deaf most suddenly at. sixteen years of age without any known cause, has bequeathed his head to another surgeon, while a fourth has bequeathed a deformed leg to a third medico , but the climax appears tobeen reached at a recent meeting W ibe hospital committee, when a well-ktfown friend of the institution —Mr W. Higgans — bequeathed by his wili, duly signed, and attested, " his body, after death to the hospital, to be dissected and dealt with as may be thought most desirable in tbe cause of science."