CORRESPONDENCE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 301, 4 December 1874, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

iWE .do not hold, ourselves in any way responsible for the opinions and sentiments expressed by correspondents. All communications must be accompanied by the correct name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but : as a guarantee of good faith...

(To the Editor of the Mount Ida Chronicle.) 533 Oxford-streeb, W.C., London, . 22ncVSeptember, 1874. ; The Proprietors, ' Mount Ida . ' Chronicle,'Naseby.

Gentlemen, —I take leave to inform you that Messrs. Myers and Solomon, of Sydney, have advised me, under date 31st July, 1874, that some cases of pills, labelled "Holloway's Pills, New York," have been sold in their city, by auction, to hawkers arid others; they have also sent me a box of the pillswhich are spurious imitations .of mine.. My medicines are neither made nor' sold in any' part of the United States. '

In the Melbourne 'Argus,' of 26th June, 1874, is a letter (a copy of which. I enclose) signed Percy L. Hardnage, in which he calls himself my authorised travelling agent. This is false, as I neither know the man,"nor have I had correspondence with him. . It, therefore, may be that-he is travelling for the purpose of disposing of the spurious make of medicines to which Messrs. Myers and Solomon have been pleased to draw my attention. —I am, &c., Thomas Hollo way. \ ; " hollo way's pills. (To the Editor of the Argus.) * Sir, —Permit me through the medium of your valuable journal to warn and to direct the attention of the public to a gross outrage which is being perpetrated in the shape of spurious imitations of Holloway's Pills and .(Jurtment, .which are being vended as the genuine article. Detectives are at work endeavoring to discover the originators of the fraud. As yet they have been unsuccessful, though it has been pretty well ascertained that the said imitation is manufactured in the colony, and is not imported. The spurious resemble the genuine articles only in external appearance and the manner in which packed up. I have had both'"the pills and ointment analysed, and find-, that the pills contain opium in a rather excessive degree, but the ointment is simply lard with a slight trace of turpentine. To distinguish this? genuine from the false, look at the pamphlet which accompanies each box and pot and see if the words "Holloway's Pills and Ointment, London," are interwoven in the water mark of each leaf. If not, then the article is a counterfeit;. ' >'

By inserting the above you will; confer a favor on the public, and oblige yours, &c., Percy L. Hardnaoe, . Special Travelling Agent for Thomas ' • i HoUoway.