SUCCESSFUL QUACKERY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1933, 22 August 1889, Page 3

SUCCESSFUL QUACKERY.

New Zealand, it appears, is not the only place where quacks can find dupes. The Newcastle Leader reports the * 1 farewell ” that one “Sequah,” the “ prairie flower ” medicine man, took of Newcastle on Saturday. St. George’s Hall, the largest roofed space in the city, went like a fair at both afternoon and evening levees, the attendance at night being phenomenal, even [in a city where large gatherings of people are common. The immense disposal of medicine was no less extraordinary, and it is calculated that he must have sold something like £BOOO worth during his three weeks’ stay in Newcastle. A crowd of two or three thousand welldressed people waited to the end, when “ Sequah,” on standing up, as he remarked, to say “Good-bye,” was enthusiastically applauded and cheered. Ultimately a crowd of men seized the shafts, and turning the huge machine containing the band, “Sequah,” his manager, and the Indians, set off with it into the streets, led by a workman who had regained the use of his limbs by “ Se. quah’s” treatment. Thousands followed this veritable “ triumphal car ” to the dispensary at 41 Percy street. The commotion between ten and eleven o’clock created unwonted excitement in the principal thoroughfares. The band played “ Auld Lang Syne,” and in Percy street, “ God Save the Queen.’’ There was great cheering, and, while “ Sequah ” drove off in a cab, the hand was dragged home in the car by the populace. The editor states that he has received a number of letters, some anonymous and some signed, for and against “ Sequah.” One letter signed “ M.D.” makes the point that “it is high time that the supporters and managers of our medical charities should ascertain to whom they are giving gratuitous relief. Persons who are willing and able to pay 4s and more for patent medicines are, in my opinion, not fit objects for charity.”