WHAT PEOPLE SAY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2344, 16 April 1892, Page 4

WHAT PEOPLE SAY.

MRS M. L. MORGAN, CLIFTON, ARATAPU, AUCKLAND, N.Z., under date 2i)rd January, 181)2, writes : Dear Sir, —Some two years ago, having previously enjoyed very good health, I was taken seriously ill, and found it very difficult to get relief. At first I treated myself, thinking that I should soon be well again ; but my illness grew upon me and 1 was completely prostrated, and unable to do anything. I sought medical advice from our local doctor, and he prescribed for me. My ailment was described as black jaundice and gall-stones, and at times I suffered much pain. Our doctor’s treatment did not do me much good, as the .attacks were frequent and very severe. Some months passed, and I felt that I was becoming hopelessly ill. My friends were shocked at my sallow and changed appearance, and more than one has told me since that they never expected to see me well again. I went to Auckland for change of air and scene, and to seek further medical advice. I got it, and for a time seemed to improve, the change evidently doing me good; but it was not tonic enough, for after a week or so I was again laid up. All the medical advice I got in Auckland seemed unavailing, and I returned home with very little to hope for. Here I suffered several attacks, and had to lay up repeatedly. My husband had a very poor opinion of patent medicines, but seeing Clements Tonic advertised as of such wonderful effect in serious cases, and being quite at a loss to suggest any other untried remedy, he brought me home a bottle, and we determined to try it. At the same time we resolved to say nothing of the medicine we were using until fully satisfied of its effects. The first dose did me good and I improved rapidly. Friends who would not have been surprised to hear of my death were really astonished at my rapid recovery. I was soon satisfied as to the value of Clements Tonic, and gladly recommended it to others, and so did my husband. The storekeeper spoke to him one day, and asked him if he had been recommending Clements Tonic, for he was almost sold out, and had only one bottle left. “Give it to me,” said my husband; “ I wouldn’t be without it for anything.” By the time I had taken one bottle I was able to get about my work again. Friends thought the improvement only temporary, and expected to see me prostrated again, but I am thankful to say that such has not been the case. Every dose did it,- woi’k, and after a fortnight I only took out lose a day, in the early morning. I have uloJ only three bottles, and have the fourth in the house. Ido not take it regularly, but fly to it on the least symptom of anything being wrong, and I have many times proved it to be a good preventive of returning sickness. It is now eight or nine months since I recovered, and Clements Tonic has kept me in good health all through. I can again get on with my house and dairy work with comfort and pleasure. i • I am pleased to be able to recommend Clements Tonic, for I have found it a true friend, and am convinced that it will give health to many now suffering if they will only give it a trial.—l am, Sir, yours gratefully, M. L. MORGAN. THE BEN OHAU RUN CASE.

Commenting on the judgment of Mr Justice Williams in the case of Scott v J. M. Ritchie, W. Henderson, and the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, reported on Tuesday, the Otago Daily Times says : —“ Lengthy comment on the judgment is not necessary. As we have already said it will be emphatically endorsed by the public. And this not because of any very great sympathy for Mr Scott, who lent himself with his eyes open to a transaction of a dishonorable kind, but for the reason that Mr Ritchie, who was more conscious than Mr Scott of the wrong that was being done the country, represented in the words of His Honor, the “ principal offender,” and should therefore rightly bear the burden resulting from the failure of his scheme. It may be quite true that Mr Ritchie has only done what has been previously done by other people on many occasions, with more fortunate results ; but this in no way lessens the gravity of the offence. The very knowledge that schemes such as that connected with the purchase of the Ben Ohau run have been carried into effect for years past, has resulted in the stirring up of class prejudice and hatreds. Such proceedings are not only to be sternly deprecated because the revenue of the colony is made to suffer when they are carried to a successful finish, but begaiise of the political rancour which they engender, jibe setting of class against class, and the injury generally which they do the colony. The National Mortgage and Agency has a heavy penalty to pay in the rent of the unprofitable run it will now be hardened with for years, and of the large sums it will have to expend In keeping down the rabbit scourge ; but it will surely be the general opinion that the punishment is not undeserved. Nor will the lesson be fruitless. The leasing of the pastoral lands of the colony will not in future be accompanied by attempts to circumvent the Government such as that which has ended so disastrously for those who planned it.”