PASSING NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3964, 16 November 1891, Page 4

PASSING NOTES.

(From the Otago "Witness and with -which is incorporated the Southern Mercury, Thursday October 29,1891.) Tims-was when a successful brewery poa, sessed the potentialities of wealth beyond , the dreams of avarice—teste Dr Johnson , and the rise of the Beerage, as'impinging on j the Peerage, goes far to prove But his horizon was limited after all. Jajo and Adams didn't live m a consequence Prohibition is not fuily defined in his dictionary. Furthermore ( an £ th 'B w what lam steadily leading up to) he k °®* nothing of the potentialities of I tho the patent medicine. It may bethat m his day mankind possessed a liver. But the pre | gumption is that if they did they didu t know it (happy people that they were) for Hollowaj's pills, Warner's safe cure, Mother Seigel's Syrup, and last, but not l»ast, the Rev. Mother Mary Joseph Aubert s remedies, all belong to a later age. Indeed, theltev. Mother Aubert's remedies are a local product, and are only now for the first time being offered to suffering humanity at per bottle, as I perceive from an advertisement covering more than half a column of the newspapers. No less a personage than Archbishop Redwood of Wellington formally introduces her, and solemnly certifies to the efficacy of her medicines, though not I charitably hope, to the the quality of her EnglishNowadays e»erybody has a liver to his cost, and as a consequence the_ potentialities of patent medicines are practically limitless* It is to the credit of Archbishop Redwood, then, and the profit of his church, that he lias b®**} the first to avail himself of this pregnant fact by starting the sale of the Rev Mother Aubertis Remedies, You see, Catholics have ailments as well as their heretical neighbors ; ana no good Catholic, however bad bis liver or his stomach,, will hesitate to patronise these Remedies, consecrated as they are by a distinct archepiscopal puff. And as the net gains go to the Church the advantages we obvious. If only the diseases of the faithful be copious enough, and the sale of the medicines be wide enough, Gipsy encamp* ments may become superfluous and the Catholic vote cease to be a difficulty. That the other denominations will follow suit is only --to be expected, and we may soon look for a | 'Methodist mixture, a Presbyterian plaster, and f»o forth, each vaunted and vouched for by the pastor of the church in whose interest the medicament is vended. Who knows but that in this way we may come to be delivered from the collection, the bazar, and all ■ the pecuniary that ecclesiastical flesh is heir to!. Cms. N.B, —The proprietor of the Aubert Remedies is not responsible for the composition of the above, as it is an exact reproduction; The proprietor of the Aubert Remedies wishes to draw the attention of the public to two long .extracts published by 4 Civis ' under passsing notes in the Otago W itnees, 29th October, 1891. Of couise every one with judgment will discern that there is a -reason for an effusion of this kind, and it is probably as well that the public should know. The proprietor of the Mother Mary Joseph Aubert Remedies was in Dunedin a few. days before this great effort from the pen of 41 Civis 99 was created, and entered into a contract with the Otago Evening Star foi advertising, and also wished to do so with the Otago Daily Times, but the" managers of the latter, evidently thinking he knew nothing about advertising and how it couldbe done, asked him a prohibitive price, and in consequence his 'ads' have not appeared in that paper. Now as to the facts connected with these remedies, because it if as well that they should be known: BBs Grace the Archbishop had nothing whatever to do with the starting of their sale, but as it is against the rules of the Church to enter into any engagements without previously having the permission of their head, this was asked for, and as it was seen that a benefit would be conferred upon suffering humanity, it was recdily granted. Now, every person lias a distiact r.ght in his or her private capacity to give a testimonial if they so choose, more particularly when sickness can be averted or cured by attention being drawn to the fact by the words of public men, and who, as a rule, are careful that their reputation shall not suffer by so doing, thereby proving the value of such a testimonial.— [AdvtT|