PASSING NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3966, 18 November 1891, Page 4

PASSING NOTES.

(From the Otago Witness and Daily Timss, with which is incorporated the Southern Mercury, Thursday October 29,1831.)

Time was whena successful brewery pos- ' sessed the potentialities of wealth beyond the dreams of avarice-teste Dr Johnsonand the rise of the Becrage, as impinging on the Peerage, goes farto prove his perspicacity. But tahorizon was limited .f ter all. Messrs Jajo and Adams didn't live in his time, and as a consequence Prohibition is not fully defined in his dictionary. Furthermore (and th«. » *hatlam steadily leading'upto) he knew nothing of the potentialities of.the, pill and the patent medicine. It may be that m his day mankind possessed a liver. But the preif they did they didn't know it (happy people that they were) for Holloway's puis, Warner's safe cure, Mother " ffl's S>rup, and last, but not 1-ast, the. Bw. Blotber Mary Joceph Anbert's remedies, all belong to a later age. Indeed, the Kev. Bother Anbert's remedies are a local product, andare only now for the first time being offered to suffering humanity at per bottle, ma 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 Enajish-

Nowadays everybody haß a liver to has cost. Mid as a consequence the potentialities ol natent medicines are practically limitless. It U to the credit of Archbishop Redwood, then, and the profit of his church, that he has been the first to avail himself of this pregnant fact by startingthe sale of the Rev Mother Aubert s Remedies. You see. Catholics have ailments as well as their heretical neighbors ; and no good Catholic, however bad his liver or nia stomach, will hesitate to patronise these Remedies, coasecrated as they are by a ais- j tinct archepiscopal puff. And as the net gains go to the Church the advantages are obvious. If only the diseases of the faithful be copious enough, and ths sale of toe medicines be wide enough, Gipsy encampments may become superfluous and the Catholic vote cease to be a difficulty, mat the other denominations will follow suit is only to be expected, and wo may soon look for a Methodist mixture, a Presbyterian plaster, and so forth, each vaunted and vouched for fcy 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 ills that ecclesiastical flesh is heir to!

N.B.—The proprietor of the Aubert Remedies is not responsible for the composition oi theabove, a» 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 'Civis under passsing notes in the Otago \\ ltneos, <2Jtft Octooer, ISOI. A .„ ~ Of couise every one T.-ith judgment will discern that there is a r«ason 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 " Civis "■ 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 advertisi»g and how it could be done, asked him a prohibitive price, and in consequence his 'ads' have not appeared in that

Now as to the facts connected with these remedies, because it if as well that they should be known: His 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 i»to 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 rtedily granted. Now, every person has a distinct rght 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, am careful that their reputation shall not suffer by so doing, thereby proving the value of such a testimonial.— [ADVTO