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Marlborough Express, Volume XII, Issue 936, 14 July 1877, Page 7

We take the following from the columns of the Sydney Morning Herald :—" In these days when alcoholic liquors are so largely consumed, and consumers are so much m doubt whether their systems are not being gradually impaired by adulteration, it is well that one at least of the popular beverages of the period is reliable as pure— that is Wolfe's Aromatic Schiedam Schnapps. After making reasonable deductions from the varied and many active and neutralising virtues it is said to possess, it is something to be assured by physicians and other of the scientific cognoscenti that we have m this article a genuine extract which taken m moderate quan- ' tity, and under ordinarily healthy conditions of body, affords a beneficial stimulus to the animal functions, and even if taken m excess leaves but a minimum of the inevitable evils of abuse. The fact that m the latter respect it is incomparably superior to the mass of other liquors of a like class is attributed to the entire absence of fusel oil ; its palateableness, its tonic properties, and its effect m increasing the vital energy may be traced to the purity of its main constituent. It differs from other Holland gin, the produce of juniper communis, the schnapps being made from the Italian juniper, which gives a finer aromatic liquor. If it is necessary m the interests of the public to denounce the too common practice of manufacturing noxious compounds as wines and spirits, it seems only just to point to this meritorious exceptien.— [advt.]