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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10425, 24 April 1897, Page 3

ARE SOU AFFLICTED with DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, KIDNEY TROUBLES, BACKACHE, ACHING LIMBS, or LIVER COMPLAINT? If so, safe remedies are within your reach at a nominal cost. CLEMENTS TONIC and FLETCHER'S PILLS have never yet failed to cure the worst cases. General debility, nervousness, weakness, and general complaints of the digestive and nervous system* are promptly cured by these reliable remedies. They are prepared by scientific pro. cesses, and are not merely mechanical nurtures made only to "gull the public." The Known CLEMENTS TONIC and FLETCHER'S PILLS have won in Australasia is proof of the fact that they stand preeminent for their special classes of diseases. No remedies ever sold gave such entire satisfaction to their patrons, and evidence is forthcoming from every city, town, and village to prove their virtues. No doubt can now exist as to their value; but purchasers must be careful to get the genuine articles, as many unscrupulous traders will attempt to palm off a substitute if possible, for the sake of extra profit. On Wednesday evening last a lectun entitled "Home, Sweet Home," wai delivered in the Otahuhu Public Hall by the Rev. Dr. Wolfenden, who is at present supplying the pulpit at the Anckland .Tabernacle. The audience were delighted with the masterly way in which the subject was bandied. During an interval in thi lecture, Mr. Spedding, of Auckland, ex< plained the object of the meeting, viz., to assist the funds of the Baptist Union Homi Mission to the Gumdiggers and Settlers of the North. Votes of thanks to the lecturu and the chairman closed the proceedings. A boy was charged at the Hawera Polici Court the other day with having stolen fix« pennyworth of carrots from a garden. Th« boy pleaded not guilty, and the Court, which was engaged in the case for several hours, ultimately reserved its decision. The de- ■ - fence wai that the carrots, being the product of a garden, and under the value of Is, could • nob be the subject of larceny, as it is expressly provided by section 35 of the Act " that nothing grown, and being nnder the intrinsic value of Is, could be stolen within the meaning of the penal clauses of the Act, Mr. Northcroft, S.M., said he would taki time to look into the point, bub on the fact ef it nch »law would seem to be ridiculous.