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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1265, 28 May 1896, Page 27

“IMITATION is thu SI NO INMOST FLATTMKY.” The articles most imitated are 01 MOM I! NTS TONIC ami I’IjHTCJIKII’S PILLS. WHY? HLCAUSM tlioy have the Lest reputation ami arc most in demand hy the public, consequently every dishonest trader tries to trade on tiieir fame and renown. It is really wonderful that the Australian people are so slow to see the truth as regards the unscrupulous quacks and charlatans who prey on the credulity of the Australian public. Scarcely a week over passes but wlmt the press exposes the barefaced an .1 shameful practices of some of these harpies, Vet in face of all they seem to thrive, and the paper who hounds them down most thrives fattest on their advertisements, and cracks champagne over each balancesheet. Clements Tonic and Fletcher’s Pills have never yet stooped to deception and misrepresentation. They are scientific therapeutical agents, and evidence, as to their value can bo found in every district, and, such being the case, it is unnecessary to further extol their virtues. Disciples of Izaak Walton are popularly supposed to bo addicted to stretching a point when recounting’ their success with rod and lly. According to a South Canterbury paper, a summary of the records of trout fishing in the Opilii, Temuka and Waihi Rivers. during the past season shows that of the 230 licensed anglers 17 of the most proficient or most persistent captured 12,972 fish, the aggregate weight ot which is estimated at live tons. The highest individual tally is that of Air D. Findlay, 1500 fish. One fisherman of the 17 caught a 15-pouuder, and four a 14-pounder