PASSING NOTES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 9446, 9 November 1891, Page 3

PASSING NOTES.

'From the OUgo Witness ami Dally Times, with which la Incorporated the Houthcrn Mercury, Thursday, October 20, 1801-)

Time was when a successful brewery possessed tho potentialities of wealth be. yond tho dreams of avarice—teste Dr John* son—and tho rise of the Beorage, as imping* log on the Peerage, goes far to prove his perspicacity. Bat his horizon was limited, after all. Messrs Jago and Adams didn't live in h!s time, aod as a consequence Prohibition is not fully defined in his dictionary. Furthermore (and this is what I am steadily . leading up to), be know nothing of the potentialities of the pill and the patens medicine. It may be that in his day mankind possessed a liver, but the presumption is that if they did they didn't know It (happy people that they were), for Holloway's pills, Warner’s safe cure. Mother Siegel’s syrup, and last, but not bast, the Rev. Mother Mary Joseph Aubert's remedies, all belong to a later age. Indeed, the Rev. Mother Aubert's remedies are a local product, and are only now for tho first timo being offered to suffering humanity at per bottle, as I perceive from an advertisement covering more than half a column of the newspapers. No leas a per. sonago than Archbishop Redwood of Wellington formally introduces her, and solemnly certifies to the efficacy of her medicines, though not, I charitably hope, to the quality of her English.

Nowadays everybody has a liver, to hia cost, and as a consequence the potentialities of patent medicines are practically limitless. It is to the credit of Archbishop Redwood, (ben, and the profit of bis Church, that he has been the first to avail himself of this pregnant fact by starting the sale of the Rev Mother Aubert’s Remedies, You see, Catholics have ailments as well as their heretical neighbours; and no good Catholi-i, however bad bis liver or his stomach, will hesitate to patronise thesee Rmediea, consecrated as they are by a distinct arohepisoopal puff. And as the net gains go to the Church the advantages are obvious. If only the diseases of tho faithful be copious enough, and the sale of the medicines bo wide enough, Gipsy encampmoots may become superfluous and tho Catholic vote cease to be a difficulty. That the other denominations will follow suit is only to be expected, and wa may soon look for a Methodist mixture, a Presbyterian plaster, aod so forth, each vaunted and vouched for by the pastor of the church in whose interest the medicament is vended. Who knows bat that in this way we may come to be delivered from tho collection, the bazaar, and all the pecuniary ills that ecclesiastical flesh is heir to ! Crvis. N.B.—The proprietor of the Aubert Remedies is not responsible for the compoaitior 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 " Civis ” under passing notes in the Otago Witness, 29th October, 1891. Of course everyone 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 pan of “Civis” was created, and entered Into a contract with the Dunedin Evening Star for advertising, and also wished to do so with the Otago Daily Times, but tho managers of tho latter, evidently thinking be Knew nothing about advertising and how it could be done, asked him a prohibitive price, and in consequence his “ads” have not appeared in that paper. Now as to the facta connected with these remedies, because it is as well that they should be known : His Grace the Arch* bishop bad nothing whatever to do with the starting of their sale, but as it is against the .rules of the Church to enter into aoy engagements without previously having the permission of their head, this was asked for, and as it was seen that a benstit would be con-

ferred on suffering humanity, it was readily granted. Now, ©very person has a distinct right in bis or her private capacity to givo a testimonial if they so choose, more particularly when sickness oan 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.—[Aptt.]