Sexual Quacks. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 53

Sexual Quacks. TO THE EDITOR.

Sib, — I ha&e to-day received a lett 6& from a. man in Canterbury who tells me thas he has been threatened with a court case if he does' not pay up £11 Us and costs to a certain Sydney firm of solicitors. As this amount is said to be due to a quack whose name appears on the list of sexual quacks .prevented from receiving letters from New Zealand, I have advised the man that he need not take the slightest notice of the threat.' I have also advised; - Dr Mason of this effort on the part of the quacks to force money from those who were their victims; In the interests of other such men 1 hope you will insert this letter. — I am, etc.,

R. H. W. Bligh.

January 31.

The country which sells , mo3t to Japan is British India, Great Britain coming next, with China third, the United States fourth, and- Germany fifth. . ,

Madrid now holds the record for being the most unhealthy capital' in Europe. Ifca deaths were 9374 last year in a population of a little over half a million.

An elderly Prussian woman, calling herself Lady de Maier is receiving the attention of New York. - She is a fire worshipper, and in her room is a golden calf, alongside which she ..keeps a fire burning night andday. She has fed the flames not only with wood and coal, but her children's clothes, and even picture hats and choice viands. Her daughters say their mother boasts thafc' she will live for ever, guarded by the spirits 'of Washington, Lincoln, Grant, and M'Kinlay. "