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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5490, 15 February 1896, Page 6

• r "IMITATION is the SINCEREST FLATTERY." The articles most imitated are CLEMENTS TONIC and V FLETCHER'S PILLS. ■ v7HY? / • BECAUSE they have the' best reputation and are most in demand by the public, consequently, every dishonest trader tries to trade on their fame and renown. 1$ 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 ever passes but what the Press exposes the barefaced and shameful practices of some of these harpies, yet, in face of all they Beem to thrive, and the paper who hounds them down most thrives fattest^on their advertisements and cracks champagne over each i • frila^ceißlreet. 'dements; Tonio and Fletcher's Pills nave' never yet stooped to deception ijnd :. misrepresentation. . They . ore 'icientiflo therapeutical agents, anxl Bvidenee arto their value can : be found in ytevy, .district, ftnd such being the case itis mnec^s&iry to further extol 'their virttfes. To be obtained from Messrs Cook, and goes, C^Qrnbo, Sixeefe Ch^phwch, —