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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9835, 7 August 1900, Page 3

ONE FROM THE WAR. ♦ A Brave Veteran Interviewed. There lives at Hoxton Park (N.S.W.) Staff-Sergeant J. Chalkley, who now carries on the trade of a market gardener. It would not need a Sherlock Holmes to tell he had been a soldier, for the well-knit form, and the military figure proclaim it. Asked for some narrative of his various experiences— 'I am,' he said, i_9 years old. I was Staff-Sergeant in the the Bengal Commissariat Department, and Bth King's Liverpool regiment which was present at the RELIEF OF LADYSMITH " ~ / ON SENTRY. under General White. I served with Lord Roberts in the Afghan War in 1878-79-80, and took part in the capture of Charasia and Kabul, for which I received a medal and two clasps. I also served in India for 20 years,, and received a long-service and good conduct medal, but the exposure and unhealthy Indian climate told on me, and about 80 years ago I got fever and ague. Then bronchitis set in. I suffered from a hacking cough, shivering fits, cramping pains in the stomach, copious perspiration, and a feeling as if a heavy weight were pressed on my back and chest. I was often so giddy that I had to catch hold of something to prevent a fall. I could not sleep at night, and although treated for over 19 years by Army Surgeons, had to obtain my discharge, being pensioned off as staffsergeant. Then I came to Australia, settling at Bunara Road, Hoxton Park, as -market gardener, but the after effects of fever and ague still troubled me. I was weak and languid and often unable to work at all; it was not till I tried Dr. Williams' pink' pills that I improved. One box made me stronger so I persevered with them, and although when I commenced them I was very ill and quite unable to walk, I am now strong and well and daily attend to my garden." Inability to recover from excessive weakness after dangerous illnesses makes the sufferer's life unbearable. In Sergeant Chalkley's case Dr. Williams' pink pills enriched the blood and supplied fresh vigor, assisting his recovery to normal strength by natural means, and they have cured innumerable cases of scrofula, rickets, erysipelas, consumption of the J bowels and lungs, antenna, ladies' ailments, loss of manly strength, rheumatism, lumbago, neuralgia, sciatica, etc. ' Sold by the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Wellington, three shillings per box, and by chemists and storekeepers—But miud you ask for Dr. Williams', and get the genuine as used by Sergeant Chalkley.

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