WRECKED ON CHESTERFIELD REEF.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12550, 11 July 1901, Page 2

WRECKED ON CHESTERFIELD REEF.

Nobody can tell the following story better than the -writer tejls it himself. "In 1891," he says, "I first experienced the miseries of acute indigestion. - , I was obliged to knock off work, and suffered agonies for-two months. Then I felt slight-, ly better and went back to my post at the North Brisbane Fire Brigade Station, and stayed there until the great flood in 1893. ''Then I had a terribly severe which laid rne down for ten months, seven weeks of it being spent, in,the hospital. "Several doctors attended me, but they failed to effect a cure. "Yet, at the end of ten months I felt somewhat better, and beiog of an energetic disposition, I started in to work again. " I managed to keep at it for six months and then collapsed completely, and resigned nry position in the Brigade. " On returning home several of my frzends urged me to pub my faith in Seigel's Syrup and in that only, saying they had known it to cure cases as bad as mine. 'Don't be down-hearted,' they said.

"On this I Began using Seigel's Syrup / (and Seigera Pills occasionally) and gradu- 1' ally got better. When I had taken about twelve bottles in all, I was so much better, I accepted a position as mate in a ship going to trade in the Islands—taking a « supply of the Syrup with me. "We sailed on the 24th of October, 1894> and on the 29th we struck Chesterfield Reef, Long Island, and -were wrecked, but all hands were saved. The captain, and four blacks took to one of the boats, and reached Mackay in safety, whilst I and seven blacks landed on Long Island, where we remained thirty-two days, until we were rescued by the Pylades man-of-war, and taken on to Sydney. "Fortunately, we were able to obtain, enough provisions from the wreck to maintain us while we were on the Island. "I must mention that I kept on using Seigel's Syrup nntil we got to Sydney, and then I was quite restored to healtih, and have been perfectly well ever since. "My health is now splendid; my appetite is excellent, and all the bad symptoms I once had are gone like an ugly ■ dream after morning breaks. " My wife use 3 the medicine for a milder form of indigestion than mine was, and is as firm a believer in it as I am. " I will name a few of the peculiarities cf the aggravating and dangerous disease as it affected rne. There was always a bad taste in my mouth; my breath was bad, and I used to retch frequently after eating ; I belched continually, lost flesh, and had. thin'v lantern jaws. "Scores of friends and acquaintances can testify to the truth of what-1 have said. It is certain that Mother Seigel's J3yrup cured me when all other medicines and forms of treatment proved to be no good, and I have to thank the Syrup only for the fact that I am now a etrong, healthy man. I have now been nearly three years in the employ of the Queenspo"rt Meat Oom- / ■ pany, but my home is at the address given! below." A. 0. Backman, Myrtle George Street, Kangaroo Pointy Brisbanai, Q. Sept., 6th, 1900. -' ■ \ ■■ ':