FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17251, 29 August 1919, Page 9

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

GOLD AT WAITAKERE. 22 CARAT QUALITY. (From the HERALD of August 29, 1869.) Wr are informed that a party employed in prospecting by an Auckland citizen in the "Waitakere has found a large quartz reef. The locality is said to be novae ten miles from the workings on the Driving Creek. Recently several gentlemen de- , sirous of testing the auriferous character of Waitakere quartz, crushed some stone and amalgamated it, and the result was i gold at the rate of 2oz per ton. The gold was of excellent quality, apparently 22 carat. RELIABLE RHEUMATISM REMEDY. No matter how long you may have ■ J suffered from Rheumatism, vou owe it to I yourself to try RHEUMO. It seldom fails ■ i to remove the uric acid in the blood—the > | cause of the disease. The gradual easing j of the pain as the excess acid is expelled, > I the subsidence of inflammation and re- • i duction of the swelling will come as a ' I blessed relief to you, as it did to thos<= ; i who tried other " cures" without avail. : I Read what a well-known resident of Port . I Ahuriri writes : —" I experienced the pains ' I of Rheumatics or Rheumatic Gout, and 1 for eight or ten weeks had to take to my i , Led. My sufferings were very severe, so I ! bad in fast that even the closing of a i door would make mv heart jump. I dei ] cided to try RHEUMO. I got relief and i ' was soon able to get about and follow my ! I occupation." RHEUMO is a proven i remedy— seldom fails to brine relief. ! i 2s 6d and 4s 6d. 6 > Barraclough's Magic Nervine stops , Toothache, le bottle, chemists and stores. , ' Progandra cures Coras quickly.