EARLY DIGGER’S HARDSHIPS

New Zealand Mail, 29 January 1902, Page 52

EARLY DIGGER’S HARDSHIPS

In a recent conversation with Mr John Alleman, a veteran digger and settler of 70 years of age, he referred to his various experiences of life in Australia—experiences well worthy of publication.

“Of course,” said he, “I have settled down now, having been farming in Inglewood for tlie past twenty-five years, but before that I did. a good deal of travelling. I am a native of German Switzerland, but I decided to strike out from the old home, so when I came to manhood’s estate, I took ship for Australia, and upon arrival I worked on different goldfields with varied success till ’75, when I came to New Zealand. But the hardships of mining had told upon me. Exposure to wet, bad food and water had vitiated my blood, and ten years ago acute rheumatic pains came in my neck, arms, back and legs, and my muscles were so contracted that I could scarcely move.”

“Did you go to Rotorua ?” “Yes, I tried the hot springs there as a last resource, but I only obtained temporary relief, and the doctors could do nothing for me. Then an Inglewood storekeeper persuaded me to try Williams’s pink pills for pale people. To toll the truth I had only taken them for a few days when I felt a little be ter. A week later the rheumatism le my neck, and as I continued using the pills the pains subsided elsewhere; arte taking several more boxes I vvas pe fectly cured. I have been in good nea ever since, so my cure is permanent, am strong and active, and am Y°L-i7 with the hands now, cutting ana s ing chaff.” , Indoor workers and those expos the hardships of manual labour equally liable to rheumatism, w really caused by vitiated blood' . Williams’s pink pills cure rheumatjo and dyspepsia, anaemia, debui y> diseases, rickets, consumption) ” enriching the blood and thus _ the foundations of these disea• . toning up the nerves and stre fjj the spine they cure St. vitu . hysteria, paralysis, by chertneuralgia, sciatica, etc. bow j wflists and storekeepers and th • liams’s Medicine Co., Welli g » a nd shillings per box. stx boxes s x j, six, post free. Mr Allemaii , Jngl®' situated on the Dudley ’ wood. _