CAME NEAR DYING

Otago Witness, Issue 2456, 10 April 1901, Page 70

CAME NEAR DYING

" For three days and nights; I suffered agony untold from an atfack of cholera mcrbus brought on by ojtmsc cucumbers," says M. E. Lowther, clerk of the Dittncfc Court, Centerville, lowa. '"I thought I' should surely die, and tried a dozen different medicines, but all to no purpose. I sent for a bottle of Chambeilain's Colic, Cholera, nnrl Diarrhoea Remedy, and three doses relieved ire entirely." This lemcdy is 101 sale by all dealers. Price, Is 6d and 3s.

A well-known identity of Edi (Victoria) reached 100 years el age on March 9. Tho old man retains all his, faculties, e\eepting that he is slightly deaf and his eyesight is somewhat dimmed, and he can converse intelligently. He was bprn in Cheshire in 1 1801, and", as a boy of 13, he remembers seeing the troops deporting for Waterloo. He arrived in Victoria in 1829, and afterwards went to Sydney, returning to Victoria 56 years ago. A good deal of his life has been passed as a shepherd, but he naa also round a number of the goldfields. Afi the gathering to celebrate his hundredth birthday, Mr James Kiely, 011 behalf of a* number of subscribers, presented " Old Jimmy," as Howard is familiarly known, with a siher-headed walking stick, and tho centenanan gave evidence of his y by dancing a hornpipe.