ONE OF OUR NATION BUILDERS

Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 10

ONE OF OUR NATION BUILDERS

The portrait which we present below is that of Mr David Grant, a respected citizen of Waimea street, Nelson. Mr Grant is jusfc the hardy type of immigrant who has helped to make New Zealand the nation it is today. With a view to publication in the 1 Nelson Mail a pressman recently had half an hour's chat with Mr Grant. '' I oame out from Scotland 40 years ago," said he, " and I have been in the baking business in this district ever eince. Year by year I have watched New Zealand grow in wealth and p o pulation and no one takes more pride in my adopted country than I, As to myself, I may say that although I am 69, I have generally enjoyed: (An early colonist). excel lent health ; but sc me time ago, probably owing to exposure in the chill night air, I caught a <se\er<» cold, which de\ eloped into influenza, and until lately I suffered from ita after effects. I was extremely weak and languid, and had a bad cough. The bronchial tubes were affected, and the slightest change of air produced a fit of coughing. I gradually grew worse, and there seemed no hope for me, until one day I read how similar troubles had been banished by Dr Williams' pink pills for pale people. I purchased a supply, and after taking two boxes felt much better; the cough began to abate, and! I regained some strength. Several more boxea cured me. All weakness has appeared, and my health at present is splendjid. Whenever I catch a cold I always take Dr Williams' pink pills, for I find they are mosfc efficacious in checking it." To those suffering recovery from influenza, fever, or any other severe sickness, Dr Williams' pink pills are invaluable, because they repair tne wasted) nerve ti^ues, enrich the impoverished blood, and strengthen th 3 spine. They have cured many men, women, and children (after other mean* have failed) of rheumatiFm, eoiatica. neuralgia, consumption of the bowete ana lungs, liver and kidney tioubles, dyspepsia, insomnia, St Vitus's dance, and hysteria. Sold by chemist? and storekeepers, but it a substitute is offered (the genuine alwava bear the full name. Dr Williams pink pills for pale people), ii k better to send direct to the Dr Williams' Medicine Co., Wellington, enclosing the prioe. sixteen and six for <=i\; boxes, or three "shillings for one box; po^t free throughout New Zealand. Men broken down by overwork or excesses, or any of the evil results of exposure and privation, are restored to vigorous manhood by their use.

A ea=e of typhoid fevci has been reported at Wain are. Among recent visitors who toured the colony was o party of 12 Americans, who* came over to see the new country about which they had heard so much lately. Rotorua folks declare that that party was the most talkative which had vieited that region.- The Americans visited the Wandanui River, and talking afterwaida to a' Wanganui man, who was cuiious to knov* tho thoughts of the visitors, about New Zealand's Rhine, one of the party eulogized! the river in th» highest terms of Pfaisc. "You can take it from me," he Paid, that} you have a wonderful river. The beauty, of us rpper reaches paralysed us— it actually made 12 Americans shut up their laws and uivf old Nature silence!" The Wanganui Kivc-r is wonderful; a sileat Aniftricaa is al uaxunreX