SOLDIER AND CITIZEN.

Southern Cross, Volume 7, Issue 35, 25 November 1899, Page 11

SOLDIER AND CITIZEN.

AN ILLU STEIOTJS NEW ZEALANDEE. Following our plan of inserting each week a condensed report of the lives of prominent New Zealanders, the interview which our representative had with Mr George Millard Walker of High Street, Hawera, is here presented. ‘ I believe we can claim you as a soldier, as well as a citizen, Mr Walker ?’ ‘ Yes. In my younger days I saw much fighting. I was a member of the 50th Regiment (Queen’s Own) and went through the Maori War.’ * Were you under General Chute F’ 1 Yes, in the Waikato and Taranaki campaign, and I was in the expedition which made the dangerous march round Mt, Egmont. Being without food supplies we had to eat our pack horses. I also endured hardships im the New South Wales, Victorian and

Queensland goldfields after leaving the Army. I was down with sciatica, rheumatic fever and ague several times. Pains like hot needles pierced my hips and thighs and ran down to the feet; ray joints swelled up, and every movement caused me acute agony. The ague made my limbs shrink, brought on violent shivering fits, great sickness, pains in limbs and head, copious perspiration, and, later on, feverishness. When I returned here I was taken in a cab to the Hawera hospital, and the sciatica was so bad that my knee was drawn right up to my ear, and I could not move it down ; the muscles were all contracted. I left the hospital in this condition. A lady visitor told me her husband had suffered like me, and bad been cured by Dr. William’s pink pills. I sent for some. After taking a box and a half I was able to move my knee from my ear, and got about with a stick. After four boxes I threw' the stick away, and this winter I have been quite well ; the sciatica and the effects of fever and ague left me. The excruciating pains are now only a memory.’ Dr. Williams’ pink pills are always curing cases in which ordinary treatment has failed. This is because they act directly on the blood and nerves, unlike other medicines which only relieve symptoms. Dr. Williams’ pink pills have permanently cured rheumatism, neuralgia, consumption, lumbago, colds and influenza, paralysis, Bright’s disease, scrofula, eczema, nervous prostration, etc. Sold by chemists and storekeepers, and by the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Wellington, N.Z. Price, three shillings per box, six boxes sixteen and sixpence, post free. We may have cured cases like yours. Send for our list.