A CELEBRATED NOVELIST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5497, 28 November 1896, Page 3

A CELEBRATED NOVELIST.

Captain Lacik, the celebrated Australian writer, and author of " Tales of Outlaws j" " Narratives of the Bnsbranging Times j" " Convict Records and Chronicles in Van Dieman's Land and Norfolk Island the" Gem Finders," etc., etc., is a . born traveller. He has explored most parts of Australasia and visited nearly .all foreign countries. Most 1 of his writings are well-known in the colonies, and the following, in his nsnal concise, style, will interest our readers. '' In preparing my series of' Bushranging Narratives' and 'Tales of Outlaws,' I underwent great physical hardships in ouflfr tfiat I might describe from petijnal observation the chief haunts of noted desperadoes of the past. This was particularly so on the wild, and at that time practically unexplored,west Coast of Tasmania, round the' Macquarie Harbour district; in the frightful glens dacred to the 'bauri vine, 1 and the tremendous ranges around the Frenchman's Cap , and Cradle Mountain, I endured great exposure, which and .ran down my system. Sleeping in . wet clothes in the bush, with unsuitable and uncertain food, brought on severe kidney and lifer troubles, tending to chronic rheumatism. Having had former beneficial experience of the effects of Warner's' Safe' Cure, I took a course of that medicino •for a few- months, and am pleased to say it has entirely restored to my former robust health." Not a miracle, but just another euro brought abyut by a medicino that acta directly unon two important organß—tho liver and tho kidneys. The experience of" Captain Lacie" will be yours if you aro guided by it.