AN ACCIDENT AT THE SYDNEY DOCKS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue XIX, 8 May 1897, Page 586

AN ACCIDENT AT THE SYDNEY DOCKS.

A SAILORS NARROW ESCAPE. HEAD STRUCK A PIER WHILE ROWING ASHORE WITH THE LINE FROM A SHIP, AND FELL INTO THE WATER BRUISED AND INSENSIBLE. When a member of our staff went in search of Mr John Smith, of 4, Wilmot street, Sydney, he fortunately found him at home, and on bis remarking that the object of hie visit was to obtain particulars of a narrow escape from death he bad heard Mr Smith had lately experienced, found ne difficulty in obtaining the same. “ Yes, it is quite true that I did have a narrow escape," said Mr Smith, “ and if you want to hear about it, I will tell you with pleasure. I was down at Howard Smith’s wharf on the 19th of November last, where I was generally employed, and at the time I met with my accident was taking a line ashore from an incoming steamer. Through colliding with a post, whilst in the boat I got thrown into the water, receiving a severe injury to my head in addition to being half drowned by the quantity of dirty water I swallowed*. I was taken to the Sydney Hospital, where I remained three weeks.’ ‘Did they do you much good, Mr Smith?’ “ No, indeed ; they only patched me up for the time being and it was lucky for me that I got a bit of an easy job minding a gate at the wharf, for I was so desperately weak and debilitated that I could not attempt to take on hard work. However, I managed to stay on for five weeks, and then returned home for three or four days rest, which I was badly in naed of. 1 then went to see the Government Medical Officer, who said my case was incurable, and wanted me to go to Liverpool Asylum, but this I refused to do, so I ultimately returned to Sydney Hospital, where I remained three weeks." ** Did you feel any better after that, Mr Smith ?” “No, decidedly worse ; in fact, twice over worse, and was glad to return home again.” “ How did you feel affected. Mr Smith ?” “Chiefly spitting of blood, which would keep me awake day and night. Mrs Rees, my landlady, can tell you bow bad I was ; in fact, she thought it was all over with me, and that I should not be long for this world." “ How did you hear of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, which we were told was what pulled you together again ?” “ Through a pamphlet being left at the house. I thought at first that the pills were too expensive for me, but Mrs Rees persuaded me to try them, so I got a box and started to take them according to the printed directions. After the first box I felt wonderfully better, the blood spitting almost left me, my appetite returned ; indeed, it was better than before my accident. It ia a remarkably rare thing for me to spit blood at all now.” “Do you attribute this beneficial effect to Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills ?” “ I do entirely ; in fact, it must be so for 1 have taken no other medicine. Before my accident I always enjoyed the best of health, having led a healthy outdoor life, so it proves my accident must have been a very serious one to knock me up as it did. 1 have the firmest belief in the virtues of Dr. Williams’s Pink Pills, and so has Mrs Rees, my landlady. (Mrs Rees here certainly corroborated Mr Smith's statements in every particular ) I have," continued Mr Smith, “strongly recommended these Pills to all my friends and acquaintances, and they have also a strong advocate in Mrs Rees, who is a firm believer in them.’’ (Signed) JOHN SMITH, 4, Wilmot-atreet, Off Liverpool-street, Sydney. Dr. U illiame* Pink Pills for Pale People are not a patent medicine, but are a thoroughly scientific preparation, the result of years of careful study on the part of an eminent Edinburgh University physician, and they were successfully used by him in hie every day practice for years before being offered for general sale. They positively cure Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lumbago and Neuralgia, and Influenza’s evil after effects, and are a specific for all diseases of women, such as ana-mia, poor and watery blood, female irregularities, nervous headache and hysteria. They are not a purgative medicine, but braceup and permanently strengthen the whole system. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are obtainable from all leading chemists, or from the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Wellington, New Zealand, who will forward (poet paid) on receipt of stamps or poet order, 1 box for 3e, or J dozen for 15« 9d.