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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue XIX, 30 October 1897, Page 595

OPE R A HOUSE. MONDAY, NOVEMBER Ist, 1837. A GRAND AND UNIQUE CONCERT. To be given by the ORIGINAL BANJO. MANDOLIN. AND GUITAR CLUB. Conductor Herr Zimmermann Leader Mr A. A. Partridge 2 4 PERFORMERS. And use no other instrument but the Mandolin. Banjo, and Guitar. THE LATEST AND BEST MUSIC. Magnificent Stage Decorations by Mr and Mrs A. A. Partridge. Admission: Dress Circle and Orchestra Stalls. 2s: Stalls. Is. Box Plan at Messrs Wildman and Lyell's. Booking fee. 6d. Tickets at Williamson's and Partridge and Co.'s, and from any Members of the Club. R. G. EDGCUMBE. Hon. Sec OPE R A HOUSE. POSITIVELY SIX NIGHTS ONLY. AND TWO—MATIN EES—TWO WEDNESDAY AND SATUR D A Y. Commencing TUESDAY. 2nd Nov.. 1897. By Electric Light. E D I S O NS LATEST KINEMATOGRAPHE and the LATEST TALKING PHONOGRAPH. Record Reign Festivities The Great Procession The Prince of Wales Niagara Falls, near the place where Webb was drowned Edison in His Laboratory Henley Boat Race Seen Illustrated CORBETT and FITZSIMMONS FIGHT. Black Diamond Express Water Melon Eating Contest—Coloured and Humorous. Prices—3/, 2/. 1/. Plan now open at Wildman and Lyell's. Day Sales at Williamson’s and Ellisdon’s

A MIRACLE IF EVER THERE WAS ONE. DAVE KIRK, AN EX-MELBOURNE CRACK BICYCLIST. LEAVES THE HOSPITAL To DIE. SEVEN SPECIALISTS PRONOUNCE HIS CASE INCURABLE. TERRIBLE RESULT OF A FALL AT THE SCOTCH COLLEGE GROUNDS A YEAR AGO. PARALYSIS, HEMORRHAGE, SPINAL DISEASE. AND LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA. NINE MONTHS' AGONY IN THE MELBOURNE HOSPITAL. NOW A HEALTHY, ACTIVE MAN. THANKS TO DR. WILLIAMS PINK PILLS. (From the Melbourne “Advocate.”) Dave Kirk, the well-known and highly[•opular hero of the cycle track, was, on the Sth October of last year, training in the Scotch College Grounds. Melbourne, when, all of a sudden, and without any warning, the tyre of the leader broke, and becoming at once entangledin the wheel, brought the rider to the ground with territic force. So great was the impact that not a single limb or member of the unfortunate cyclist's frame escaped serious injury. In all haste the victim was removed to the Melbourne Hospital, more dead than alive, and quite unconscious from shock and hemorrhage. A liastv examination of the patient by the medical staff of that institution showed them that the case was a most serious one, and the grave looks of the surgeons in attendance plainly indicated that they entertained but the slightest hopes of the unfortunate young man’s recovery. All that the resources of that fully-plenished hospital could command were brought into play for the relief of the patient, but the gravest fears were felt as to his ultimate safety. The external injuries were not* after all, the most serious—the symptoms of serious internal injury to the nervous system were all too patent to the practised and expert eve of the medical faculty. So serious, indeed, was the case of Dave Kirk considered, that an eminent surgeon who called to see the patient declared it a- his opinion that the patient would, in all probability, never rise from his sick bed. There [>oor Dave lay, l>etwixt life and death, for about seven weary and exceedingly trying montlisof pain anil suffering, unable to stir hand or foot, unable to move even from side to side—a victim of hemorrhage, spinal disease, pleurisy, dysentery, complete paralysis of the body, and last, but by no means least, locomotor ataxy, a fearful complaint, which utterly prostrates the human frame and destroys the power of the will ; so much so that the common functions of nature are |>erfortned lawpower alwolutely extraneous to the will. An idea of the