HERO’S LIFE OF ADVENTURE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIV, Issue XXI, 26 May 1900, Page 976

HERO’S LIFE OF ADVENTURE.

(HAT WITH AN OLD SOLDIER.

In High-street, Httwera, a borough on the Wanganui-New Plymouth line, lives one of New Zealand’s Heroes, who carries on the trade of a fishmonger. This is the lot of Mr George Millard Walker, now 53 years of age. He came to N.Z. nearly 40 years ago as a private in the 50th Regiment ("Queen’s Own”) and went through the Maori war. serving in the Waikato and Taranaki campaign under General -Chute. He was one of the expedition which made the celebrated inarch round Mt. Egtnont, “when,” said Mr Walker, “we endured great hardships in the dense bush and had to eat our pack horses." ' Having obtained his discharge be went gold mining in Australia. When in Queensland he contracted fever and ague, and rheumatic fever, and became a confirmed rheumatic sufferer. The wearying ache of rheumatism spread through his limits and joints, stiffening the muscles and actually drawing oue knee

almost.to his ear. It was quite impos- , sible for him to walk. He went into ; the Hawera Hospital, but had to be removed in a cab. He tried private medical treatment, and had the electrio battery, but without effect. A lady visitor one day told him her husband had been cured of rheumatism by using Dr. Williams' pink pills, so he tried them. Before he had taken a box-and-a-half he got his leg half-way down and could get about with a stick. When he had finished four boxes he was able to do light work, and he went through

the whole of last vjinter without a paia of any kind. He is now strong and active, and carries on the duties of a fishmonger regularly and energetically. “I could write whole pages about the good Dr. Williams’ pink pills have done me,” said Mr Walker. “My case was looked ■ upon as hopeless, and all the neighbours were astonished beyond measure, when they saw me about again. 1 cannot be too grateful for my recovery; the agony I suffered was unbearable.” It is by their action of the blood and nerves that Dr. Williams’ pink pills cure rheumatism, which is really due to the impoverished or vitiated blood. Dr. Williams' pink pills make the blood rich and red, tone up the nerves, strengthen the spine, and thus remove the foundations of disease. For the same reason they cure sciatica, neuralgia. bronchitis, St. Vitus’ dance, erysipelas, scrofula, consumption of the bowels and lungs, paralysis, and even locomotor ataxia.. Sold by the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Wellington, three shillings per box, six boxes sixteen and six, and by chemists and storekeepers —But mind you ask for jOr. Williaiffs’—the kind with the full name (all seven words) in red _ink pa the pink tinted wrapper.