THE SIEGE OF WEPENER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXV, Issue IX, 1 September 1900, Page 392

THE SIEGE OF WEPENER.

CAPE RIFLEMAN’S STORY. The part which the Cape Mounted Rifles, in common with other colonial troops, have so nobly borne in the

South African war is now u matter of history, and their gallant defence of Wepener under Lieutenant - Colonel Dalgetty until relieved by Major-Gen-eral Brabant’s Irregular Horse, evoked a. chorus of praise throughout the British Empire. Our reporter therefore eagerly seized the opportunity of interviewing Mr. Michael Bourne, formerly u member of the Cape Mounted Rifles.

“1 left England in April, 1854, for South Africa,” said Mr Bourne. “There I served in the Cape Mounted Rifles where 1 met with a deal of bush experience that fitted me for a settler’s life. In ’73 I settled in New Zealand on the Napier Road, near Upper Hutt, and am still there. Six years ago, whilst moving a portable engine on the farm I was knocked down ami the horse drew the engine over my feet. Doctors were called in and I was treated for a compound fracture of the foot and nervous derangement. The accident unnerved my system: I could not sleep, always felt dull and listless, and suffered from creeping-like pains throughout the body. The physician said that matter which should have come from the foot at the time of the accident had spread throughout the system. Noticing- Dr. Williams’ pink pills advertised in the “Times” I commenced them. Several boxes invigorated my system, made my blood rich and red. and expelled the poisonous matter from my body. I continued them until quite cured. Despite my 67 years I am as well as ever. For curing nervous derangement and illhealth I strongly recommend Dr. Williams’ pink pills, but sufferers must always get the genuine with the full name in red on the outside wrapper. I found out to my cost that the common pink pill so often sold are of no value whatever.” Mounted Rifleman Bourne’s remaiks concerning common.pink pills are perfectly true. Only the genuine Dr. Williams’ pink pills can cure the diseases they are advertised to cure, such as rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, bronchitis, consumption, erysipelas, paralysis, rickets, scorfula, St. Vitus’ dance, etc. Sold by chemists, storekeepers, and the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Wellington, three shillings per box, post free. But mind you ask for Dr. Williams’-—the kind used by Rifleman Bourne.