MYSTERY AT SEA.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue IV, 24 January 1903, Page 257

MYSTERY AT SEA.

STRANGE STORY OF THE COAST. Mrs B. M. Ryan,’ a first-class passenger from Thames on the Wellington boat, was taken ashorc at- the wharf and carried to the Hospital in a speechless state. A good deal of mystery surrounds the circumstances, and every effort has been made to collect all possible evidence about the case of the unfortunate traveller. Mrs Ryan, it appears, is the wife of Mr Daniel Ryan, who is well known in mining circles both at Hokitika on the West Coast and in the Thames Peninsula, where he has lived for the last 20 years. Mrs Ryan took passage for Wellington to visit her daughter. She retired to her berth in apparent health, but woke in the night to find herself crippled and speechless. When taken to the Hospital it was found that her left side was completely and hopelessly' paralysed. After unsuccessful treatment in Wellington, the Hospital authorities sent her to her home in Kuaotunu, 20 miles from Coromandel, near Thames, and there Mrs Ryan was persuaded to try Dr. Williams’ pink pills for pale people. They restored power and strength to her paralysed side in a way that was nothing short of marvellous After taking two boxes her speech was restored and she was able to give the reporter a graphic story of her stroke.

“The stroke left me absolutely helpless,” said Mrs Ryan, when seen with Mr Ryan at her home, Mackaystreet, Thames, "and I thank Dr. Williams* pink Ills that I am up and about to-day. For 9 weeks I could not speak nor move. My face was distorted in a terrible way, and my mouth drawn back to my ear. My fcod would not stay in my mouth, and really I was in a most pitiable state. No good seemed to result from the kind treatment of the Wellington doctors and Hospital staff, but Dr. Williams’ pink pills soon struck at the cause of the trouble when I went home to Kuaotunu. After the second box 1 noticed a great improvement. and in a few days I could get up and walk out to the kitchen. Then of course T picked up hope and kept on taking these wonderful blood and nerve pills. My mouth came gradually back to its right position, and my whole left side gained slowly in strength and power. T had to take thirty-eight boxes altogether.” added Mrs Ryan, “but you see how well I am now.”

Airs Ryan’s case, wel 1 known frt Auckland, Thames. Kuaotunu, and Coromandel people, proves that Dr. Williams’ pink pills for pale people have a marvellous power in curing diseases of the blood and nerves. Paralysis is one of the most terrible nervous diseases known, yet thesq famous pills strike at the root of it, strengthen the nerves, and carry nourishment and power through the blood to the paralysed parts. When they cure paralysis it is no wonder they Sire so successful in overcoms ing headaches. St. Vitus’ dance, fits, hysteria, neuralgia, sciatica, lumbago. rheumatism, nervous prostration, debility and other minor diseases of a similar kind. Of course Mrs Ryan was careful to get the genuine pills, made in Wellington to suit the N.Z. climate, and put up in small wooden boxes. Foreign substitutes . never cured anybody in Dunedin. Christchurch, Wellington or Auckland districts.