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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 26, 27 June 1901, Page 28

WRECKED ON CHESTERFIELD REEF. Nobody can tell the following story better than the writer tells it himnelf. "In 1891," he pays, "I first experienced the mise-ies of acute indigestion. I was obliged to knock off work, and suffered agonies f->r two months. Then I felt slightly better and went back to my post at the North Brisbane Fire Brigade Station, and stayed there until the greut flood in 1893, " Then I had a terribly severe relapse whtfh laid me down for 10 months, seven weeks of it being spent in the hospital. " Several doctors attended me, but they failed to effect a cure. >l Yet at the end of 10 months I felt somewhat better, and being of an energetic disposition, I started in to work again. " I managed to keep at it for six months and then collapsed completely, and resigned my position on the Brigade. " On returning home several of my friends urged me to put my faith in Seigel's Syrup, and in that only, saying they had known it to cure cases as bad as mine. ' Don't be down-hearted ' they said. "On this I began using Seigel's Syrup (and Sei gel's Pills occasionally) and gradually got better. When I had taken about 12 bottles in all, I was so much better, I accepted a position as mate in a ship going to trade in the Islands — taking a supply of the syrup with me. " We sailed on the 24th of October, 1894, and on the 29th we struck Chesterfield Reef, Long Island, and were wrecked, but all hands were saved. The captain and four blacks took to one of the boats, and reached Mackay in safety, whilst I and seven blacks landed on Long Island, where we remained 32 days, until we were rescued by the ' Pylades ' man-of-war, and taken on to Syduey. " Fortunately we were able to obtain enough provisions from the wreck to maintain us while we were on the Island. " I must mention that I kept on using Seigel's Syrup until we got to Sydney, and then I was quite restored to health, and have been perfectly well ever since. " My health is now splendid ; my appetite is excellent, and all the bad symptoms I once had are gone like an ugly dream after morning breaks. " My wife uses the medicine for a milder form of inuigestiou than mine was, and is as firm a believer in it as I am. " I will name a few of the peculiarities o the aggravating and dangerous disease as it affected me. There was always a bad taste in my mouth ; my breath was bad, and I used to retch frequently after eating ; I belched continually, lost flesh, and had thin, lantern jaws. " Scores of friends and acquaintances can testify to the truth of what I have said. It is certain that Mother Seigel's Syrup cured me when all other medicines and forms of treatment proved to be no good, and I have to thank the Syrup only for the fact that I am now a strong, healthy man. I have now been nearly three years in the employment of the Queensport Meat Company, but my home is at the address given below." A C. Backmann, Myrile Villa, George Street, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane, Q, Sept. 6th, 1900. TAKE NOTE I 1 riIHE old proverb says : A stitoh in time X saves nine ; or, to put another con* struction on the words : A shilling in time saves pounds. The words are indeed true, and yet what a number of people do we find letting pounds and pounds worth of music and books go to wreck and ruin when the expenditure of a few shillings in binding would prevent this sad waste and give them volumes handsome to look upou and a pleasure to handle in place of a lot of tattered and torn leaves. Be warned in time and Bend your music, etc, for binding to ALEX SLIGO, Practical Bookbinder, Statioxeb, News Agent, Etc., 42 George Street, Dunedin. JAMES SHAND AND CO., WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS AND GENERAL IMPORTERS. Offices : 209 Hereford Street. Bond and Warehouse : Oxford Terraoe. CHRISTCHUROH, N.Z.