An Old Soldier's Story.

Manawatu Herald, 21 August 1897, Page 3

An Old Soldier's Story.

A REMINISCENCE OF THE ZULU CAMPAIGN. Mr Richard Groves owns a comfortable house and grounds at Hyde Park, near Rookwood, Sydney, and is spending the remainder of a Btimng life in honorable retirement. To a reporter who recently interviewed him he made the following interesting statement :— "I am a native of Manchester, England, and am now fifty-five years of age. . I formflrly served in the 3rd Buffs, now called the East Kent, of which distinguished regiment I was QuartermasterSergeant. It is about seventeen yean ago since the Zulu campaign of 79, that I began to suffer agonies from shooting pains in my arms and shoulders, cramps, and a feeling of numbness through my entire body. Before this, with the exception of some slight accidents which only' laid v me up temporarily, I never had a day's illness. I now felt co bad that I naturally sought medical advice, but with poor success, as none of the faculty could tell me what I was suffering from. Indeed, it was a lady doctor, a friend of my wife's, who really diagnosed my symptoms. She told me plainly that it was indigestion, brought on by damp, exposure, shortness of food, and forced marches, for I need hardly tell you that soldiering in Zululand in the face of the enemy was no child's play. My appetite was very poor, I suffered very much from sleeplessness, was very weak, toast and tea were what I chiefly subsisted ( n. I thought I had com> to the end of my tether, and one doctor told mo the same thing. These sufferings continued till last December (96). One day

in that month I picked op a pamphlet with ft picture of tho Royal Family on the cover, which ft man had thrown into our garden. It was an advertisement of Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, arid I read of a case, somewhat aimilaf to mine, in which a cure had been effected by this raedioine. I therefore determined to try it, and got a bos to start with." Did you experience any relief from your sufferings from the contents of that box, Mr Grove ?" "Well, I obtained sufficient relief to warrant mo in continuing with a coarse of them. I took otio pill at a time, and gradually increased the dose according to the directions. My appetite from the second day after taking them improved, my breathing was much bettor, and as I went on with the course I gradually grew stronger. Before taking the pills an ordinary conversation would quite knock, me np, it seemed to take all my breath away. I have taken in all some thirteen or fourteen boxes, and have benefitted all nlong, in fact I feel bo much better that after finishing my preaent supply I shall discontinue taking them. I have, however recommended them to all my friends, and one gentleman in particular was quite amazed to learn that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills was the only medicine I had taken." " Will you give us permission to publish this statement, Mr. Groves ?" " Well, I see no reason for withholding it, and I trust that the publication will be the means of inducing other sufferers to try the effect of this marvellous compound." Dr Williams' Pink Pills have cured numerous cases of paralysis, looomotor ataxy, spinal disease, rheumatism and sciatica; also of diseases arising from impoverishment and vitiated humors of the blood, which cause scrofula, riokets, chronic erysipelas, consumption of the bowels and lungs, anaemia, pale and sallow complexion general muscular weakness, loss of appetite, palpitations, pains in the back, nervous headache early decay, all forms of female weakness, and hysteria. These pills are not a purgative. They are genuine only with the full name, Dr. j Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and are sold by ohemists and by Dr. Williams' Medicine Co, Wellington, N.Z., who will forward (post paid) on receipt of stamps or post order, one box for 35., or half-dozen for 15s 9d. They are unrivalled as a, tonic for both sexes.