The Siege of Wepener.

Manawatu Herald, 11 August 1900, Page 3

The Siege of Wepener.

CAPE RIFLEMAN'S STORY. The part which the Cape Mounted Rifles in common with other colonial troops, have so nobly born in tha South African war is now a matter of hist ry. and their gallant defence of Wepener under Lieutenant Colonel Dalgetty untill relieved by Major-General Brabant's Irregular Horse, evoked a chorus of praise throughout the I <£p British Empiie JJsT / i*- Our r<«porN VS_V_fi^/F^-. er therefore y-^^^^N^JS^i-^^p--^. eagerly seized """ \ *^ c oppor- —■ — f iU) yv\ tunity of interrJ iJL:_r- viewing M r (tj'yY^^^^ir^ Michael If ( o C? Cs <zs Bourne, forjrL^ • J >-_^> -j- _ m[ _ j merly a mem-*~~ics=^ta-3=__-"i =---» ber of the Cape Mounted Rifles. " I left England in April 1854 for South Africa," said Mr Bourne. " There I served in the Cape Mounted Rifles where I met with a deal of bush experience that fi ted me for a settler's life. In 73 I s-ittled in New Zealand on the Napier Road, near Upper Huit, and am still there. Six years ago whilst moving a portab'e engine on the farm I was knocked down and 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 shou d 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, roade my blood rich and red, and expelled the poisonous matter from my body. I continued them until quite cured. Despite my 67 y ars lam as well as ever. For cv ing nervous derangement and i.l health I stro: gly recommend Dr Williams' pink j pills, but sufferers must always get the j genuine with the fu 1 name in r« d on the ' out 'ide wrapper. I found out to my cost that the common pink pill so often sold . are of no value whatever." Mounted Rifleman Bourne's remarks conceding common pink pill . aro perfeotly true. Only the genuine Dr Williams' pink pills can cure the diseases they are advertised to cure, such as rheu- j ma: ism, neuralgia, fciatica, bronchitis, | erysipelas, paralysis, rickets, scrofula, St : Vitus' dance, eto. So!d by chemi. ts, store- 1 keepers, and the Dr Wiliams' Medicine Co., Wellington, three shillings pt-r box, post free— But mind yoa ask for Dr Williams' —the kind used by Rifleman Bourne. q__ _— _____ ___■■■————■_— ■ — i