OUR HOT SPRINGS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22216, 22 March 1900, Page 2

OUR HOT SPRINGS.

ANOTHER VALUABLE- TESTIMONIAL.. We have been favored with a perusal! of a lei ter received by Mr. J. W. < ‘Walker, from an old fiiend Gf:’ his-ate present iu Chicago, and say ng at Tremont House, Mr Edward Pei kina,, well-known in Auckland,, as. at\#netime proprietor of the Oocid nt .11 Hotel. We cull the . fol'Umving extracts from the letmr referred, to ; ; “ Your hurried epistle of the 20th ult.. is at hand, with glad tidings, it is dated; from.where I first received an ounce of* flesh after lying iu bed one year—TeAroha soda litbia springs took me from a-, wheel cart (to the springs) and put me on. my feet. If the citizens of that district, ever want a testimonial for an almost incurable dropsical patient, I can furnish. them the very best. That little Government area of about 20 acres or so. is thehealth curer of the world, besides theelevated' position and clear atmosphere—it is the idol of my heart, Without, joking I gained the first ounce of flesh* there, that I received after being tapped' four times for the dropsy, and attributed!;to the fresh mountain air and the healthy - waters. There was a soda lithia s ritfgthere, that seemed to me, when I drank: a glass of it, there was more inspiration-, in it than many a ‘ hot Scotch ” IM;ad_ taken in luxury, that perhaps sent' methere. However, the doctor—McMulhm —that pushed tho knife into my stomach* 4 different times, 3£ inches deep,- not, only let out about 2 pails full of discoloured water, but took out all the -bad ness in me, and made a cure of m*. I should be proud to know his whereabouts: and send him a testimonial to that effect, after the other doctors had given me up. and said 1- could not live 6 hours, and; further, told my attendant to give rue: anything they Liked, as it was only a few * hours till all would be over. When one • of them said that my tongue was cloyo to. the roof of my mouth, I could not speak: or see, but could hear;.My memory fails: me to tell you all, but when. I to be taken to Te Aroha I felt then, aftera few days, that I was resurrected, and’ here I ami as you will see by to-day's, paper, wallowering around in the snow with the thermometer 4 degrees below zero, it is now 8 p.m. and. still havn t walk.over a mile and then ride Maywood, 11 miles from here. We 1, P am tired telling you about old tribulations, but to-day I am. the healthiest, dropsical patient in. the world. Up to. the Ist January,.or you may say ’Xmas., we had a beautiful fall-, not a cold : day,, but since then, it has been, with the exception of one heavy warm rainstorm, from 1 to 12 below zero, I think in one,day the thermometer dropped: 65 dergrees.”