Iho Case of MR. J- JCALLAGH4N, (By a-Sytckl Reporter.) Mr. Jolm Callaghan, of Grey-strecfc, Auckland, is a popular all-round athlete, having won several prizes for p.edes triauism, besides gaining distinction as a weight-lifter, boxer, and iu general gymnastics. The reporter who caTlod at Mr. Callftdian's business premisei noticed a dumb-bell weighing 75 pouudg on tlio shop floor. " How many times can you raise that weight above your bead P" asked fcho writer. "Oh, about swenteen; sometimes twenty, when lam in good form. Bud I was so bad with a disordered liver soma time back that I .could not raiso it from the ground. IVhen ray com plaint was working its way into my sys tem I did not think there was anythina very serious the matter, although I found myself getting awfully lazy and disinclined to work or indulge in any exercise. Later on, however, I fefi myself getting weak and fatigued. Ths least exertion knocked mo out, and 1 felt depressed and discontented. The healthy appetite I was always accus tomed to, gradually left me. 'Nothing I ate was agreeable to iny palato; but everything had the same bitter, dis agreeable taste which was never out of my mouth. A very small portion of food felt as though I had eaten three times more than I ought to have done, and my chest had a heavy, suffocating feeling in it. Under my shoulders I hud acute darting pains, which also ex i tended to my loins; but otherwise I was pretty free from pains, excepting I Uat I sullorcd from violent headaclies.
