WOMAN’S 106TH BIRTHDAY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19024, 26 May 1936, Page 2

WOMAN’S 106TH BIRTHDAY

AUSTRALIAN PIONEER MANY EE MIN ISC'E NC ES SYDNEY. May 9. Events which, to Ihe present gvneraI ion. seem veiled in obscurity, happened years after the birth »t' Mrs. Sarah Mus3 rave, of Auburn, who celebrated the 106th anniversary of her birthday this week. , , ... \-; Mrs. Musgrave lias been ill lor some time the anniversary was celebrated quietly. She is now well on the road to recovery from her illness. She received many congratulatory messages, some coming from Europe. Mrs. Musgrave was born in the yeai that "William IV came to the Throne, seven years before Queen Victoria commenced to reign. She was born 25 years before the first railway line in this Slate was opened. 15 years before the first general election in New South Wales, 27 years before the wreck of the Dunbar, 25 years before the death of Thomas Mitchell, tho explorer: 11 years before Ki nß Edward Vll was horn. 14 years before Queen Alexandra was born, 17 years before l-adv Eitzvoy was killed at Parramatta. 24 years before Sydney University wiis inaugurated, 22 years before the first, steamship arrived in Sydney, and II years before Sydney was first lit with When she was 10 she was thrilled with stories of the British opium war with China and when she was 18 the dethronement. of Louis Phillipe. of France, loomed large in public interest. She was 01 when the first- gold was discovered in Australia, in 1861, and the following year she read of the pageantry when Louis Napoleon was made .Emperor of France. The Crimean War occurred two years later and Mrs. Musgrave' had reached middle age when the Franeo-Prussian War occurred. Mr« Musgrave is as alert- mentally and nhvsicailv as many other women half her age Slid is seldom idle. She spends most of her time either reading, writing or sewing. She is a staunch upholder of the traditions of her sex. and attributes her longevity to the total abstinence from intoxicating Honor. Having spent most of her early life at Burrnngong. near Young, where she was born, Mrs. Musgrave can recount, many thrilling events of the outback life. Her book. “Wavback.” which she wrote when she wa= 96. deals with many of her associations. as a girl, with aborigines and bushrangers. ""She participates in the purchase of tickets in tho State lottery reo-uinrlv, but- so far has only received 15s from this enterprise. Site says that any money she might win will go to charity.