ANCIENT TURK.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 22 March 1927, Page 9

ANCIENT TURK.

STORY OF LIFE EXCEEDING THE CENTURY. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 21, 5.5 p.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, March 20. Here is how Zaro-Agha, who will be 154 years old at the end of the month, packed his life’s history into r> paragraph, when interviewed:— “I was born in Turkish Kurdistan,” said Zaro Aglia. “It seems an awful long time ago. 1 came to Constantinople when I was thirty-six, and I have been here 118 years. I worked a*> a porter, then waterman. I fought -in four wars. I married eleven times, and my ten wives have been dead long years. Altogether I had twenty-eight children. I was much worried two years ago, when my son, aged 97, died. Now my sixty-four-years’-old son is the only one left. I lost my teeth at the age of ninety, and when at 102, two more Si'ow. [ - am now awaiting a faf.se set. I h aV6 never drunk or smoked. Up to three years ago, 1 worked" carrying 1601 b loads on my back. Life has been happy, and, if it pjeases Allah, I want to live on.”