There is not a great number of people living in this country who were born in the same year as Queen Victoria, They who entered the world so long ayo as 1819 and are still with us hale and hearty are undoubtedly in the running to become centenarians. A notable example of this very small band is Mrs, Elizabeth Fuller, of 'No. 44, Ryder Street, Survey Hills, Sydney. This venerable' old lady born in England and came to Austral her husband before she had attained her eighteenth year, long previous to the great gold rush. Shy has, therefore, already reached the full age attained by Wellington, Goethe, Victor Hugo," Bismarck, and Tennyson, men who found time to accomplish a vast amount of enduring work, which establishes the fact that it is nub among the most uneventful orlvast suffering lives we must look for examples of longevity. If that were not so, we shoul! not now be writing of Mrs, Fuller's career. To work strenuously for many years building up a competency, to succeed in that effort, and then to have the proceeds of your industry swept away by the miserable process of litiyation is disheartening tothe last degree. That is what happened to Mrs. Fuller, A
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