NINETY-THREE YEARS
OLD LADY'S EVENTFUL LIFE.
(By Telegraph j (Special to "The Evening Post")
AUCKLAND, This Day. The pride of place among the honoured guests at the 014 Thames Girlt* Reunion was accorded to Mrs. A. Dewar, now in her ninety-third year. She wag.' born in Edinburgh, and'started her lifti: in the colonies in a slab hut at B«l»\ larat in 1854. She married Mr. -Alex;; Dewar, one of the earliest mining aftin» agers of the old Thames days. She has distinct recollections of the 'iCu£'' ring days of the mutiny at Eureka' stockade, where she witnessed the light.'.' and saw the wounded being remoYedjto., the hospital on Soldiers' Hill: WhW the Thames rush occurred, Mr. Dewar" was engaged by Victorian capitalati IJo proceed to the new El Dorado, and ar^. rived in Auckland with hi» wife in 1870. At the Thames, Mr. Dewar secured ,a,, claim adjoining the Caledonia mine, and sank the Tookey shaft.- He failed, however, to reach the rich deposit whichmade the name of the Caledonia famous. among New Zealand mines. ,,;. Mrs. Dewar still takes a keen inter?.,. est in public affairs, and was'one of the most animated of all those present ■ at the gathering. ..'Y.7!
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 8
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