HENRY BURLING—AETAT 110.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 844, 26 May 1910, Page 4

HENRY BURLING—AETAT 110.

HAS LIVED UNDER SIX SOVEREIGNS.

Mr Henry Burling, the Waikanae centenarian, who began his noth year on May 7, has lived under six sovereigns George 111., George IV., William IV., Victoria, Edward VII., and George V. The New Zealand times states that a month after Mr Burling was born Bonaparte defeated the Austrians at Marengo. He was scarcely a year old when the French were defeated at Aboukir, and Copenhagen was bombarded by Nelson. At the age of five heard the news of Nelson’s decrncliou of the French fleet of Trafalgar, and the defeat of the Austrians and Russians by Napoleon at Austerlitz. When Mr Burling was ten years old, news came of Wellington’s repulse of Maeseua and Busaco and Fuentes-de-Onoro, and subsequently the storming of Ciudad Rodringo and the taking of Badaioz by Wellington. Such stirring events as the defeat of Marmout at Salamanca and the burning of Moscow by the Russians took place when he was twelve, whilst at fifteen he could remember Ney’s repulse at Quatre Bras and Napoleon’s final defeat at Waterloo (1S15). Mr Burling has brought up a family of thirteen, and his eldest sou, a boy over eighty, shares with his father good health and happiness. Mr Burling, senr., is still hale and hearty.