ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1859, 1 August 1918, Page 3

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD.

Mrs Domaris Brickwood Williams, of Mullet Point, opposite Kuwait Island, Auckland, celebrated her IbOtb birthday on July 10th. A great number of relatives and friends attended the celebration, and Mrs Williams received many telegrams of congratulation from all parts of New Zealand, says tin 1 Herald. Mrs Williams, whose maiden name was Millar, was born at St. Germans, Cornwall, on July 10th, 1818, and left England with her uncle and aunt in the ship Victoria, in June, 1840, for New South AVales. They landed at the Cornish Settlement in 1850, and five years later Miss Millar was married to Mr Zachariah Williams at the Settlement by the Rev. Benjamin Chapman, of the Bathurst Methodd. Church. Mr and .Mrs Williams then left for New Zealand in the steamer William Denny, and in February. .1855, landed on the Auckland waterfront at a, spot now crossed by Victoria Street. In June of the same year they took up land at Mullet Point, landing at the beach now known as Snell’s, and the first night slept under a tree, as there were then no houses in that locality. Mrs Williams assisted with the building of their house, and she later assisted with the general farm work, taking a hand at all duties with the exception of the mowing. .Mr Williams died about thirty years ago, am] Airs Williams carried on the farm for some years. At the age of 80 she dug am! prepared a strawberry bed, and tended the crop until the fruit was gathered. Mrs Williams takes a bright and intelligent interest in everyday affair’s, especially in the war, and spends her time knitting for the soldiers. She rarely requires to use her spectacles, although she reads a great deal. Last year she read an exhaustive history of the English people, running into nine volumes. Mrs Williams is something of a Spartan, and holds that the life of the present generation is too gay. She rises at daybreak and goes to bed at dusk, and, although she does not now leave the house, is able to get about from room to room. One of her proudest boasts is that she has not tasted tea for 50 years. Airs Williams has one son, who resides in Australia, but she now lives with her adopted daughter, Mrs Dawson, at Mullet Point.