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Show DIED IN HIS 109TH YEAR. John Perfect, who was probably the oldest man in Australia, died at the residence of his daughter, daugh-ter, Mrs. M. Cooper, at Cootamundra, on June 14. Deceased, who was 109 years of age and was wonderfully won-derfully preserved, was born in the Xorth of Ireland Ire-land and came to Australia in his boyhood. Soon after arriving in that country he settled in the Tumbarumba district, which was then thickly inhabited in-habited by blacks of many tribes. What are now the main thoroughfares of the thriving -city of Sydney were then sheep tracks. |