The people of Longton have presented to Sir "Rowland Hill and Lady Hill a pair of porcelain vases of beautiful design and manu'aftiire, as a mnrfc ot tbeir appreciation of the figtml benefits t>'-' R- Hill' " s '" conferred upon liis country by the introduction of the Nearly 9000 persons viiited Shakspere's House during the j ai-t year, bringing in about £231 to the fund for reducing tho debt incurred by (lie purcna e of the house. L><rgo additions have been made to the Shaksperean collodion, and among other things a. portrait of Shakspere presented by the Bishup of Ely. A stone cofl'in, containing a skeleton nearly entire, has been found in digging the foundation of « hou-e at Old Ford, within a very shot of the old '• R..man liond." as it is cilled, from London to the ford of tho Kiver Lea. There is apparently no inscription on the coffin, which lies east and west, with the feat to the Test.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 541, 7 August 1865, Page 5
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