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New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 489, 25 August 1882, Page 13

It is said that in the last twelve months £200,000 worth of rum was brought to the Diamond Fields for consumption from Natal.— B African paper. Tbe ancestors of the poet Longfellow (says the Atkenauui) were originally settled in Yorkshire. The local papers say that, at a sale which has just taken place at Bradford, there was an «ld chest from a farmhouse at Ilk ley, which upon its centre panel bora the following inscription : " Jon Longfellow and Mary Kogera was marryed ye tenth daye of April, Anon Dm. 1664," '