A notable instance of longevity may be not unworthy, of a notice; A man, named Neil Murray, died at Moa Flat, Otagd, on the 15th ultimo, who distinctly remembered some of the leading events of the American War of Independence, and who was a man when Louis XVL expiated the sins of his ancestors on the revolutionary scaffold. The ppo,r old man had oply been hi the ppuntry tome sjs or seyen yearg, having Deep induced fo |cave his natjve land by some exaggerated accounts of the golden soil of Otago, Up to within a week of his death he was in the possession of all his faculties.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 948, 10 August 1871, Page 3
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