MR. D. CARO.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7866, 18 May 1891, Page 3

MR. D. CARO.

It is with regret that we have to record the death of llr David Caro, wine and •SJBirit merchant of this city, which occurred on April 30th. The cause of death was diabetes. The late Mr Caro was an old resident of Canterbury, arriving iv the ship Mary Ann on tbe 17th October, 1862, Captain Mitchell beiuff in command of the vessel, and Mr W. F. Warner, the popular host of the Commercial Hotel, beiu£ second officer. He came out to Mr D. Davis, and was employed for some time by him in his business in Norwich quay, Lyttelton. Mr Caro subsequently commenced the business of a wine and spirit merchant iv a building which occupied tne site of Messrs Garrick and Cowlishaw's offices in Gloucester street. He afterwards removed to Cashel street where he continued the business till a short time ago. The late Mr Caro did not take any active part in political or municipal affairs, but was a member of and took considerable interest in the Canterbury Jockey Club. He was a leading member of the Jewish congregation and was their President at oue time. He was a man with a very kindly aud generous heart and gave liberally to charitable objects, and no oue iv want came away from him emptyhanded. Though not a musician he was a keen musical critic. About nineteen years ago he married a daughter of the late Mr Hyara Davis of "Nelson, whom he loaves, together with eight children. Xhe late Mr Caro was born ia Norwich, Eneland, and had three brothers and a sisFer. Ooe brother is a prominent man in Valparaiso, another is in London, and the third is in Christchurch, and was connected with the deceased in his business. His father, a Jewish R.abbi, was for a number of years teacher of languages in the Norwich College. He was a man widely known for his learning. The late Mr Caro gained a scholarship when about ten years of age, and was sent to the Gymnasium at Posen, in Germany, to be further educated. The Caros are an old family, and the deceased waia descendant of Joseph Caro, a Rabbi, of Smyrna, who lived about the 13th or llth century, and earned a reputation for his learning and writing. He compiled from the Talmud and other sources a complete digest of the Jewish laws, aud the work is we 1 known to scholars under the title of "Shulchan Aruch." The late Mr Caro was forty eight years of age.

AUCKLAND, April 27. Mr Joseph Greenwood, who contested the Eden seat at the recent election, was found dead in hia farm at Mount Eoskill, this morning. He went out with a ;,-ud, Mji-.K he was goina", to cau_ the booza*

and was found -hot through. _ke rteaa. Death, -was instantaneous. He lea-res a wife and ten children. Ha waa Chairman of the Mount Eoskill Licensing Committee and .Road Board.

The following; are later particulars :— -&et half past two to-day Sir Greenwood left his house saying lie was going to catch bis horse to go to town. He was absent some time, and Mrs Greenwood sent her youngest son, a boy of thirteen or fourteen years, to assist him. The boy found that the horse -with the bridle on -was held to the wall, but about the same moment he heard a shot fired, and saw ids father fall. Greatly frightened he ran to a neighbor, who came and saw that Mr Gr*«nwood bad shot himself through tae temple, blowing hia brains out. He T?a3 about 54 years of age. Pour of his children are married. He was chairman of some local bodies. The theory for suicide is that Mr Greenwood was depressed in spirits through the recent election, not because of his defeat for Eden, but on account of certain charges for election expenses, and because on tne account be feared that tbe provisions of the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act had been infringed during the contest. He was an old colonist, arriving in Wellington at the age of four years.