A MILLIONAIRE'S ROMANCE.
WORE MAORI TALISMAN TILL DEATH. (UKITED .PRESS ASSOCIATION—Bt ELECTBIO TELISaaAPH—COPi'BI-SIIT.) LONDON, September 2. The death is announced of C. Harold Smith, aged 72, the American millionaire "Carbon King." His death occurred on the eve of the completion of Ms annual holiday. He went to New Zealand at the age of 15 from London. He wandered from a lumber camp and was lost in the bush, where he lived for three days on fern roots. He reached a Maori encampment and fell in "love with a beautiful girl, Rahwedia. She died, giving Smith on her death-bed a greenstone talisman, which she wore round her neck. This Smith has worn on his watch chain all his life.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20333, 4 September 1931, Page 11
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