Carbon King’s Romantic Life Ended
TREASURED TALISMAN - RECEIVED PISOM DYING MAORI LOVER.
United Press Association.—By ElectricTelegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, Sept. 2. The death has occurred of Mr C. Harold Smith, aged 72, the American millionaire “Carbon King,” on the - eve of the completion of his 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 hush, where he lived for three days on fern-roots. Smith reached a Maori encampment and fell in love With a beautiful girl, Raweria. She died, and on her deathbed she gavev Smith the greenstone talisman from„her neck, which Smith has worn on : his watehehain all his life.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6645, 4 September 1931, Page 8
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