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Otago Witness, Issue 3111, 29 October 1913, Page 37

It is reported from Hastings (Hawke’s Bay)- that the lad Seymour Bennett, a letter carrier at the post office, to* whom the late Karl Ritz, who recently committed suicide at Hastings, bequeathed the whole of his estate with the exception of £SOO, will benefit to the extent of several thousand pounds. It is said that Ritz possessed configurable interests •in Sydney, Parris, and Vienna, besides a tidy sum in a bank. Bennett, who is about 16 years of ago, became acquainted with Ritz under very ordinary circumstances. On one occasion, about nine months ago, the lad was collecting the mail bags at a train at the Hastings station, when -Ritz approached him and inquired what time the train left. A general conversation ensued, and from that time onward Ritz and Bennett became close friends. An orchardist in the Wairarapa puts down his loss from damage done to fruit trees during a recent storm at £SOO.