DURATION OF LIFE AND WEALTH.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11737, 20 September 1906, Page 4

DURATION OF LIFE AND WEALTH.

Apparently acquired wealth does not tend to longevity. Thus Mr Barnett.lsaacs Bnrnato.wbn died in 1897 'eavins? £960,000 was only 46 years of i l?e, and his nephew, Mr Woolf Joel, ' ffho died in the following year and

whose estate was valued at £ij226,06(V was 34 years of age. Mi- Herbert Ernest Matthew Davieß, a director oi mining companies, who died in i§9o, f age 43 years, left £734,000. Colonel John Thomas North, in the nitrate trade, who died in 1896, leaving £453,000, wits 54 years of age. The Right Hon. Cecil Rhodes had lived for only 48 years, and Mr Cnarles Ansell, of the Stock Exchange, and formerly of South Africa, who left £345,000, was 46. years of age.