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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5501, 28 February 1896, Page 3

PaderewsM was a musician from his 1 earliest infancy. Left motherless at the age of three, "he was already able' to play, and before quite seven years old was : immersed in study. He received his first lesson from a fiddler* and at sixteen made a tour- through Eussia, playing chiefly his own compositions. He married when nineteen, and his wife dying a year later, he threw his whole soul into mußic. ParnelTs creditors get all of the £4/000 ' left in property in New York and there is nothing for his mother and widow. It was thought that Parnell had left considerable • property above his obligations. He had left personal property in England and in 1 America and some real estate in Ireland. 1 It was soon found, however, that his ' liabilities in Great Britain were more than , the entire estate, and would eat up all bis ; property. > The Queen's bounty has been sent to an v Erith mother. The mother of triplets died i at Bedford. One of the infants had two f teeth. i The oldest couple.in America have been 3 married eighty years. The husband, whose 1 age is said to be well authenticated, is 107, the wife being in her 102 nd year.