PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10137, 7 November 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

-A cablegram received from New York this morning states that Lyman Smith, the multi-millionaire manufacturer of typewriters, is dead. Mr J. A. Matheson, representative of John Fuller and Sons, and the Taylor-Carrington Company, is at present in Masterton making arrangements for the presentation of the picture-drama "For the term of His Natural Life" in the Town Hall o:i Tuesday, November loth. The death occiirred at Johnsonville on Friday last of Mr J. J. Curtis, who was a native of Wellington, and founder of the well-known him of J. J. Curtis and Co. The deceased leaves four sons and eight daughters. Included in the latter are Mesdames Norman James and I>. K. Logan, of Masterton. The death occurred in the Masterton Hospital at three o'clock o:i Sunday afternoon of Mrs Ka-trina Carr, "wife of Mr Patrick" Carr, of this township. The deceased lady had been ailing for a week or two, but on Saturday morning alarming symptoms set in, and in the afternoon she was removed to the Hospital, where she died peacefully at the time stated. The deceased, who was forty-two years of age, was the only daughter of the late MiHenry Towler, of Eastern House, Stanford, Lincolnshire. She leaves a familv of seven, the eldest of whom, (Mr Phil. Bennett) is a member of the staff of the Wairarapa Age. She also leaves two .brothers, who reside at Strathmbro and Okalawa, in the Taranaki district.