PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 140, 18 May 1925, Page 5

PERSONAL

Sir Thomas Mackenzie will arrive at Wellington by the Rotorua on May I:9th. A cable from Washington reports tiro death of General Nelson Miles, aged 86, < .'ominander of the United States Army in tho Spanish-American Wax, and in the war in the Philippines. Mr Norman McKenzie, one of the selectors of the All Black team to tour New South Wales, was in attendance at the Kia Toa-Old Boys match at the Showgrounds on Saturday afternoon.

Though he has reached the advanced age of over 80 years, Mr H. Nelson'Firtl, of Kelburn, Wellington, will leave by the Athenio shortly on a holiday visit to England. It is 70 years ago since he arrived in Auokland by the sailing nhip, Glengownie. Advice has bee-i received from Mr Herman Seifert that, after arriving at San Francisco, he had met Mr Arthur Hopwood, who had travelled down from San Francisco, and that the two, in ac< ordance with their pre-arranged plan, had commenced their tour of the States together. Lord Allenby will be succeeded in the High Commissionership of Egypt by Sir George Lloyd, M.P., Eastbourne, states a London cable. Sir George Lloyd was formerly Governor of Bombay. He is a student of Eastern affairs and particip ded in the great war in Egypt, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and the Hedjaz.

Mr B. J. Jacobs, of Palmerston North, and Colonel A. H. Herbert, of Eketahuna, were, at the annual district conference of the Returned Soldiers’ Association on Saturday afternoon, elected the delegates of that body to the annual Dominion conference, which is to be held at Dunedin commencing on June 17.

Colonel G. R. Pridham, D. 5.0., 0.8. E., from the half-pay list, has been appointed chief engineer, Egypt. He will be veil remembered as a commanding Royal Engineer with the New Zealand Expeditionary Foroe. Colonel Pridham has so many friends throughout New Zealand that they will be interested to hear of his new appointment, writes a London correspondent.

Following intensive post-graduate work in diseases of the skin, of children, and in the recent developments in artificial sunlight treatment or actinotherapeutj, in London, Dr. H.. Graham Robert! on, C.8.E., F.R.C.S. (Wellington), ha 3 gone to the Continent where he intends pursuing further investigations in the above departments in Vienna and Paris, states a London correspondent.

Mr H. Grinstead, who for many years has been a chaplain in the Defence Forces, ha 3 been appointed Dominion representative of the Associated Churches of Christ on the chaplain committee. Mr Grinstead, along with the late Rev. A. Doull and tho Rev. H. G. Blaekburne, rendered four years of honorary service as chaplain in the camp during tho war and has baen notified that in October he will be promoted to a third-class chaplaincy.