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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, 7 June 1909, Page 3

The Christchurch Hospital Board is sending Home for tn expert to take charge of the Cashmere Consumptive Sanatorium. It is thought that it will be able to get a young specialist for £250 a year. No one need give up foreign travel on account of old age (observes an American paper). John Bigelow, now in his 92nd year, sailed recently from France to indulge once more a longstanding and highly-cultivated taste for "doing Europe." In Europe, at the time of tho French Revolution, in 1789, there were only 21 cities of over 100,000 inhabitants. Now there are 160 such, and 56 of them have over 250,000 inhabitants. Of those who have signed the petition for a military pension for New Zealand field service the youngest is given as 61 years, quite a number are over 70, one 83, one 92, and ono 99, England is getting warmer; the average temperature has rkren j ust over a edgree in the pats half-contury. = —