PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 8 January 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr Joseph Chamberlain announces that he will, not stand- next election, says a London cable to-day. Mr W. A. Low is in town making arrangements for the Royal Pantomime Company's season at the Theatre Eoyal i next Wednesday. / ;Many people who have seen the Kaiser recently say that the year 1913 has left mark otl his countenance. He has aged tremendously during the last few months, and it has 'been noticed-that his hair has gone grey an-cl thin. His face is thin and haggard, and bares many lines of care. Dr-Truby King, who went to England as the official representative of the New Zealand Government to attend the English-speaking Conference on inI fantile Mortality held in. London in August, was about to return to New ZeaI land when the last mail left. rSince he has left London Dr. .has been to Vienna, Berlin, and Paris,-arid, has been I investigating conditions affecting infant! ! health in Britain. a 'i' ' Sir Maurice Fitzmaurioe, who has just' completed, on behalf of the Commonwealth Government, an- inspection • of harbours arid other- places likely''to be suitable for the purpose -of nayal bases,^has' left for Singapore, where the firm with which he is connected is constructing harbour works,-. Staff-Sergeant-Major Glanville, of A}caroa, has received notice from headquarters of his transfer at the end o'f this month to Nelson, where he has been appointed Regimental Sergeants Major, of the Nelson, Military .cji&tpi-ot-Staff-Sergeant-Major 'Quarterly will replace Staff- Sergeant-Major' Glanville, and will be at Al^arpa^. Madame ClaTa Butt and Mr Kennerly Rumford are through :passeneers from Sydney to' San iFrancifeco by th© Tahiti, which. arrive 4 at evening. , ' Mr it.' M'Nab is how in- Wellington, j havipg returned from his farm in SOuth» land} where he has been spending some weeks; He tQ .Tttum to Soutlir laiid] and stay of the' summer, and to go to Sydney in; the Ha-viqtendsv : to briflg out another vditme 6f hife hiftoty ofi New Zealand within tjfft. r 1 ' '9? tije Ipcal branch of the Bank of. N«W. South Wales, who has been on a • trip to England, returned to Nelson this morning, accompanied by Mrs and Miss Robison.