PERSONAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144857, 8 December 1915, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr. C. Arnold Jones, of Auckland, is on a short visit to New Plymouth. A Geneva message assorts that the Kaiser is ill, reserved and silent and no longer directing the army.Mr. E. J. W. Hallett, of Hastings, who resided in New Plymouth some years ago, is visiting here in connection with the sitting of the Supremo Court. Mr. J. Spurge, of the Boot Arcade, was to-day the recipient of a safety razor prior to his leaving for the front. Mr. Spurge leaves on Friday to join the Auckland contingent. Corporal “Jim” Simpson, formerly of the Bank of Now South Wales, Now Plymouth, and now attached to the Seventeenth Australian Infantry, is in hospital at Bristol suffering from dysentery. A letter received on Tuesday from Private E. C. Stanley, son of Mr. W. Stanley, of Egmont iload, states that ho is convalescing in hospital at Sheffield. A hold service card received from Private P. P. Stanley, another son, says “All’s well.” The Attorney-General, the Hon. A. L. Hordman, was an interested visitor to tho ironsand works at Moturoa on Tuesday afternoon. He witnessed the demonstration and subsequently visited the wells of the Taranaki (N.Z.) Oil Wells, Ltd. Commissioner Hodder, of the Salvation Amy, has received cable advice that General Booth will visit New Zealand next year, and that his itinerary will probably include Invercargill, Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington. If no unforeseen circumstances arise General Booth may be in Now Zealand about July.