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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 4, 5 January 1920, Page 8

Lieutenant C.^V. Connolly, R.N.V.R. (Auckland), who went out ■with the British Nava-l Brigade to Belgrade, has recently been appointed Senior Naval Officer (writes the London correspondent of The Post). The last few months in his part of the world have been full of interest. Lieutenant Connolly went with the original landing party to Budapest, just after the fall of Bela Kun. The Rumanians were apparently rather surprised when the British arrived, and started to take over the Royal Palace, etc, and sundry small fights -with them have occurred. Everything moveable is said to have been stolen from the Hungarians by the Rumanians and taken to Rumania—motor-cars, trucks, railway engines, threshing machines, and farm implements—thereby leaving" the country in a fairly destitute condition. As Senior Naval Officer, Lieutenant Connolly has been allotted a big palatial residence which was once the Austrian Embassy, and his little craft—M.L.so 9 —is moored in the Danube.

Several members of the police force of the French island possessions arrived in Wellington by the Tofua to-day. They are on their way to France.

Messrs. E. Johnston and Co. will sell furniture on Wednesday, at 11 a.m., at No. 12a, Rintoul-street; at 1,30 p.m. furniture in their rooms.