THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1303, 15 April 1915, Page 40

THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE. Ihe guests who were staying at the Guni Hole.. Auckland, last week included:—Mr. L. A. Jacobs, Bristol; Mr. and Mrs. H. de Latour, Gisborne; Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Stead, Hastings; Mr. C. C. Holmes, Eketahuna; Mr. E. Poultcn, Welling on; Mr. E. Murphy, Gisborne; Mr. D. G. Johnston, Auckland; Mr. H. S. Jones, Melbourne; Mr. and Mrs. W. Blundell, Wellington; Mr. E. R. Murphy; Mr. and Mrs. Booth, Waveney; Mrs. Hewitt, DanMr. K. Wardrop; Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Lowry, Hawke’s Bay; Miss James, Wellington; Mr. A. McKellar, WeLington; Mr. and Mrs. Dwan, Wellington; Mr. J. W. Abbott, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. O. Beere, Wellington; Mr. W. G. Wood, Napier; Mr. H. E. Tronkeek, Napier; Mr. and Mrs. Elm, Wellington; Mr. A. E. Whyte, Wellington; Mr. E. W. Morton, Duncd n; Mr. H. N. Coleman, Napier; Mr. A. Healey, Sydney; Dr. Kennedy, Wanganui; Mr. G. Jameson, Christchurch; Mr. M. J. Friedlander, Mangatawhini; Mr. and Mrs. F. Bull, Wanganui; Mr. H. Gordon, Sydney; Miss Fitzgerald, Sydney; Father O’Reilly, Newcastle; Mr. H. W. Bain, Melbourne; Mr. B. R. Hall, England; Mr. T. S. MitcheJ, England; Mr., Mrs. and Miss Brown; Mr. A. E. Hopwood, Quebec; Mr. H. Levi, Montreal; Mrs. J. J. Corney, Blenhe.m; Mr. O. H. Parsons, Melbourne; Mr. K. A. Wiggins, Paerca; Mr. R. Beans, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. Veale, Wellington; Mr. J. Haligan, Auckland; Mr. Hannay, Wellington; Mr. C. Maidsleys, Wellington; Mr. M. F.etcher, Wellington; Mr. O. R. Prouse, Wellington; Mr. W. R. Langford; Mr. W'. J. Prouse, Wellington; Mr. A. B. Wakins, Mel bourne; and Mr. A. R. Treacher, Auckland. 9 * • • The following were guests at the Rcyal Hotel during the week: Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Brown, Hiniera; Mr. J. O’Brien, Te Kuiti; Mr. Jacob, Te Kuiti; Mr. H. S. Wilson, Wellington; Mr. E. M. Brown, Morrinsville; Mr. Crocker, New Plymouth; Mr. Tyrer, Stratford; M’ss Healy, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. O’Sullivan, Kio Kio; Mr. and Master R. Virtue, Wellington; Mr. Board, Waitomo; Mr. Morrison, Te Awamutu; Mr. Lethbridge, Te Awamu.u; Colonel Free, Waitomo; Mr. Bently, Te Kuiti; Mr. Norman Wellwood, Hastings; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hunter, Tapu; Mr. J. Harle, Wanganui; Mr. F. Hall, Gisborne; Mr. D. Potts, Waihou; Mr. Davidson, Thames; Mr. Frederic, Stratford; Miss Maysmore, Wanganui; Dr. McDiarmid, Huntly; Mr. Balneavis, Wellington; Mr. Millar, Te Puke; Mr. J. Goodson, Hawera; Mr. F. Dobson, Stratford; Mr. A. A. Paape, Wellington; Mr. Me Crea, Te Puke; Mr. and Mrs. J. Stuart, Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. C. Bond, Hamilton; Mr. Barrugh, Hamilton; Mr. C. B. Smith, Wellington; Mr. A. E. Hard ng, Dargaville; Mr. S. S. Campbell, Northern Wairoa; Dr. Eccles, Hamilton; Mr. G. M. Hall, Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Urquhart, Rotorua; Mr. S. Radley, Sydney; Mr. Dalston, Whangarei; Miss O’Neill, Wanganui; Capt. and Mrs. Trask, Nelson; Mr. J. Leggo, Nelson; Mr. F. Montague, Wellington; Mr. Palmer, Sydney; Mr. J. Main, Hikurangi; Mr. Harkness, Palmerston North; Mr. F. Wells, Palmerston North; Mr. S. MacMahon, WHiangarei; Mr. McLean, Wellington; Mr. M. Har rison, Waikato; Mr. Williams, Wellington; Mr. Young, Te Awamutu; Mr. Cartwr’ght, Wellington; Mr. Mclntosh, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. .Stanhope, New York; Miss Kennedy, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Wellington: Mr. and Mrs. P. Mitchell, Sydney; Mr. Simmons, Wellington; Mr. Quinn. Wellington; Mr. M. Edwards,t Christ church; Mr. and Mrs. Bowker, Lon don; Mr. and Mrs. Hart, Wellington: Miss Coll er, Wellington; Mr. Arm strong, Thames; Mr. and Mrs. Gibbon

Waitara; Mr. A. A. Harrison, Welling ton; Capt. McNab, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. Hayne, Wanganui; Mr Cavanagh, Hamilton; and Mr. J. W. Ellis, Hamilton. Amongst the guests who were staying at the Star Hotel last week were the following:—Mr. Murray, Christchurch; Mr. (Morrell, Mineapolis, U.S.A.; Mr. M. Farrelly, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. Boyle, Napier; Mr. H. Tonkin, Napier; Mr. Laing, Napier; Mr. and Mrs. H. Baxter, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. Wilms, California; Mrs. Orkney, Sydney; Mr. G'. Glover, Nelson; Mr. Rothery, Te Kuiti; Mr. Brewer, Te Kuiti; Mr. McLaren, Te Kuiti; Mr. Carrington, Awaklno; Mr. and Mrs. Harrington, Whangarei; Mr. and Mrs. Jagger, Devonport; Mr. Reid, Napier; Mr. R. Young, Christchurch; Mr. J. McCarthy, Hamilton; Miss Beatrice Day, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. Plimmer; Miss E. W.lson, Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. Gillies and maid, Hamilton; Mr. and Miss Williams, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. Ketch, Timaru; Mrs. Browne, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. Ranstorn, Timaru. sjs The guests at the Central Hotel last week included: Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Phillips, Puhoi; Miss Lloyd, Puhoi; Mr. and Mrs. Constable, Wellington; Mr. Nesbit Sm th, Wanganui; Mr. J. McLeod, Wellington; Mr. D. Kennedy,

Wanganui; Misses Carrig, Hamilton; Messrs. Jorgen, Keefe and Gunion, Taihane; Miss O’Brien, Stratford; Mrs. Buxton, Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Glenn, New Plymouth; Mr. and Mrs. Qu lliam, New Plymouth; Mr. and Mrs. Morris, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. Pees, Palmerston North; Mr. and Mrs. Richmond, Hast ngs; Mr. R. Fildes, Wellington; Mr. L. McKenzie and Mr. Reulston, Hastings; Mr. F. O’Connell, Rotorua: Major Crawshaw; Dr. R. Palls and Mrs. Balls, Sydney; Mr. /hilip Borne, New York; Mr. S. A. Bull, F jl; Mr. and Mrs. E. Jones, Palmerston North; Mr. F. J. Fenton, Napier; Mr. W. Steven. Wellington: Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Rutherford, Auckland; Mrs. M. Foote and Mrs. Manteß, Thames; Mr. and Mrs. J. Sterling. Matakche; Mr. R. J. Gordon, Hampton; Mr. and Mi”. E. Bostock, Howick: Mr. and Mrs. W. Dixon, Te Aroha; and Mr. and Mrs. P. AVood, Te Aroha. * :*s # v Captain Monk left by the Atua to join the garrison at Apia as medical superintendent.

Mr. Binns, of the firm of Messrs. Bradney and Binns, of Auckland, accompanied by Mrs. Binns, left by the Maheno on a visit to Sydney. * * * * Captain Calder, manager of the A.W.S.N. Co., Suva, accompanied by Mrs. Calder, Miss Calder and Miss Riley, left Auckland last week upon a trip to Sydney. y: :p * "Mr. C. Anderson, a well-known public man of Sydney, who, together with Miss Anderson, has been in New Zealand on a holiday visit, returned to Australia by the Maheno last week. * * * * Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Pees, of Palmerston North, left Auckland by the Atua for a trip round the Pacific Islands. + * * * Dr. Beale, resident medical attendant at Vavua, returned home by the Island steamer. Mr. W. Pavitt, a well-known business man of Auckland, left Auckland by the Atua for a trip to the Islands. * * * * Mr. J. T. Brittain, American ConsulGeneral, of New Zealand, who has been appointed to Australia, accompanied by Mrs. Brittain, left last week for his now appointment.

The Rev. Wells Smailes, of Auckland, left by the Union Company’s steamer for Apia to take up his duties as chaplain to the New Zealand forces. * * * * The Right Rev. Bishop Cleary, of Auckland, left by the Makura upon a visit to Sydney. * Mr. and Mrs. Roulston, of Pukekohe, have left for Sydney upon a holiday trip. :S * * Captain and Mrs. Macpherson, of Sydney, who have been on a visit to New Zealand, sailed by the Riverina last Tuesday upon their return journey. r.t * * * The Rev. I. Bertram, Presbyterian minister, of Devonport, accompanied by Mrs. Bertram and family, left for Sydney last week to. take over his new charge. * * * * Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wood, of Christchurch, left for Sydney by the Union Company’s steamer.

Mrs. H. M. Smeeton, of Auckland, left last week on a visit to Sydney. e * * ’»• Mr. and Mrs. W. Agnew, of the Thames Hotel, Auckland, left by the Makura on the 22nd of April for San Francisco. Should the war permit, they will proceed by way of the Panama Canal to New York, and may return to New Zealand via Suez. Mr. and Mrs. G-. Busby, of Tokomaru Bay, who have teen in Auckland for some time, are at present at Lake Taupo. Mr. Busby will return to Auckland, but Mrs. Busby will go on to- Christchurch before returning to Tokomaru Bay. Mr. and Mrs. William C. Allen, of San Jose, California, accompanied by Mr. W. B. Harvey, of Westown, Pennsylvania, who have been in Auckland in connection wi h the International Peace Society, have left for Hastings. They will then go to Wellington, en route for Melbourne, by way of Dunedin.

There is a movement afoot among the Jewish community of New Zealand to raise funds for the relief of their suffering co-religionists in Poland. * » * * The depth of Lake Wakatipu has frequently been a subject of speculation. Soundings were recently taken, a depth of 2100 ft. being plumbed. Count R. P. de Montaigue, whose name was prominently before the public some time back, and who has been resident in Rotorua, returned to England by the liner Tainui last week. W 9 • • English naval depots, arsenals, and ammunition factories are working day and night. England is providing the French armies with footwear, clothes, and ammunition. At the outbreak of hostilities France found herself short of 800,000 pairs of boots, twice as many rifles, and about 4,000,000 rounds of cartridges. •** * * In the course of a letter received by a Patea resident from a native of Norway, who lived for some years in New Zealand, the writer says: “We have our army mobilised carefully watching the march of events, and if it should happen that we find it necessary to take a hand in the fighting, rest assured it will be on the side of the English and French. That is the feeling throughout Norway.”

A wealthy young Englishman, before going to the front, insured his life for £200,000, the risk being split amongst several offices. The first premium was £lO,OOO. * * * * The vast armies which Germany sent to the front on both the eastern and western borders called from agricultural labourers at least 35 per cent, of the grand total. sj: ❖ * Lord Rosebery suggests that a man who has volunteered and been rejected on physical grounds should be given a certificate indicating that his patriotism is greater than his physique. • * • • The Kaiser’s renewed order to his legions to capture Warsaw at all costs has resulted in the almost total destruction of the first division, states the Rome “Massaggero” war correspondent, Signor Luciano Magrini. Prisoners relate that the Emperor’s mandate was communicated to all the troops before the battle of the Rawka. Upwards of 15,000 Germans were slain. « « * * The wonder of this great war is not so much the millions of men engaged as the remarkable response to the call to aid the British which has been answered in such unlooked for places. The Emir of Sokoto, Northern Nigeria, •a chief of a primitive negroid race, has contributed a thousand pounds to the Prince of Wales Fund. The gift was brought from Sokoto to Yungern, 269 miles, by carriers, and took 16 days. Each man carried on his head silver specie of the value of £250 This was a remarkable tribute, willingly . paid, to the nation which sent David Livingstone into Darkest Africa.

Since the war started, with the exception of his visit to France, and Christmas with the Cecils at Hatfield House, Lord Kitchener has been at his desk in the War Office night and day. He has most of his meals “brought in,” and now actually sleeps on the premises. * The principal of Hawkesbury College, New South Wales, who has been travelling in America, was informed by reputable people that German agents had for 11 or 12 months prior to the outbreak of war purchased all the available tinned food for consumption within the German Empire. ■ ® a • One curious effect of the wai’ is that the professors of physical culture in the West End of London are doing remarkably good business. Their fees, none too light at any time, are willingly paid by would-be sublaterns anxious to increase their chest measurement to the War Office regulation standard. ♦ * * * In addition to strengthening their field works along the Dutch frontier, the Germans are constantly increasing the number of their sentinels, and the Dutch were uneasy when the last mail left. Further guns are being placed along the road by the SluisBruges Canal, and constantly at night blue light signals are to be seen.

Recruiting for the Indian Army is continuing in an extraordinary manner, the fighting races having had theii' martial instincts considerably whetted by accounts of feats achieved by the Indian troops at the front. In consequence of the number of applications received at headquarters for permission to proceed to the front the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army has been obliged to forbid officers to forward such requests. » ♦ ♦ * Mr. Charles Marcel Heidsieck, one of the partners of the big champagne firm, writing from Rheims to a friend in Sydney says:—“We look forward to a very serious advance within the next two months, and I hope that next spring will see these barbarians over the Rhine. They have proved able and willing to commit any crime on women, children, prisoners, and wounded, and they shall be made to account for it. Let us hope that the end of spring will see the Allies altogether victorious, that a peaceful and prosperous era will arise, and that we may be there to see it.” #*■ * * One of the features of the Panama Exhibition is a petroleum exhibit arranged upon a scale never before attempted. The principal part of the exhibit will cover an area of over 52,000 sq. ft. of space, while an auxiliary exhibit will be installed in the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy. Apart from numerous working drills, a complete testing refinery has been built with a capacity of about one car-load of crude oil per week. Through this refinery there will be run typical crude oils from the important fields of America, and the products will be utilised in >the Exposition itself.

The whole city is flat and laid out in squares as in Palmerston and Christchurch, but they are now constructing two huge streets running from corner to corner and intersecting in the centre of the city. Every building standing in the way is being pulled down, and the cost of the project will run into millions. They are, though, two beautifully wide streets, and will be lined with avenues of trees. There are plazas dotted all over this city, as in Monte Video. In fact, this plaza business is carried out in all the South American cities. The Congress building of Buenos Ayres (the House of Parliament) is a magnificent affair, and is the finest building in the city, and I should say one of the finest in the world. It has already cost £3,000,000 and is not yet finished. They have just recently discovered a small error in the account of £300,000, but do not know where the money is, so that you can readily believe the place has cost the amount of money they state it has if that sort of error can happen so easily, and they seem to happen all over this country in political circles. The front of the building is pure white marble, and when the sun is shining brightly and the blue sky is showing brilliantly in the background it is a sight worth seeing. They call the Congress House the ‘Palace of Gold.’ I guess it has earned its nick-name.”

Earl Kitchener is to be given York House as an official residence so long as he retains the portfolio of Secretary of State for War. At the present moment York House is being used as the headquarters of the Prince of Wales National Relief Fund, but other premises have been secured for this staff, so that K. of K. may have settled down within the shadow of St. James’s Palace by the middle of last month. $ * * *

Italy’s position still seems to be very uncertain, and the menace to her status that would follow the fall of the Dardanelles and the consequent change in the balance of power in the Eastern Mediterranean may have had a great deal to do with her quietness. It is hard to say what sort of an efficient land-fighting force Italy could put into the field to-day. On paper she has a total army of 3,000,000 men, but of these the first line contains only about 400,000 men, and a mobile militia 326,000 men. Even of these, it was estimated before the start of the war, only about 200,000 could take their places in the fighting ranks. The remainder of the 3,000,000 were then almost absolutely untrained men. But seven months may have made a big difference to the state of preparedness of Italy’s army. It is in the matter of stores and warlike supplies that she has probably been short. Her navy is a strong one. She has six Dreadnoughts in the water now, five of them 20,000-tonners, eight preDreadnoughts, nine armoured cruisers, 16 protected cruisers, 10 torpedo gunboats, 46 destroyers, about 90 torpedo boats, and many submarines. At the end of 1914 she had 25 of the lastnamed craft, and was believed to be building still more. Italy also possesses about a dozen dirigibles and 210 fast war aeroplanes.

A recent neutral visitor to Germany says that every German in the Rhine land believes that, if necessary, the German Army, when repulsed, will go back through Dutch Limburg. It will be “Kriegsnotwendigkeit,” as in the case of the violation of Belgian neutrality. In this connection, says the writer, I may relate a story which has been current for months. When the Germans were besieging Liege, and seeing that after two days they could not break through, they entered into negotiations at The Hague to obtain free passage through Dutch Limburg. But, meanwhile, happily for them, Liege fell, and Holland was spared. # * * * A Wellingtonian, Corporal Smith, who was fighting in France, speaks warmly of the way in which the Army is catered for, and compares the clockwork way in which the business of bringing up supplies and taking away the wounded is undertaken to the methodical method of running the London street traffic. There was an atmosphere of cheerfulness running through the whole of the workers, especially the R.A.M.C., and the nurses, who all had a smile on their faces. Incidentally Corporal Smith mentioned that he returned to England on the hospital ship Asturias, which, it will be remembered, the Germans attempted to torpedo en route. He did not, however, see much of the incident, though he noticed the activity among the officers on deck. Corporal Smith was formerly a member of the D Battery, Wellington. • a « • There seems to be in many quarters a great deal of confusion between the quick-firing gun and the machine gun, and numbers of people apparently do not know the difference between the two classes of weapons. The quickfiring gun is a breech-loading weapon which uses fixed ammunition in the shape of a metal cylinder, and these guns will carry missiles varying in weight from 31b. to 1001 b. The latter Is used in the biggest quick-grer there is, an arm of 6in. calibre. The machine gun, on the other hand, although it is a quick-firer—a much quicker firer in fact than the actual q.f. gun —is a weapon which fires only rifle cartridges. But it fires these at a rate of between 600 and 800 shots a minute, varying makes having varying rates, and has an effective range of 3000 yards. The British use the Maxim and the Vickers-Maxim, the French the Hotchkiss or the Puteaux, and the Germans the Maxim. • ♦ ♦ • Constantinople stands where Europe and Asia come within half a mile of each other. At the top-end of the Sea of Marmora, the narrow straits of the Bosphorous lead into the Black Sea, an enormous inland sea which is over a mile deep. It is a Russian inland sea now, and the Danube runs into it, and when Constantinople becomes Russian, as it must, the Black Sea will become more important than ever it was. The early men saw the importance of the peninsula on which Constantinople stands, for it is only a mile or two from Asia, and a mile or two from the Black Sea, and it has a splendid harbour, called the Golden Horn, about four miles long, with deep water close to the shores. There is no rise and fall of tide at Constantinople, but there is always a strong surrent running from the Black Sea through the Bosphorous, through the Sea of Marmora, and through the Dardanelles, into the Mediterranean Sea. * • • • An American pressman, writing of Kitchener’s Army, says:—Here is the village blacksmith, village parson, squire’s son, young farmer, miner, mechanic, factory hand, city clerk, artisan, college graduate, business man, doctor, lawyer, and tradesman. They have come of their own free will from cottage and castle to offer their lives to their country, for they know England’s cause is just. These are the men who are going to crush militarism. When the task is accomplished those who are left will lay aside their khaki and guns and go back to their work just as quietly as they came. Yes, you will say: But what kind of soldiers do they make? The answer is: They are equal to the finest regular troops that England has ever put in the field at any period of her history. That is not the snap judgment of a newspaper man; it is the deliberate opinion of professional soldiers, of white-haired generals, who have fought in, or seen, every war in the last half century. You do not have to be in Aidershot long to realise that Kitchener’s Army is as clean-lipped as it is clean-limbed.