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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1304, 22 April 1915, Page 40

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Amongst the guests who were staying at the Grand Hotel, Auckland, last week were the following: —Mr. and Mrs. C. F. C. Miller, Kawakawa; Mr. G. Stubbs, Mangahangi; Mr. Gordon Holmes; Mr. P. B. Fitzgerald., Takapuna; Mr. A. E. Kernot, Wellington; Mr. J. H. Miller, Palmerston North; Mr. P. Molden, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. A. Caselberg, Masterton; Mr. J. A. Ogle, Hornsby, N.S.W.; Miss M. G. Handyside. Napier; Mr. E. M. Theomin, Dunedin; Mr. J. Webb, Wellington; Mr. A. G. Duncan, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. H. James, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Chapman, Sydney; Mr. W. P. Worsop, London; Mr. E. D. Giles, Timaru; Mr. P. Old, Timaru; Mr., Mrs. and Miss S. Hill, Napier; Mr. W. H. Hobden, Rotorua; Mr. A. A. Hudson, Dunedin; Mr. W. J. Prouse, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. F. Gorringe, Mangaweka; Mr. J. D. Mitchell, Wellington; Mr. C. Stoddart, England; Mr. A. A. Winslow, United States; Mr. H. A. Beauchamp, Wellington; Mr. E. E. Gahagan, Wanganui; Mr. J. W. Brodie, Mr. A. R. Teacher, Auckland; Mr. J. W. Lewin. Miss McLillan, and Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Sinclair, Cambridge. * * * * The guests at the Central Hotel included: Dr. and Mrs. Crosby, Tokanui; Mr. and Mrs. Wright, Eltham; Mr. C. R. Kerr, Opotiki; Mr. A. Thorne, Levin; Mr. A. R. Ponder, Christchurch; Mr. Lafferty and Mr. R. Fildes, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. Matthewson, Gisborne; Miss Corbett; Mrs. and Miss Hyde, and Mrs. W. P. Gauverin, Waihi; Major and Mrs. Ariell; Mr. F. W. Fraser, New Plymouth; and Mr. and Mrs. Washbourn, Christchurch.

The guests at the Royal Hotel last week were: Mr. and Mrs. Cranee, Wellington; Mr. J. Main, Whangarei; Mr. F. Wells, Palmerston North; Mr. F. Hall, Gisborne; Mr. A. A. Harrison, Wellington; Mr. C. A. Smith, Wellington; Mr. J. C. Buckingham, London; Mr. H. Bailey, New Plymouth; Mr. lan Simpson, Te Aroha; Air. Manning, Hamilton; Mr. Crocker, New Plymouth; Mr. Wilson, Hamilton; Mr. Hyde, Hamilton; Mr. Varney, Hamilton; Mr. Williams, Hamilton; Mr. Coombes, Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. Hawthorne, Hamilton; Father Bowen, Sydney; Mr. Phil Nathan, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. Washington, Whangarei; Mr. and Mrs. Beau Smith, New York; Mr. R. Hagg, Sydney; Mrs. K. James, Sydney; Mr. J. Free, Waitomo; Mr. Montgomery, Thames; Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Kirk, Waitomo; Mr. Chas. Adair, Gisborne; Air. R. Girling Butcher, Wellington; Mr. R. Young, Wellington; Mr. Crowley, Tauranga; Mr. H. J. Blow, Wellington; Mr. Edwin Harding, Dargaville; Mr. J. Leggo, Nelson; Mr. Chambers, Thames; Mr. S. Radley, Wellington; Mr. H. Cohen, Dunedin; Mr. and Mrs. Hyslop, Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. Bond, Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. Grlbbon, Waitara; and Mr. J. W. Ellis, Hamilton.

The guests who were staying at the Star Hotel last week included: Air. and Mrs. B. Brewer, Te Kuiti; Mr. Thos. Lang, Napier; Mr. R. G. Wilson, Napier; Mr. W. Farrelly, Wellington; Mr. P. J. Amodeo, Christchurch; Mr. Henry Taylor, Sydney; .Air. W. West, Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. Jennings, Dunedin; Mrs. Orkney, Sydney; Mr. C. Horton, Auckland; Mr. Lawson, Newcastle; Air. Peterson, Newcastle; Mr. Jewell, Newcastle; Mr. and Mrs. Coleman, Newcastle; Mr. and Airs. Horne, Greymouth; Mr. and Mrs. Plimmer, Sydney; Miss B. Day. Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. Jagger, Stanley Bay; Mr. F. Mogridge, Blenheim; Mr. Geo. MarteTa, Blenheim; Mr. J. Clarkin, Hamilton; Mr. H. A. Henchman, Melbourne; Mr. H. Murphy, Melbourne; Mr. H. W. Berry, Melbourne; Mr. W. P. Murray. Christchurch; Mr. A. W. Gibbons, Thames; Mr. C. Flemming, Hamilton; Mr. Mc-

Carthy, Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. H. Baxter, Wellington; Miss J. Clifton, Sydney; Mr. Cole, Sydney; Mr. Alston. Sydney; Mr. Morse, Wanganui; Mr. A. B. Pownall, Napier; and Mr. Osmond, Helensville. Mr. J. Greenfield, the Dunedin representative of Messrs. Thomas Cook and Sons, has been making a trip to the North, and is at present in Rotorua. His is accompanied by Mrs. Greenfield. * * * * Air. E. Bowcher, of Johannesburg, accompanied by Airs. Bowcher, has been spending a furlough in New Zealand. Mr. Bowcher is a member of the Public Works Department, South Afr ca, and is engaged on the Cape .o Cairo railway. Mr. A. C. Wilshire, at present staying with Mr. C. C. Buckland Cambridge, has arranged to leave New Zealand by the Moana in May next for America. • • • e. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Chapman, Sydney, are at present in the Hot Lakes District, and will proceed via the Wanganui River to Wellington before leaving for Sydney on the 29th.

Mr. Lyster Nolan, of Kohukohu, North Auckland, has booked to leave next month for London.

Mr. H. Levi, Montreal, is at present engaged in a business tour of New Zealand.

Mr. H. G. Balakian, a well-known Alelbourne business man, left Auckland last week for a brief tour of Rotorua.

Mr. J. B. Godkin, of Ngaire, Taranaki, intends leaving by the Mali eno this month for a trip to San Francisco. He will be accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Agnew, of the Thames Hotel, Auckland.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Coleman, well-known Auckland residents, left for a visit to Sydney last week.

Mr. Walters, a well-known Auckland sportsman, sailed by the Riverina upon a holiday trip to Sydney.

Mr. Chandler, accompanied by Mr. T. L. Webb, left for Sydney by the Huddart-Parker steamer.

Mr. F. de Lautour has returned to Sydney, after a short holiday in the Poverty Bay d'strict.

The Rev. Father Clarke left for Sydney last week. ♦ * * ♦ Mr. and Airs. Marshlands, of Ngaruawahia, have booked to leave Auckland next week for a trip to Sydney. * * * * Air. George Hyde, formerly of the Star Hotel, Auckland, returns to Newcastle by the Riverina. Mr. Caughey, of Auckland, leaves by the Riverina on a trip to Sydney. * * * * Mrs. Benton, wife of Captain Benton, harbourmaster at Gisborne, returned home last week by the Alonowai. * » * Mr. R. T. Warnock and Misses L. and H. Warnock, of Auckland, have left for the South by the Union Company’s steamer Monowai. * * sS Dr. Muira and Mr. Ohtani, of the Japanese commercial commission to New Zealand, will return on the 27th of April by the Riverina to Sydney.

Dr. Raymond Balls and Mrs. Balls, of Brisbane, are on a visit to Rotorua, and will include a tour of the rest of New Zealand before returning to Australia.

Mr. J. S. Mitchell, of Sandygate, Walth-on-Dearne, Yorkshire, is at present in Rotorua, and will return to Auckland in a few days.

Mr. T. M. Stewart, of Melbourne, accompanied by his two daughters, Miss Stewart and Mrs. Drury, who has been on a holiday to New Zealand, returned last week by the Australian liner.

A Hawke’s Bay resident who spent a day shag-shooting recently was rewarded with a cheque for £4 7s. 6d. for his day’s holiday.

Dr. A. A. Martin, of Palmerston North, writing from Rouen, states that as his time will soon be up he expects to be back very soon.

The Cossacks, like the Indians, are men of many castes. Some of them will not speak cr shake hands with others whom they consider inferior in every respect.

In France a certain number of soldiers have been sent home to work under their ordinary employers in producing things necessary for the army. While thus employed, they are practically lent by the State to the employer.

I am stupefied. I never could have imagined a nation in a frenzy. It is a race of women. To me theirs is an incomprehensible civilisation. I cannot imagine what the German “idea ’ is driving at, unless it be a parade march through a series of halls philosophically constructed £cr purposes of self adoration—Rudyard Kipling, in a letter to a French friend. « * * • Cracow is preparing for a long resistance, but the Russians mean to reduce it, says a recent visitor. They will sit round it until it falls, for they have brought their whole outfit with them. The fall of Przemysl will make the way clear for the invasion of Silesia. The soldiers of the Russian Army have a striking characteristic. They never argue, but they are prepared to listen to reason. If treated courteously and sensibly, no one need fear them. If, on the other hand, they have a grievance, or entertain suspicions, they strike, and strike hard. They have consequently made examples of a few towns and villages in order to persuade the civil population they must be dealt with straightly.