THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1322, 26 August 1915, Page 36

THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE.

When a young man Sir Hiram Maxim contemplated becoming a prize-fighter.

Mr. B. J. Tuckwell, the well-known Dunedin cricketer, has left for Melbourne to take up his residence there.

The appointment of Mr. Norman Christie as Inspector of Scenic Reserves is gazetted.

During the first five months of the war Sir Edward Grey did not leave London for a single night.

Mr. J. E. L. Stevens, of Auckland, has been elected an associate member of the Institution of Petroleum Technologists.

Miss C. F. Ralph, of Auckland, has arranged to leave by the lonic next month from Wellington for South Africa.

The English language is being substituted for German in all the big schools of Russia.

Of the men in the first two boats to pull ashore at Gaba Tepe, says Driver W. Hornblow, of Masterton, only two came out alive.

Earl Brassey, who is in his eightieth year, has gone to the Dardanelles in ins famous yacht Sunbeam, to assist in Red Cross work.

The estate of the late Mr. Eno, the inventor of fruit salts, is valued at £1,611,000. He leaves a large number of bequests, several of them being to hospitals, Barnardo homes, and discharged prisoners’ societies.

Mr. and Mrs. Ely, American tourists, arrived in Auckland last week from Rotorua, after having toured NewZealand, and left by the Riverina for Sydney to catch the Nikko Maru for Hongkong.

Captain Green, formerly of the Tokomaru, which was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine early in the war, has taken command of the Kumara, in place of Captain Lewis, now master of the Pakeha.

Mr. Philip Carrington, who won the Chancellor’s medal for English verse at Cambridge, is the eldest son of Dean Carrington, of Christchurch.

Mr. W. A. Kennedy, manager of the Union Steamship Company’s Wellington office, who has been recovering from a severe attack of influenza, has been visiting Wanganui.

Miss Urquhart, of Blenheim, has received advice that her cousins, Lieutenant and Corporal Paterson, of the 4th Cameron Highlanders, were killed at Festubert, in France. '

An Austrian officer has broken Verdi’s statue at Trieste. He leapt on the pedestal and knocked off with a hammer half the image of the musician’s face.

Mr. Carlyle Ferguson, wlm has been editor of the “Temuka Leader” for the past two years, has left on his way to Suva, Fiji, where he takes up the editorship of the “Fiji Times.”

According to neutrals who have arrived at Zurich from Trieste, the Nabresina Railway to Trieste is no longer working, as bombs dropped from an Italian airship have wrecked the line. Only the Northern Sesana line is open, and it is monopolised by the army.

Mr Alfred Court, a well-known resident of Auckland, left by the Riverina for Sydney last week to catch the P and O. Morea for England, where he will offer his services for the front.

News has been received of the drowning at Newcastle of Captain Bernard Lovett, eldest son of Captain C. H. Lovett, harbourmaster at Bluff. The deceased was 32 years of age. * * * « Mr. H. Levi, a Canadian business man, who has been in Auckland installing an agent, will possibly sail by the. Marama next month. In the meantime he is on a visit to Sydney. Miss Lona Baldwin, of San Francisco, who arrived by the Riverina on Tuesday last, left the same night for Rotorua, where the visitor had arranged to see Rotorua a la American in two hours and then away by train again to catch the steamer Moana in Wellington en route to San Francisco.

Colonel Gordon Craig, in charge of the Australian Hospital Ship, is Doctor Gordon Craig, of Macquarie Street, Sydney. He is known as a good golfer. He. plays a rattling good game of golf, and he passed, on the links, as “a real good sort.” He is one of Sydney’s great surgeons, but so simple and unassuming is he that very few outsiders ever suspected how great he was. His patients know how clever he is, and there are few men in Australia more widely known and respected in the profession.

“The Swiss hotel industry, which has suffered more than any other in this country owing to the war, cannot expect any summer season worth mentioning this year,” says the “Morning Post’s” Berne correspondent. “Consequently hotel keepers have re-

quested the Government to take measures to tide them over this exceedingly difficult financial period. It is competently estimated that £48,000,000 is now invested in Swiss hotels.”

ures to tiae them over tnis exceeaingly difficult financial period. It is competently estimated that £48,000,000 is now invested in Swiss hotels.” • » * * After crossing the moat, the Bell Tower is seen on the left, and a little distance beyond, also on the left (opposite the Traitor’s Gate), is the Bloody Tower, so named according to some, from the suicide (1585) within its walls of Henry Percy, eighth Earl of Northumberland. Others attribute the sanguinary appellation to tire tradition that the two young princes, Edward V. and his brother, the Duke of York, were murdered here in 1483 by order of their uncle, Richard 111. The name seems first to have been used about 1597.

Because a man standing on a platform of a tramway car simply said to an officer, “There’s no room,” he was arrested by the Germans in Belgium and sentenced to eight days’ imprisonment or a fine of £5. Another time a lady at the passport bureau, on being refused a passport for Antwerp, asked “Why?” and was fined £2 10s. for hex- question.

Amongst the guests at the Grand Hotel, Auckland, last week were: — Mr. M. Miller; Mr. J. S. Sanson, Glen Oroua; Mr. E. T. Eastman, Sydney; Mr. J. Campbell, Wellington; Mrs. and Miss Joseph, Wellington; Mr. J. H. Miller; Mr. H. P. Oppenheim, New York; Mr. C. Slack, Wellington; Mr. A. Aprahaman, New York; Mr. and Miss Kennedy. Wellington; Mr. R. A. Holmes, Wellington; Mr. J. Webb,

Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Ely, New York; Mrs. Peacfock; Mr. C. Green, Christchurch; Mr. Vernon Reed, Bay of Islands; Mr. J. H. Strauchon, Lower Hutt; Mr. W. M. Caul, Wellington; Mr. W. Dawson, Dunedin; Mr. A. H. Beeson, Birmingham; Mr. T. M. Fletcher, Whangarei; Mr. L. G. James; and Mr. E. T. Eastman, Sydney.

The guests at the Star Hotel last week were as follows: —Mrs. Chitty, sen., Mrs. Chitty, jun., Miss Chitty, Hamilton; Miss Bishop, Hamilton; Mr. Dougherty, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. Matthews, Miss Matthews, Master Matthews, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. C. Kirk, To Kuiti; Mr. H. E. Kennett, Christrhurch; Mrs. Dr. Reid, England; Mr. W. Endean. Auckland; Mr. C. Horton, Auckland; Mr. C. H. Osmond, Helensville; Mr. Coverdale, Helensville; Mr. D. L. Patterson, Oamaru; Mr. R. Parrington, Wellington; Mr. A. Collins, Melbourne; Mr. H. F. Wright, Dunedin; Mr. and Mrs. Callum, Auckland; Mr. F. Brown, Melbourne; Mr. E. Coleman, Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. Logan, Wanaka; Mrs. Hayhurst, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. Fell, England; Mr. and Mrs. McDonald, Misses McDonald (2), Master McDonald, Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. Bullock, Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, Miss Holmes. Miss Credge, Master Holmes, Christchurch.

The following quests were staying at the Central Hotel last week:— Mr. and Mrs. Whitlock, Tauranga; Mr., Mrs. and Miss Overton, Canterbury; Miss L. T. Baldwin, San Francisco; Mr. Haynes, Dunedin; Mr. E. C. Walsh, Sydney; Mr. Young, Wellington; Mr. Mervyn Wells, Cambridge; Mr. H. E. H. Potts, Rotorua; Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Matthews, Gisborne; Mr. K. M. Barrance, Ross; Mrs. Tate, Wairarapa; Mr. J. Munro, Hastings; Mr. S. Parkes, Sydney; Miss C. C. Clayton, England; Miss E. F. Rawson, England; Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Summers, Christchurch; Miss M. Leroy, London; and Mr. H. J. Shaw, Hamilton.

The guests at the Royal Hotel last week included: —Mr. E. M. Elborne, Regina, Canada; Colonel Steadman, Whangarei; Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Ludbrook, Ohaeawai; Mr, V. B. .-Armstrong, Tokomaru; Mr. F. jff. Williams, Napier; Mr. R. W. Kyfnd, Gisborne; Mr. Sydney Goldsmith. Dunedin; Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Wilson, Taihape; Messrs. A. and F. W. Seifert, Palmerston North; Mr. W. E. T. Hudson Holden, Rotorua; and Mr. and Mrs. E. Dunn, Sydney.

Mr. and Mrs. T. Chelley, of Wanganui, leave New Zealand this week on a trip to England.

Mr. Hodges, manager of Hind, Rolph and Co., influential merchants of San Francisco, has arrived in New Zealand.

Mr. Ernest Denton, late of Christchurch and Invercargill, who installed the Diesel oil engines on H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth, has received a commission in the Royal Naval Reserve, and is proceeding on active service.

The recently promoted MinistreResident at Quito, Ecuador, is M. R. Boeufve, who for several years was Consul for France in New Zealand. He was latterly Consul of the firstclass at Liverpool. In Wellington just now is Madame Boeufve, who is residing there in order to be near her son, Lieutenant Alec Boeufve, of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles, who is training at Trentham and hopes to depart with the Sth Reinforcements. Only a short while ago his uncle, Brigadier-G'eneral Sydney Bellingham Jameson, of the Imperial Army, received the decoration of the Legion

of Honour for bravery at Mons, at the hands of President Poincare.

Private Keith De Maus, the wellknown Christchurch footballet, who left with the Canterbury Battalion, and was six weeks in the 1 trenches at Gallipoli, is now attached to the Sixth Australian Brigade as sergeant instructor.

The Governor of Samoa has shifted his residence from Mulinui to Mr. R. L. Stevenson’s home at Vailima, about three miles inland from the sea. The ashes of Mrs. Stevenson have been let into the concrete base of her husband’s tomb on the top of Vailima Mountain.

Konrad Kane, the well-known chief guide of the Canadian Alpine Club, who was with the Mount Cook staff during the past season, is an Austrian naturalised in Canada. He has returned to Canada, and joined the Ambulance Corps of the Canadian forces. He will thus be able to help his adopted fellow-countrymen, with whom he was very popular, and if they are pitted against the people of his nation to extend mercy to them also.

Abdul Hamid is an accomplished painter and furniture-maker.

Major Hughes, D. 5.0., who went away with the main force on General Godley’s staff, has received his colonelcy, and is now commanding the Canterbury Infantry Battalion during the absence of Colonel Brown, who was wounded and invalided to England.

It is strange how like New Zealand this peninsula is, says a soldier writing from Gallipoli, so far as vegetation goes. There is a species of broom, with a flower identical to our New Zealand pest, though the leaf is slightly different. There is any quantity of wild poppies, which made beautiful red patches in the sunlight this morning. There is a small species of holly growing very thickly, also a plant not unlike manuka scrub, and our joy was complete when we discovered some “shivery grass.” (What’s the botanist’s name for that?) The birds here are very pretty, too, especially a black and white patched one; while there is another which makes a long continued sound like a distant aeroplane; but the best of all, at daybreak, is the skylark in large numbers,

giving us a song which not even the heavy artillery can silence.

Mr. H. Gresham, of Ashburton, has received from a friend at the Dar-

danelles an interesting trophy of war, in the shape of a hypodermic syringe outfit. This was taken from a German officer who was shot by one of our men. The two soldiers came across each other simultaneously, and both fired at the same moment. The ■New Zealander’s bullet found lodgment in the German’s forehead, and the charge from the German’s revolver passed through the New Zealand soldier’s neck, between the jugular vein and the windpipe. Our man was able to take the syringe before going to the hospital. The last report of the plucky New Zealander was that he was eating well and enjoying a smoke. It is a curious fact that the morphia and strychnine tabloids used in the outfit are of British manufacture, although the rest of the instrument appears to be of German make. It was evidently used to deaden the pain of wounds. The whole outfit is contained in a handy little nickel case, which could be carried in a waistcoat pocket.