THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1325, 16 September 1915, Page 40

THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE. Captain Todd, of the Tyser Line, left by the Riverina at the beginning of the week for Sydney. ♦ ♦ ♦ * Mr. Erl Williams, of Hawke’s Bay, left last week for England. It is stated it is his intention to offer his services to the Empire.

Professor Dickie and Mrs. Dickie, of the Presbyterian College at Dunedin, left from Auckland last week for England.

Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Lloyd, of Otahuhu left last week on the Union steamer for Vancouver.

Mrs. Fenwick Miller has succeeded Mrs. Flora Annie Steele as president of the Women Writers’ League in London.

Mr. A. Ormond, of Hawke’s Bay, a member of the well-known sporting family, left for London last week, with the intention, it is stated, of proceeding to the trenches.

Mr. and Mrs. R. Barker, well-known Gisborne residents, accompanied by two children and Mr. H. W. Barker,

left by the Niagara last week for America. The Misses B. E. L. and M. Barker are also in the party, and proceed through to London.

Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Dawson, of Wellington, left by the Niagara en route to Honolulu, thence to Japan and China. They return by way of the Straits Settlement back to Wellington.

Mrs. R. W. Holmes and Miss Holmes, of Wellington, left Auckland las: week for Vancouver.

Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt, French tourists from New Caledonia, have taken a tour through the North Island, visiting the Wanganui River and the Thermal district.

Mrs. Vaile and children, of Auckland, have been on a visit to Rotorua.

Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie, of Adelaide, have left Auckland for a visit to Rotorua and Te Puke.

Dr. Florence Keller and Miss Frances Keller leave to-day by the Marama for a trip to San Francisco.

Mrs. H. O. James and children, of Johannesburg are on a visit to the Hot Lakes district.

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Maxwell (Miss Braddon) left £68,000, chiefly to her three sons and her daughter. One of the sons is the gifted author who wrote “The Guarded Flame” and other novels.

The Rev. L. Dawson Thomas, late vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Gisborne, and now of Dubbo, New South Wales, has volunteered for service at the front either as chaplain or as a helper with the Army Medical Corps.

Mr. L. D. Paterson, of Gibson and Paterson, Wanganui, has returned from the United States. There he found the people on the whole sympathetic towards the Allies and the country as a whole friendly. The States were rendering invaluable help to the Powers arrayed against Germany by keeping them well supplied with ammunition.

French officials claim to have found evidence that the Astoria, the largest hotel in Paris, staffed entirely by Germans, was to be used by the Kaiser on his expected arrival in Paris, at the head of his troops last August, and that a great banquet was ordered for the third week in August, when, according to the German time-table, Paris was to be> taken.

The Italians are determined to take Trieste at all costs, because the moral effect of its fall would be tremendous. It is Austraia’s only commercial port, as distinct from Pola, which is almost entirely a military harbour, and once it is lost Austria will have no commercial port. * * * * Private advices received in Canterbury state that Lieutenant Hugh M. Hutton, son of the late Professor Hutton, curator of Canterbury College Museum, and brother of Mrs. John Grigg, for some years manager for Mr. John Studholme, Coldstream, has been reported wounded. Lieutenant Hutton is in the machine gun section of the New South Wales Light Horse Brigade. * * * * Miss Nela Chapple, second daughter of Major W. A. Chapple, R.A.M.C., M.P., who was formerly well-known in social and political life in Wellington, has joined Mrs. W. H. Cowan’s contingent of ladies who have undertaken shell-making at Woolwich.

Mr. John Heaton Rhodes, son of the late Mr. G. H. Rhodes, Christchurch, has been granted a commission in the Army Service Corps. He was at Aidershot when the last mail left.

The Zevenaar correspondent of the Amsterdam “Telegraaf” calls attention to the recent falling off in the exports of piece goods from Germany to Hob land. This may be partly attributable to the use of the railways for moving troops, but he contends that, apart from this, imports from Germany are gradually coming to a standstill. He says that by August 1 all the weaving mills in Germany will be idle.

Dr. M. A. Neeley, of Christchurch, has left for Honolulu by the Niagara. News has been received that Lieut. A. Douglas Anderson. R.A.M.C., of Christchurch, has resigned his commission, after a year’s service, nine months of which were spent at the front in Flanders and France. Dr. Anderson hopes to be in New Zealand before Christmas. Mr. H. S. Richards, M.A., New Zealand Rhodes scholar for 1915, has arrived in England. He is staying with relatives in Devonshire, and later will go into residence at Oxford. * * * * Private J. Friedlander (Canterbury Battalion), who has been wounded in the thigh, is a son of the late Mr. Harry Friedlander, and nephew of Mr. Hugo Friedlander, well-known in mercantile and sporting circles throughout New Zealand. He left for the Dardanelles in the early stages of the campaign there, and previously resided near Christchurch. Private Friedlander is in hospital at Cairo.

Mr. and Mrs. Edwards, of Morrinsville, leave to-day by the lonic for England.

Dr. Davidson, who arrived by the Niagara for a tour of New Zealand, leaves again shortly for Hobart and Melbourne to catch the Medina on November 2nd.

Mr. Primrose McConnell, director of the Dilworth School of Agriculture, has returned from a visit to Australia, which he visited with the object of purchasing foundation stock for the dairy Shorthorn herd to be established at the, Dilworth model farm at Papatoetoe.

Arthur Geissler, on trial in France on a charge of embezzling £2OOO, was the biggest hotel man in Paris. In addition to the Astoria, which was patronised by all the leading American visitors, he ran the, Campbell, Malesherbes, Beausite, Columbia, and D’Autriche Hotels in Paris, the exclusive Roches Noires at Trouville, and the fashionable Imperial at Nice. What astonishes Paris business men is the fact that ten or twelve years ago Geissler was penniless. They allege that at least ten years ago the German secret service, began to finance him with a view to enabling him to corner the best hotels in Paris. They further allege that it was on the Kaiser’s own words that Geissler built the sumptuous Astoria in readiness for the Kaiser’s triumphal entry into Paris as conqueror. The staff of the hotel was exclusively German, with the exception of the chefs.

Th© guests who were staying at the Grand Hotel last week included: Mrs. Carr, Feilding; Mr. J. Carr, Wanganui; Mr. R. W. Williamson, Wellington; Mr. W. A. Carr, Wellington; Mr. H. Beetham, Rotorua; Mr. B. C. Lysaght, Hawera; Mr. E. T. Williams, Masterton; Mr. H. A. Beauchamp, Wellington; Mr. W. and Master Newburgh, Christchurch; Mr. N. A. Neeley, Christchurch; Mr. E. G. Willens, Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Gold, Wellington; Mrs. Morris, Suva; Mr. G. Holmes, Glenmurray; Mr. J. S. Howey, Sydney; Mr. D. M. Findlay, Wellington; Mr. F. H. Smith, Chicago; Mr. A. H. Fowler, Sydney; Mr. J. A. S. Smith, Sydney; Mr. W. W. Wyper, Sydney; Mr. H. H. Smith, Sydney; Mr. A. Lauds, Melbourne; Mr. C. Rubinstein, Melbourne; Mr. G. L. Cottar, Chris .church; Mr. H. E. Storey, Hamilton; Mr. Shirley W. Parker, Wellington; Messrs. R. and W. Isaacs, Plipa, Pa.; Mr. F. W. B. Greville, Wellington; Mr. H. A. Baldry, Sydney; Mr. R. S. Taylor, Brisbane; Mr. and Mrs. McCormick, Whangarei; Mrs. E. Brown, Wellington; and Mr. H. Hull, Sydney.

The guests at the Royal Hotel last week were: Mr. J. C. Morey, New Plymouth; Mr. C. Maysmer, Wellington; Mr. Chas. White, Melbourne; Mr. T. T. Harrison, U.S.A.; Mr. F. R. Shepherd, Dunedin; Mr W. D. Harrison, Whangarei; Lieut. J. O’Neill; Mr. G. W. Chase, Kawhia; Mr. R. L. Braine, Kawhia; Mr. and Mrs. Carr. Rotorua; Mr. and Mrs. W. Wardell, Messrs. H. H. and H. J. Wardell, Miss M. Wardell, ail of Masterton; Miss A. R. Goldstraw, Melbourne; Mr. C. N. Nicholson, Christchurch; Mr. T. H. Ackland, Adelaide; Mr. J. Hay, Wellington; and Mr. E. Cunningham, Christchurch.

The guests who were staying at the Star Hotel last week were: Mr. and Mrs. D. Finlay, Rotorua; Mr. W. B. Ellis, Vancouver; Mr. J. J. Corry, Blenheim; Mr. C. Horton, Auckland; Nurse Drewitt and Nurse Bishop, Greymouth; Mr. W. Endean, Auckland; Mr. R. H. McNeil, Wellington; Mr. Clinton; Mr. T. Whitson, Auckland; Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Horn, Wellington; Misses Parnel and Lunn, Gisborne; Capt. Tucker, M.L.C., Gisborne; Mr. W. Carmichael, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, Sydney; Mrs. McLaughlin, Wellington; Mr. Coverdale', Helensville; Mr. C. Matthews, Te Kuiti; Mr. J. T. Hiscox, Wellington; and Mr. F. S. Pope, Wellington.

Amongst the guests who were staying at the Central Hotel last week were: Mr. Kinnear Smith, Wellington; Mr. A. C. Foddy, Palmerston North; Mr. J. F. Thornton, Sydney; Mr. D. W. Custer, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. Chewing, Sydney; Mrs. Mitchell, Sydney; Mr. T. Adair, Gisborne; Mr. and Mrs. Caulton, Gisborne; Rev. Father Finn, Te Kuiti; Mr. J. Banks, Cambridge; Mr. Clifford, Tirau; and Mr. A. R. Beste, Hamilton.

Mr. Alfred D. Folley, draughtsman in the Lands and Survey Department, Hokitika, has been appointed a noncommissioned officer in the 9th Reinforcements.

Mr. Walker, a well-known member of the Thistle (Association) Football Club, Wellington, is about to leave for England to engage in munition manufacture.

Mr. Stuart Reid, the Dunedin artist, who has been in Scotland for some time, has obtained a commission in the Scottish Horse.

The famous Canadian novelist, Ralph Connor (the Rev. Charles W. Gordon, D.D.), is now in England. He has gone over as chaplain to one of the Canadian contingents, and expects shortly to go to the front.

Mr. Alec Tweedie, F.R.C.S., who was farming in Taranaki for some time about twenty years ago, and then returned Home to pursue his medical studies, is in charge of a large hospital in Egypt with 1000 beds.

Surgeon-Genl. Henderson, R.A.M.C., has arrived in Sydney. He will reach New Zealand by the Manuka.

Dr. L. B. Burnett, late of Rangiora, is at present stationed at Bulford Camp, near Salisbury, England.

Mr. J. D. Hall, of Christchurch, is on a visit to Rotorua.

Colonel E. W. C. Chaytor, AdjutantGeneral to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, who was wounded at the Dardanelles, and was subsequently invalided to England, has returned to the front.

Sir Edward Grey is taking a holiday. He still wears coloured glasses for slight eye trouble. The Marquis of Crewe is acting at the Foreign Office.

Mr. Peter Rentoul, late chief engineer of the coastal steamer Tangaroa, died at the Napier hospital on August 28th.

Mr. E. G‘. Honey, who was well known on the press in New Zealand, according to an English exchange, and was afterwards in Melbourne journalism and on the “Daily Mail” in London, has enlisted as a private in the 20th Battalion (the Middlesex Regiment) .

“Pelorus Jack,” the bulldog presented to H.M.S. New Zealand when she was visiting the Dominion, broke his neck as a result of a fall just before the last mail left England.

Messrs. F. R. Hodge and N. Wallace, of the literary staff of the “Hawke’s Bay Herald,” have received advice of their appointment as members of the non-commissioned officers’ class of the 10th Reinforcements.

Two members of the literary staff of the “New Zealand Times,” Mr. C. F. Redman (son of Mr. F. T. Redman, J.P., of Masterton) and Mr. R. P. Withell (formerly of Christchurch), have received notification that they have been accepted for military service abroad.

A brother of Professor A. W. Wall, the well-known poet, of Christchurch, who is commanding an Indian Cavalry Regiment in Flanders, mentions in a recent letter that “a soldier in. our lines discharged his rifle by accident. The bullet hit a haystack about two miles off and wounded a man hiding in it. When taken to hospital this man was found to be a Belgian deserter.”

The King and Queen have sent a telegram to the Hon. T. Mackenzie sympathising with the injuries his son has received. Mr. Mackenzie, who arrived in London recently, has lost the sight of both eyes.

In the State of Wisconsin, in which there is a predominating German element, there is probably a larger amount of war material of one kind or another being produced than in any other of the industrial centres in the United States.

Lance-Sergeant Arthur Robert Greenwood (Canterbury Mounted Rifles), reported killed, was the youngest son of Mr. G. D. Greenwood, Teviotdale, Amberley, the well-known sportsman.

Lloyd George, in the new Munitions Department, has displayed a very clear preference for men with Welsh blood in their veins, which is, perhaps, tribute to his Welsh patriotism. He has enlisted the aid of Mr. H. E. Morgan, previously known as the author of bik advertising “stunts” for W. H. Smith and Son, of bookstall and paper distribution fame, and he has horrified some goody-goody people by placing Mr. Stephenson, of Johnny Walker whisky celebrity, in an important position.

Mr. A. MacPherson, Government Fields Instructor, who went from Christchurch last year to attend the Panama Exposition, left San Francisco on August 4th on his way eastward through the United States. He will return westward through Canada, officially visiting experimental stations on the way.

Visitors to Rotorua will no doubt be glad to learn that a by-law of the Tourist Department has been gazetted which prohibits touting in that town. The new regulation is as follows: — “No person shall tout in any public street, public or Government reserve, or public place, for boarders for any hotel or boardinghouse, or for passengers for, or for the hire of, any vehicle for transport of passengers.”

Mr. G. R. Pitkethly, who has been head of the art section of the Wellington Technical College for the past nine years, has left to take up a similar position in the Melbourne Working Men’s Club. Mr. H. L. Richardson, of the Technical College staff, has been appointed his successor.

Grand Duke Nicholas discovered Yanushkevitch, Russki, and Ivanoff. Ivanoff was known: he was chief of the Organisation Department of the Staff; the other two were Nicholas’

discoveries. No one of them was a man whose own individuality had availed to carry him to the front of his profession or to glorify him —as Rennenkampf, for example, was glorified —in the eyes of the public and the newspapers. It was only in the eyes of the Grand Duke that their qualities were shining. They were quiet men, industrious professional soldiers with the minds of professors and mathematicians. Now one Russki has been appointed to the command of the northern armies, and Yanushkevitch disgraced.

The Otago Queen Carnival Coronation was such a brilliant function that on one night alone £650 was taken at the doors, and £l3O at the matinee on a Saturday afternoon, and with admission charges reduced by half £360 was the tally of the door receipts on the Saturday night. It will thus be seen that well over £lOOO was obtained from the “gate.”

Rafael Joseffy, the celebrated Hungarian pianist and pupil of Liszt is dead. He retired from the concert stage some years ago, and made his home in America. Joseffy, who died from ptomaine poisoning, was 63 years of age.

It is a mistake for people returning from Berlin or Frankfurt, says a recent visitor to say that the war is not noticeable in Germany. There are many signs of it apart from the large buildings everywhere converted into military hospitals and the number of invalided and maimed soldiers. There is, for instance, mud?' less life, at any rate in the smaller towns, and in at least one fairly large industrial town the trams are not running owing to there being so little demand for them. In the fields it is almost exclusively women and children who are preparing the ground for the summer crops. The big Army contracts have been given by the Government entirely to large firms in large centres of population, and not to smaller firms, which is another of the reasons why the effects of the war are much more noticeable in the smaller German towns than in Berlin and the other chief cities.

Westland, with a population of 15,000,

has sent a thousand men to the front. If the Dominion had enlisted in proportion we would have had nearly 70,000 men under arms. The figures are very credible for what is regarded as the hotbed of Socialism in New Zealand.

Warsaw is on the left bank of the Vistula, 625 miles to ths s.s.w. of Petrograd and 320 miles east of Berlin. The city is built for the most part on a hill about 100 ft above the river, sloping toward the west to an undulating plain. The suburb of Praga, on the right bank, is connected with the city by a fine iron bridge.

Corporal T. Oscar Ross, Ist Canadian Contingent, the first man to win the D. C.M. (for conspicuous bravery on the field of battle of Ypres), is well known in Hawke’s Bay. He arrived there at the age of fifteen, and worked for the Hon. J. D. Ormond and Mr R. D. McLean. After about ten years in that district he left for Canada, where, immediately after war broke out, he enlisted. Corporal Ross comes of a family of fighters 'and explorers. His grandfather was lost while with the Sir John b’ranklyn expedition to the North-West Passage.

Russia has completed an ammunition contract with the States for three years from January, 1915, and with Japan for two years from the same date, also for ammunition and munitions of all descriptions. By March 31, 1915, Japan had sent no less than sixty million yens’ worth, or £6,000,000 worth, of ammunition to Russia. Cannon of the largest calibre had also been sent, with suitable and sufficient ammunition, and complete gun crews and engineers to work them.

The position to-day is that all the elaborate German plots overseas have failed, that the German fleet has been securely bottled up, and that her submarines are doing no more than pinprick us, that she has lost all her overseas trade and communications, and at least three to one of her land forces as compared with the Allies in the West.

As a business city, Trieste, now looming so large in the public eye, since Italy declared war, is tremendously successful, and therefore largely modern. Its harbour facilities are the best that modern technic can device, and many million dollars have been expended in carrying their undertaking to conclusion. In 1910 nearly 12.000 vessels, representing a total of about 4,200,000 tonnage entered and cleared at the Trieste harbour. The population numbers 229,475, of whom about 170,000 are of Italian descent. The new part of the city has been built largely upon land reclaimed from the sea. its streets are broad and straigh and its buildings are substantial and modern in architecture. Tergeste (Trieste), the Roman colonisation of the coastland, was probably established under the reign of Vespasian. After the decay of Rome, Trieste experienced a checquered course of centuries. It was captured l by Venice in 1203. Its people struggled with the Venetian conquerors for the next 180 years, and finally, in 1382. they placed themselves under the protection of Leopold lIT. of Austria.

The cyclists of Gisborne, to about fifty in number attended a meeting to discuss proposals to provide cycle tracks in the city. The chairman said if they had 1000 members paying 2s. 6d. a year it would give £125. That would go nowhere but if a loan was raised to put down a track the £125 would pay interest. After a long and exhaustive discussion by the riders present it was decided on the motion of Mr Rowley, seconded by Mr Smith, that a cyclists’ association be formed, to conserve the interests of cyclists. A provisional committe. consisting of Messrs Rowley, HU. Long. Dow. Bright, Lawless, Gellett. and A. Wade. was 'appointed to initiate the association. At the Instance of Mr J. H. Bull, the executive was deputed to appoint a deputation to wait on the Borough Council. A vote of thanks to the Chairman concluded the meeting.

The tennis champion, Norman Brookes, together with Dr Adrian Knox, K.C.. are leaving shortly for Egypt, where they will act as commissioners of the of the Red Cross Funds. As will be

remembered, for a time Norman Brookes acted at the front as chauffeur, driving his own car in the Red Cross service. Mr. Brookes is eminently suited to his new position. He is a man of cool judgment and high integrity. He has been eager to be off for some months, but as at all times he has to conserve every bit of energy, he yielded to circumstances, and waited for an opportunity suitable to his strength.

Mr Va.ldeman Peterson, a well known Sydney merchant 'vho has resided in Australia for four years, has just returned from a trip to Denmark and America, and is able to give some idea of neutral feeling over this war. “There is no doubt,” said he, “that, not five per cent, of the Danish people are in favour of the Germans. I had a conversation with General Amtrup, a retired general of the Danish army, and he said he did not »ee how Denmark could keep from fighting and, further, that the Danes would never fight against the Allies. It was said in Denmark that the Germans had already entrenched the frontier near Danish territory, and it is felt in that country when the Germans begin to feel the want of food, they will endeavour to break down the neutrality of adjacent countries. The whole of the Danish army—consisting only of about 80,000 troops- has been mobilised, and even the reserves are serving three months on and three months off. It is felt that Denmark cannot hope to protect her frontier properly, so the whole of her army will be concentrated on the defensive of Copenhagen. Those people who have seen Copenhagen in time of peace would have their hearts broken to see the entrenchments now made about that city. Most of the beautiful parks have been dug up, and fine trees cut down to make way for warlike preparation. It must be said that Denmark is maintaining her neutrality very strictly and it is very hard to get a passport to England. From my observations in America. I should say that 75 per cent, of the people of that country are in favour of the Allies.

That the general attitude of Russia towards the war has changed since hos-

tilities began is testified to by those who have observed. “In the beginning of the war,” said one observer, a Russian merchant with large interests in Petrograd and Warsaw, “we felt we had only to repulse the enemy—to prevent invasion of our territory. There was little show of bitterness against the Germans. But it is diferent now. This war has done more to make Russians think and to draw them together than anything that has ever happened in the history of the country. To-day there is a fixed determination to fight it out to a finish and to end the probability of future conflict by destroying Prussian militarism. That may sound strange to those who have looked so long upon Russia as a military nation, but it is nevertheless true. A new feeling of patriotism has been born. The Russians have always been a far more intensely patriotic people than the Western world has given them credit for being. You of the west only hear part of the story of Russia and Russian ways and habits of thought and action. I fear you too often hear the worst part. There is another side and this war has brought it into bold relief. Russia is a—what you call it?—well, a solid land. Do you know,” he added, much as though it were a matter of course, “that it is impossible for Russia to lose—for the Allies to lose—this war! Russian resources in men and money are too vast. Why, there are a million young men, arriving at military age every year! Russia could lose a million every twelve months, vvnlch is inconceivable, and still keep her armies in the field in undiminished numbers! Russia can feed her armies and never feel it. All the blockades in the world cannot affect us! We raise our own food and can and will make our own supplies of every sort if necessary. We have the money—we have the men, and, by heaven we have the spirit! The; stoicism of the Russian in this crisis must not be construed as an attitude of indifference. The celebrations that follow such victories as the fall of Przemysj give ample proof that there is no popular indifference. Petrograd puts on gay colours on an occasion like that, and the crowds throng the streets and march and shout and Cheer riotously.

SCENES ON THE CAIRO RACECOURSE, EGYPT, DURING A MEETING WHICH WAS ATTENDED BY THOUSANDS OF AUSTRALIANS AND NEW ZEALANDERS WHO ARE FIGHTING FOR THE EMPIRE AT THE DARDANELLES.