THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1328, 7 October 1915, Page 40

THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE.

Mr. J. P. Kenny and Mr. Barry, both well-known residents of Napier, left for Sydney last week by the Victoria.

Captain Kendal, of the Union Company’s service, left for Sydney last week.

Mr. C. G. Macindoe, of the firm of Messrs. Macindoe and Tattley, sailed for Sydney last week.

Mr. Cuthbert Harper, Canterbury manager for Messrs. Borthwick and Sons, the big meat exporters, has been on a holiday trip to Auckland. He was accompanied by Mrs. Harper.

Mr. P. C. Gilliam, of Sydney, is at present in the Rotorua district, en route to Wellington by way of Hie Wanganui River. * * * *

Mr. F. R. Thornton, of Parua Bay, Whangarei, left by the Makura for London on the sth.

Mr. W. E. G. Hudson-Hobden, of the Raglan district, and well-known in Rotorua, leaves by the Riverina on the 12th to catch the Medina for London. He is accompanied by Mrs. HudsonHobday and child.

The well-known Canterbury cricketer, Mr. H. B. Lusk, a former assistant master at Christ’s College, has returned to Christchurch after an absence of two years, during which time he was on the teaching staff of Rugby School, England.

Miss Pickmere of Remuera, is at present on a visit to Christchurch.

There died in Sydney recently a well-known Australian journalist in Mr. Charles Hines, one-time editor of the “Bulletin.”

Captain William Fraser, of Napier, has accepted a position as quartermaster on a troopship during the continuation of the war.

As an indication of the extent to which the railroads of America have been affected by the European war, it may be stated, says the “Railway Review,” that table d’hote meals in all dining cars and eating stations on the railroads throughout the country now cost a minimum of 3s. each. The railroads have just entered into an agreement to this effect. While dining cars in which table d’hote meals are served are not numerous, thousands of (railroad; dining cars have been serving meals for 2s. Special trains have also served table d’ho'e meals for parties for less than 3s. On three of the roads West, the rate will be advanced from 4s. to ss. Representalives of the railroads say dining car service on every first-class road is a losing proposition, but that it must be maintained. Meals a la carte will be served in all dining cars as usual.

Amongst the guests who were staying at the Grand Hotel, Auckland, last week were: Mr. H. Lyon. Wellington; Dr. W. Fox, Christchurch; Mr. K. Jernberg, Stockholm, Sweden; Mr. C. H. Sevill°, Wellington; Mr. C. J. Ward, Wellington; Mr. E. E. Gahagan,

Wanganui; Mr. F. H. Smith, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Carmichael, Gisborne; Mr. Emil Friedlander, Pokeno; Mr. A. P. Keightly, Wellington; Mr. J. L. Bruce, Wellington; Mr. W. C. Armstrong, Sydney; Mr. H. R. Hobday, Melbourne; Mr. Claude Slack, Wellington; Mr. Vernon H. Reed, Bay of Islands; Mr. Percy Watts, Hamilton; Mr. J. H. Miller; Mr. A. J. Cooper, Christchurch; Major and Mme. de Martin, Belgium; Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair, Cambridge; Mrs Gordon Holmes, Glen Murray; Mr. Geo. H. Stubbs, Mangatangi; Mr. C. W. Jones, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Burnard, Gisborne; Mr. H. B. Williams, Gisborne; Mr. T. Moore Fletcher, Wellington; Captain K. G. Kendall, Wellington; Mr. J. J. Dougall, Christchurch; Mr. J. M. Niccol, Christchurch; Mr. H. J. Otley, Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Harper, Christchurch; Mr. Julius Nowack, Wellington; Mr. H. W. Marling, Montreal, Canada; Mr. Gordon Reid, Wellington; Mr. A. G. Burgess, Wanganui; Mr. N. K. Bain, Wanganui; Mr. A. B. Williams, Wellington; Mr. Dinnean Smi'h, Wellington.

The following guests were staying at. the Central Hotel last week: Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Raglan: Dr. and Mrs. Stuart Moore, Raglan; Mr. A. C. Hacon, Raglan; Mr. H. Wastn-y, Nelson: Mr. Jas. Rennie, Waitara; Mr. A. R. Ponder, Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Ngata, Waipau; Mr. J. F. Strang, Taumarunui; Mr. Chas. Eyre, Wellington; Mrs. Kirk, Port Awanui; Mrs. Dundan, Wanganui; Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, Rotorua; Mr. and Mrs. W. H.

Rawlins, London; Mr. C. H. Workman, London. * * * *• The guests at the Star Hotel included: Mr. Goss, Welling'on; Mr. J. Starky, Morrinsville; Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Stonewigg and Masters Stonewigg (3), Helensville; Mr. and Mrs. Snedden, Cambridge; Mr. and Mrs. Coverdale', Helensville; Masters Coverdale (2) Helensville; Mr. E. C. Horton, Auckland; Mr. W. Endean, Auckland; Mr. G. Gore, Wellington; Mr. Kennett, Christchurch; Miss E. Wilson, HamiPon; Mr. G. Ormsby, Te Kuiti; Mr. Naylor, Wellington; Mr. E. Ellis, Vancouver; Mr. O’Brien, Waiheke; Mr. and Mrs. KniglY, Whangarei; Mrs. Rogers, Whangarei; Mr. and Mrs. Frith, Sydney; Miss Yates and Mr. Yates, Sydney.

The gues 1 s who were staying at the Royal Hotel last week were as follows: —Mr. and Mrs. Jennings, Taumarunui; Mr. J. Fuller, jun., Wellington; Mr. H. E. White, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs Hodge. Te Puke; Mr. and Mrs. McGregor, Komakorau; Mr. A. E. Harding, Mangawhare; Mr. A. Thompson, Dunedin; Mr. and Mrs. Detzmann; Mrs. Chase and Mrs. Brain, Kawhia; Mrs. and Miss Furze, Hamilton; Mr. N. Bell, Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. Milne, Masterton; Mr. E. Cunningham, Rotorua; Mr. C. A. Knowles, Wellington; Mr. G. Blundell, Te Kuiti; Mr. B. Yeates, Wellington; Mr. A. Allen, Sydney; Mr. H. Halton, Wellington; Miss Ash, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. Field Fisher, London; and Mrs. and Master Gilchrist.

Similarly with the English the French people have been told daily that it is all a question of munitions. They know that France is now one vast munitions factory, turning out guns, shells, grenades, and bombs in countless thousands, night and day, and they feel confident that M. Albert Thomas, the French Minister of Munitions, —whose latest step has been to order a census of all lathes, so that none may be employed for aught but munitions—will “deliver the goods” to Joffre in good time.

The only public performances which draw full houses in Paris now are those where they recite good poetry or where they play classical French music, or where some orator speaks with wisdom and sobriety upon the national feeling about the war and the future. Every other kind of spectacle is condemned in advance. Nearly all these performances, says a recent visitor, are matinees and are held for the benefit and the entertainment of wounded soldiers, which is one of the principal reasons for their success.

According to Mr. H. D. Tennent, who arrived in Wellington from Cape Town, South Africa will be able to send to Europe thousands of soldiers, who are already trained in every branch of the war business save, the bayonet drill. There was no time for th© Union Forces to receive this instruction before the German SouthWest African campaign, and fortunately there was little or no call for this type of fighting. Neither did the Union Forces employ artillery to any great extent, but, on such few occasions as the field guns were brought into play, the shooting was very deadly.

An interesting post card has been shown us, says a Christchurch exchange. It was sent by one of our reinforcements from Bombay, and depicts the scene at the wharf on a “Troopship Leaving Bombay Harbour.” The troopship is the Pahtana, No. 13. So far nothing remarkable.

It is when you look at the imprint and find out that it was “printed in Bavaria” that the thinking begins, both as to subject and origin. In Manners Street, Wellington, recently, post cards were on sale with beautiful English verses from a mother encouraging her son to fight the enemy, while on the back of the cards were the words: “Printed in Germany.”

“The feeling over here,” writes Mr. E. Pirie Bush (son of Mr. Thos. Bush, of Wellington) from New York, “is all pro-Allies, but, of course, everybody hopes that the; U.S.A, will keep out of it. She is doing much more by keeping out than she would by entering into the awful squabble as she is supplying shiploads of munitions to the Allies every week, and if she went to war she would have, to reserve the stock for herself.”

Mr. E. N. Webb, who went south on Dr. Mawson’s scientific staff, is about to leave; for the front, his work on the Antarctic records having kept him in Christchurch until now as a matter of duty. The members of the Canterbury College Engineering Society, of which he has been chairman for two years, handed him a safety razor with which to keep himself spruce in the trenches, and the gift was accompanied by some kindly words from Professor R. J. Scott.

The war has touched Munich in a vital spot. The military authorities have just confiscated a large part of the malt and other raw materials used for beer-making by the great breweries in the Bavarian capital. Places like the world-renowned Hofbrau and other beer resorts familiar to English visitors to Munich have had to close several of their largest apartments to the public, as the daily supply of beer available has been reduced to one-third of the previous quantity. The. life of Munich is radically affected. Several of the prominent “beer cellars” are now closing at 7 p.m„ as the ordinary evening demands for beer can no longer be fulfilled. Such places as remain open

later are serving lemonade or wine l . Householders accustomed to send out for their beer must henceforth secure it on the rAtion-card system. The newspapers state that the Munich public is facing its trials “with good humour.”

On the occasion of the closing meeting at the annual conference of the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association, Brigadier-General Alexander Bertram, chairman of the Dominion Shell Company, made an important statement respecting the help which Canada is giving to the Mother Country in the provision of war munitions. Up to th© present, he said, Canada had made and shipped to England 610,000 shells. As a matter of fact, Canadian factories had sent a quarter of a million shells to England before any British factory, outside of the regular manufacturers of munitions, had started going. Two hundred and forty-seven factories, employing over 60,000 men and situated in seventy-eight different Canadian towns and cities, were now hard at work manufacturing munitions for the Imperial Government.

Alfred F. Wallace, a war photographer, who has just returned to New York from eight months’ tour of the various war fronts in Europe, was compelled to curtail his pictorial efforts, but at word-painting he is no amateur. In the course of a graphic account of his experiences in Venice, Wallace said: —“Giant sirens shrieked their warnings from all parts of the city. Immediately after illuminated bombs shot upward from the Campanello, burst in the sky and spread their rays in all directions except downward. Below, where, all was darkness, hundreds of machine-guns barked in an incessant roar. Our gondolier made all haste along the Grand Canal, while his passengers, including myself, tore out the seats and held them over our heads. During a lull in the firing we plainly heard the hum of an aeroplane motor somewhere above. Then pandemonium broke forth again. Such is a midnight air raid on Venice.”

During the war in South-West Africa General Botha and his staff passed unharmed over a German mine. The head of General Botha’s bodyguard, Major Trow, says: “The general is a source of anxiety to me. He does not know what fear is, and as soon as a shot goes off he fidgets until he gets up to the firing line. He is a most charming chief to work for, and as a general would, in my opinion, take first place in any army in the world. His strategy is bold and far-seeing. His combinations over a vast front invariably come off as he has planned them. Local success or failure does not elevate or depress him. All his attention is fixed on the big objective. Whilst always trying to turn his enemy out of strong positions by wide flanking movements, he is quite prepared to fight when anything is to be gained by so doing.”

Some day, when a complete history of the war is written, the public will be made aware of many interesting incidents which for the present remained unchronicled. Writing to a friend in Wanganui, a Home resident makes reference to an underseas mystery off the Scottish coast. At one particular locality German submarines of the big U class were, particularly active, but some time elapsed before suspicions arose that their movements were directed from the Scottish shore. Investigations, which extended over some time, were fruitless. Then a ruse, which proved successful, was carried out. A British submarine travelled under water to the locality, and on rising to the surface displayed the German ensign. Immediately signals were made from a lighthouse a few miles away. The submarine then dived, and on returning to her base, the lieutenant-com-mander at once made his report. The sequel was the visit of an armed guard to the lighthouse, where they discovered one of the assistant keepers dead, and a revolver clutched in his hand. It appears that he was a German, who some years before had become a naturalised British subject.

Anglers are reported to be busy repairing their gear in anticipation of the opening of the season on October 1. The Acclimatisation Society representatives state that the rivers have been heavily stocked, and all of them having been cleared by the recent floods, the prospects for a good season are bright, and good sport should prevail.

At the outset of the war German soldiers were encouraged by their officers to keep diaries, as it was believed that the habit of recording their experiences world tend to make them keen soldiers. But so many of these diaries were found to record things which Germany does not want remembered that an order has been issued forbidding the German soldiers to keep diaries. The Belgian and French Government possess diaries found on dead and wounded Germans which contain irrefutable evidence of atrocites. A German soldier named Karl VolgeIgesang, aged 24, who belonged to the 26th regiment of the line, and was captured by the French', was executed after a trial by court martial, at which the damning evidence against him was his diary. He was charged with having committed pillage and incendiarism on sth Augi/st in Belgium, with having killed wounded on the battlefield on 24th August, and with further acts of pillage committed in September. One entry in his diary was as follows; —We found a big shop. I took three fine shirts, ten pairs of socks, a packet of cigarettes, matches, cigars, vests, wine and beer; in brief, everything a man wants. We had hardly got out of the place before it burst into flames. The diary recorded that on 16th August he and some friends stole 115 bottles of wine, which “prevented vs from fasting for a few days.” On 24th August he wrote that his company entered a Belgian village at 2 p.m. “Within five minutes the whole village was in. flames,” says the diary. “All those that tried to run away were shot down; we had about 60 prisoners, and found between 40 and 50 dead or wounded. At every few steps they fell on their knees, but we didn’t show any quarter to these rascals. In the evening the wine flowed in streams.”

A curious story is published in the |New York “Tribune” from the pen of its Paris correspondent, who attributes his information to the diplomatic representative of a neutral Power, concerning the cause of the serious illness from which King Constantine of Greece is suffering. It is due, according to this source, to a wound inflicted upon the King during an angry discussion by his consort, Queen Sophia, who is a sister of the German Kaiser. Notwithstanding conversion to the Orthodox Greek Church, Queen Sophia remains passionately devoted to the policies of her Imperial brother and >to the cause of Germany. A very animated conversation, it is stated, took place in the King’s library one evening in April, which developed into a violent quarrel, during which the Queen, whose occassional outbursts of impetuous temper are well known to all about her, seized a sharppointed metallic paper knife, and, scarcely realising what she was about to do, being carried away by her hot temper, plunged the paper cutter at her husband’s side. The truth was hushed up, and the King, as he would have done in any case, gallantly attributed to influenza the pleurisy that set in owing to the wound. The latest reports from Av-.ens report the King’s condition as far from satisfactory. Several •operations have been performed upon him, one of them for the removal of part ■of his tenth rib. It is believed he is suffering from pleurisy with purulent effusion, the treatment of which consists of the removal of one or more ribs and drainage.

In connection with war matters it is pertinent to look at what we have done or are doing in the matter of building ships of war (writes the Post’s Sydney correspondent). There has been in process of building since goodness knows how long a sister ship, the Brisbane, to the cruisers Sydney and Melbourne. It seems plain that when the Brisbane is completed we will have a vessel of greater cost. The Sydney and Melbourne were built in the United Kingdom for £385,000 and £405,000 respectively. The Brisbane has already had £475. 000 spent on her, and will according to

the latest official estimates cost £610,000. The Melbourne and Sydney were laid down in 1911, have given account of themselves in actual fighting, of which we are very proud. It is very doubtful whether the Brisbane will be finished by the beginning of next year. She will, if launched, then be already five years old, that is to say verging on the the obsolete before she is afloat. She will for her estimated cost of £610,000 give the Commonwealth little more than half the value of the other two cruisers, which cost only two-thirds as much. We might have had from the United Kingdom two cruisers for almost the same amount and had them years earlier. Not much of an advertisement for us, is it?

Now that the Entente has ripened into the armed alliance, the French people see in the figure of the late King Edward VII. (“Father of the Entente”) the typical Albion, the modern St. George. Mr Chas. Milne, in the Daily Chronicle, writes; “It is all better than a legend, because it is all true, and the heart of France leaps to it. Edouard Sept and Merrie England! That is how France goes to war beside us, and, if he could only return and ride along her embattled line, what a royal progress that would be. It would be a Field of the Cloth of Gold such as the red thread of war has never woven in any web of victory. The French do not doubt that Edouard Sept would have made the pilgrimage of their banners, they take it for granted. Their one thought would have been how to honour him enough for what he did and was, aye, and for what he remains to them.

“He was the King of England, and he adorned the throne but he was also Edouard of France. He took his way across its fair face as one born to do so, neither he nor any other questioning the thing. He rejoiced, feeling wondrous happy, in the green graciousness of the French landscape and in the sunshine of her life. He had a soul for hers, the French fondly think and that is why, in this hour of high reckoning, when Europe is being remade for a century, as Napoleon remade it a century ago, his living presence in France is equal to a

second British army. You fight a great war for a great cause with the weapons of the heart, the ammunition of ideals, as well as with steel cannon, and the French know it, better even perhaps, than we do; so they salute the shade of Edouard Sept.” « 9 • " M. Venizelos, in whose hands lies Greek intervention, belongs to an old Athenian family, and, therefore, whilst throughout the earlier years of his life was always regarded as a Cretan, he was, at least, technically, a Greek subject even before the union of Grete with Greece after the Balkan wars. Invited to go to Athens by the Greek Military League, which then controlled the Government, in August, 1909, his Excellency played a very important role in the eternal affairs of Greece, even before he actually and formally took over the reins of Government in October, 1910. Since then, and throughout the two Balkan wars, M. Venizelos, in spite of ever-recurring, even if secret, opposition, has been completely dominant and allpowerful in everything which has concerned the internal and external policy of his country. M. Venizelos Is well known for the wisdom and the moderation of the policy which he has always been desirous of adopting. A peaceful, moderate, non-Chauvinistic man, his Excellency is renowned for his sentiments of friendship towards the Powers of the Triple Entente, and particularly towards England and France. He feels that neutrality is no longer in tire interests of Ms country, because he thinks that such a continued neutrality might endanger the future of a kingdom which has now become an undoubted power in the whole Near East.