THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1339, 23 December 1915, Page 40

THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE.

Mrs. H. T. and Miss R. Gorrie left for a to Sydney last week. Mr. Cheney Suggate, of Auckland, left for New South Wales last week. Mrs. H. S. Holt returned to Sydney on the Niagara. Captain P. J. Foster, master of the Waimarino, left by the Niagara to join his vessel in Sydney. He was accompan.ed by Mrs. Foster. ♦ • • * Mr. W. Pavitt, well known in Auckland business circles, left for Sydney last week. * ♦ * * Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wood, of Christchurch, sailed from Auckland last week for Sydney. * * * * Miss Wintersgill, of Tauranga, has booked to leave New Zealand for England by the Or.ent Company’s Orontes in March next. Mr. E. H. Pearce, the son of the proprietor of “Town and Country Life,” Sydney, who has been on a vis.t to New Zealand, left by the Niagara last week. ♦ * * * Mr. and Mrs. D. Azire Smith, of Mount Eden, left by the Riverina yesterday for Sydney, where they will catch the Burn Philp Company’s steamer Montoro for Singapore, .en route to take up a business appointment in Borneo. » ¥ » * Mr. E. C. Hurdsfield, assistant director of the Schcol of Mines in Waikino, left last week by the Niagara, en route to Melbourne. Miss T. McDonald, of St. Cuthbert’s Girls’ College, Mount Eden, left last week on a return trip to Melbourne. • • * Mrs. Cookson, of the Ladies’ Mile, Remuera, accompanied by her daughter, proceeded to Sydney by the Union liner for a holiday trip. Mr. and Mrs. Montagu Wells, English tourists, left Auckland last week for a tour throughout New Zealand. Mrs. Ewan McGregor, accompanied by Miss Margaret McGregor, has arranged to leave by the Niagara at the end of this month for a trip to London. Mrs. A. T. Dalziel and child, of Waimuku, Auckland, were passengers to Sydney by the Niagara last week. * * * * Mr. H. K. Waddell, of Scotland, has been in Auckland for some weeks. He has now left for Rotorua and a tour through the Taupo and Wanganui districts. The tourist will also include the gorges of the South Island in his travels. * * * * M ss Maud Cole, of Carterton, arrived in Wellington by the Ulimaroa, on her return from a prolonged visit to England. Mr. G‘. Greenwood, who has been manager of the Ashburton branch of the Bank of New South Wales for the past four years, has been transferred to Masterton. Commander N. de la Cour Cornwall, R.N.R., late in command of the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Tongariro, has accepted service under the Adm’ralty.

Dr. Jess e Scott, who left her practice in Auckland in response to a cable, asking her to join the staff of a hospital in Servia, organised by the women of Scotland to help the wounded and sic soldiers, whose suffer’ngs have been so terrible, is the third woman doctor to leave New Zealand for the front.

Miss Maud Dangar, of Sydney, is on a visit to New Zealand, where she intends to spend the summer months.

Rev. J. W. Wilson, of Wei-hai-wei, who has been a missionary in China for some twenty-five years, is visiting New Zealand. Both he and Mrs. Wilson passed safely through the Boxer Rising.

London “Sportsman” reports an interesting and unusual angling incident from the Tweed in the Kelso district, where a salmon and a trout have been caught together on the same cast. From particulars to hand,

it seems that while Mr. J. Mac Kay was using a light cast with several flies one of the lures was seized by a salmon, which was hooked, and at once dashed off. Directly afterwards a trout rose at another fly on the cast and was also hooked. Twenty minutes’ good sport ensued, when both fish were safely brought to bank. The salmon weighed 101 b. and the trout 31b.

Drastic steps have been taken by the authorities against the Germans in Singapore since the recent rising. It transpired that several of the interned Germans escaped from the concentration camp at Singapore, and took a prominent part in the rising, the offenders including a German lieutenant and several naval men. Fortunately the outbreak was nipped in the bud, but subsequent investiga-

tions showed that the Germans in

Singapore were a serious mena.ce to the “Gates of the East.” The authorities acted promptly in the matter, and orders were issued that all German residents at Singapore be deported. These orders were quietly carried out by the authorities, and Singapore is now declared to be free of Germans.

“Writers have tried to describe the beauty of the Northern Lights; but they are indescribable,” said A. B. Ferguson, a mining man of Idatorad, Alaska, who was interviewed in Los

Angeles after his return from the frozen Tundra. “Drawing a whisk broom across silk would more closely produce the effect of the lights than anything else,” continued Mr. Ferguson. “In all the colours of the rainbow, the lights fall like a large drapery. Usually they make a swishing sound, and sometimes when the lights are near the earth a weird popping sound is heard. Back in January, 1898, I had an experience while driving a dog team up in the interior. It was just before daybreak, when the lights fell so close to earth that the popping sound scared the dogs—and I guess they scared me worse.”

The Duke of Norfolk is, in spite of the fact that he is our premier duke, very careless of his personal appearance. This fact has sometimes led to very amusing results. Some time

ago his Grace was walking towards a railway station when he came upon a man who was struggling to move a handcart laden with heavy luggage. “Hi,” shouted the man to the Duke, “do you want to earn twopence?” “I don’t mind if 1 do,” replied his Grace, who thoroughly entered into tne fun of the situation. “Then give us a hand with this truck!” commanded the perspiring porter. The Duke did as he was asked, and helped to push the cart into the station yard. The twopence was duly handed over, and the Duke put it in his pocket with a smile. A moment later he was walking along the station platform to his first-class carriage between a line of bowing officials.

Unless Germany is defeated, Belgium will become part of the German Empire, and Holland would then find Germany on three frontiers. In fact, Holland would be a small island surrounded by the German Empire and the German Ocean. About her own fate after that there could be no doubt. She would go the same way as Belgium. If Holland would live Germany must not conquer. According to a story current some time ago Holland would enter the war on the sme of the Allies, and in this intervention she will be supported by half a million British troops, sent across the channel and landed in Holland. With the troops from Britain, the well-trained and equipped Dutch force would make an army at least one million strong, almost in the rear of the Germans in Belgium and France, and in a position to strike at once at the German lines of communication. No doubt Germany would dispute the landing of British troops in Holland. She could only do this with her fleet, and it would bring on the general naval engagement Britain has long awaited.

The guests who were staying at the Grand Hotel, Auckland, last week included the following: Mr. and Mrs. McCormack, Whangarei; Mr. M. A. Powrie, Christchurch; Mrs. W. J. Bloomfield, Sydney; Mr. C. F. Bickford, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. T. Ronayne and Miss Ronayne, Wellington; Mr. W. R. Ray, Melbourne; Mr. E. McMasters, Eureka; Mr. A. K. Fowler, Sydney; Hon. Arthur M. Myers, Wellington; Mr. O. R. Bendall, Wellington; Mr. R. Oldfield, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Mclntosh, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Mclntosh, Sydney; Mr. F. W. Jones, Christchurch; Mrs. Grace Wood, Waihi; Mrs. H. Holt, Sydney; Mrs. Murdoch, Ruakaka; Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair Thompson, Wellington; Mr. T. Gibson, Christchurch; Mr. M. J. Friedlander, Mangatawhia; Mr. J. Bloomfield, Sydney; Miss M. P. Marsden, Clifton, England; Mr. C. McMichan, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Alling, Chicago; Dr. Trotter, Chicago; Mr. B. Collier, Wellington; Mr. N. A. Carr, Wellington; Dr. and Mrs. Brewis, Hamilton; Mr. V. Reid, Bay of Islands; Mr. W. A. Anderson, Vancouver, 8.C.; Mr. J. H. Miller, Leamington; and Mr. A. C. Gillies, Wellington.

The guests who were staying at the Royal Hotel last week were: Miss A. M. Hart, London; Dr. J. C. McDiarmid, Huntly; Mr. W. H. Angell, London; Mrs. and Miss Woods, Whangarei; Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Macfarlane, Taupo; Mr. J. Hay, Wellington; Mr. C. H. Hodson, Palmerston North; Mr. Chas. Armstrong, Hamilton; Mr. J. F. McDonald, Palmerston North; Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Wintringham, Wellington; Miss Morrison, Wellington; Mr. W. Campbell, and Mrs. H. F. Campbell, Waimamaku; Mr. W. H. Browne, Wellington; Mr. J. Saunders, Christchurch; and Capt. G‘. C. S. Dyer, Whangarei.

The quinnat salmon were first introduced to New Zealand in 1900, and .eggs were imported for six years in succession. The fry was first liberated in the Hakataramea and its tributaries, and later in the Waitaki. The fish have been a success from the first. The texture and general char.acter of the fish from a gastronomic point of view are excellefit, but the colour is not so deep a red as the fish that is most popular with American canners, and which fetches the highest price. The potential value of the quinnat salmon to New Zealand as a sporting fish and a valuable addition to the food supply of the country is evidently very great.

One must approach Cracow from the vast plain which stretches eastwards, in order to get a proper impression of what constitutes the great interest of the old Polish capital—--the melancholy sunset of its proud .and splendid past. For three centuries Cracow was the residence of the Polish kings. Here reigned Kasimir—the Great —great alike in prowess and in encouragement of peaceful arts, the author —this in the fourteenth century—of the celebrated edict of tolerance to the Jews. Here in 1386 was also celebrated the marriage between Grand Duke Jagdllo of Lithuania and Queen Jadviga of Poland, which fused the two States into one powerful kingdom. And here, too, in 1525 the fatal mistake was made ’by King Sigismund I. of granting to Albrecht of Bradenburg -the Duchy of Prussia in perpetual fief —that Duchy, which in course of time grew to be the Prussia of Fred--erick the Great, the gravedigger of Poland. Cracow remained the Royal residence of Poland till 1600, when Sigismund 111. took up his abode in Warsaw. Both he and his successors -till 1764 continued to be crowned at Cracow, and all of them were laid to eternal rest at the Cracow Katedra —the Cathedral which still survives.