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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1344, 27 January 1916, Page 40

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Captain Cashman, of the Lady Roberts, left tor Sydney last week. * * * *

Mr. David Nathan, of Wellington, is at present staying at the Grand Hotel, Auckland. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Mr. Hyams, of Sydney.

Mr. and Mrs. John Blyth, ot Sydney, well-known travellers, returned to Austral, a by the Rivenna.

Mrs. F. O’Donnell Forster is at present staying at Te Arolia. Her band, Lieutenant Forster, of the In dian Army, is at present invalided in the Hamilton hospital. * * * *

Mrs. J. M. Singleton, of Sydney, arrived by the Riverina, and is at present on a vis.t to the Hot Lakes district. *

Mr and Mrs. J. J. Clark, accompanied by Miss Clark, of Melbourne who arrived by the Rivenna, are at present in the Rotorua district. * * * *

Mr J Cockerton, of the Royai Fowey Yacht Club, Cornwall, is at present in Auckland staying at the Grand Hotel. He has just spent a short time xii the Bay of Islands, and hopes to do some fishing in the Thermal district.

Miss Jeanette Barton, of Auckland, leaves by the C ornithic to offer her services to the War Office as a nurse. She hopes to be sent to France. Mr. J. K. Foster and Miss Foster, of Newcastle, are at present ji-iting the Thermal district.

Mr. and Mrs. Hammond, of Melbourne, who made a trip to Honolulu on the last run of the Niagara, are at present staying w th Mrs. Stapley, of Cambridge. Accompanied by Mrs. Sawers, of Takapuna, they will spend a week in the Hot Lakes country before returning to Australia.

Dr. and Mrs. Chock Sun, who have been for some years residents of Ballarat, in Victoria, have arrived on a visit to New Zealand. It is their intention shortly to return to Canton, in China.

Corporal Tuahae Carroll, of the Maori Contingent, who was killed in action, was the adopted son of Sir James and Lady Carroll.

Major H. C. Barclay, R.A.M.C. (Waimate), who is now at Sloughton Barracks, Guildford, has just published his “Lectures on Elimentary Anatomy and physiology for Junior Students and Nurses.” He has secured very favourable notices from the medical press.

The West Coast friends of Lieut. T. E. Y. Seddon have presented him with a revolver, sword,and compass. Lieut. Seddon has been appointed adjutant for the troopship Maunganui.

News has been received of the death, by drowning in Burmah, of Mr. Colin Stuart Campbell, A.M.1.C.E.., eldest son of Mr. Neil Campbell, of Masterton, and 122 a Coromandel Street, Wellington. Mr. Campbell lost his life in attempting to save one of his native trollymen. “He was a graduate of King’s College, London, and a highly promising officer of the Burmah Railways staff.

Amongst the men who will go into camp this week will be Mr. Charles Fred. Bassett, father of Corpl. Cyril Bassett, of Auckland, who gained tl e Victoria Cross for technical services performed with the utmost skill ard daring at Gallipoli. Mr. Bassett is 50 years of age and a printer by trade. He is joining the infantry.

Mr. Aymes, of the steamer Atua, left for Sydney last week. * :>: * *

“What the Germans think of the Turks is nicely illustrated in a conversation I had with two able seamen of the famous corsair Emden,” states a correspondent of an American paper. “One of them gave me, as a souvenir, the ribbon of his cap, with the Emden scroll on it. He told me that he originally intended to give it to his mother, but that he was now convinced he would never reach the Fatherland alive, and that I could have it as a compliment in return for beer and cigars I had given him. ‘We have lost nearly all our colonies,’ he said. ‘I am sure we well lose the last one, too, but we are going to make Turkey our newest and best colony.’ I heard similar remarks on other occasions.”

Private George Lawlor (son of Mr. Theodore Lawlor, of Hastings, and nephew of Mr. John Braid, of Wellington), who was on board the ill-fated Marquette, in a letter to his parents dated 2nd November, states that he was In the water from 9 a.m. until 4.45 p.m., floating about on a door. The sea was calm but very cold, and on more than one ocasion he feared he would have to give up, but at last he was sighted and picked up by a mine-sweeper. Three days later he was landed at Salonika.

A young New Zealander, Ist Lieut. Dloyd Findlay (son of Sir John Findlay), has greatly distinguished himself on the western front. Information

has reached Wellington that he had teen reported by his major to have acted with great gallantry during the tattle of Halluch. Sir John Findlay has also received a cable message that the Legion of Honour has been conferred on his son Lloyd, and that his eldest son, Wilfred, has been promoted to the rank of captain. Lieut. Lloyd Findlay, who was only 20 years of age last month, is the Intelligence Officer for his battalion.

The flower of the Austro-German armies has been half destroyed. Between them they have lost fully five millions of trained men. Russia has lost about four millions, France about a million and a-half. Italy has lost already 150.000. We have lost 300,000. Servia and Belgium have probably sacrificed the same number as ourselves between them. If the Allies

have lost, as they have, about six million men in total casualties, of whom probably five million are permanent, does anyone doubt that the AustroG'erman losses, permanent and irreplacable, are at. least five million? Russia can more than make good her enormous losses in men. France has not called up such “out” classes to the colours as Germany has, and our new armies will more than make good her lost cadres.

Some of the New Zealand ladies who, with patriotic ardour instituted correspondence with friendless soldiers at the Dardanelles (says an exchange) are in danger of being compromised. One of them, who a good,

Christian, married woman, wrote a most affectionate letter, and it fell into the hands of a skilful correspondent. He at once wrote back a volume of pretty things, and wound up with a suggestion of matrimony upon his return. The lady, who has discontinued the correspondence, is thinking seriously of changing her place of abode in order to avoid unpleasantness.

Amongst the guests at the Grand Hotel, Auckland, last week were: Mr. and Mrs. Lakeman, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. Philip Luckie, Epsom: Mr. and Mrs. John Buchanan and family, Sydney; Mr. L. C. Litton, Parramatta, N.S.W.; Mr. H. H. Carminer, Wellington; Mr. H. Carminer, Wellington; Mr. B. Lewis, Lower Hutt; Mn J. Buchanan, Sydney; Dr. Walter Fox, Christchurch; Mr. Arthur S. Elworthy, Timaru; Mr. A. Hirzel, Sydney; Mr. Ivor W. Bowles, Newcastle; Mrs. J. A. Low, San Francisco; Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Kennedy, Victoria; Mr. W. T. Doughty, Wellington; Mr. J. H. F. Christie, Wanganui; Miss Chnstie, Wanganui; Mr. S. J. McCormack, Whangarei; Mr. and Mrs. L. G. James, Wellington; Misses James (2), Wellington; Mr. O. M. Parsons, Melbourne; Mr. J. W. Windus, Wellington; Mr. D. J. Nathan, Wellington; Mr. H. Simonson, Melbourne; Mr. W. S. Hislop, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Beauchamp, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. R. Wilson, Wellington; Mrs. Louis Whitcombe, Wellington; Mr. Arthur J. George, Wellington; Dr. Horton and Misses Horton, Dargaville; Mr. and Miss Newman Thomas, London; Mr. G. J. McDonald, Sydney; Mr. J. A. Burke, Sydney; Mr. C. H. Woodcock, Melbourne; Mr. J. A. Peck, Sydney; Mrs. A. Thompson, Brisbane; Mr. S. H. Merriken, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. A. Bayley Cobb, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Holmes, Bowral, N. Mrs. F. Engelbert, Sydney; Mrs. W. Mount, Sydney; Mr. F. Young, Sydney; Mr. J. L. Arcus, Wellington; Dr. and Mrs. Thacker, Christchurch; Mr. J. N. Ormerod, Christchurch; Mr. M. J. Bishop, Huntly; Mr. V. Van Stavern, Wellington; Mr. R. Jamieson, Dunedin; Mr. M. A. Powrie, Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. O. Williams, Tuparoa, E.C.; Mr. F. W. Butcher, Wellington; Mr. L. D. Paterson, Wanganui; Mr. J. Allan, Dunedin; Mr. Jas. Dunlop, Dunedin; Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Montgomery, Boston, U.S.A.; Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Murphy, Miss and Master Murphy, Tokomaru Bay; Mrs. Malyon, Waihi; Mr. John Bell, London; Mr. and Mrs. G‘. Mackenzie, Chicago; Mrs.- Hugh Ensor, Christchurch; Mrs. Ferguson and maid, Dunedin; and Mr. L. F. Timmerman, New York.

The guests at the Central Hotel last week included: Messrs. T. W. Duebetrom and Koppel, Holland; Mr. W. A. Esson, AVanganui; Mr. C. F. Bond, Hamilton; Mr. Pirie, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. F. McCullough, Wellington; Mrs. Fitzgerald, Tolaga Bay; Mr. W. L. Spence, Gisborne; Mr. A. Bell, Morrinsville; Mr. W. Todd, Papatoetoe; Mr. E. Pyrke, Dunedin; Mr. and Mrs. Robt. McMillan, Miss Gladys McMillan, Master Roy McMillan, Mrs. T. Moncur, all of Hamilton; Mr. J. A. Coltart, Christchurch; Mr. J. Beatson, Hastings; Mr. Richard Keene, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, Blenheim; Mr. Jno. Adair, Gisborne; Mr. and Mrs. Adam Wilkie and Misses Jean and Peg Wilkie, Melbourne; Miss McGregor, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Stewart, Sydney; Mr. J. K. Foster and Miss D. Foster, Sydney; Mr. Arthur C. Foddy, Palmerston North; Mr. Alex Hoyles; Mr. Norman Macdonald, Apia, Samoa; Mr. J. H. Allen; Dr. Meinhold, Helensville; Mr. Eric D. Fraser, Cambr’dge; Mr, E. W. Acland, Wellington; Mr. Nelson Jones, Christchurch: Mr. James Harvey, Liverpool; and Mr. C. R. Kerr, Opotiki.

Last winter two ice-breakers kept Vladivostock open throughout the entire cold season without any trouble. This year a third ice-breaker has been purchased in Japan, and the port .authorities anticipate no difficulty in keeping channels open to the docks. It is estimated that a trainload of war supplies starts eastward every three hours.

A young Syrian named G'eorge Karooz called at the “Standard” office at Palmerston North, to state that he was off to Trentham to be trained for the war. Karooz, who is about 20 years of age, is a coachbuilder by trade, and has been in New Zealand some two years, having come. from Mount Lebanon, where he was born, lie is the first Syrian from this district to volunteer for service, but states that several of his countrymen will probably follow his example. “We are living under the British flag, and we are going to die for it if necessary,” is the way he puts the matter.

A report on the activity of the geysers at Whakarewarewa during December states: —Pohutu gave 63 displays, always accompanied by the Prince of Wales’ Feathers and the Cauldron. Waikorohihi gave 80 displays, 70 of which were short ones. Kereru and Papakura geysers were much as usual. In the report for June last the probability of 1000 displays by Pohutu for the year was mentioned. Pohutu, when the report was written, was giving the 993rd display, all of which were in daylight except 62. There still remain 1214 days for the remaining seven displays.

The cathedral tower of Malines (Belgium), damaged by the German fire, was a massive structure 300 feet high. It was designed to be built to 500 feet, but was never completed. The treasures of the cathedral included a fine altar-piece by Van Dyck, and a pulpit of carved oak, dating from the 17th century. Another beautiful building is the 16th century

church of Notre Dame, the pride of which was Ruben’s masterpiece, the “Miraculous Draught of Fishes.” There was another Rubens in the Church of St. John. The Court of Justice is really a palace, built for Margaret of Austria, when she reigned in the Low Countries as regent for Charles V. The importance of Malines m tune of peace arose from the fact that it was a busy railway junction, handling traffic to and from Antwerp, Brussels, Louvain, Liege and Ghent. But it had another interest, because the Roman Catholic Primate of Belgium had his seat there.

The awakening of China is shown in her 90,000 miles of telegraph line, including one which enters the mysterious city of Lhassa, the capital of Tibet. There are also 6000 miles of railroad, and another 2000 miles in course of construction.

An interesting fact concerning Colonel Lord John Montagu, who had such a miraculous escape when the Persia was torpedoed, was that he was in command of the British secton of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces on the transport Port Dunera which conveyed the men to the Dardanelles. An invalided officer of the section, at present in Wellington. who made the voyage under Colonel Lord Montagu, states that he was a very popular officer aboard, and well respected by officers and men.

It was once said that a hundred Cossacks made less noise than a single cavalry soldier, and certain it is that their quietness and agility of movement are two of their greatest characteristics. Cossack cavalry often appears before the enemy without giving the slightest warning of its approach, and when out-classed scatters agahi with equal rapidity. The Cossacks are without doubt Russia’s finest soldiers. They are drawn from Southern Russia, from the provinces bordering on to the distant waters of the Pacific.