THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1363, 8 June 1916, Page 37

THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE.

Mr. Alfred Grace, last surviving brother of Dr. Grace, is dead. (London cable.)

Surgeon-Major E. E. Porritt, of Wanganui, has been promoted to the rank of surgeon-lieutenant-colonel, and has been appointed medical officer to the troops in Samoa.

In time of peace Switzerland is the country best supplied with hospitals, having nearly 18,000 beds, or about six to every 1000 of the population.

Major B. J. Dudley accompanied the main draft of Auckland recruits for the Seventeenth Reinforcements last week to Wellington as medical officer for the trip.

Capt. Randal Woodhouse, R.A.M.C., of Dunedin, who has been in France since the war broke out, was recently given the Military Cross. Captain Woodhouse has been wounded slightly, but is still with the Ist Battalion Irish Guards, to which he has been lately attached as a medical officer.

The death is announced from Sydney of Dr. F. G. Walton, a veteran of the Crimean and Maori wars.

Mr. and Mrs. Wolsey Cain, of Wanganui, are at present touring the South Island.

Mr. J. H. Escott, M.P., is lying seriously ill at the house of his brother-in-law, at Wellington, where he has been living. He has been granted leave of absence from his Parliamentary duties.

Mr. J. M. Saunders, relieving manager for the Union Bank of Australia in Invercargill, and formerly manager of the Newton branch in Auckland, has enlisted.

Mr. R. C. G. Weston, a well-known New Zealand journalist and a member of Hansard staff, has been accepted for active service.

Mr. Hempton, of Palmerston North, has been appointed to the management of the Bank of New Zealand, Gisborne, as successor to Mr. G’. Innes, transferred to Auckland.

Mr. Farquhar Young, for many years on the Dunedin Telegraph Staff, and well known throughout musical circles in New Zealand, has enlisted at Christchurch.

Captain W. Fiardham, V.C., is now on extended leave and expects to leave New Zealand with the fourteenth reinforcements.

Mr. Frank Bignold, a well-known Sydney penman, lately general secretary to the Australian Journalists’ Association, has been appointed to a position on the staff of the censor at Sydney.

Ensconced though she be behind the German lines, Metz is far more at grips with the war than ever she was in 1870. Then only one shot fell into her, and now’ in one day she has been peppered with 130 bombs.

Wages in the United States on the average are more than twice those in Belgium, three times those of Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, and one and a-half those in England and Scotland.

Private advice has been received in the south that Sergeant-Major Hall-Jones is returning invalided to New Zealand. He expects to arrive in Wellington by the end of this month.

Mr. H. B. Sorenson, of Christchurch, who for a considerable time acted as Vice-Consul for Norway, has received the Order of the Knighthood of St. Olof from the Norwegian Government, as a mark of their appreciation of his services.

En route to Sydney, the steamer Ventura received a wireless message from San Francisco, a distance of 5560 miles. Using a new invention, the audion detector, the operator picked up clearly and read a message of over 5000 miles. Both achievements are claimed as world’s records.

Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Leyland, of Auckland, who have been on a visit to America, returned in the Niagara last week. Their son, Sapper Frank Leyland, who was injured in the campaign on Gallipoli, and who has been undergoing special treatment in America, returned with them.

“Island of Black Cats.” —This is a name applied to Chatham Island, in the Pacific Ocean, about 730 miles west of the coast of Ecuador. It is overrun with black cats. Indeed, cats of no other colour are seen there. These animals live in the crevices of the lava foundation near the coast, and subsist by catching fish and crabs, instead of rats and mice.

“The orders for 3,000,000 horseshoes for the British and French Governments have been completed, and we have received large additional orders on behalf of the British Government,” said Mr. Peter Rintoul, the chairman of the Scottish Iron and Steel Company, Limited, Glasgow, at the annual meeting held recently.

Shell fire produces curious effects at times and not the least remarkable is the cross made by enemy fire over the graves of soldiers in France. It occurred between Barcy and Varreddes, where the top of a tree was cut off by a shell. In falling the severed part of the tree was caught on a projecting branch and hung balanced in a horizontal position at right angles to the trunk, thus forming the transom of a cross. Near by are the graves of 30 soldiers, who were killed there in September, 1914.

Following is the list of visitors at the Central Hotel last week:—Mr. and Mrs. Cranby, Napier; Mr. W. C. Wood, Napier; Mr. R. Roach, Taihape; Mr. J. Cullen, Wellington; Mr. J. Monk, Gisborne; Mr. AV. Orwood, Welling-

ton; Mr. A. Bell, Morrinsville; Mr. C. MacCulloch, Hamilton; Mr. T. Mitchell, Rotorua; Mr. A. R. D. Watson, Auckland; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gordon, AVellington; Air. M. Wells, Cambridge; Mr. A. Stephens, Dunedin; Mr. S. Gough, Wellington; Mr. A. Barnett, Dunedin; Airs. D. Smith, Hamilton; Mr. J. Smith, Hamilton; Air. Samuel, Mongonui; Mr. Naphtali, Dunedin; Mr. and Alajor Esson, Wellington; Mr. T. Quirk, Gisborne; Mr. C. T. Blackett, Te Kowhai; Lieut. E. A. R. Jones, Trentham; Air. Jas. Hutchin, Christchurch; Mr. R. Pengally, Wellington; Air. H. B. Laws, Assam, India; Air. H. Tollemarie, Thames; Mr. FI. G. Bedell, Wellington; Mr. A. Bayly, Okoroire; Mr. R. Carruth, Okoroire; Mr. J. G. Hark ness, Wellington; Mr. FI. Dale, Auckland; Air. G. Millar, Fiji; Dr. Parkin San Francisco; Rev. Father Finn, Te Kuiti; Mr. P. Gilchrist, Te Arona; Mr. J. AlcCallum, Christchurch; Mr. J. Sheridan, Gisborne; Miss M. Kane, Wellington; Airs, and Master Gilbert Smith, Paeroa; Mr. C. A. Knowles, Makarau; Mr. and Airs. Krogh, Hastings; Mr. G. Duncalf, Napier; Mr. J. Turton, Hawera; Mr. and Mrs. Hood. Cape Runaway; Mr W. Laing, Napier: Mr. J. AlcCallum, AVellington; Mr. and Mrs. Bromley, Wellington; Mr. A. B. Failover, AVellington; Mr. Jas. Anderson, Tirau.

The following is the list of visitors at the Grosvenor Hotel, Timaru, during last week: —From Christchurch; Mr. Justice Denniston, Air. A. E. Seaton, Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Stead, Dr. Palmer, Air. A. E. Ridley, Air. S. Phillips, Air. A. AV. Morgan, Mr. A. Turner Air. Jas. Nixon, Mr. E. P. Jerman, Mr'. H. Pethrick, Air. and Mrs. J. O. AlcGillivray, Air. A. L. Tucker, Air. D. Scott, Air. H. AV. Clarke, Mr. A. J. Daly, Mr. H. Dobbs, Mr. A. E. Johnson, Miss Rudd, Miss Florence Scapini. From Dunedin: Air. and Mrs. J. C. H. Sommerville, Mr. W. E. McLean, Air. J. Shaw, Air. AV. G. Al. Spong, Mr. P. Shaw, Mr. AV. Joiistone, Air. H. Halligan, Air. T. Delameie, Mr. AA r . Thomson. From Oanuru: Air. J. Dunnett, Air. F. H. Barley. From Ashburton: Mr. R. Bell, Air. Friedlander, Captain A. J. Friedlander. From Wellington: Air. J. Phillips, Air. G. H. Forbes, Air. L. L. Frank, Air. J. AV. Henderson, Mr. Al. Kershaw, Air. A. C. Gillies, Mr. S. C. Hancock, Air. M. AV. Smith. From Auckland: Air. H. R. Harper. From Waimate: Air. and Mrs. G. H. Aliller. From Oxford: Air. and Airs. AV. G. Rudd, Air. AV. G.

Aspinal (Temuka). From Sydney: Air. G. R. Griffiths, Mr. O. T. Smith,

Air. John Griffiths, Air. H. AAffiittle, Air. and Mrs. F. Chapman, Miss Chapman. From Ashwick: Mr. AV. F. Hamilton, Mr. T. T. AA’ilson (Fairlie). From Melbourne: Aliss Pauline Bindley. For New York: Air. P. Dufault. From Vancouver: Air. Charles Wright. From London: Mr. Julius Knight.

Following is the list of guests at the Star Hotel last week:-—Aliss Lewis, Cambridge; Air. H. Kennett, Christchurch; Air. J. C. Lord, Christchurch; Mr. W. A. Low, Dunedin; Mr. C. E. Horton, Auckland; Air. H. Jones, Auckland; Mr. B. Bunn, Naike; Mr. C. Woodcock, Naike; Mr. E. W. Ashman, Sydney; Air. A. E. Dodd, Thames; Air. R. M. Somerville, Te Kuiti; Air. R. Houston, Hawke’s Bay; Air. A. O’Brien, Waiheke; Mr. J. O’Brien, Waiheke; Airs. Robertson, Taranaki; Air. and Airs. Palmer, Morrinsville; Mr. Macky, Te Kuiti; Mr. and Airs. Smith, Te Kuiti; Mrs. O. Schnberg, Taumarunui; Air. T. Carroll, Te Kuiti; Dr. McDonald, Suva, Fiji; Mr. Gregg, Christchurch; Mr. S. Stott, Melbourne; Dr. Rossiter, Auckland; Mr. Smith, Auckland; Air. A. Gibbons, Thames; Airs. L. AlcKenzie, AVellington; Air. G. Gore, AVellington; Mrs. Stone-Wigg, Helensville; Air. D. L. Patterson, Oamaru; Mr. A. J. Iles, Rotorua.