THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1365, 22 June 1916, Page 37

THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE.

Captain Rolls, of the C?nadian-Aus-tralasian liner Niagara, is the proud possessor of a big silk Union Jack which bears the autograph of the famous Australian singer, Madame Melba. The captain of the liner treasures the flag particularly because on the last voyage from Vancouver the sum of £533 was raised by an auction.

Every year about 1,300,000 young men become eligible for the Russian army, but of them only 450,000 are recruited. Russia has no use for moreand does not wish for weaklings in her forces.

A line out of the well-known musical comedy is recalled by the Kaiser’s view of t'he “rout” of the British fleet Says Ichabod Bronson, “They ran like cowards — but they couldn’t catch me”

Lieutenant-Colonel E Sherson, offic er commanding the Auckland Field Artillery Brigade, has been appointed as major on probation in the infantry section of the 20th reinforcements to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

Captain A. Holme R.N.R., late commander of the Athenic, is now on the Gothland under the Belgian flag. The latter was formerly known as the Gothic, a familiar vessel in the New Zealand trade.

Mr. Harry Gullett, the Australian war correspondent at the French frcn c Who returned to Sydney recently- has enlisted for active service.

To test the penetrability of rifle shots, snow walls six feet six inches thick were erected in Aurillac, France Rifles were fired at a of fiftyfive yards. In each case the ball was stopped at a penetration of five and az-half feet.

"Great men are impossible without great women. Behind all masculine greatness there is always present some woman as a part of the process,’ writes Mr Richard Le Galliene in "Munsey’s Magazine.”

Mr. H. Cornwall, commissioner at Niue, who has been on furlough in New Zealand, has returned with Mrs. Cornwall to Niue.

Riflemen Allen Young and Reginald Brown, of the Monmouthshire Regiment were run over and mutilated by a Great Western train at an Oswestry level crossing. Both had fought at Ypres and Loos- and both had been wounded in battle. Young was about to take his discharge. They met their deaths by missing the crossways in the darkness and walking up the line.

Sir John Findlay has been advised by cable that his son, Captain Lloyd Findlay, now on the western front,, has received the Military Cross.

It is stated that a new cartridge devised for the French army, will propel a bullet half a mile without any perceptible rise or fall.

The first recorded appearance of mines as instruments cf naval warfare was at the siege of Antwerp in 1585, when they were employed by the Dutch against the Spaniards.

The entrance of Portugal into the is likely, says a Home correspondent, to terminate a royal marriage which has never been a happy cne. Ex-King-Manuel married Princess Augustine Victoria of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen a Catholic second cousin of the Kai~er. The pope has already had to mediate between the pair, and the diverse warsympathies of Manuel and Augustine have widened the breach. K'ng Manuel wishes to join the British Army, which could not well be open to the husband oh a Hohenzollern princess.

There is a considerable resemblance between the uniform of- Russian and British infantrymen. The long grey overcoats worn by many of our troops "come from” Russia, and so do the flat cans.

Mr. P. Cropper of Auckland is at present in Christchurch and is staving at Warner’s Hotel.

Lieut.-Colonel J. C. Freeth (formerly of Masterton) has been awarded th e D.S.O. Colonel Freeth is commandos the 7th South African Infantry in East Africa. General Smut’s orders state that Colonel Freeth established and maintained a position on the north side of Reatta Nek, on the night of March 11-12, until 8 a.m. on the 12th, although only eighteen men of his battalion were with him.

Mr. George Hicks, formerly editor and manager of the Patea Press, and subsequently on the literary staff of ihe Otago Daily Times is dead. When a Parliamentary party visited the South Sea Islands in the Mapourika Mr Hicks accompanied it in the capacity of journalist and photographer.

Captain J. W. H. Bannerman, editor and manager of the Bluff Press, and for years a leading Southland criketer, footballer and hockey player, has enlisted, and expects to be called up at an early date. ,

Richard Harding Davis, journalist novelist and dramatist, left 250,000 dollars.

Mr. J. L. McClintock, who has been New Zealand manager of the Vacuum Oil company, will leave in July to manage the New South Wales branch of the company.

Between them the Allies have now some 2000 liquid fuel-burning ocean vessels. They range from 400 horse power upwards.

Mr. Harold Beauchamp has left on a visit to Canada, where his daughter (Mrs MTntosh Bell), wife of the former Director of Geological Survey in New Zealand, resides. Mrs. Beauchamp is already in Canada.

Sergeant-Major T. W. Moor, of Section A, Field Ambulance, whose name was included in the list of King’s Birthday honours as the recipient of the D.C.M., is the third son of Mr. James Moor, of Auckland. Mr Moor was formerly a resident of New Brigli ton.

Eight cases of Hotchkiss 65mm shells of a kind useful for armingmerchantmen were found at the bottom of a well on the premises of a German named Neilsen in Shanghai. Nielson recently became prominent in connection with the seizure of a consignment of small arms destined for India.

Following is a list of guests at the Central Hotel last week: — Mr. R. A. Ballantyne, Christchurch; Lieutenant R. Le Quesne, Christchurch; Mr. Charles Judd, Thames; Mr. W. A. Esson, Wellington; Mr. G. H. Wilmot, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. de Grene, Sydney; Mr. P. Evans, Melbourne; Mr. S. Polak, Sydney; Mr. A. B. Crowther, Rotorua; Mr. H. Hardcastle, Rotorua; Mr. F. J. Jolly, Hamilton; Mr. C. A. Knowles, Mararau; Mr. Jas. C. Henton, Invercargill; Mr. Mark Harrison, Tirau; Mr. L. Nettlebeck, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Weston, New Plymouth; Mr. and Mrs. Norman Banks, Cambridge; Miss Randle, ’ Rotorua; Mr. J. F. Hay, Wellington; Mr. A. C. Gillies, Wellington; Mr. L. Brooky, Taihape; Dr. and Mrs. Derrick, Thames.

Following is the list of guests at the Grosvenor Hotel, Timaru, last week: —From Christchurch: Mr. W. S. Bellamy, Mr. D. Ronayne, Mr. F. G. Hobbs, Mr. D. Scott, Mr. L. F. Browning, Mr. A. H. Cramp, Mr. W. J. Trusttum, Mr. G. Hammond, Mr. A. Queree, Mr. D. H. Waugh, Mr. F. Shand, Mr. H. P. Whinam. From Dunedin: Mr. H. Henderson, Mr. E. Nicol, Mr. W. J. Somerville, Mr. W. B. Penhey, Mr. W. H. Jackson, Miss L. Hutton, Mr. R. Brickell, Mr. W. A. Slowley, Mr. E. E. Cayzer, Mr. H. Halligan. From Auckland: Mr. W. R. Williamson, Mr. Paul Cropper. From Wellington: Mr. J. E. Ramsey, Mr. W. F. Brown, Mr. Thomas D. Dempster, Mr. J. E. Winsloe (Gore), Mr. H. F. Meader (Wanganui), Mr. H. Hertslet (Waimate), Mr. C. McKenzie (Geraldine). From Timaru: Mr. and Mrs. Simon McKenzie, Mr. A. McKenzie, Mr. R. H. Ferguson, Mr. H. Lowry, Mr. and Mrs. Clostemian (New York).