THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1381, 12 October 1916, Page 37

THE TOURIST and TRAVELLER

HERE AND THERE. Professor and Mrs. Gabbatt, of Cashmere Hills, Canterbury, leave for England shortly to spend a long vacation in the Old Country.

According to a statement recently made by Lord Sandhurst, there are 25,000 Russian subjects of military age in the United Kingdom. • * * *

A sum of £20,000 from Zanzibar for war expenses has been gratefully accepted by the Government; £lO,OOO was given last year.

Up to August 18, 206,661 people had visited the German submarine minelayer UCS at the Temple Pier, on the River Thames, and over £3OOO had been received.

In.passing a resolution of sympathy with the widow of Captain Fryatt, the Committee of Lloyds’ placed on record their sense of the brutality of the crime of the German Government.

Hauling their nets, the crew of a Firth of Forth 'fishing boat found in them two cylindrical mines. The tops of the detonators coming to view, the crew promptly deserted their catch.

Dr. and Mrs. Thacker, of Christchurch, are shortly leaving on a visit to Canada, and will probably go on to England.

Mr. R. N. Mackintosh, manager of the Auckand office of the Sun Insurance Company, has been accepted for active service.

The death is reported from Sydney of George Moore a veteran cricketer.

* . .* * * Sir Robert and Lady Walker, tf Wellington are on a visit to Fiji.

Mr. T. W. Lasham, Continental man ager for Messrs Thomas Cook and Son, is on a hoi day visit to New Zealand.

The Straits Settlements are giving £200,000 a year for five years from July 1 J,ast and for another five years, if possible, to the Imperial Government for the war.

The Fourth of August was commemorated in France at the back of the front by a solemn ceremony at the military cemetery where so many of our heroes rest. Homage was paid to our dead by placing beautiful wreaths on the graves of the 1500 Britishers buried there.

More than two thousand jaded tribunals in England are still struggling with a mass of appeals against military service. Their members are wondering when, if ever, the stream of applications is to cease, and vainly hoping for some relief from the Government. It is believed that over 300,000 appeals are still pending.

There were, according to Lloyd’s Register, 440 merchant ships, of 1,540,218 tons gross, under construction in the United Kingdom on June 30, an increase of about 33,000 tons on a year ago.

The Berlin “Vossische Zeitung” says that the stoppage of the shipping of Indian jute killed the Bremen linoleum industry directly after the British trade had been captured.

The Drapers’ Company has given 50 guineas to the Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare’s Birthplace, whose revenues are less than the working expenses, owing to the decrease in visitors’ fees.

When the last mail left England, Dr. and Mrs. Putnam, of Palmerston North, were having a brief motor tour through England. Dr. Putnam is not at the Walton-on-Thames ; Hospital now; he has been transferred elsewhere. He expects to be back in Palmerston before Christmas.

The Dover Medical Officer has reported to the Health Committee that a case of diphtheria which caused the death of a doctor had been proved to have been contracted from a pet parrot.

The Hon. W. C. F. Carncross, who is a member of the Parliamentary party visiting England returns to New Zealand via the Panama Canal.

Mr. W. M'Master, of Burns, Philp and Co., Sydney, managing agents for Australasia of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japan Mail Steamship Company), is visiting New Zealand with the object of ascertaining if the prospects are sufficient to warrant the Nippon Yusen Kaisha opening a steamship service from Japan to New Zealand. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha is the largest steamship company in Japan. It has a fleet of about 100 large steamers, and a number of additional vessels are now being built in Japan. The company maintains a regular service between Japan and England, America, Australia and India, in addition to dealing with local coastal requirements. ;

Amongst those staying at the Royal Hotel last week were: Mr. Cairns, Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. E. Bull, Wellington; Mrs. W. S. and Miss Carey, Sydney; Lieut. A. McDonald, Wellington; Mr. and Miss McAlpine, Morrinsville; Mr., Mrs. and Miss Steadman, Whangarei; Mr. D. Fraser, Te Mawhai; Mr. A. Harding, Dargaville; Mr. J. A. Patterson, Dunedin; Mr. W. Gruar, Hamilton; Mr. H. A. Justin, Wellington; Mr. A. Holmes, Palmerston North; Mr. W. F. Thompson, Mr. J. Main, Whangarei; Mr. R. H. Richards, Wellington; Mr. Jas. P. Wright, Edinburgh; Mr. and Mrs. J. Farrell, Wellington; Mr. McCrea, Te Puke; Mr. D. Ross, Dargaville; Messrs Peet and Parr, Dargaville; Mr. R/J. Corbett, Whangarei; Messrs. Bain and Holman, Whangarei; Mr. A. S. Wilson, Wellington; Mr. S. L. Ludbrook, Bay of Islands; Sergt.-Major Singleton, Waikato; Mr. W. McDonald, Waikato; Mr. Wallace, Napier; Mr. Burnett, Wanganui; Mr. Windle, Wanganui; Mr. McQuade, New Plymouth; Mrs. Gilchrist, Te Aroha.

The guests at the Grand Hotel, Auckland, last week included: Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Watts, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. Parker, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. John Sandes, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs.

A. Hunt, Melbourne; Mr. J. Campbell, Wellington; Mr. W. D. Hunt, Invercargill; Mr. J. A. Johnstone, Dunedin; Mr. G. Magnus, Wellington; Dr. and Mrs. Thacker, Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Porter, Scotland; Mr. S. Okano, Yokohama, Japan; Mr. Geo. Robson, Sydney; Mr. E. R. Murphy, Tokomaru Bay; Mr. D. R. Caldwell, Cambridge; Dr., Mrs. and Miss Felkin, London; Mr. Arnold Williams, Wellington; Mr. O. R. Prouse, Wellington; Mr. W. J. Prouse, Wellington; Mr. F. R. Rooper, Wellington; Dr. Bernstein, Cambridge; Mr. John Rose, Melbourne; Mr. M. Higgins, Wellington; Mr. J. Sandall, Christchurch; Mr. F. W. Jamieson, Christchurch; Mr. Darcy Read, Sydney; Mr. J. W. Wallace, Wellington; Mr. T. Buckley, Wellington; Mr. H. B. Williams, Gisborne; Mr. K. S. Williams, Tuparoa; Mr. Vernon Reed, Bay of Islands; Capt. Colclough, Greymouth; Commander and Mrs. Armstrong, England; Mr. and Mrs. Cawsey, Sydney; Dr. and Mrs. Rogers, Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. Alec Boyle, Christchurch; Hon. and Mrs. Frear, Honolulu; Miss Frear, Honolulu; Miss Atherton, Honolulu; Mr. and Miss

Whitcombe, Christchurch; Mr. Reginald G'ardiner, Havelock North; Mr. R. W. McLennan. Dunedin; Sergt. and Mrs. C. J. Campion, Wanganui; Miss D. Campion, Wanganui; Mr. James Campion, Wanganui; Sergt. L. Campion, Wanganui; Mr. M. J. Higgins, Wellington; Mr. G. Shirtcliffe, Wellington; Mr. and Miss Wardle, Sydney; Mr. J. Henry, Melbourne; Mr. J. T. Thompson, Melbourne; Mr. Jas. McLellan, Sydney; Miss McLellan, Sydney; Lieut.-Col. Barraclough, Sydney; Mr. A. H. Fowler, Sydney; Mr. and Mrs. Carroll, Sydney; Mr. H. Chidgey.

The following is a list of guests staying at the Grosvenor Hotel, Timaru, for the past week: —Mr. Ralph

H. Skipwith, Wellington; Mr. T. W. Reid, Sydney; Mr. A. A. Fairbairn, Dunedin; Mr. E. Stewart Mills, Waimate; Mr. and Mrs. V. Le Cren, Tekapo; Mr. Edmund Cross, Christchurch; Mr. J. Corbert, Christchurch; Mr. A. Turner, Christchurch; Mr. H. Sydney Smith, Auckland; Mr. A. C. Horniman, Christchurch; Mr. P. Todd, Dunedin; Mr. Robert Felwick, Auckland; Mr. F. R. Jones, Christchurch; Mr. F. W. Butcner, Auckland; Mr. F. E.. Greenfield, Christchurch; Mr. D. Spence, Christchurch; Mr. M. Edwards, Christchurch; Mr. Hamish McLean, Mt. Hutt; Mr. Percy A. Bruford, Auckland; Mr. William Scott, Dunedin; Mr. and Mrs. C. Hedges, Oamaru; Mr. T. Fleming, Dunedin; Mr. A. Whately, Dunedin; Mr. Jas. F. Molloy, Oamaru; Mr. W. K. Dooley, Oamaru; Mrs. Arthur Elworthy, Pareora; Master Elworthy, Pareora; Mr. Robert Bell, Ashburton; Mr. Stewart Dalgliesh, Oamaru; Mr. James Calvan, Oamaru; Mr. F. Eller, Wellington; Mr. R. G. Harley, Dunedin; Mr. F. H. Barley, Oamaru; Mr. D. R. Robinson,

Oamaru; Mr. C. T. Lee, Dunedin; Mr. D. Sinclair, Christchurch; Mr. N. W. Kingdon, Christchurch; Mr. L. Prebble, Christchurch; Mr. John F. Grierson, Christchurch; Mr. A. H. Cramp, Christchurch; Mr. H. Halligan, -Dunedin; Mr. H. W. Fife, Christchurch; Mr. A. Queree, Christchurch; Mr. W. F. Herrick, Christchurch; Mr. Percy R. Olden, Sydney; Mr. A. J. Daly, Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hamilton, Ashwick; Mr. and Mrs. Powrie, Christchurch; Mr. J. Mackenzie, Christchurch; Mr. and tylfs. T. Hinton, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. T. Russell, Oamaru; Miss Dorothea Russell, Oamaru.