HERE AND THERE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1397, 1 February 1917, Page 40

HERE AND THERE.

Sir Thomas T. Ewing, a prominent Australian politician, is a holiday in the Dominion ac companied by Lady Ewing and his daughter. . Mr D’Arcy Reid, contract manager for Australasia for the Film Company, is at present Zealand making arrangements for the release of several important William Fox Company films. After visiting the principal towns of the Dominion in this connection Mr Reid leave., fo china Japan, Jndla and Java ,n the interests of the company he repre sents. * *

Corporal E. Douglas Duthie, son of Mr E F Duthie, of Dunedin, has reeved the Military Medal for gallantry in the field. , * * Mr J * Allan Macdonald, who is well known in theatrical circles in New £“Sd has been appointed general manager of the South Taranata Amusement Company-

A request is to be made to the Minister by the Wanganui Acclimatisation Society to declare from May 1 to July 31, 1917, an open season for shooting imported game (cock pheasants, Californian quail and hares), and native game (grey duck, teal duck and pigeons), also fallow deer. The society will also ask the Government to declare Hipango Park and Matipo Park sanctuaries for the protection of avifauna, native and imported game, including deer. The society has expended practically all its last year’s revenue in purchasing and distributing pairs of pheasants and many yearling trout within the district, and the results were reported to be satisfactory. The deer licenses for the Wanganui district this year will be limited in number, it is stated in an exchange.

The Union Steamship Company has arranged for the Paloona to run the San Francisco service, replacing the Maitai, which was wrecked at Rarotonga.

Mr. J. B. Clarkson, managing director of Hope Gibbons, Sons and J. B. Clarkson, Ltd., has returned to Wellington after a business trip to the Australian States.

Mr. H. C. Stoddart, manager in New Zealand for the British Dominions General Insurance Company, is making a visit to the company’s head office in London. He expects to return next June.

The death occurred at Dannevirke recently of Mr Henry Ga sford, aged 75 years. Deceased who was a large landowner at Or ngi, and a well-known sportsman, was one of the earliest re sidents of Hawke’s Bay.

Mr. J. A. Roberts, who has come from the United States to enquire into the prospects of farm.ng in New Zealand, is in Christchurch. He will spend several months in t e omin cn before returning to his home in San Joaquin Valley, California.

Efforts are being made to provide a room at the Rotorua Sanatorium to be used as a workshop by returned soldiers in carrying on basket-making, wood carving, and other work. The Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister for Internal Affairs, pa d a brief visit to Rotorua, and visited the insstution to see a proposed site for the room. He requested that an est mate of the cost might be forwarded.

A pet kitten, from the Mountain House at Mount Egmont, Taranaki, followed a party of tourists to the summit last week, after scrambling for 2000 ft through snow. “Gngsr’ had his photo taken on the summit, ana was carried back to the hostel by Mr. Williams. He is now to have a first class collar and a siver medal affixed by his many admirers. The trip was

very cold, and a fierce wind prevai ed. He previously had often followed parties to Humphries’ Castle.

Following upon his recent tour of the Dominion, Mr. A. Winslow, American Consul, has prepared and forwarded to the Department of State at Washington 13 reports. These dea’ with such matters as the fruit, wool, coal, and timber industries, and spec al reports have also been sent in connection w th the Ruakura State Farm, the State timber plantations at Roto rua, with which Mr. Wins’ow was particularly impressed.

Included in the guests at the Central Hotel, Auckland, last week were the following: —Mr. J. W. Fowler, Sydney; Mr. A. Allen, Sydney; Misses McClure. Dannevirke; Mr. F. Boyd, Melbourne; Mr. C. W. Broad, Feilding; Mr. J. J. Stevenson, Sydney; Mr. G. Hayley, Christchurch; Mrs. J. J. Stevenson, Sydney; Mr. O. M. Coverdale, Kaiwaka; Mr. and Mrs. Shrivies, Sydney; Mrs. Tweedale, Haines. Rotorua; Miss Mitchell, Sydney; Mrs. and Miss Edwards, Patea; Miss N. G. Hogan, Melbourne; Mr. C. B. Hallims, Wellington; Miss H. Selle, Sydney; Mr. A. C. Foddy, Christ-

church; Mr. F. W. and Miss Mackwood, Colombo; Mr. R. F. Christie, Sydney; Mr. F. Marshall, Melbourne; Mr. J. Adair, Gisborne; Miss Jean Gardner, Ceylon; Mr. and Mrs. R. McMillan, Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. Haylock, England; Mr. and Mrs. W. Blackmor, Christchurch; Mr. J. Ross. Dunedin; Mr. and Mrs. J. Jones, California; Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, Russell, Bay of Islands; Mr. Randal-Mar-tin, Melbourne; Dr. and Mrs. Crosby, Te Awamutu; Mr. and Mrs. J. Kennedy, Sydney; Mr. and Miss Heaton, Nelson; Mr. Ikehara, Yokohama, Japan; Mr. Dufaur, Hawke’s Bay; Mr. S. Matsumara, Osaka, Japan; Mr. and Mrs. A. Brown, Tauranga; Mr. P. A. Phillips, Melbourne; Mr. G. Duncalf, Whangarei; Mr. R. Young, Melbourne; Dr. P. Noonan, Hamilton; Mr. W. Milner, Otago; Mr. Henrai Smith, Milton; Mr. E. Thompson, Sydney; Mr. W. Holmes, Otago; Mr. E. Thompson, Sydney.

The following were among the arrivals at the Grosvenor Hotel, Timaru, during the week: —Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Finemore, Christchurch; Mr. H. Halligan, Dunedin; Mr. P. Evans, Melbourne; Mr. J. G. Longuet, Christchurch; Mr. W. S. Green, Sydney; Mr. J. C. H.’ Somervill, Dunedin; Mr. E. G. F. Matthews, Wellington; Mr. F. M. Oldham, Dunedin; Mr. H. Anderson, Christchurch; Mr. B. B. Grange, Christchurch; Mr. Cyril Hill, Sydney; Mr. James Payne, Wellington; Mr. J. C. Rutherford, Dunedin; Mr. F. Laing, Melbourne; Mr. W. Scales, Christchurch; Mr. M. A. Powrie, Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. G. Iles, Christchurch; Miss J. Iles, Christchurch; Mr. F. Eller, Wellington; Mr. G. H. Holford, Christchurch; Mr. W. Thomson, Dunedin; Mr. F. V. Lysaght, Geraldine; Mr. S. T. Hincksman, Christchurch; Mr. H. P. Dobbs, Christchurch; Mrs. J. M. Gorton, Christchurch; Miss Gorton, Christchurch; Mr. T. H. Duncan, Christchurch; Mr. O. M. Parsons, Melbourne; Mrs. M. B. Honeywood, and Master Honeywood. Lumsden; Miss Adamson, Lumsden; Mr. J. Pearson, Christchurch; Mr. J. Shaw, Dunedin; Mr. A. W. Cramp, Christchurch; Mr. James Amess, Opawa; Mr. Leonard Prebble, Christchurch; Mr. E. E.

Cayzer, Dunedin; Major-General Skerman, R.A.M.C.. Marton; Lieut.-Col. Barcroft, R.A.M.C., Hastings; Mr. E. Cross, Christchurch; Mr. E. C. Armitage, Christchurch; Mr. J. H. Browne, Dunedin; Mr. D. V. Gain, Dunedin; Mr. S. Jacobs, Christchurch; Mr. H. H. Foley, Christchurch; Mr. W. B. MacKenzie, Christchurch; Mr. Hillyer, Wellington; Mr. E. H. Lund, Wellington; Mr. Charles B. Buxton, Wellington; Mr. G. S. Harrop, Dunedin; Mr. R. Fields, Wellington; Mr. H. Fenn, Cave; Mr. A. A. Fairbairn, Dunedin; Mr. and Mrs. J. Ford, Foxdown; Mrs. Brinsley, Dunedin; Mr. A. Gough, Sydney; Mr. R. L. Stewart, Auckland; Mr. John Rennie, Invercargill; Mr. A. Gilchrist. Dunedin; Mr. L. F. Browning, Christchurch; Mr. and Mrs. Sant and child, Paris; Col. Fulton, Hastings; Mr. and Mrs. M. McGillivary. Brisbane; Miss McGillivary, Brisbane; Masters McGillivary (2), Brisbane.

Mr. A. F, Hooper, manager for Messrs Goldsborough, Mort, and Co., Ltd., of Melbourne,, is visiting Mew Zealand.

Dr. Young, who has been on the staff of the Auckland. Hospital for more than twelve months, lias been called up for active service in the Med.cal corps.

A very large proportion of the visitors to Stewart Island this year are young ladrns, says an exchange. A Wanganuite who -has ju»t returned from a vsit to the island states that the attendance at meal t.mes at one boardinghouse was 170 ladies and four men. At a recent launch picnic there were two men and 40 lad.es.

Mr. Albert Gold-e, who is wellknown in New Zealand, is at present on a trip to Californ a on behalf of Arthur Rickard and Co, Ltd., of Sydney, in whose interests he will investigate and report upon the working of farmlet colonies in that country, and the best ideas for the beautification of residental areas.

PAN-PACIFIC DAY IN HONOLULU.

In February of every year in Honolulu, Hawaii, is held the Mid-Pacific Carnival, when the city is given over to a week of best-natured revelry and friendly good-fellowship between all the Pacific races that dwell in Hawaii and the strangers who visit her shores. The carnival of 1917 will begin with a Pan-Pacific Day, Monday, February 19th, and will continue until the following Sunday. Each day will have its programme, but that of the first — Pan-Pacific Day—will mark an occasion when every race and people in Hawaii will join hands together, that the visiting world may realise that in Hawaii everyone speaks the “Language of the Tribe” when it comes to united action and co-opera-tive work for the glory of the MidPacific Islands. At 9 in the morning, in the presence of the school children singing the songs of Pacific lands, the great Pan-Pacific Arch will be unveiled before the gate of the Palace grounds, and under this arch will pass the pageant that will represent every

land and country about the Great Ocean. The Pan-Pacific Arch is designed by Gordon Usborne, and is to be one of the permanent gateways to the Pan-Pacific Exposition in 1920. The arch, which is fifty feet in height, is surmounted by a life-size group of surfboard riders on a tempestuous wave that brings forth all the skill of the standing surfers to keep their balance on the frail boards tossed by Neptune. The archway will be twenty feet wide, and around eaci of the two square supporting columns will be panels from which life size bas-reliefs will stand forth depicting the races of the Pacific.

Kamehameha, the “Napoleon of the Pac fic,” who conquered Oahu, the island on which Honolulu stands, and who reigned a hundred years ago, will live again with his court, all in gorgeous regalia, to take part with the school children of every race of the Pacific in the unveiling of the PanPacific Arch of Peace

From the unveiling ceremonies, Kamehameha and his court, accompanied by the Hawaiian pa-u riders, will proceed to ihe ocean front, where at 10 o’clock the Carnival Kings from every land are to arrive with their retinues to take part in the great Pan-Pacific Pageant. It is expected that the chief of the Potlatch Indians, with his hundred braves from the State of Washington will be the first to arrive with the Rose Queen of Oregon, surrounded by young buds of the West; these as a guard of honour to Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the great discoverer of the Pacific, and King of Kings during carnival week. Father Neptune will attend and direct the landing of the Carnival Kings from his water chariot drawn by g.ant dolphins, about which will sport the rainbcw-coloured fish of Hawaiian waters.

From across the Pacific will arrive the great Chinese dragon, that will accompany the Mandarin Carnival King from the Celestial Republic and his retinue. From the Philippines will waft the King of the great Annual Manila Carnival — Satan himself — sprinkling flowers upon the joyous waiting multitude, and with him will be in costume children of each of the islands of the Philippines. The Japanese Shogun with his

retinue of Sumari warriors is expected, as is a Prince of Korea, while the King of the Carnival of Snow and Ice in far Northern Siberia has promised his brief presence in the warm tropics, to meet with the Fijian King and other Carnival Kings from the tropical isles of the Pacific Ocean. Even far off Java and Malay are sending their typical “Kings” of the Carnival to take part in the MidPacific Revel, and to inaugurate PanPacific Day at the cross-roads of the Great Ocean.

The antipodes will send their Carnival Kings, the War Chief of the Australians arriving with his Corrobboree dancers, everyone of them a past master in the art of throwing a boomerang. The dignified King of the Maoris, with his court Haka Haka warrior dancers, will represent the Dominion of New Zealand, and from every part of the Pacific will gather the Carnival Kings to become the guests of Kamehameha the Great, Carnival King of Hawaii for the year 1917.