CANONS!

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 2, 24 March 1927, Page 5

CANONS!

SUSPICIOUS TURKS During the last days of the Turkish occupation of Jerusalem, one of the Anglican canons was surprised to find a party of soldiers digging in front of the altar in the cathedral. “What are you looking for?” he inquired. K “Canons,” was the reply. The good Mussulmans thought that clerical canons were of the explosive order. The hole in front of the altar was one of the sights pointed out to Mrs C. Westray, who arrived in Auckland yesterday by the Ulimaroa, after an absence of 17 years from New Zealand, by her relative, the Bishop of Jerusalem. “The bishop thought the joke such a good one that he has preserved the hole made by the suspicious Turks,” says Mrs. Westray, “and it will be there for all time!*’ Mrs. Westray was amazed at the progress of Auckland since she last saw the city. She confessed that she would hardly have known it. “All the headlands that I as unoccupied are now covered with dwellings,” she declared, “and the waterfront generally is by no unlike Sydney.” Since Mrs. Westray, who is accompanied on this occasion by her daughter, was last in New Zealand, she has twice circled the globe. Since December they have wandered through the bazaars of Cairo, explored the upper readies of the Nile, touched the Sudanese outposts, watched the sunrise below Everest, and experienced the somewhat dubious delights of a Burmese river-boat as far as the Chinese frontier. Mrs. Westray and Miss Westray leave by the Tofua on Saturda'- for a sojourn .in the Islands, connecting with the Niagara at Suva for Canada and the United States, and thence returning to England.