MR. ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S RETURN FROM THE INTERIOR.

Tt will be remembered that a fortnight ago last Monday Mr. Anthony Trollope was a passenger per p.s. 'Southern Cross ' for Tauranga, en route to the Lakes, and the Taupo and Waikato districts. Th« Governor placed the services of Major Gilbert Mair at Mr. Trollope's disposal on hia arrival at Tauranga, and he had therefore the advan-' tage of an intelligent gentleman.lthoroughly acquainted with that poitionoE this province, as his guide. Mr. arrived at Tauranga on Tuesday, and started inland on Wednesday. It is needless to say that Mr. Trollope was pleased with the natural wonders he saw in tke Lake region. The district is without a parallel in the world, and tha more that one meditates upon the scenes around him there the more enraptured he becomes with the unrivalled beauties of the place. 1 rom the Lake region he proceeded on to Lake Taupo. The country around Taupo was examined, and he proceeded one-and a-half days' journey inland, towards Tongariro, but the party did uot ascend the mountain. Prom Taupo they made their way overland to Cambridge, which place they reached on last Friday evening. There Mr. Trollope was joined by Dr. J. L. Campbell ; the Deputy-Superintendent, Mr. Joseph May ; and the Provincial Secretary, Mr. H. H. Lusk. The weather was excellent all the time that Mr. Trollope was in the interior, and a change pnly occurred after his arrival in the Waikato district. The party who methim at Cambridge accompanied him round * portion of that district to ahow what the labour of^ a small body of Anglo-Saxons had accomplished in a few yeara of comparative peace. They drove round by Alexandra, and thence to Hamilton, and reached Auckland on Monday afternoon, after having been just a fortnight absent. We understand that Mr. Trollope is much pleased with the natural beauties which he has witnessed, and especially with the progress made by the Battlers in tho Waikato. It seemed even to those who were with him that it was scarcely possible that such great progress could have been made in so short a time since., the district waa only the abode of savages. The progr'eao made by New Zealand has been most marked, *nd we are warranted in saying that Mr. Trollop© is already convinced that New Zealand has little in common with the colonies on the mainland of Australia. In time we shall doubtless have the pleasure of reading hia matured opinions on the comparative futures to which the cluster of colonies usually known by the name of the Australasian colonies •will severally attain. Love for our adopted country makes ua hope, and its past history convinces us, that Mr. Trollope will not assign to New Zealand the lowest position in that galaxy of nations which is springing up around us. Yesterday we understand that Mr. Trollope, accompanied' by Dr. Campbell, visited the Titirangi district, for the purpose of seeing some large kauri trees, and the general appearance of a kauri .forest. Several trees from Bft. to 9ft. diameter were seen even in this district, which has been undergoing a process of depletion for the last 30 years ; this must be taken a3 an rodi- , cation of what a primeval forest in New Zealand is. This evening Mr. Trollope wjll b.- enter tain«d at diuner by the member* of the Northern Club, and he will leayp oar hores by the ' Nebraska.' r

t7-h Tyr^r The animal general meeting of |H*reholdera of the Lincoln Oastle Goldmining Company wiU be held at the British HqjtfL this day at 7 p.m.