New Zealand at Home.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 171, 18 February 1873, Page 7

New Zealand at Home.

Before Mr Anthony Trollope has had time to write Home about this Colony, some here have been able to let the English people know what we think of him, though it is doubtful whether the subject of the amusing letter, which appears in Figaro, will feel flattered at what is said of him. The writer referred to, from whose letter home the following is an extract, says : —" On dit, that he is not a very pleasant travelling companion. On board steamer from Melbourne, at table, a gentleman asked him to pass something. The reply was, ' Well, I'll pass it this time, but ask the waiter in future.' 8., the lawyer, with his j family, had engaged the coach from Queenstown ; so Trollope, his wife, and P., had to hire an express, and had bad horses. B. stayed to breakfast some distance from Clyde, and he and his family ate all tlie eggs and drank all the milk, so, when Trollope arrived, there was nothing in the house to eat. 8., who is fond of a joke, told the landlord that Trollope would be passing soon, with the panorama he was painting. So the landlord politely asked Trollope to let him see it, upon which Trollope got into an awful rage, and swore some." I .