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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 75, 2 August 1873, Page 3

It had been almost better Mr. Anthony Trollope that he had never been born than he should have written about South Australia. The papers there give it to him as hot as the temperature of the climate. He is told he ought to have stuck to writing novels. He is further told that his book on South Australia is full of inaccuracies; that he has written a slovenly work, without digesting the information at his command ; that he lived in South Australia as he did everywhere else—on the “ cheap,”—sponging first upon one, and then upon another,—upon families he did not know, and yet never said “ thank you ” for their hospitality after he had been fed gratis, and his linen washed upon the same easy terms. The South Australian press speak in the most disparaging terms of the petty corporations and small centres of Governments who voted money to fete him, and pay his steam-boat passages, in order that he should praise them up when he got hcme>—Southern paper.