MR PROCTOR.

Inangahua Times, 20 December 1880, Page 2

MR PROCTOR.

-♦— i This gent]|maa baa givea up bia intended return to the Southern part of the colony, and is .about to bring his lectures to an abruot lerminatiou. He writes to the Niw Zealand Times : When 1 was last ia Wellington I skted th:>t I should probably retura aud deliver two or three lectures here. la like manner at Christchurch and Duue« din I mentioned the purpose i then entertained ot returning and giving such of my lectures aa I had not delivered during my stay iv those uiiiea. In each case the. kindness with ■AliLh I ii..d bevii recuiFed caused me i

to desire to revisit sceaes where I had had such pleasant greeting?, and in each case the wish to return was father to the though tint I probably snonld return. Indeed, I planned rar future Course so as to include fre^h visits to Tasmania, Victoria, and New South Wales, -,vhere I had already been most kindly welcomed, and a visit to Queensland, where I have not lectured, and now never shall. For I fiad that two feeiiaga — aome*g!ckDes3 and a sense (which ha 3 always been strong within me) of the irksomeness of lecturing — grow so much upon me that I am at last compelled to assign an early date for the close of my lecture work. I have decided to let the course of lectures I am to give at Auckland (ending December 24fcb) conelade nofc only my colonial lectures, hufc my lecturing career. This will have lasted elevea yeara, daring which time I shall have given Il23;lectore& in alt fjf thfrjitf 116 in. Australia. In saying that I have received as kindly a gr mating in Australia as in America, I should have thought three months ago that I was saying all tbafc coald be said, for I can hardly express my eenße of the ki dness and genial warmth, of my reception in the United States and Canada. But New Zealand has certainly gone a little ahead (she could not possibly have gone far ahead) even of America, Australia, andTasuian : a in this respect. I shall always retain the warmest recollection of the kindaes3 of my weU come in this colony."