The Hot Springs of Waiwera appear to be attracting attention in the old country, and deservedly so. We observe in a late London paper, received by the last mail, the following account:—"The Hot Springs of Waiwera, less than twenty miles from Auckland, deserve more attention than they have yet received. Their value as a hygienic and medical restorative is beyond question. The number of persons who have derived permanent benefit from a visit to them, and even a short residence in their neighbourhood, is very great. Those who have experienced this benefit are emphatic in their encomiums of the attention they received during their stay at the Hot Springs from the manager of the excellent Hotel which has been established at Waiwera. The proprietor of the land upon which the establishment stands is Mr. Robert Graham, who has, by means of a most liberal expenditure, improved the house and grounds, so that the accommodation provided shall be commensurate with all the requirements which would serve to give pleasure and comfort to the ordinary visitor, and ease and retirement to the invalid.

The Honorable Samuel D. Hastings, of Wisconsin, U.S.A., having recently visited the Waiwera (Hot Springs), gives the following opinion of them:—

" I have visited baths of various kinds in Europe, America, and Australia, but have never found any more enjoyable than the Hot Baths of Waiwera.

" These baths are admirably arranged, the temperature of the water is most agreeable, and the effect is most invigorating.

" I went to the Hot Springs exhausted by the incessant labour of twelve months' constant travel through the colonies, speaking almost every evening, and I leave after a few days' experience of the baths, having gained more in health than I ever gained before in the same length of time.

" If the hard worked literary and professional men, merchants, and others of Auckland, and the other cities of New Zealand, knew the benefit they could derive from a short stay at the Waiwera (Hot Springs), I am sure the Hotel would soon be too small to accommodate those who would seek the advantages to be secured from the use of the baths there to be found.