THE HON. JULIUS VOGEL.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 208, 2 September 1874, Page 3

THE HON. JULIUS VOGEL.

Mr Vogel is a native of London, and is still on the sunny side of 40. Up to the ago of IG lie was educated at the London University School, and was designed for a mercantile life, but “ u truant disposition urged him to join the throng of adventurous emigrants to Australia. Uo had not been long in Victoria before accident revealed to him that ho was the possessor of considerable literary ability ; and found a congenial outlet in the Mlarj/horo rjh and .}.):< noil a .Id rcrliser , a paper w inch has, since Ins connection with it, rendered itself notorious bv its audacious and reckless attacks upon ail kinds of religion and its ministers. The same active and rest less spirit, which had induced him to come out to Victoria, impelled him to visit the province of Otago, in New Zealand, where he again embarked in journalism. Ho was the founder, and for savcrul years the editor of the Olnno IJaUa Thin s, ho the j leading journal of the AH idle Island. Ho was also elected a member of the Provincial Council, and the House of Kep resentatives for the whole colony. In the former Chamber he became tne head of the Provincial .Executive; an i iu IS GO lie relinquished that post, ami his connection with Hunch in, and removed to Auckland, where he purchased the Honfhern Cross daily now.-pas.ler, and accepted the office of Treasurer in Air .box’s Administral ion, which ho held for upwards of three years. There are live members in the present Cabinet, and of these Air Vogel is now the chief. He enjoys a greater amount of popularity than is usually accorded to colonial statesmen, and has indcntih’ed himself with a bold and-—up to the present time —1 thoroughly successful policy. lie has prevailed upon the General Assembly to pledge the credit of the co'ouy for loans to as great an amount as those which have been contracted by Victoria, with treble the population of New Zealand, and the proceeds of these are being expended in bringing the northern and southern extremities of the colony into communication with each other by railways, and in the introduction of a steady stream of immigrants from Great Britian and the north of Europe. These, of course, will become producers and taxpayers, and, as such, will repay’ the Government many limes the amount expended in bringing them out. The islands are in a high state of prosperity. Alost of the provinces have a surplus of income over expenditure ; and they are so rich in all the elements nf wealth, and so favoured as regards salubrity of climate, beauty of scenery, and diversity of product, that none but pessimists could condemn Air Vogel for the sanguine views which he entertains as to thoir great future. That he is

contribut nig by his energy, couranc, and ability, to enable Kcw Zealand to become what tin- buaSir Robert Peel prophesied it would do —the “ Groat Britain of the South ” —will bo freely conceded by all who have watched his political administrative career. Jt only remains to add that Mr Vogel is a fluent and efleetivo speaker, and belongs, like Gansbetta and Castelar, to the Jewish persuasion.