RETURN, GENTLE JULIUS!

Cromwell Argus, Volume 2, Issue 92, 15 August 1871, Page 3

RETURN, GENTLE JULIUS!

—o — Tune, — Come home, dearest Father. The following ditty is supposed to be sung by an anxious member of tlie Mi nistry:— Return, brilliant statesman ; dear Vogel, come home ; Your mission and country both ' done !' Retrace your wild way o'er the seething white foam, And relate the result of your run. The Assembly's been summoned ; the members will meet; While your seat in the House remains void : Then the old cat away, doing things that won't pay, By the mice we'll b" surely destroyed. Come back, gentle /cjellus, return to us now! Our opponents are stalwart and strong ! And I've a foreboding we're in for a ro>v ; So without you we can't get along. Urged by honest convictions, and coins of the realm, Maori members will vote on our side ; So with Vogel on deck, in his place at the helm, The Fox state craft in safety may ride. So come home, gushing Jemlhis, come home. "The Loafer in the Street" writes thus to the Canterbury Press: — "Inthcmeantime.it must be gratifying to those who doubted Mr Vogcl's capacity for the office he has undertaken to find that not only politically in I financially has he proved himself quite up to the mark, but that socially he has been considered lit to receive a mark of consideration at the hands of her Majesty." Thus says the Lytlelton Times. Is the above "sarcastikul ?" If so, it's very good. If not, may I be allowed to enquire why this hymn of triumph over the fact that Mr Vogel has been prcsento .1 at Court ? The envoy from Timbuctoo, or the most out of the way country you like to think of, a party probably with a fish-bone through his noss, and —well, not a superfluity of clothing,—is, socially considered, fit to receive such a mark of consideration at tho hands of Her Most Gracious Majesty. I feel, personally, most dissatisfied at this part of Mr Vogel's home experiences. If he had been knighted, or some thing of that sort (and colonial people do occasionally attain j to such an honour), I could have felt happier ; j but as the matter stands I don't think Her Most j Gracious Majesty has done the correct thing by Mr Vogel.