INVERCARGILL

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3589, 12 January 1883, Page 3

INVERCARGILL

This day. Sir Julius Vogel arrived here yesterday from Dunedin, and was banquetted in the evening at the Albion Hotel, a large company being present. His Worship the Mayor presided, and proposed the health of Sir "Julius Vogel, who in response acknowledged with much cordiality and feeling the compliment paid him. He dwelt on the introduction of the Government insurance scheme, and the reasons that had impelled him to initiate it, He gave a sketch of the history of the several loan negotiations, and referred to the fact. that on that very day the loan for £1,000,000 would be put on the London market, expressing confidence that it would be a success. The Inscription of Stock Act and its beneficial consequence were then enlarged on. Sir Julius with much animation insisted on the necessity for further immigration, and declared his conviction that the increase in the value of property in Otago and Southland alone through public works and immigration would equal the colonial debt. He assured the audience that only the inroads on his health caused by his exertions in tho public service had led to his leaving the the colony and accepting the AgentGeneralship. His peroration was an address of farewell to tho colony, couched in the most eloquent and touching terms. He had intended to write to the newspapers expressing his thanks for the princely manner in which he had been received by the colony. Not only had old friends gathered round him, but political opponents had forgotten their animosity. The speech created the greatest enthusiasm.