The Daily Telegraph. WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1884.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4045, 9 July 1884, Page 2

The Daily Telegraph. WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1884.

-~~_~~_-.:_?_->i»ift.Tj iiE>»_»ui»»r.'lrii tur t\ i ni-«a-_afta*-^_.yvr-The Lyttelton Times, the great southern champion of Sir George Grey, about the beginning of the year indicated a wavering allegiance to that leader, and turned completely round upon him when he delivered his address at' Christchurch a little before, the commencement of last session. It then, in a sort of half-hearted way, gave its sup-; port to Mr Montgomery, but, apparently, from the tone, of its leading article of last Monday week, it has at length fixed its affection on Sir Julius VogeL .-■ In that article .our Canterbury contemporary says::—"The evening song of the Greys, the Atkinsons, and the Montgomerys, is a song without knowledge, and therefore, without faith, for, without knowledge there is no faith.; And it is a song without hope, for without faith lKme is not possible. To go on pinning our faith on cither of these, powers is to perpetuate the present deadlock. * *" * * Opinions may be divided about the merits of Sir Julius Vogel as a public man. But no one can deny that he.is the one who has told the truth to the,working classes of New Zealand; or that he has told it in an easy, pleasant, masterful, irresistible way. Sir Julius Vogel has", in fact, talked common sense to the masses. * * f •? * The hour for hopeful reform has como—and with the hour has come the man. That man is Sir Julius,Vogel. He has deserved well of the country for daring to speak the truth ; for daring, in fact, to believe in the .good sense of the majority of the electors of New Zealand. He is of none of the old parties. Ho is to form a new party, on which the sun which.has gone down has never shone. Therefore the rising Parliamentary sun should; shine on Sir Julius r Vogel as the leading figure in.our no longer hopeless history."