THE COLONIAL TREASURER’S MISSION.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2657, 23 August 1871, Page 3

THE COLONIAL TREASURER’S MISSION.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Afeency Company’s Circular gives a more 'extended account of the various arrangements made on behalf of the colony by Mr Vogel, when in London. It says “ Long negotiations have beencarried out with the Post Office authorities on the subject of assistance to this new service via California, and apromise has been given that any remissions of charges made by the American postal department be at at once placed to the credit of New Zealand, and that the whole question shall'be conside’ecj, with a view of establishing the service as a regular alternative dnail Upe fortnightly m the apd O'. Cftmpany'a service, par also that urgent i eprfisc ntat.ions were made to the Colonial Office as to the necessity fqr strengthening the squadron in the Australian waters, and of stationing two vessels specially on the New Zealand coast. Assurances were given that it was intended to strengthen the squadron; and, whilst departmental reasons prevented the giving an absolute promise of two vessels for Sew Zealand, it was intimated that the Commodore had been informed that it was considered by the Admiralty to be advisable that vessels “under his orders should show themselves on the Few Zealand coast a< frequently as possible. In fact, the special attention of the Commodore has been cai'ed to the subject. In connection with the defence of the colony from foreign aggression it is not to be surprised that Mr Vogel should have turned his attention to the general defence of the principal ports of New Zealand, and we accordingly hear of direct communications with Go'onel Jervoi*, C.8., at the War Office, when important recommendations as to the use of torpedoes an I other ffipftns pT defence were obtained frfpp gUfttlf man. The main pbjjecj, however, qf Mr Vogel’s yiait to Ifas country has* beep the carrying out of the policy of the present Government connected with the public works and immigration. a policy with which his name will probably henceforward be associated. Owing to the shortness of his stay in this country an amount of hard work had to he got thiough which will effectually redeem his v sit from the character of a pleasure tiip, even though no railway contracts had been entered into, but we arc informed that, within an hour or two of 1 bis deiartuie from London a most important contract with Messrs Brogden nji'A $9Ui Wft ß signed fifths CVUstrn.■*'/'“ ** ra |i wa y S in the cu.ony. either upon a system of direct guarantee, or by gna'antces in goppcptiMU with a gyft of lapd grapts and with emigration, the Government 1 pipg at libeit}’ tp e'ept between the two systems. Tbe details of these contracts are as yet necessarily private, but the engineering staff proceeds to the colony by the present mail, and the Messrs Brogden, in proof of their bona tides, have d posited with the Government bankers in London securities to the value of L 25,000.