OUTSIDE OPINION ON THE PREMIER.

Evening Star, Issue 4122, 13 May 1876, Page 3

OUTSIDE OPINION ON THE PREMIER.

The ' Tasmanian Tribune' of April 18 de votes a leading article to the Premier of New Zealand, and contrasts his policy with that of Tasmania, much to the detriment of the latter. " Our contemporary says :—Julius Vogera-name, among Australian politicians, has become a household word, a spell to conjure and work miracles by; and, strange to say, when we come to study his deliverances, .and to weigh his deeds, we can find nothing connected with either, which, upon duly reflecting over, is calculated to .strike us as very original, or out of the ordinary prescriptions of common sense. His great distinguishing characteristic appears to be an ability to rise above the influences of Colonially formed prejudices, and a moral courage to step out of the beaten track to which circumstances have confined the footsteps of men who have been accustomed to believe that the highest destiny of this new world of the Antipodes is to be for ever con- , nected with and dependent upon the woollen manufacturers of the oid country. The Premier of New Zealand, like many others, no doubt, who have reflected upon the subject, sees that the resources of the Australian Colonies—including New Zealand of course—are so variedand abundant that pastoral pursuits, I no matter how essential and suited they are to the opening years of the infant empire of the S6ttth Seas,-only constitute the first Btagein the grand superstructure which is destined to be erected upon them. The growing of wool and the feeding of cattle are not to form the " be-all and end-all" of such richly-endowed countries as the inland-obn-tinent of Australia, and the magnificent land of the Maoris. This is the foundation of Sir Julius Vogel's political faith; and this the reason why he not only rejects the tinkering and petty expendiency policy of the crowd of Australian politicians, and boldly proclaims one which, although simple enough, required no small degree of moral courage to act, and to take such measures as are best calculated to give it effect. By some of our latest files of the New Zealand journals, we have a lengthened deliverance of Sir Julius Vogel, made to his constituents at Wanganui. Gn all the main features of his policy he dilated at consi3e rable length, and with great perspicuity. We have studied with great care this speefch, pregnant with common sense, suggestive; of hard indisputable truths, and every theory propounded ii supported with recognisable